The latest food and beverage industry news and trend analysis

Fan Foods and Poppowls merge high-equity Disney and Marvel licenses with clean-label, seed-oil-free ingredients, disrupting the snack aisle via strategic exclusives at Walmart and Target.

Keystone Light has announced the debut of Keystone Light Apple, branded as "Kapple." Launching in time for the Memorial Day holiday, the product is engineered to serve as a primary volume driver for the Molson Coors value portfolio.

Bones Coffee’s 2026 Summer Collection leverages nostalgic dessert trends to drive growth, targeting "permissible indulgence" with carnival and soda-shop-inspired SKUs engineered for iced serves.

Electrolit’s 7-Eleven exclusive Pineapple Coconut flavour scales its C-store presence, utilising a retail-specific strategy to drive trial and cold vault differentiation for summer 2026.

Heineken enters the functional beer category with Outdoor Brewing Co, an alcohol-free lager fortified with electrolytes and magnesium for post-activity recovery.

Mars reveals its 2026 Halloween candy portfolio, focusing on innovative textures like freeze-dried SKITTLES and new seasonal shapes to meet evolving consumer snacking preferences.

Heineken Ireland’s 0.0 flavour expansion leverages the 150% growth in Irish alcohol-free sales, targeting the moderation trend via sophisticated botanical and citrus profiles.

Oroweat’s new functional range leverages a "first-of-its-kind" plant blend, offering 14g of fibre or 20g of protein to address widespread nutritional deficiencies in the US bakery aisle.