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A&W Returns to Freshly Made Root Beer

Latest quality upgrade signifies throwback to craft beverage roots
August 21, 2017
The beverage is created through a mixture of the brand’s top-secret blend of spices, real cane sugar and water to create the signature A&W taste. This summer the last US restaurants pouring Root Beer made from a pre-mixed bag switched to mixing it fresh.
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Impossible Foods Closes $75 Million Investment

Impossible Foods makes meat directly from plants -- with a much smaller environmental footprint than meat from animals
August 17, 2017
The company’s flagship product, the Impossible Burger, is made through a simple combination of plant-based ingredients.
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Beyond Meat Expands Distribution

The expansion into Kroger marks a more than tripled distribution growth of The Beyond Burger within two months
August 15, 2017
Tapping into a growing consumer trend that has attracted the attention and support of meat industry titans like Tyson Foods, who own a 5% stake in Beyond Meat, the expansion into Kroger marks a more than tripled distribution growth of The Beyond Burger within two months’ time and reflects an increased demand for plant-based protein among mainstream consumers.
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Schwan’s, The trū Shrimp Co. Enter Partnership

Both companies said the partnership will generate opportunities to work together in providing consumers with safe, natural shrimp
August 15, 2017
The trū® Shrimp Company, an affiliate of Ralco, and Schwan’s Company, a national US food business, announced that they have formed a strategic partnership designed to help propel in-land shrimp production forward. As part of the new partnership between the Marshall, Minn.-based companies, Schwan’s Company is making a significant investment in the trū® Shrimp Company. Terms of the partnership were not disclosed.
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Taliera Seeks Brands for Expansion

Plan comes after rolling-out Beach Whiskey and relaunching American Harvest Organic Vodka nationally
August 14, 2017
J. Smoke Wallin originally formed Taliera in 2005 to create, acquire, manage and advise brands in the beverage space.
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Mars Food to Acquire Tasty Bite

Tasty Bite's® portfolio includes a wide range of vegetarian offerings, including Indian/Asian entrees, spice and simmer meal kits, and organic rice and lentils
August 14, 2017
Mars Food signed a definitive agreement to acquire Preferred Brands International, a Stamford, Conn.-based, fully integrated manufacturer and marketer of all-natural, ready-to-heat Indian and Asian food products sold primarily under the Tasty Bite® brand.
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Xingfa Names Viachem Preferred Channel Partner

Viachem to provide Xingfa customers with enhanced sales, technical and distribution services for food-grade phosphates and specialty compounds
August 11, 2017
Hubei Xingfa (Xingfa), a global producer of specialty phosphates, announced a preferred channel partnership with Viachem, Ltd., a distributor of specialty chemicals and ingredients, for the sales, marketing and distribution of Xingfa’s food-grade phosphates and specialty compounds in North America.
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Barry Callebaut to Acquire D'Orosgnia Dolciaria

This acquisition underlines Barry Callebaut’s strategic efforts to expand in the value-added Specialties & Decorations segment
August 11, 2017
D’Orsogna Dolciaria is known as a supplier of high-quality decoration and inclusion solutions mainly for food manufacturers
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Tommy’s Superfoods Expands Retail Presence

Retail expansion of seasoned vegetable blends will include more than 230 Super Target stores across the United States
August 11, 2017
The growth is also attributed to new retailer partnerships and increased expansion at retailers nationally, including Kroger and Safeway.  
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