7-Eleven gears up for Brands with Heart event: ‘We’re looking for new and exciting emerging brands’
Is 7-Eleven a good launch pad for emerging food and beverage brands? And if so, what are buyers looking for?
Archives for October 11, 2019
GUEST ARTICLE: Growing market share in a hot new category: CBD
Many consumers are on the hunt for the next 'good-for-me' health ingredient, as part of the $450bn trend in self-care. This trend has continuously evolved with consumers focusing on protein-heavy foods, botanical extracts, probiotics, and more recently...
Future Meat Technologies raises $14m to commercialize cell cultured meat: 'We see a path to reality here, it’s not just something on a Power Point presentation,' says S2G Ventures
Future Meat Technologies is one of the few players in the nascent space to have shown how cell-cultured (a.k.a. ‘cultivated’) meat could move from the lab to an industrial scale, claims one of the lead investors in a $14m Series A round that will support...
Survey: ALDI shoppers find the retailer simpler and faster to shop
More than three-quarters of ALDI shoppers polled in a survey said they find the store “simpler to shop” and at least 20% faster to shop than Kroger and Walmart stores.
Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Saffron Road serial entrepreneur shares what inspires millennials
Even as food and beverage brands are starting to look more closely at Gen Z shoppers to determine what they want and what makes them tick, many are still struggling to pinpoint how best to engage with millennials who Goldman Sachs has dubbed “the most...