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SnackNation Launches Second Annual “Insights Awards”

By February 19, 2020 September 20th, 2021

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

 

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

 

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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