| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.09.2024 | Cal-Maine's Bold Leap into Prepared Foods: A New Era for Egg Production | Cal-Maine Foods, the titan of the U.S. egg industry, is spreading its wings. The company recently announced a majority stake in Crepini, a maker of wraps and crepes. This strategic move marks a significant shift toward prepared foods. It’s ... |
| 13.09.2024 | Cal-Maine takes majority stake of egg processor, expanding into prepared foods | Listen to the article 3 min
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Cal-Maine, the largest U.S. egg producer, announced a majority stake in wrap and crepe maker Crepini, part of a new joint venture... |
| 12.09.2024 | Commentary | Guest opinion: Chelsea Brown and Mia Glover: It’s time for Coloradans to start thinking deeply about seafood sourcing | DSPA does just that by funding processing infrastructure for U.S. wild-capture fisheries and mariculture, defined as cultivation of shellfish and aquatic plants. Processing — cleaning, fileting and otherwise preparing seafood for consumptio... |
| 09.09.2024 | USDA tightens guidance for use of ‘antibiotic free’ and other meat labels | Listen to the article 4 min
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture released new guidance last week encouraging meat producers to provide more documentation verif... |
| 21.08.2024 | The Ransomware Epidemic: A Cyber Threat Evolving at Breakneck Speed | Ransomware is a digital plague. It started as a curiosity in the late 1980s and has morphed into a multi-billion-dollar industry. The journey from the AIDS Trojan to today’s sophisticated attacks is a tale of innovation, greed, and chaos.
I... |
| 20.08.2024 | Tracing the destructive path of ransomware's evolution | The year is 1989. “Rain Man” wins the Academy Award for Best Picture. Motorola releases the world’s smallest and lightest phone. The Berlin Wall falls. Taylor Swift is born. It also begins the dawn of a new era of cyber extortion.
The AIDS ... |
| 19.03.2024 | Conservative investor drops Tyson Foods over immigration flap | A conservative investment fund divested its holdings in Tyson Foods saying the company's plans to hire refugees and asylum seekers will alienate customers amid the crisis at the southern border.
Driving the news: Misinformation about Tyson'... |
| 08.11.2023 | Emissions for the world’s largest meat and dairy producers up 3%, says investor network FAIRR | Disclosed emissions for 20 of the world’s largest meat and dairy producers have risen 3.28% year-on-year according to new data from the Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index.
Investor network FAIRR‘s analysis includes Hormel Foods, McDonald’s... |
| 26.10.2023 | From Beef to Beans: When Big Meat Enters Plant-Based in the Americas, Part One | The entrance of Big Meat into the plant-based category was nothing short of inevitable when the food industry began to realize both the huge potential of alternative foods as well as the future limitations on the planet’s capacity to “grow”... |
| 31.08.2023 | Climate Activists Attempt to Block Brazilian Meat Giant JBS’s IPO in the US | 4 Mins Read Environmental groups are urging the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to halt Brazilian meat giant JBS’s planned US IPO, citing its failure to adhere to climate and corporate governance pledges. The activists call it t... |
| 13.07.2023 | JBS plans to list shares in U.S. | Dive Brief:
JBS S.A. announced plans to list shares on the New York Stock Exchange in the U.S. for the first time through a parent company in the Netherlands, JBS NV. It also seeks a listing on the São Paulo Stock Exchange in Brazil. Both l... |
| 23.06.2023 | Meet the founder: MycoTechnology’s Alan Hahn on the magic of mycelium, global expansion, and staying focused | An IT sales executive turned foodtech entrepreneur, MycoTechnology cofounder and CEO Alan Hahn got the call that dramatically altered his career trajectory just over a decade ago.
