The flurry of deals for smaller food makers with more clean - label appeal shows
bigger snack makers are ready to pay for innovative upstarts.
Not exact matches
Big Food
makers are snapping up startups in order to join the fray: Hershey (hsy) and Slim Jim
maker ConAgra (cag) recently acquired Krave and Duke's Meat
Snacks, respectively.
However, bug farmers and
snack makers represent one sliver of this undiscovered country (sorry,
big Star Trek fan).
This is probably one of the
biggest money
makers for merchants located in the
snack aisle.
Jeff Dworzanski, director of product innovation at Nothin» But, told NOSH that the rebrand is the
biggest change for the granola cookie bites and
snack bars company since being acquired by natural frozen food
maker Dr. Praeger's in 2017.
Few
snacks have as
big a following as Teddy Grahams, and now the
makers of this popular treat have come out with Teddy SoftBakes.