Blue Point Capital Partners recently invested in food businesses with the acquisition of Water Lilies Food, LLC. Water Lilies is a manufacturer and distributor of premium frozen Asian-inspired cuisine for major retail private label and foodservice customers nationwide.

Gadot Biochemicals Industries, Ltd. (GBI), a supplier of citrate-based ingredients, fortifying minerals, bisglycinates, phosphates, gluconates, and custom solutions for the food, beverage, dairy, and nutraceutical industries, announced the appointment of Eva Criado Clemente as marketing manager and sales manager for Europe and Latin America (LATAM.) 

BENEO, a leading manufacturer of functional ingredients, announced the appointments of Juliana Hirata as area sales manager, US, and Canada, and of Thomas Weber as area sales manager, Latin America. 

Meridian Flavors is the fifth company joining FlavorSum following the 2020 mergers of National Flavors, GSB & Associates and Bonnie & Don Flavours, and the 2021 addition of Whittle & Mutch. 

IFF announced the opening of its new Nourish Innovation Lab at the company’s Union Beach, N.J., research and development center. In the state-of-the-art lab, scientists—including flavorists and food designers—will leverage tools, technologies and ingredient expertise to offer customers full product design, driving growth in the global food and beverage markets by fast forwarding innovation.

The companies will work toward accelerating New Culture’s food service and consumer applications with the support of ADM’s broad portfolio of product development resources and capabilities.

At Gold Coast Ingredients, Woods will collaborate with global partners to support sales of new and existing products and help identify new opportunities for partners to help grow their businesses. 

Anderson will work with the team in their state-of-the-art lab and test kitchen facility helping Butter Buds customers stay ahead of the competition with a consistent flow of new ideas and innovations.

During the 12-week program, founders participate in classes presented by some of the industry’s top experts invaluable to CPG entrepreneurs, including channel strategy, positioning and branding, packaging, labeling and safety, operations and fundraising. 

Knechtel, Inc. USA announced the launch of a strategic alliance with The Aurora Ceres® Partnership Ltd., UK. The collaboration brings together a synergistic range of services and capabilities to help drive innovation in the food, confectionery, pharma, and beverage industries.