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The American Bakers Association (ABA) is honored to announce that Stephanie Tillman will serve as the new American Bakers Political Action committee (PAC) chair.

To meet the needs of regional manufacturers, PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, will bring PACK EXPO East (March 3-5, 2020; Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia) to the City of Brotherly Love.

New York-based skinless popcorn brand Papa’s Pops has announced the close of its $1.25MM seed round of investment, led by Chetrit Ventures (Michael Chetrit), WorldState (Patrick Finnegan), Talent Resources Ventures (Mike Heller), Justin Mateen (Tinder), and Peter Rahal (RXBAR), who are all advising the brand.

The Good Bean, pioneer of roasted chickpea snacks and category leader, has acquired Beanitos, maker of better-for-you bean-based chips and puffs.

Grey Mountain Partners (“Grey Mountain”) has sold Kronos Foods (“Kronos” or the “Company”) to Entrepreneurial Equity Partners (“e2p”).

Country Archer Jerky Co. has announced that it is expanding again and plans to move to a new, larger meat snack facility down the road from its current facility, following a $12 million capital raise from long-time equity partner, Monogram Capital Partners.

Global, family-owned food company Rich Products has announced the expansion of its product portfolio with three acquisitions.

ABA recently put out a call for abstracts, for its 2020 technical conference.

This year at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, for the first time ever, Frito-Lay will introduce the 2020 WomanMade Expo West Challenge, in which 10 female entrepreneurs will pitch their business plans in a live, rapid-fire format to Frito-Lay leaders and industry experts for a chance to win $100,000 in business grants immediately on-site on Friday, March 6.