Califia Farms,® an independently-owned, plant-based food and beverage company, announced national distribution for its new Plant Butters. The plant-based alternative to dairy butter is the first product outside the company's current beverage portfolio of plant-based milk, creamers, drinkable yogurts and cold brew coffee. Plant Butters are now available nationally at Whole Foods Market, Kroger, Stop & Shop, Target and other natural and major retailers.

As a part of this new marketing effort and growth, Darigold is adding organic segregation and processing capabilities to a fourth plant in addition to the existing three.

CHERRiSH is a functional beverage with health properties to strengthen a natural line of defense. The company announced that its 12oz ready-to-drink 100% Montmorency tart and sweet Bing cherry juices are now available in the produce section of 61 Washington and Oregon QFC stores.   

Plant-based food brand Wholly Veggie, continues to further its mission of creating a more sustainable food future by increasing consumer access to its line of ready to use vegetable-based products.

The Brenntag Food & Nutrition business unit in North America, part of the Brenntag Group, announced a new collaboration with Axiom Foods for the distribution of plant proteins in the United States and Canada.

Ingredion Incorporated, a leading global provider of ingredient solutions to the food manufacturing industry, announced that it has entered into an exclusive commercial agreement with Northern Quinoa Production Corporation to globally distribute and market NorQuin's quinoa flours, which will be grown and milled in the Canadian plains.

The crispbreads offer a high fiber, low sugar alternative to bread that is free of hydrogenated oils. Offered in Original, Caraway, Fig, and Pink Peppercorn varieties, these light crisps make the perfect partner for canapés and are the natural choice for cheese. 

Prepared Foods talks new product selling with Teri Trullinger, group vice president field sales for Cargill Foodservice, Wayzata, Minn.

Foodservice manufacturers have two primary sales channels to reach operator customers. The first, e-commerce, is the emerging channel and the second, the distributor sales representative (DSR), is the more traditional. Both channels present unique challenges and opportunities.

IFMA believes that manufacturers need to optimize tried-and-true sales channels to reach their targeted operators. Even so, IFMA also encourages its food processor members to also use new digital forms of communication that do not rely on the current system of brokers and distributors.