The beverage is created through a mixture of the brand’s top-secret blend of spices, real cane sugar and water to create the signature A&W taste. This summer the last US restaurants pouring Root Beer made from a pre-mixed bag switched to mixing it fresh.

The company is based in the Chicago metropolitan area and specializes in authentic Italian meats and sausages, as well as a variety of other premium meat products including pizza toppings and meatballs.

The company’s flagship product, the Impossible Burger, is made through a simple combination of plant-based ingredients.

Tapping into a growing consumer trend that has attracted the attention and support of meat industry titans like Tyson Foods, who own a 5% stake in Beyond Meat, the expansion into Kroger marks a more than tripled distribution growth of The Beyond Burger within two months’ time and reflects an increased demand for plant-based protein among mainstream consumers.

The trū® Shrimp Company, an affiliate of Ralco, and Schwan’s Company, a national US food business, announced that they have formed a strategic partnership designed to help propel in-land shrimp production forward. As part of the new partnership between the Marshall, Minn.-based companies, Schwan’s Company is making a significant investment in the trū® Shrimp Company. Terms of the partnership were not disclosed.

J. Smoke Wallin originally formed Taliera in 2005 to create, acquire, manage and advise brands in the beverage space.

Mars Food signed a definitive agreement to acquire Preferred Brands International, a Stamford, Conn.-based, fully integrated manufacturer and marketer of all-natural, ready-to-heat Indian and Asian food products sold primarily under the Tasty Bite® brand.

Hubei Xingfa (Xingfa), a global producer of specialty phosphates, announced a preferred channel partnership with Viachem, Ltd., a distributor of specialty chemicals and ingredients, for the sales, marketing and distribution of Xingfa’s food-grade phosphates and specialty compounds in North America.

D’Orsogna Dolciaria is known as a supplier of high-quality decoration and inclusion solutions mainly for food manufacturers

The growth is also attributed to new retailer partnerships and increased expansion at retailers nationally, including Kroger and Safeway.