NEXTY Award winners are determined in a two-round judging process in the New Hope Network office prior to Expo West. Exhibiting brands can nominate their products, explaining how they exemplify the NEXTY judging criteria of Innovation, Inspiration and Integrity.

NUCO's Vegan Coconut Avocado Mayo* combines the health benefits of coconut and avocado oils with an American favorite and the classic taste of mayo. NUCO's Vegan Coconut Avocado Mayo is an all-natural and contains real-food-ingredients.

Otamot’s significant and vast retail expansion comes only one year after the brand’s debut and will also include Organic Essential Sauce.

Mintel’s Global COVID-19 Tracker trends changes in global consumer behavior directly related to COVID-19.

Political and economic unease, here and abroad, has been growing well before the onset of COVID-19.  What the spread of COVID-19 has caused, is an amplification and acceleration of the Tide that was already rolling in.  It's no less significant for its abruptness and shock value, but pandemics can have the effect of shaping and altering the trajectory of already identified trends. 

Here are a "bakers' dozen" — 13 — essential ingredients used in commercial baking, drawn from the vast baker’s toolbox that continues to change and evolve at a brisk pace.

This snack attack activity drove new product launches in meat snacks, snack mixes, and fruit-based snacks. Each enjoyed double-digit growth rates with meat snacks at the top of the heap, expanding at a 20.6% CAGR from 2014 to 2018.

Undercover Snacks' Dark Chocolate + Pomegranate flavor is a guilt-free, gluten-free, nut-free snack and indulgence featuring a healthy dose of crispy organic quinoa, premium dark chocolate and real pomegranate arils for a burst of flavor.

Califia Farms is perhaps best known for its refrigerated cold brew beverages and plant milks in distinctive, contoured 48oz plastic bottles (reminiscent of traditional milk bottles). It also processes and sells refrigerated oat milk creamers and yogurts in 25.4oz plastic bottles and plant-based drinkable yogurts in single-serve 8oz varieties. 

Here are five packaging innovation factors impacting and transforming brands across all industries in the coming year.