Nicholas Roskelly

Nicholas Roskelly

Nick Roskelly is a thirteen-year veteran of the food and beverage industry, beginning his editorial career in 2001. After covering new product trends for seven years, Roskelly went on to develop an array of digital media products for B2B brands spanning food categories. Today, he focuses on relaying new food and beverage product information through various forms of digital media. Send your news and new products releases to Nick.
Executive Editor New Media/Business
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Home Chef Opens New Production Facility

New 103,000-square-foot facility to set standard for company’s network of operations
Nick Roskelly
Nicholas Roskelly
March 12, 2018
Along with network operations in Bernardino, Calif., and Atlanta, the 103,000-square-foot Bedford Park facility provides Home Chef with the capacity to grow well beyond its current cadence of delivering three million meals per month.
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Redefining Food Categories in 2018

Discovering the current landscape of food and beverage product development at The Specialty Food Association's 2018 Winter Fancy Food Show
Nick Roskelly
Nicholas Roskelly
February 2, 2018
It's increasingly difficult to place new food and beverage products into clearly delineated categories. Product developers are blurring the lines between meals and snacks, health and indulgence, and traditional protein and plant-based foods. 
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Fusing a System with Innovation

A handful of presentations focused on innovation case studies that told the story of how companies and brands navigated treacherous paths to measured success
Nick Roskelly
Nicholas Roskelly
October 13, 2017
Nearly all presenters at the 2017 New Products Conference referred to innovation as fundamental to success, whether that be in research and development, marketing, sales or any other stage of bringing products to market.
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Shifting Perspective in Snacks

The Sweets & Snacks Expo fosters a positive context for pondering the forces at play in the snack and confections segments.
Nick Roskelly
Nicholas Roskelly
July 25, 2017
The Sweets & Snacks Expo fosters a positive context for pondering the forces at play in the snack and confections segments, if in no other way than providing attendees the opportunity to snack at will.
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E-merger-ing Food Industry Trends

Consolidation is a food business trend that has gained momentum in the past decade
Nick Roskelly
Nicholas Roskelly
May 1, 2017
2017 is a quarter complete, and national politics continues to dominate our news. Undoubtedly, you have scores of sources to keep you abreast of the developments in Washington, so I’ll spare you further commentary.
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2017: Food Trends for the New Year

What trends from the past 12 months will ride momentum into the new year?
Nick Roskelly
Nicholas Roskelly
January 17, 2017
From my vantage point, several food and beverage industry trends will continue to roll through 2017, while a handful of scattered ideas find fertile ground and growth  potential.
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Eat Like a Rock Star

Smaller meal portions are driving trends in both the retail and foodservice sectors
Nick Roskelly
Nicholas Roskelly
October 11, 2016
The trend of eating smaller amounts of food has sparked discussion about the future of eating three square meals per day.
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Counting Ingredients, Not Calories

Intense concern with the origin of food uncovers fundamental questions for food processors
Nick Roskelly
Nicholas Roskelly
July 20, 2016
Major food companies have committed to wholesale changes in ingredient sourcing, which has disrupted supply chains and created acute frustration along with rare opportunity.
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Healthy Products, Healthy Lifestyles

New food and beverage products that assume consumer health can find marketplace opportunities, and effect real change in overall community health
Nick Roskelly
Nicholas Roskelly
April 11, 2016
A recent Mintel study found that 43% of Americans agree that living a modern lifestyle makes it very difficult to be healthy.
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Sweet 2016

Trends that could impact the food and beverage industry in 2016
Nick Roskelly
Nicholas Roskelly
January 22, 2016
Let’s get all the things we typically say this time of year out of the way. Resolutions, lose weight, exercise, eat better, stay in contact with the people we care about most, do that thing you always meant to do and read more.
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