Budweiser and Lean Cuisine's new offerings scored high with readers on Food Dive this week, as our feature on recent product launches attracted the most reads over the last seven days. Updates on the Hostess bankruptcy situation also proved popular, with news about Grupo Bimbo's interest in Wonder Bread joining Dole and snack preferences at the top of our read rankings.
Catch up on those stories, as well as our favorite limited edition alcohol packaging examples at the links below:
- 5 flavors of the week: New launches from Budweiser, Lean Cuisine and PinkBerry—Food Dive spotlights five new tastes in the news from the past seven days, who launched them, and what they look like.
- Our 10 favorite limited edition alcohol packaging designs—These bottling approaches from boomboxes and beer cubes and to maps and peelable bottles will make you see beverages in a whole new light.
- Hostess' Wonder Bread may go to Grupo Bimbo—Bankrupted Hostess could bake new life into its products with a sale to the Mexican bread-baking giant.
- Dole set to finalize sale of its worldwide packaged foods to Itochu—The deal, worth over $1.6 billion, was finally ratified by Chinese anti-trust officials.
- Study finds, surprisingly, fresh fruit is the top U.S. snack—The study found fresh fruit to be not only the fastest growing, but also the most popular snack food in America.
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