Nonfoods

An emerging trend in baby food products is the nearly mess-free food pouch, which is great for the on-the-go parent with a hungry child.

Gatorade’s G2, Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee, Healthy Choice Café Steamers and Progresso Light were among Information Resources, Inc.’s (IRI) most successful new consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands of 2008.

The dietary supplement industry is worth $25 billion yearly, but there are so many products out there now that it's hard to make sense of it all.

A ShopRite in store New London, Conn., is enabling the fish and invertebrates at the nearby Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration in the same state to consume a varied diet of fruit and vegetables at a considerably lower cost than last year, as a result of an unusual partnership between the aquarium and ShopRite that benefits both parties, as well as the animals and environment.

For Easter, The Food Emporium is offering upscale chocolate items, including Chocolat Schonenberger exclusively at its Manhattan stores, as well as high-end products from Fritz Knipschildt and Joseph Schmidt.

From the kitchens at Simply Organic, the organic brand of Frontier Natural Products Co-op, bows a set of four new spaghetti sauce mixes.

B&G Foods, Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of high-quality, shelf-stable foods, has entered a new phase in its strategic rebuilding of the Cream of Wheat brand with the rollout of Cream of Wheat Healthy Grain Instant Hot Cereal. Parsippany, N.J.-based B&G acquired the iconic brand in 2007.

1SYNC this week launched a Brand Identity solution to allow users at every level of the supply chain to exchange accurate, consistent item information for multi-sourced, private label product brands safely and securely, through the Global Data Synchronization Network.