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The Soup That Refused to Stay on the Shelf
Grocers would not take Nicole Centeno’s whole soup line. She found her customers online instead - then, a decade later, bought the manufacturing muscle to serve other food businesses.
HelloFresh Put Dinner on Autopilot. Now It Wants the Rest of the Kitchen
The lime-green box solved the 6 p.m. question with portioned ingredients and a recipe card. Fifteen years later, HelloFresh is trying to turn that weekly habit into an operating system for what households eat.
SugarCreek
SugarCreek spent six decades turning a bacon plant into the backstage kitchen for food brands, retailers and restaurant chains. Its real product is not a label on the shelf - it is repeatability at industrial scale.
Thistle
Thistle is a plant-forward meal delivery service that ships chef-crafted, nutritionist-designed ready-to-eat meals, cold-pressed juices, and snacks to homes across much of the U.S. Founded in San Francisco in 2013 by Ashwin Cheriyan and Shiri Avnery, the company built its business on a simple wager: that the easiest way to fix both human health and the climate is to help people eat more plants.