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Sleek new cans and four new flavors: Diet Coke Ginger Lime, Diet Coke Feisty Cherry, Diet Coke Twisted Mango and Diet Coke Zesty Blood Orange, are part of the brands modern redesign.

Organic versions of the flavors: Birthday Cake, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Peanut Butter Fudge, will be available for purchase in natural food stores and grocers nationwide beginning February.

Petrics, a pet health technology company, is looking to make tracking weight, activity levels and rest periods a whole lot easier for pet owners. By launching the Smart Pet Bed, Activity Tracker, pet Health and Nutrition App, the Las Vegas-based company is aiming to help those four-legged family members achieve optimal weight ranges.

Cuvée Coffee, an Austin-based company that pioneered nitrogen-infused cold brew, is ushering in the new year with a whole new look and state-of-the-art cold brewery to provide their product to even more consumers. The expansion will further position Cuvée as the leader in the Nitro Cold Brew category by incorporating innovations into its brewing process, along with its new can design.

More than 90 years of “doing things right the first time” tends to pay off.

Just ask officials at the Chase Products Co., the Broadview, Ill.-based manufacturer of private label aerosol items that continues to produce robust sales and profit growth for themselves and their retailer partners as it closes in on the century mark in business.

Standing out in a crowd.

That is pretty difficult when it comes to the natural products segment among HBC brands. With the category growing at steady double-digit rates for at least the last five years, a large number of suppliers have entered the market, all hoping to grab their fair share of this burgeoning segment.

Green Giant has expanded its Veggie Swap-Ins line by launching a new addition — the Green Giant Veggie Spirals, which are frozen spiralized vegetables. The products began to hit shelves in select stores in the month of January, and are expected to achieve nationwide distribution in February.  

The spiralized vegetables offer fewer calories and fewer carbs per serving, the company said. The Green Giant Veggie Spirals are 100% vegetables with no sauces or seasonings and come in four varieties, zucchini, carrots, beets and butternut squash.

SpartanNash has unveiled a new brand titled, Our Family to its Michigan-based retailers. The line will launch in 87 locations including Family Fare Supermarkets, D&W Fresh Market, Forest Hills Foods, ValuLand and VG’s stores — and in more than 300 independent retailers throughout the state.