Published: Jan 22, 2014

Activist investor Nelson Peltz was named to the board of snack food company Mondelez Tuesday, likely to avoid a proxy fight, and he says that he is no longer pushing for a merger deal with PepsiCo.

Published: Jan 17, 2014

TruFoodMfg, a US-based contract manufacturer of snack foods, has employed the Deacom Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to streamline its manufacturing operations.

Published: Jan 17, 2014

Nestle and an anti-allergy charity have been accused of encouraging a new range of ''lunchbox friendly'' muesli bars to be allowed in playgrounds, even though they could be dangerous for people with nut allergies.

Published: Jan 14, 2014

Kellogg Company announced that it will build a new snacks manufacturing facility in Malaysia, as part of its recently announced Project K four-year efficiency and effectiveness program.

Published: Jan 13, 2014

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Jan. 9 charged Diamond Foods, Inc. and former executives Steven Neil and Michael Mendes for their roles in an accounting scheme to falsify walnut costs.

Published: Jan 10, 2014

Diamond Foods Inc will pay $5 million to settle civil charges that the company and two former top executives misled investors by lying about walnut costs to boost earnings, U.S. regulators said Thursday.

Published: Dec 31, 2013

Back to Nature Foods Company, L.L.C., a portfolio company of Brynwood Partners VI L.P., has acquired the SnackWell’s cookies and snacks business from Mondelēz Global L.L.C.

Published: Dec 25, 2013

Blue Bell Creameries, Brenham, Texas, once again released its Holiday Favorites line of ice cream to include Fudge Divinity Ice Cream, rich marshmallow ice cream mixed with crunchy chopped pecans and a swirl of milk chocolate sauce.

Published: Dec 24, 2013

Stretching across the Kellogg Co.’s U.S. portfolio of cereal, snacks and frozen foods, a range of new products promise portability and nutrition.

Published: Dec 24, 2013

With the Sriracha trend heating up, Kettle Brand, a business unit of Diamond Foods, has added the hot sauce flavor to its latest variety of potato chips.

Published: Dec 19, 2013

UK-based 2 Sisters Food Group has posted an operating profit of £25.5m ($41.6m) for the 13 weeks ended 26 October 2013 (Q1 2013/14), compared to £30.5m for the same period last year.

Published: Dec 19, 2013

Misionero Vegetables is supplying fresh salads to the Northeast from a new processing facility in Brantford, Ontario.

Published: Dec 13, 2013

Graze.com, an on-line retailer offering a range of snacks its executives deem to be healthy, such as nuts, fruits and seeds, has launched in the United States.

Published: Dec 12, 2013

Kellogg is planning to close manufacturing plants in Australia and Canada as it makes the first of its planned cuts to slimline its operations.

Published: Dec 11, 2013

After two years of work, the protocol that allows Chilean shelled nuts to be exported to China initiated last Thursday, December 5.

Published: Dec 11, 2013

Specialty Commodities, Inc. (SCI) announces the acquisition of LATITUDE 1, a nut processor located in Stockton, CA.

Published: Dec 11, 2013

2 Sisters Food Group acquired the Rogerstone Park production facility in Leicester at the end of 2011.

Published: Dec 09, 2013

Nestle was selling its 10 percent stake in Swiss fragrance and flavour maker Givaudan on Friday for as much as 1.08 billion Swiss francs ($1.20 billion), as it concentrates resources on its core food businesses.

Published: Dec 03, 2013

Archer Daniels Midland Company has announced the launch of Textura, a new line of soy protein crisps that can be tailored to individual formulation needs.

Published: Dec 03, 2013

KP Snacks and Intersnack UK are set to establish a new £16m nut processing and packing facility in Rotherham, Yorkshire.