The Sunflower Project is the brainchild of community artist and grower Naomi Hannam. She is the founder of Creative Roots, which runs bespoke craft workshops in ink making, weaving, natural dying, foraging and drawing in nature. However, when all her workshops and teaching sessions were cancelled during the first lockdown, Naomi found work on an organic farm and began dreaming of the day when she could gather some of the sunflowers grown there and share them. Last summer she sold and gave away hundreds of bunches of flowers, enjoying seeing the joy they brought to the people she met. Not content to leave it there though, she has now developed a project with the ambition to connect communities to one another and spread the joy of growing sunflowers.
Frutly ‘teen’ beverage fills white space in ambient juice category, says PepsiCo While there are plenty of beverages targeting young children, with recent launches from Kraft Heinz (Creative Roots) and Nestlé (Fruity Water) offering low or no-sugar options, there is a gap in the market for teens, claims PepsiCo, which says new launch Frutly fills “a white space in the ambient juice aisle.”
Available in Strawberry Kiwi, Fruit Punch and Apple Grape flavors,
Frutly is made with water, fruit juice concentrates, electrolytes, and natural flavors, and contains 60-calories per 12 oz bottle, 15g naturally occurring sugar from the juice, and 20% of the DV for vitamin C and E. To place this in context, 12oz of Tropicana 100% orange juice contains 34g sugar.
Kraft Heinz reportedly in talks to sell Planters to Hormel Foods Kraft Heinz is in talks to sell its Planters snack nuts business to Hormel Foods, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter, with a deal valuing the brand at around $3bn that could be announced as soon as next week.
The move comes four months after Kraft Heinz unveiled plans to sell a mix of cheese brands to Lactalis in a $3.2bn deal, and find $2bn of cost savings through 2024 from efficiencies in procurement, manufacturing and logistics as part of a highly-anticipated
Kraft Heinz, which told us it doesn’t comment on rumors or speculation, has eliminated more than 1,100 products in recent months as it focuses on bigger winners, telling investors in September that it is on a mission to “