CPG Week by BevNET & Nosh
Episodes
Reading The Earnings Report Tea Leaves, Whole Foods’ Daily Shop
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: This week, the Nosh and BevNET team talks about how a marketing campaign to boost cereal sales might be imploding for Kellogg’s and...
FTC Throws A Wrench Into The Kroger Albertsons Merger
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: What’s it like to stay in a Eggo-themed pancake house in rural Tennessee? Why is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) challenging the...
Gutsy Soda Moves, Financial Doldrums, and Much Ado About Mushrooms
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: This week the BevNET and Nosh team discusses Poppi acquisition rumors, the investment landscape, and consumer adoption of functional ...
Cultivated Meat's Harsh Truth
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: This week the BevNET and Nosh team talk about Subway speed dating, cell-cultured meat’s many challenges, why unrealistic investment...
Musings On M&A Deals
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: In the first episode of CPG Week, Nosh Managing Editor Monica Watrous and reporters Brad Avery and Lukas Southard sit down to discuss...
What Was Trending At Winter Fancy Food?
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: In a special dispatch from Las Vegas, Nosh managing editor Monica Watrous and reporter Adrianne DeLuca spoke with Specialty Food Asso...
Turkey Talk, NOSH Live & The Moral Ambiguity of Influencer Marketing
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of the NOSH Podcast, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg and reporters Lukas Southard and Adrianne DeLuca talk about Thanksgiving tra...
Do Consumers Give A Chip About Your Supply Chain?
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg and the founder and CEO of Zack’s Mighty, Zack Gazzaniga, dive right into a corny discussion on t...
One Brand’s Three Keys to Success In Product Development
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: On this week’s episode of the NOSH Podcast, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg and reporter Brad Avery chat about Orchard Valley Harvest’...
Risks vs Rewards: Rezoning The Blue Zones For CPG
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg and reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Brad Avery ponder Eminem’s new CPG venture, Mom’s Spaghetti, ...
What’s Driving Frozen Consumer Buying Behavior
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: With Halloween on the horizon, this week NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg and reporters Lukas Southard and Adrianne Deluca kickoff the epi...
Wilde Found A Winning Position In Function-First Front of Pack
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg,Editor-in-Chief Jeff Klineman and reporter Lukas Southard kick off the podcast with a discussion about wh...
When Is It Time To Kill A Product Line?
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg sits down with the Eat The Change team to discuss how the company has evolved its identity by rethi...
Go Nuts And Build An Ecom Growth Empire
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the NOSH Podcast this week, editor Carol Ortenberg and reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Brad Avery discuss the U.S. government’s suit against Amazon...
Capturing A Not-So-Obvious Consumer
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the NOSH Podcast, editor Carol Ortenberg and reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Brad Avery debrief from their trip to the final Natural Produc...
Successful Merchandising Strategies For Ecomm Retail
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the NOSH Podcast, editor Carol Ortenberg and reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Lukas Southard talk about top trends and new tastes they are o...
Diving Into This Week’s News From Smucker, Albertsons and Paqui
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Lukas Southard, as well as editor-in-chief Jeff Klineman dive into a...
Can Natural Foods Compete In Conventional Cold Cases?
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the NOSH Podcast, NOSH editor-in-chief Jeff Klineman, editor Carol Ortenberg and reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Lukas Southard give their ...
Gather-ing New Routes To Market
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, reporter Adrianne DeLuca and editor-in-chief Jeff Klineman waffle between the various ways gluten-...
Big Company Learners to Emerging Brand Leaders
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg chats with two recently minted NOSH Notables – Chris Lansing, CEO of Health Ade, and Miguel Leal,...
For Better Or Worse, Treat Investment Like A Marriage
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the NOSH Podcast, NOSH editor-in-chief Jeff Klineman, editor Carol Ortenberg and reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Lukas Southard discuss the...
