Lauren R. Hartman

A breath of spring air never used to mean trying to catch your breath during spring, but with the flurry of activities in the snack and baking industries lately, you’ll need to take a minute to stop and breathe.

Snak King has added a second snack production location, its recently acquired Vitner’s plant.

Decadent and delicious, cookies, brownies and other items from The Christie Cookie Co., Nashville, Tenn., are practically irresistible.

It’s not just a plain old jelly donut. Popular around the country during Mardi Gras, paczkis, the delicious, baked and filled treat are easier to eat than their name is to pronounce.

Running two shifts a day, five days a week on four production lines, The Christie Cookie Co.’s 41,000-sq.-ft. production facility in Nashville, Tenn., has big-company ideas and procedures.

Not satisfied with the ingredients in many crunchy snacks on the market, Simply 7 Snacks, Houston, went into crunch time

Nation Pizza and Foods’ massive 190,000-sq.-ft. operation in Schaumburg, Ill.—one of the company’s two frozen product facilities—features seven speedy production lines that generate at least 30,000 lb. of dough an hour alone. We tour one of the two bakeries and one of four topping lines, which all feature upgraded and soon-to-be-installed equipment.

In the food world, the word “natural” is bandied about too often, with no meaning behind it.

Launching its own snack brand only three years ago, Simply 7 Snacks has copacked snacks for customers across the country for years.

The beginning of the new year means time for a change and a fresh start. So that’s exactly what we’ve done here at Snack Food & Wholesale