{"id":121020,"date":"2026-04-02T02:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/the-feeding-frenzy-fueling-food-media-ma\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:19:48","slug":"the-feeding-frenzy-fueling-food-media-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/the-feeding-frenzy-fueling-food-media-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feeding Frenzy Fueling Food Media M&A"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prior to now 12 months, curiosity in meals media has grown from a simmer to a boil.<\/p>\n

The uptick started final March, when the meals know-how firm Surprise, most lately valued at $7 billion, paid $90 million for the meals media model Tastemade.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In October, Folks Inc. paid an undisclosed quantity for the meals writer Feedfeed, the primary acquisition from Folks Inc. for the reason that $2.7 billion merger that created the corporate in 2021. And naturally, as readers of this newsletter well know<\/a>, in February America\u2019s Take a look at Kitchen purchased Food52 in a chapter public sale for $10 million, a far decrease bid than ATK had initially submitted earlier than Food52 discovered itself in dire <\/strong>monetary straits.<\/p>\n

These tie-ups come in opposition to a broader backdrop of meals and eating associated enthusiasm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In current months, two new meals media startups have launched. Caper, which goals to apply the Puck model to the world of dining<\/a>, despatched its first e-newsletter in February, and Gourmand, which nabbed its pedigreed namesake from Cond\u00e9 Nast<\/a>, has made masterful use of the earned media to bolster consciousness of what’s successfully a scrappy meals outlet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Extra consequentially, two behemoth offers had been struck earlier this week that promise to reshape the meals {industry} itself. On Monday, Sysco acquired Restaurant Depot<\/a> in a $29 billion tie-up, and on Tuesday, Unilever agreed to merge its food business with McCormick<\/a>, making a mixed agency value greater than $65 billion.<\/p>\n

And now, as if the market weren’t frothy sufficient, two iconic meals media belongings have lately come to market.<\/p>\n

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