By Liz Ward

Easy Predictive Maintenance with AI and Excel—No Cost, Big Impact

Equipment downtime can lead to significant time and money losses for small food processing facilities. Fortunately, once considered the domain of large corporations with expensive software, predictive maintenance is now within reach for small operations using free tools like ChatGPT and simple data tracking with Excel or Google Sheets. What is Predictive Maintenance? Predictive maintenance…

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Snackteva, A Global Advising Firm

Press Release: Announcing the Launch of Snackteva – A Premier Global Advisory Firm for the Natural Foods Market

After nearly three decades of pioneering and advancing the healthy snack bar industry through CleanCopack and BumbleBar, industry stalwarts Glenn and Liz Ward have embarked on a new venture. In August 2023, they founded Snackteva, a global advisory firm poised to revolutionize the entry and success of teams and solo entrepreneurs in the fiercely competitive…

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Food Product Optimization: Balancing Competing Goals

Food product optimization involves a fine balance between multiple competing objectives such as nutrition, taste, cost, shelf life, processing constraints, ingredient availability, and the ability to obtain desired certifications. Achieving this balance presents a complex but worthwhile challenge for the food industry. This paper explores the strategies and technologies that enable businesses to navigate these…

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What Does it Mean to Ethically Source Ingredients?

In recent years, the demand for ethically sourced and sustainable products has dramatically increased. According to a Nielsen survey, 55% of global respondents have valued brands with environmentally and socially ethical business practices, so much so that they’re willing to pay more to ethically source ingredients. But claiming your nutrition bar is made with ethically sourced…

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2021 Nutrition Bar Trends

With 2020 behind us, everyone is looking for a way to move forward into a better year. Moving your business into a better year means predicting what the trends will be and what opportunities are ahead in the near future – including Nutrition Bar Trends. For nutrition bar companies, this means knowing what customers will…

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How to Successfully Scale Your Nutrition Bar Formula

Turning ideas into reality is what business is all about. The formula for your nutrition bar is an idea you want to invest in and expand, but how does your company take it from where it is to where it needs to be? Scaling formulas for larger production can seem like a daunting challenge, but…

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BumbleBar launches Clean Copack co-packing division

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 8, 2020 Spokane Valley, WA—One of the nation’s most stalwart plant-based snack bar producers is not only weathering the COVID-19 crisis, its dynamic employees are forging ahead with a new co-packing division and an innovative new facility. Over the past 10 years, the 25-year-old clean food pioneer BumbleBar, Inc., has grown…

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5 FAQs About Nutrition Bar Co-Packing Answered

5 Frequently Asked Nutrition Bar Co-Packing Questions Many fast growing nutrition bar brands come to a point in their growth where they need to partner with a co-packer to continue achieving their business goals. This transition can be a big step, and deserves the time and commitment to researching potential co-packers and what the process…

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5 Benefits of Working With an Experienced Co-Packer

As a growing nutrition bar company, you put time, money and effort into your business and investments, and want solid returns. Due diligence is done with every aspect of growth and budgeting, and margins are trimmed to be healthy enough to face the unexpected. The product is proven and tested, and you just want to…

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What Does SQF Certified Mean?

SQF Certification in the Nutrition Bar Industry Being SQF certified is a worldwide food safety program that is designed to deliver consistent standards of quality across all industry sectors. This ensures that only the highest quality raw ingredients make their way into SQF products and are handled by trained food safety professionals at every stage…

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