Trends & Business

The Institute of Food Technologist’s (IFT) Board of Directors has decided to transition the onsite IFT20 Annual Event and Food Expo, planned for July 12 – 15 in Chicago, into a virtual experience. 

More consumers and marketers are tackling the interplay between these two critical need states.

Victory Hemp Foods entered into a strategic partnership with Applied Foods Sciences, a supplier of functional and organic ingredients, to elevate sales and marketing of Victory Hemp’s food and beverage ingredients.

Viva 5, a nutrient gummy producer, teamed up with Probi, a B2B probiotic specialist, in a strategic joint venture called VivaPro. 

For bone health, broader-aged consumer focus, better marketing, and ingredient combinations should be the goal.

GOED and market research expert FMCG Gurus are hosting a webinar on global omega-3 consumer behaviors and attitudes  on Thursday, April 30, 11 – 12:00 p.m. EDT.

Gaia Herbs has unveiled a new line called Hemp & Herbs, which consists of three condition-specific formulas, as well as three new digestive products.

The first step to improving color quality in a finished product is improving the quality of the raw materials.

Ingredients by Nature has launched MonkFiber, a functional, sweet fiber derived from the pomace of the monk fruit. 

The combined entity is anticipated to represent about 34.7% of U.S. cannabidiol (CBD) sales in the food, drug, and mass market channel.

As more states across the U.S. close businesses in the effort to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, dietary supplement industry associations are urging state governors nationwide to allow dietary supplement and natural product retailers to remain operational as essential businesses.

Rick Mignella, executive vice president and managing director will lead the U.S. team and focus on scaling up business to expand the company’s presence within the North American market.

Beauty boom: Here are the drivers pushing the beauty market forward.

FDA says it will now only send inspectors out to domestic facilities for “mission-critical” purposes, such as “public health emergencies involving FDA-regulated products.”

As nutritional firms strive for high product quality and efficient businesses, suppliers discuss how pharma-grade equipment can help.

Packaging is immensely important for branding; therefore, a compromise will always exist between early adoption of eco-friendly packaging and aesthetics.

Annual awards program recognized 158 brands as finalists for their excellence in publishing and digital media

The nutricosmetics market has become home to a number of ingredients people trust, such as biotin and collagen.

Will there be a growing place for plant protein in sports nutrition? Also, what other trends are driving the sports market?

Information sources, product attributes, price, and availability all play a role in determining which products sports nutrition consumers will buy.

Comet Bio has been chosen by Anheuser-Busch InBev to join its 100+ Sustainability Accelerator to pilot technology on brewer’s grain. Comet Bio is one of 17 companies chosen for the program’s 2020 cohort.

This spring, the company introduced a brand new product called Regular Girl Wellness, this time targeting not only the digestive health space but also urinary tract health.

A new Cargill report pinpoints consumer preferences within some of snacking’s most dynamic product categories: snack bars, salty snacks, candy, and sweet baked goods

Paul and Barbi Schulick, former cofounders of New Chapter and now cofounders of skincare startup For The Biome, are staking their new venture on what they see as the beauty market of the future: microbiome-friendly formulations using sustainable, vetted, well-researched ingredients.

Gnosis by Lesaffre issues marketing materials for its Quatrefolic and Phosphocomplex ingredients. 

Bartek Ingredients is expanding its malic acid capacity to 10,000 metric tons. 

These are the first warning letters to be issues by FDA for unapproved products intended to prevent or treat COVID-19. 

The following are the newly scheduled dates, at the same, originally scheduled venues: SupplySide East (June 23-24, 2020) and Vitafoods Europe (September 1-3, 2020).