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NoshJuly 02, 2024
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In this issue of Daily Briefing

  • 🚚 Distribution: Mason Dixie Goes Deep With Costco
  • 🥩 Cultured Meat Faces More Challenges
  • 🍦 Ice Cream DSDs Consolidate
  • 🥩 Home Market Foods’ New Meat Machines
  • 🌱 Pureture Unveils Plant-Based Casein 

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📰 Today's Top Story

📈 Dive in to the Nosh Trendlines Report

📈 Dive in to the Nosh Trendlines Report

Struggling to keep pace with the seismic shifts rippling through the packaged food industry? Chances are, you aren’t alone. 

You operate in a dynamic world, increasingly transforming in step with consumer preferences and economic upheaval. We are here to help you navigate it. 

Introducing the Nosh Trendlines Report, a new series of informative articles on the latest evolutions – or revolutions – changing operations, retail distribution, product formulations, marketing and more. Here’s a taste:

🥑 How did canola, soybean and other seed oils become the dietary demon du jour? And is a rush to reformulate justified? Here’s what the experts say. 

🥩 The novelty of “bleeding” burgers and lab-grown meatballs has worn off for consumers, investors and the industry alike. These factors are upending preferences across the alternative protein category.

🍫 More early-stage brands seem to be jumping into self-manufacturing rather than the traditional outsource-to-a-co-packer model. Find out why – and how to decide which path is best for your business.

🚚 The go-to-market playbook is changing as brands move beyond broadline distribution and explore alternative methods. This is what you need to know.

🫀Today’s consumers aren’t as interested in living long, as much as they are in living well. Or, as one market analyst put it – “Everyone’s trying to die young, just as late as possible.” Learn how the trend is taking shape.

🎧 Stay tuned for a special edition of the Community Call podcast later this month to glean even more insights from industry trends expert Amrit Richmond.

If you’re sensing a major shift in your business, send an email to mwatrous@nosh.com and let us know how we can support you.

 

✨ What You Need to Know ✨

🚚 Distribution: Mason Dixie Goes Deep With Costco

🚚 Distribution: Mason Dixie Goes Deep With Costco

With summer in full swing, many brands are bringing the sunshine through expanded retail availability. Here’s a look at several new distribution announcements from around the industry:

🧇 Frozen comfort foods producer Mason Dixie has launched a new Chicken & Waffle Sandwich at Costco stores across the Midwest. The new sandwich is priced at $16.49 per 8-count box. 

🎣 Tinned fish monger Fishwife announced on Instagram that the brand will launch at all of L.A.-based cult grocer Erewhon’s 10 locations. The retailer will carry its Cantabrian Anchovies, Sardines with Hot Pepper and Sardines with Preserved Lemon SKUs.

🥨 Wheels up! Stellar Snacks’ new partnership with Southwest Airlines will bring the brand’s vegan pretzel snacks to new heights. The airline will stock the Carson City, Nev.-based brand’s bestselling Maui Monk Pretzel Braids.

Read the full distribution roundup on Nosh.

 

🥩 Cultured Meat Faces More Challenges

UPSIDE Foods has laid off about 26 employees and will restructure its executive leadership team as the cultured meat company faces more challenges to commercialization despite being one of two cell-cultured companies (GOOD Meat being the other) having received both FDA and USDA approval.

❌ The downsizing news first reported by Wired follows on the publication’s February scoop that UPSIDE had made “changes” to at least 16 other roles as it paused plans to move into a scalable production facility in Illinois.

😬 The recent layoffs come less than a week after the company hosted a free dinner in Miami protesting Florida’s recent ban on the production, distribution and sale of cultured meat in the state.

◀️ The cell-cultured meat industry has faced a series of setbacks in raising capital in the last year with companies like SciFi Foods abruptly shutting down amid a variety of regulatory hurdles.

Go Deeper: The De-Evolution of the Alt-Meat Revolution

 

🍦 Ice Cream DSDs Consolidate

Bronx-based ice cream distributor GlacierPoint announced it has bought Chicago-area peer Joe & Ross. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.  

🗺️ Glacier Point, which is owned by Mill Point Capital, is one of the country’s largest ice cream-focused DSDs and services much of the East Coast – from South Carolina up to the Canadian border. 

🚚 The deal will expand GP’s reach westward into northern Illinois and northern Indiana where Joe & Ross has operated since 1965. Joe & Ross will operate under the banner of GlacierPoint as the GPE-Great Lakes Division and expand its scope of operations.

🍨 Both businesses carry a wide selection of frozen treats from leading brands and service a variety of accounts spanning foodservice, colleges, K-12 schools, grocery, convenience stores and drug stores.

 

🥩 Home Market Foods’ New Meat Machines

Needham, Mass.-based food manufacturer Home Market Foods has acquired a production plant in South Windsor, Conn., from Carla’s Pasta, the company announced today. HMF plans to invest over $70 million to convert the site into a “state-of-the-art meat production facility.”

🧆 HMF is a top North American producer of meatballs and estimates that it will have the new facility running by June 2025; by the end of 2027 it expects to have created 210 new jobs.

🏭 The company sought out potential plant acquisitions across the country, but opted for a location in nearby Connecticut due to the “availability of skilled labor, favorable business climate, proximity to key distribution channels” and support from the local government, HMF said in a release.

👩🏻‍🏭 HMF is now hiring for several positions, including engineers, maintenance workers, managers, technicians and line workers.

 

🌱 Pureture Unveils Plant-Based Casein

Biotechnology company Pureture unveiled a plant-based casein this week, made from a yeast-based protein. Casein is traditionally found only in dairy products, but provides crucial texture and nutrition benefits. 

👀 The new technology allows products to maintain texture and stability without using emulsifiers or thickeners, the company claims, enabling the formulation of clean-label, dairy-free products. 

⏱️ The process leverages novel ingredients to boost yeast growth and activity, and reduces cultivation time by 30%. The proteins are also upcycled from molasses left over from sugarcane processing.  
 

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