Plus, Wilde retools manufacturing for growth, Whole Earth acquired, natural colors raise $23M͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ 
 
 
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Khloud Pulls in $15M For Protein Snacks

Khloud Pulls in $15M For Protein Snacks
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Protein snacks are popping off.

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🐔 WILDE Building Broader Snack Platform

WILDE Brands is hatching a plan to create a much broader protein snacking platform beyond its chicken-based chips.

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🧁 Heartland Acquires Whole Earth, Adds More Sweeteners

There’s a new sweetener sheriff in town. Heartland Food Products has acquired Whole Earth Brands.

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  1. Phytolon Closes $23.6M Series B to Scale Natural Colors

  2. David Introduces Canned ‘Cod 2’

  3. SNAX-Sational Brands Teams with Chiquita, Guy Fieri

  4. Rotten Ventures into the Chewy and Protein Candy Sets

  5. ‘Healthy Enough’ Products Dominate 2025 New Product Pacesetters

 

🎙️ Taste Radio: The Secret Behind Ithaca’s Success & Guillermo’s Hot Start

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A relentless focus on product quality and operational discipline helped Chris Kirby build Ithaca Hummus into one of the most successful CPG brands of the past decade. With Guillermo’s Salsa, he’s putting that same playbook to work again – but at a notably faster rate of growth.

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