Expo West 2025 served up another year of innovation, flavor, and eye-catching trends shaping the future of the food and beverage industry. Known as the largest trade show for natural, organic, and healthy products in North America, Natural Products Expo West showcased gut-friendly goodies to protein-packed everything – with thousands of products and companies in the mix. Here are the top five takeaways fresh from the show floor. 

We have all read (and experienced) the pressures in today’s workplace – a confluence of rising expectations from four generations in the workforce, harsh economic realities, global crises and demanding business environments. Building the business now goes hand in hand with building company culture. And keeping employees informed and engaged is challenging. Enter middle managers, the unsupported and unsung heroes who could also be a company’s hidden engine to drive communications and change. Yet, companies and senior leaders are failing middle managers – and they don’t even know it.