“I’d spent 20 years in California working in high tech, cybe... |
| 08.06.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Green Coffee Co brews up $25m, ChatGPT designs robotic harvesting, Zume shuts down | Despite a general scarcity of agrifoodtech funding this week, a few companies announced notable rounds, including the Green Coffee Company, which will expand across Colombia, and Turkish food waste management startup Fazla. Elsewhere, ChatG... |
| 05.05.2023 | Movin’ on, up and out: A new CMO for Regrow Ag, controversy as Bud Light execs take leave | To keep us all up to speed on the latest people moves in agrifood, AFN publishes a monthly column of the industry’s biggest leadership changes.
Are you in a new role or company? Know someone who has left? Drop me a line to share the details... |
| 31.03.2023 | Climate costs could ‘wipe out’ profits for half world’s largest livestock companies, says FAIRR analysis | Global investor network FAIRR warns that climate-related costs could “wipe out” profits for half of the world’s largest livestock companies “unless new strategies are urgently adopted.” FAIRR’s Climate Risk Tool estimates a $23.7 billion to... |
| 25.03.2023 | After JBS shutters plant-based food company, Boulder startup expands its alternative-meat production | Just months after JBS USA pulled the plug on its plant-based protein business, a Boulder startup has opened a factory in Thornton to expand its version of a meat alternative.
Meati Foods, founded in 2016, started operation in February at a ... |
| 23.02.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pure Salmon nabs $507m, FreshToHome bags $104m, more layoffs for agrifood | This week, Amazon backs India’s FreshToHome and Pure Salmon inked a whopping $507 million deal with Saudi Arabia’s government. Layoffs continue, while regulators in Finland approve the use of “burger patty” in marketing plant-based meat pro... |
| 21.02.2023 | Brief: World’s largest meat producer JBS appeals against challenge to net zero claims | The world’s biggest animal protein producer JBS is appealing a recommendation to stop making some of its climate claims. The Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division (NAD) recommends JBS “discontinue claims relating to its goa... |
| 06.12.2022 | Meat & dairy producers ‘undermining targets’ of Cop15 biodiversity deal, says FAIRR report | Big Meat and Big Dairy are a Big Problem when it comes to biodiversity loss, says new research from investor network FAIRR.
These industries’ failures to manage their impact on biodiversity could undermine key targets in the Paris Agreement... |
| 26.10.2022 | Pound of Ground® Crumbles® Releases New Consumer Data Detailing Family Meal Habits, Challenges | The biggest challenges for getting dinner on the table, according to the survey respondents, are missing key ingredients (36%) and waiting on frozen meat to thaw (33%). This survey illuminates parents’ need for simplified, convenient produc... |
| 07.10.2022 | Moooving on up and out: Plant-based staff dismissals, JBS’s first ESG chief, Starbucks’ new CEO, more people moves | News moves fast in agrifoodtech, and high-profile job changes are no exception. To help keep everyone up to speed on the latest people moves in the world of food and ag, AFN now publishes a monthly column to compile all the significant move... |
| 06.10.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: The Rounds bags $38m for waste-free e-grocery, Jay-Z invests in pizza robot startup Stellar | This week brought a win for more sustainable grocery delivery with The Rounds’ Series A fundraise. Meanwhile, investment in restaurant robots increased with Jay-Z’s funding for pizza robot truck Stellar and new capital for Hyper Food Roboti... |
| 03.10.2022 | Brief: Meat giant JBS shutters its US plant-based meat division | JBS, one of the world’s largest meat companies, is “pulling the plug” on its US-based alt-protein division, Planterra. Denver Business Journal was first to report the news. The move includes closing down a 189,000-square-foot factory in Den... |
| 03.10.2022 | The World’s Largest Beef Company Is Breaking Up With Plant-Based Meat. Is It The End of The Category, Or Something Else Entirely? | 4 Mins Read Notes From the Frontlines of the Sustainable Food Movement – a new opinion column by Irina Gerry
The world’s largest meat company, JBS, has exited its plant-based business in the US. Is this a bad sign for plant-based meat?
