Recently, I read a Forbes interview with Daniel Lubetzky, founder and CEO of
the KIND snack company, in which he shared how his overarching value — kindness — has not only inspired his personal worldview but also a professional career of starting companies that embrace this worldview:
Not exact matches
KIND Healthy
Snacks has sold more than one billion
snack bars — that's billion with a «B.» The New York City - based
company was founded in 2004 by CEO Daniel Lubetzky and today has about 300 full - time employees.
Before he founded the popular fruit - and - nut bar
company KIND Healthy
Snacks, Lubetzky launched PeaceWorks, a
company that brought Middle Easterners from war - torn countries together to make natural Mediterranean spreads.
Lubetzky launched
KIND in 2004, and today, the healthy -
snack company has about 300 full - time employees and has sold one billion bars.
One of Kiip's first advertisers was new
snack food
company Popchips, which makes a
kind of potato chip that is neither fried nor baked.
Mars, the privately held
company best known for its confectionary brands like M&M's and Snickers, plans to announce on Wednesday that it will buy a minority stake in
Kind, the maker of wildly popular
snack bars.
At the beginning of his entrepreneurial journey, Daniel Lubetzky, now the CEO of
Kind, a leading healthy
snack food
company, was working at another
snack brand importing fruit - nut bars when a major change occurred.
Former
KIND Snacks» investment firm, VMG Partners, was asked during the recent Food Vision USA in Chicago if big food
companies like Kraft Heinz and PepsiCo should acquire emerging products or create their own brands to scale up innovation.
With that
kind of budget, Jason Weedon, the CEO of Gourmet Gorilla, Nettelhorst's independent provider afterschool
snacks, says that his
company could offer a 100 percent Certified Organic, locally - sourced, fresh, well - balanced breakfast that includes a protein, fruit and grain, perhaps yogurt, Swiss oatmeal, free range scrambled eggs, or whole wheat pancakes — with minimal, recyclable packaging.
Daniel Lubetzky, founder of
snack - bar
company Kind, has pledged $ 25 million to fight for public health
There are large numbers of
companies making all
kinds of
snack crackers these days.