Notes On The NOSH Notables 2023 Awards
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the NOSH Podcast, NOSH editor-in-chief Jeff Klineman, editor Carol Ortenberg and reporter Lukas Southard discuss the recently published N...
Why Tony's Chocolonely Married Its Mission To Commercial Success
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, reporter Adrianne DeLuca and editor-in-chief Jeff Klineman drum up some girl dinner alternatives a...
Maturing Your Manufacturing While Making The Cash Last
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Lukas Southard and editor-in-chief Jeff Klineman advocate for year-r...
How to Empower Your Workforce And Foster The “Concept of Mattering”
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the NOSH Podcast, Nosh editor Carol Ortenberg, Editor-in-Chief Jeff Klineman and reporter Lukas Southard sat down to talk about THC-infus...
Fame Sucks, When To Keep That Funding Announcement Quiet
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Lukas Southard and editor-in-chief Jeff Klineman continue their food...
Could Chicagoland CPG Bring New Industry Opportunities
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a special dispatch from the World Business Chicago/Chicago Venture Summit, on this week’s NOSH Podcast Lukas talks to Midwest-based brands and in...
Hot Takes, Hot Sauce & Wholesaling (And Whale Sperm) At Summer Fancy Foods
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the NOSH Podcast, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg; reporters Lukas Southard and Adrianne DeLuca; and editorial assistant Shauna Golden discus...
When Retailers And Investors Wish You Said No
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg and reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Lukas Southard air grievances about the lack of natural product e...
The Right to Free Speech and Alt-Meat
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the NOSH Podcast, reporter Lukas Southard speaks with Justin Pearson, senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, about how and when th...
How To React When Mass Media Has The Mic
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg and reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Lukas Southard chat about a recent move from Sonoma Creamery. The...
Rinse and Reflect? Two Serial Entrepreneurs And The Lessons They’ve Learned
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week the NOSH podcast team revisits some important lessons and stories shared during NOSH Live Winter 2022. In this episode, you’ll hear from S...
Masienda's Storytelling Model Brought Fame, And Eight Figure Sales
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the NOSH Podcast, Carol Ortenberg, Jeff Klineman, Adrianne DeLuca and Lukas Southard sit down to discuss celebrity branded coffee, a reso...
This Is How To Think Like An Insurgent Brand
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg and reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Lukas Southard chat about viral candy trends, the U.S. Senate’s...
Being Hardheaded Has Its Benefits, Particularly During A Reboot
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the NOSH Podcast, the team begins by discussing the strategies brands use to boost perception of their sales strength as well as possible...
What Will It Take To Raise The Stakes For National Distribution?
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the NOSH Podcast, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, Editor-in-Chief Jeff Klineman and reporters Lukas Southard and Adrianne Deluca discussed m...
Scary to Scalable — A Self-Manufacturing Discussion
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s NOSH Podcast, reporters Lukas Southard and Adrianne Deluca join NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg to consider Oatly’s new online marketin...
Will Regulation Smoke Out THC In CPG?
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg and reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Lukas Southard chat about recent news from the Federal Trade Comm...
What Wins Over Investors – Growth or CapEx?
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg sits down with President and CEO of Lesser Evil Snacks, Charles Coristine, to discuss how the brand...
How Mergers Can Help Brands Scale and Survive
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the NOSH Podcast, the NOSH team gets fooled by CPG brands announcing fake products over April Fool’s Day weekend, sharing why the...
Why SVB Reignited The Working Capital Conversation
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the NOSH Podcast, the NOSH team discusses the larger trend of chefs, restaurants and bakeries expanding into CPG, sharing recent fu...
The Science of Building a Functional Food Brand
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, editor-in-chief Jeff Klineman and reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Lukas Southard chat about pickling...
Observations From This Year’s Expo West
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg and reporters Lukas Southard and Adrianne DeLuca discussed what they saw, heard and tasted at Expo West 2023. The team tal...
Why A Refined Rollout Strategy Will Determine Your Runway
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, editor-in-chief Jeff Klineman and reporter Adrianne DeLuca talk about some notable, viral marketin...
