Sovos Brands announced that Wendy Behr has joined the company as chief research & development (R&D) officer. Behr brings 30 years of experience in lead research and development roles at organizations including Keurig Dr Pepper, WhiteWave and Diageo.

Dole Worldwide Packaged Foods has appointed Dr Lara Ramdin, as chief innovation officer, further strengthening the company's innovation capabilities in support of The Dole Promise which seeks to increase access to nutritious food across the world.

InsightsNow, a behavioral research firm, in partnership with CuliNex, a clean label product development consulting firm for the food industry, have released a new product development solution called CRAEVS (an acronym for Clean Label Research through Agile Evolutions into Stores). The companies brought together their respective consumer insights and culinary innovation expertise to build this end-to-end solution for food and beverage company’s innovation efforts.  

Trendincite LLC announces new updates to the company’s website to enhance the overall user experience. Tidbits, Trendincite’s newsletter, is now Trend Articles and Amy Marks-McGee’s Trendincite Xchange blog is now Personal Musings. Both sections have been redesigned to be visually appealing and easily searchable. 

Widely recognized as the world’s premier  independently-owned flavor house, Edlong debuted Everything Dairy Can Be™ - an inspirational mantra that is driven by Edlong’s industry-leading dairy, dairy-based, and dairy-free ingredient capabilities.

The acquisition will expand RPI's existing portfolio of research, development, and manufacturing companies in the health and wellness industry into functional foods' burgeoning market. A growing $9.6 billion category in 2019, consumers are increasingly choosing bars for snacking, meal replacement, energy, and healthy treats.

Coffee lovers will soon find ready-to-drink (RTD), single-serve coffee products at more retail locations throughout the country. Through an exclusive partnership, Molson Coors Beverage Company will begin distributing La Colombe Coffee Roasters' RTD coffee products in the drug and convenience channels via its vast distribution network in 2021. La Colombe and Molson Coors plan to fully transition distribution for all channels to the Molson Coors network over time.

Vegan Women Summit™, a media and events organization dedicated to inspiring, educating, and empowering rising female-identifying leaders to bring compassion to their career and industry, will continue to transform the food tech industry with the world's first founder summit and pitch competition dedicated to female-identifying founders building the future of plant-based innovation.

Thompson is an established cosmetics, flavor and fragrance executive with more than 25 years of industry experience.

Moonstone Nutrition, a Pittsburgh-based startup that has developed products to prevent kidney stone formation and promote overall kidney health, announced receipt of an investment from the Accelerator Fund II, LLC., an organization sponsored and managed by the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse that makes early stage investments in life sciences companies located in western Pennsylvania and outside the region.