On S... |
| 22.09.2022 | FAIRR tackles ‘Big Meat’s’ big poop problem with manure management and pollution investor engagement | The global food system’s 70 billion animals processed each year produce more than 3 billion tons of waste including manure and urine. Poor manure management practices mean that much of this waste winds up polluting ecosystems and becoming a... |
| 16.06.2022 | JBS Claims Plans to “Foster and Develop” Alt Protein Through Multiple Investments & Acquisitions | In a new podcast with Food Manufacture, the largest meat processing company in the world, JBS SA, has revealed plans for its alt protein future. JBS claims it intends to “foster and develop” alt protein innovation with multiple investments ... |
| 18.05.2022 | Largest Meat Processing Company in the World JBS Anounces Cultivated Production Plant in Spain | JBS SA, the largest meat processing company in the world, has now completed the acquisition of Spanish cultivated meat leader BioTech Foods. The acquisition also includes plans to build a production plant for cultivated meat in San Sebastiá... |
| 27.04.2022 | Data Snapshot: Alt-protein drove Innovative Food’s $4.8b in funding in 2021 | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new research re... |
| 16.02.2022 | Chinese companies top FAIRR list of protein producers at risk of incubating next pandemic | Nearly two-thirds of the world’s largest meat, fish, and dairy suppliers are at high risk of incubating the next global pandemic, according to a new report by investor network FAIRR.
Titled “Industry Reinfected,” FAIRR’s report examines 60 ... |
| 09.02.2022 | Pound of Ground® Crumbles® Revolutionizes the Food Industry with a Better Way to Freeze Ground Beef | Pound of Ground® Crumbles® cooks from frozen with no thawing or planning ahead. A first-to-market dinner solution, Pound of Ground® Crumbles® cooks from frozen with no thawing or planning ahead, helping solve the age-old question, “What’s f... |
| 27.01.2022 | Beef has a sustainability problem. Is this the year the industry finds a fix? | Editor's note: This story is part of a series on the trends that will shape the food and beverage industry in 2022.
Beef is not sustainable: That’s what critics charge and what many consumers want to see change.
The statistics around the me... |
| 10.06.2021 | The world's biggest meat processor has paid an $11 million ransom after a cyberattack | JBS is the world's largest meat processing company.
It said it was hit by a cyberattack on May 31, and that it has now paid $11 million to the hackers.
Its CEO said it "was a very difficult decision to make for our company and for me p... |
| 10.06.2021 | JBS pagou US$ 11 milhões a hackers para evitar vazamento em ataque | A orientação de autoridades e especialistas em segurança é uma só: não pague resgate em ações de ransomwares. Mas há situações em que a organização que é alvo de um malware do tipo se vê obrigada a seguir por esse caminho. É caso da brasile... |
| 10.06.2021 | JBS Foods pays $14m to ransomware attackers | JBS Foods, the meat processor whose Australian and US operations were hit by a ransomware attack earlier this month, paid "the equivalent of US$11 million" (A$14 million) to the group behind the attack.
The company made the paymen... |
| 10.06.2021 | Ransomware attack hits another massive, crucial industry: Meat | JBS Foods, the world’s largest meat supplier and a recent ransomware victim, revealed on June 9 that it paid $11 million to hackers. The chief executive of the company’s United States division, Andre Nogueira, said it was a deal to prevent ... |
| 03.06.2021 | First gas, now meat: Latest cybersecurity attack shows criminals are expanding their scope | (Image: Supplied)
The good news from the JBS Foods ransomware attack is that it seems to have followed one of the basic tenets of cybersecurity — make back-ups. The bad news is that cybercriminals have expanded their scope beyond stealing b... |
| 02.06.2021 | JBS says meatpacking operations will be back to normal Wednesday after a ransomware attack over the weekend | JBS, the world's largest meatpacking company, says it's getting back online after a cyber attack.
The attack, believed to have originated in Russia, disrupted plants in the US and Canada.
Late on Tuesday, the company said its production sho... |
| 01.06.2021 | Shortages loom as ransomware hamstrings the world’s biggest meat producer | Enlarge
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