Gourmet popcorn, oatcakes and goat cheese cheesecake were among the gourmet products receiving sofi Awards from the Specialty Food Association at the 2013 Summer Fancy Food Show.
Planters introduces former Saturday Night Live regular Bill Hader as the voice of Mr. Peanut through an integrated campaign featuring its new Planters NUT-rition Sustaining Energy Mix.
Campbell Soup Co. agrees to acquire Kelsen Group A/S, a Danish baked snacks producer, from private equity firm Maj Invest and several other investors to expand its international footprint and baked snacks growth in China.
Kraft Foods Group says it’s splitting its grocery business into a unit for meals and desserts and a division for sauces, nuts, snacks and dressings. Since the new Kraft launched, the company has focused heavily on turbocharging its iconic brands, CEO Tony Vernon says. It will add two standalone business units to focus its brand-building work.
Kameda USA Inc., a subsidiary of Kameda Seika Co. Ltd., Japan’s largest manufacturer of rice crackers, acquires 77.8% of Mary’s Gone Crackers, a Gridley, Calif.-based maker of organic, vegan and gluten-free foods.
The publicly-traded grocery-brand conglomerate is buying Pirate Brands, maker of Pirate’s Booty white-cheddar-cheese rice and corn puffs, for $195 million.
Jack Link’s Beef Jerky celebrates National Jerky Day today by giving away thousands of bags of its jerky at unconventional events throughout the country.
B&G Foods has entered into an agreement to acquire Robert’s American Gourmet Food, LLC, which does business as Pirate Brands, from VMG Partners, Driven Capital Management, founder Robert Ehrlich and certain other entities and individuals for approximately $195 million in cash.
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