The tech-enabled Workplace Experience Services co. names nominees across eight different snack categories based on proprietary community data
LOS ANGELES, CA — February 18th, 2020 — SnackNation, the country’s leading workplace experience services company, is launching the second annual SnackNation Insights Awards, the industry’s only data-driven snack awards. The SnackNation Insights Awards aggregate millions of proprietary data points and customer insights from the past year to decide the country’s most popular snacks across eight different categories. An emerging and established brand will be named for each snack category, and an overall winner named for Best Packaging.
The 2020 nominees are:
| Category | Emerging Brands | Established Brands |
| Best Bar | Cooper Street Oatmeal Cranberry Chewy Granola Bakes
Earnest Eats Cranberry Lemon Zest Oatmeal Bar FlapJacked Chocolate Brownie Soft Baked Cookie Bar, with Prebiotic(s) & Probiotics Honey Stinger Peanut Butter Milk Chocolate Organic Cracker Bar Zee Zees Campfire S’mores Soft Baked Bar
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Bobo’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oat Bites
Clif MOJO Salted Caramel Flow Snack Bar Enjoy Life Banana Chocolate Chip Breakfast Bar Jimmy Bar Chocolate Peanut Butter Snack Bar KIND Simple Crunch Dark Chocolate & Oats Granola Bars |
| Best Jerky & Meat | Real Snacks Jalapeno Beef Stick (formerly Tomer Kosher)
Stryve Original Sliced Beef Biltong Western’s Smokehouse Sea Salt and Cracked Pepper Meat Stick |
Country Archer Teriyaki Beef Jerky
Lorissa’s Kitchen Korean BBQ Tender Beef Steak Strips Tillamook Country Smoker Original Beef Jerky |
| Best Chip & Crisp | Keogh’s Crisps Shamrock & Sour Cream Crisps
ParmCrisps Original Cheese Crisps Cello Parmesan Cheese Crisps Go Lite! Sweet Maui Onion Cassava Popped Chips Farmer’s Pantry Original Cornbread Crisps |
Late July Jalapeno Lime Tortilla Chips
PopCorners Kettle Corn Popped Corn-Snack Kettle Brand Backyard Barbeque Potato Chips Off The Eaten Path Chickpea Veggie Crisps Popchips Sour Cream & Onion Popped Chip Snack |
| Best Popcorn & Puff | LesserEvil Himalayan Gold Organic Popcorn
The Snack Brigade Cheesy Cheddar Incredi Puffs Papa’s Pops Sweet & Salty Skinless Popcorn Pop’d Original Kerns Ka-Pop! Dairy-Free Cheddar Ancient Grain Popped Chips |
Harvest Snaps Black Pepper Green Pea Snack Crisps
PopCorners White Cheddar Popped-Corn Snack Utz White Cheddar Popcorn Off The Eaten Path Sour Cream & Onion Veggie Puffs Hippeas Vegan White Cheddar Chickpea Puffs
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| Best Fruit | Chum Bites Peach Fruit Bites
Go Organically Fruit Medley Fruit Snacks ZEGO Blueberry Just Fruit Bar |
SunRype Apple Raspberry Fruit to Go Fruit Strip
Welch’s Superfruit Mix Fruit Snacks Wholesome Organic DelishFish Candy |
| Best Nut & Mix | Bearclaw Kitchen Honey Run Granola
Crunchsters Sea Salt Sprouted Protein Snack Karma Nuts, Inc. Cocoa Dusted Cashews The Toasted Oat Blueberry Cobbler Granola Zee Zee’s Honey Roasted Sunflower Kernels |
Bear Naked Peanut Butter & Honey Granola Bites
Madi K’s Sea Salt Almonds Royal Hawaiian Sea Salt Macadamia Nuts Sun Rich Roasted and Salted Sunflower Kernels Wonderful Honey Roasted No Shell Pistachios |
| Best Sweet | AWAKE Caramel Chocolate Bites
Double Dutch Caramel Stroopwafels Drizzilicious S’mores Bites Thinster’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Thins Torie & Howard Blood Orange & Honey Chewie Fruities |
Belgian Boys Original Cookie Butter Mini Cookie Stash
Enstrom Milk Chocolate Almond Toffee Justin’s Dark Chocolate Cashew Butter Cups Little Secrets Dark Chocolate Pieces Marich Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Cashews |
| Overall Best Packaging | AWAKE Caramel Chocolate Bites
Bare Snacks Fuji & Reds Organic Apple Chips Belgian Boys Original De Liege Wafel Hippeas Vegan White Cheddar Chickpea Puffs Late July Jalapeno Lime Tortilla Chips Off The Eaten Path Chickpea Veggie Crisps SMASHMALLOW Cookie Dough Snackable Marshmallows Wholesome Organic DelishFish Candy YumEarth Organic Fruit Snacks Zee Zee’s Original Grahamz |
The winners will be announced February 25, 2020 via a follow-up release, with physical awards to be presented at the 2020 Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, CA, the nation’s largest emerging natural food tradeshow. SnackNation’s proprietary data platform SnackNation Insights offers product intelligence gathered from millions of consumer insight data points to empower CPGs with the knowledge to understand consumer preferences and behaviors.
The awards follow SnackNation’s recently announced expanded offering (which includes third wave coffee and tea service, fresh fruit, bulk snacks, and classic snacks from some of the world’s most iconic brands), and the launch of the SnackNation App, a new digital experience that enables SnackNation members to optimize their office curations by seamlessly collecting real-time feedback from their employees.
“We were humbled by the response to last year’s awards,” said SnackNation CEO and co-founder Sean Kelly. “Brands know that as the only snack award powered by proprietary data from real offices across the country, winning a SnackNation Insights Award means your product truly resonated with consumers. This year we’re back with even more sophisticated Insights, powered by the new SnackNation App, which helps our Members improve curations while providing brands with the intelligence they need to make smarter, faster decisions.”
About SnackNation
SnackNation is the country’s leading workplace experience services company, fueling breakrooms in thousands of workplaces across America. Founded in 2014, SnackNation curates and delivers great tasting better-for-you snacks, fresh fruit, coffee, tea, and ready to drink beverages to more than half a million people in thousands of member offices in all 50 states. The company also uses machine learning to optimize curations and provides emerging brands the insights they need to scale faster. SnackNation is committed to helping fight hunger outside the office too, donating more than six million meals to families in need via their partnership with Feeding America. SnackNation was twice named to the Inc. 500, their annual list of the fastest growing private companies in America. The company has offices in Los Angeles and Chicago. To learn more, visit SnackNation.com.
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