Power Balance: Investors, Mission and Money
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg and reporter Adrianne DeLuca are joined by two CPG executives and mission-driven brand leaders – ...
How Conversation Creates Converts
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, editor-in-chief Jeff Klineman and reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Lukas Southard chat about the rise...
The Realities of Building the Cell-Grown Food Industry
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, editor-in-chief Jeff Klineman and reporters Brad Avery and Lukas Southard discuss the team’s thoughts on eat...
How Will Your Brand’s Message Impact Its Growth Trajectory?
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, editor-in-chief Jeff Klineman and reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Lukas Southard dish out some hot t...
Is Faux Meat's Failure Fake News?
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, BevNET Editor-in-Chief Jeff Klineman and reporters Adrianne Delucca and Lukas Southard took some time to discuss the upro...
What is, And Isn’t, Wrong At The FDA
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, editor-in-chief Jeff Klineman and reporter Adrianne DeLuca discuss the ‘Pie-pline’ of Hubigs f...
Well Done? Taking The Temperature of Plant-based In Foodservice
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, BevNET Editor-in-Chief Jeff Klineman and reporter Lukas Southard debate what is considered what food products should trul...
Predicting Consumer Trends in 2023
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg and reporter Lukas Southard discuss spending time and eating with family over the holidays. They then look back on the big...
Five Things To Consider Before Your Next Capital Raise
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, editor-in-chief Jeff Klineman and reporter Adrianne DeLuca discuss the state of online subscriptio...
Brand Building Atop An Established Creator Base
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, editor-in-chief Jeff Klineman and reporter Adrianne DeLuca chat about the ever-growing plant-based...
How To Get On Kroger Shelves, And Stay There.
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg and reporter Adrianne DeLuca run down NOSH Live Winter 2022, highlighting key themes and trends thr...
Why We Aren't Here This Week: NOSH Live Winter 2022
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, due to our NOSH Live event in Santa Monica, we're taking the week off, but you can still follow what we're up to by hitting the NOSH.Com li...
Why COP27’s Focus On Food Systems Will Not Be Enough
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, Editor-in-Chief Jeff Klineman and reporter Adrianne DeLuca run down the shifting priorities and na...
Why COP27’s Focus On Food Systems Will Not Be Enough
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, Editor-in-Chief Jeff Klineman and reporter Adrianne DeLuca run down the shifting priorities and na...
Building Back A Bakery Brand After Bankruptcy
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the flavors of Thanksgiving in uncommon formats to priceless paintings covered in canned soup, the NOSH team talks about chaos in the food world....
Community-Supported Banking For A Better Food System
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg and reporters Adrianne DeLuca and Lukas Southard discuss the possible business plans of Feastables ...
Raising Funds And Pursuing Profitability Despite The Downturn
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, BevNET Editor-in-Chief Jeff Klineman and reporter Adrianne DeLuca discuss the latest news surroundin...
Kroger’s Blockbuster Acquisition Shakes Up Grocery Channel
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg, BevNET Editor-in-Chief Jeff Klineman and reporter Lukas Southard discussed Nancy Pelosi’s favori...
Quietly Approaching $30 Million Revenue, $13 Million Raise for Bachan’
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg along with BevNET Editor-in-Chief Jeff Klineman and reporter Lukas Southard chatted about what trends Jeff saw ...
How Food Brands Can Win on Amazon Prime Days
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, the team debriefs on its trip to Natural Products Expo East in Philadelphia and then sorts through the news around the White Ho...
Kiva Dickinson: Is D2C Dead? No, But It’s Not A Great Living, Either
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kiva Dickinson, co-founder and managing partner of Selva Ventures joins the NOSH podcast team to break down how D2C has evolved from a pand...
Welcome to the NOSH Podcast
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The staff of NOSH.com takes listeners inside the business of natural, organic, sustainable and healthy food during the NOSH Podcast. Using interview...