This week's Fun Friday roundup features news from Hot Pockets, Green Giant, Pinkbox Doughnuts, Frito-Lay, and Newsweek. 

An expert from Quest shares the benefits of automated tech in food packaging.

Second Nature Brands is quickly becoming a powerhouse, originally bolstered by three brands: Sanders, Kar’s Nuts, and the self-titled Second Nature Snacks brand.

The bakery ingredients provider’s new facility will help support customer innovation.

If you’ve never visited a large-scale bakery facility, stepping onto the production floor of Highland Baking’s flagship location in Northbrook, IL is likely to overwhelm. 

An expert from market insights firm Curion offers advice on the recipe for success.

The 2023 iteration of iba, a trade fair for the baking and confectionery industry, is scheduled October 22-26 at Fairground Munich in Germany.

Snack food and wholesale bakery companies are building varying levels of automation in their warehouse shipping and receiving areas, ranging from forklifts to autonomous vehicles, to traceability software and more, all in an effort to make their operations more efficient, effective, safer, and more profitable.

On Tuesday, October 17, Corbion hosted journalists and food industry organization personnel at its headquarters in Lenexa, Kansas, for a media day.

The puffed and extruded snacks category is having a great year: all of its subcategories are up from the same time period last year, per Circana data, and consumers are returning to gatherings where snacks like Cheetos, Funyuns, and other snacks are omnipresent.