Home Run Inn has partnered with the Chicago Cubs to be the official pizza of Wrigley Field, starting with Opening Day on Thursday, April 1, 2021. The iconic thin crust pizza will be available for Chicago Cubs fans all season long at every Cubs home game.

Kraft Heinz has launched the COLLIDERS brand, a new line of refrigerated desserts featuring some of the most popular candy brands, like Reese’s and Kit Kat, in a new spoonable style. COLLIDERS desserts come in three indulgent formats and 12 total varieties.

Serendipity Brands has partnered with Warner Bros. for four new pints inspired by fan-favorite series and movies. The first to be released is the "Friends'' pint, Central Perk Almond Fudge, which are available at selects stores and online now. Additional releases in the year include flavors inspired by "The Goonies," which is also available this month, "Caddyshack" and "A Christmas Story".     

Sargento Foods is giving cheese lovers a new way to pair real, natural cheese with their favorite snack crackers with its release of Sargento Balanced Breaks Cheese & Crackers Snacks. These new products mark a new partnership between Sargento and Mondelez International, which will combine eight Sargento natural cheese varieties with RITZ, TRISCUIT and WHEAT THINS snack crackers, to create a classic snack that is easy to enjoy at home, at work or on-the-go.

Natasha Case, CEO and Co-Founder of Coolhaus, announced that Queens' Coffee Ice Cream is back this year exclusively at Whole Foods. Made with Allegro Coffee’s Three Queens Blend sourced from three women-owned coffee farms in East Africa, this pint has been touched by women at every level of its creation. Natasha is passionate about helping pave the way for other female and LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs through mentorships, innovative business partnerships, and funding grants through foundations like Black Girl Ventures. 

Carnation Breakfast Essentials Nutritional Drinks has collaborated with some of the most beloved cereal brands to launch new Carnation Breakfast Essentials Flavored Nutritional Drinks packed with the same protein, vitamins and minerals as the original Carnation Breakfast Essentials Nutritional Drinks. The new flavors include Kellogg's Froot Loops, Kellogg's Krave and Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. In addition, Carnation Breakfast Essentials Nutritional Drinks comes in a General Mills Golden Grahams flavor.

Greenleaf Foods is bringing a new level of flavor exploration to the plant-based hot dog category with the launch of its Field Roast Signature Stadium Dog, a plant-based premium hot dog that is naturally smoked. It is the first plant-based hot dog to be made from pea protein, rather than soy, and will be the first plant-based hot dog to be sold alongside traditional beef dogs when it becomes available in retail stores this spring.

In this excerpt from our Cold Corner Podcast, we go one-on-one with Nestlé’s Ryan Riddle about R&D strategies for plant-based foods.

Coffee mate continues last year's flurry of new product rollouts into 2021, with M&Ms Milk Chocolate, Oatmeal Crème Pie, and Glazed Donut flavors. Overall, the refrigerated coffee creamer segment is thriving, having sold $3.3 billion in 2020, an increase of 16.4%.

Swedish-style NICK’S Ice Cream and animal-free dairy innovator Perfect Day have partnered to launch a new line of vegan dairy ice creams. Seven new vegan ice cream flavors, including Swedish Mint Chip, Choklad Choklad and Karamell Swirl, will complement N!CK’S existing light ice cream line.