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| Jan 22, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: Yield Energy launches farm-based grid platform, new $500m farmland fund | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇫🇷 MYCOPHYTO closes €16m Series A to accelerate industrial scale-up and international expansion iGro... |
| Jan 20, 2026 | B&G Foods buys Del Monte Foods’ broth brands for $110M | Listen to the article 2 min
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B&G Foods is buying Del Monte Foods’ broth and stock business, which includes the College Inn and Kitchen Basics brands, for ... |
| Nov 18, 2025 | PlanetDairy buys Stockeld tech—but can hybrid dairy win over consumers? | PlanetDairy—a Danish startup developing hybrid cheese, milk and other products combining dairy and plant-based ingredients—has acquired selected equipment and tech know-how from defunct alt-cheese brand Stockeld Dreamery.
The move follows S... |
| Sep 26, 2025 | Dave Sparrow Steps Down as CEO of Vegan Food Group | Dave Sparrow has stepped down from his position as the CEO of Vegan Food Group (VFG).
Sparrow initially became the CEO of VFC (Vegan Fried Chicken) in 2021. In 2023, VFC acquired two other plant-based companies — Meatless Farm and Clive’s P... |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Stranger Things, Walnut Mince & Veganuary Poll | 4 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Bel Group’s Stranger Things-inspired vegan cheese, Planta’s return, and Veganuary’s six-month poll. New products ... |
| Sep 17, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Mushroom Broth, Planta & Aquafaba Powder | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Two River’s lion’s mane broth, Planta’s acquisition, and animal-free egg legal battles. New products and launches... |
| Sep 11, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Eat Just’s new alt-chicken, regen ag certification for coffee, PepsiCo + National Geographic | Eat Just, best known for plant-based eggs and cultivated meat, has made its first foray into plant-based meat.
This week also saw funding announcements from alt-silk-maker AMSilk, wasabi vertical farming company NextAGE, and biotech startup... |
| Aug 12, 2025 | Century Pacific Food Acquires Atlantic Natural’s Loma Linda and Tuno Brands for Less Than $10M | Century Pacific Food has officially acquired several assets from Atlantic Natural Foods, including the Loma Linda ready meals and Tuno alt-tuna brands. The transaction, valued at less than $10 million, was carried out through Century Pacifi... |
| Jul 9, 2025 | Aussie Plant Based Co Makes Comeback with New Products, Nine Months After Liquidation | 6 Mins Read The Aussie Plant Based Co has re-entered the market with new vegan burgers, sausages and cheeses nine months after being acquired out of liquidation by Smart Foods.
Everybody loves a good comeback story. And the plant-based sect... |
| Jul 3, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Climeworks raises $162m, Danone acquires Kate Farms, Del Monte files Ch. 11 | This week, Swiss direct air capture (DAC) startup Climeworks raised $162 million to scale up its carbon capture technology and Polish startup Proteine Resources netted $11.2m to build an autonomous insect protein factory.
On the CPG front, ... |
| Jun 26, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Climatiq raises $11.7m, Doktar bags $8.7m, Planetary acquires Libre Foods | This week German startup Climatiq secured $11.7m to embed carbon intelligence into daily business operations and Turkish farm digitization startup Doktar secured $8.8m to expand AI-driven agtech globally.
Elsewhere, PepsiCo teamed up with N... |
| Jun 19, 2025 | UK Alt-Milk Brand Mighty Drinks Seeks New Owners After Entering Administration | Mighty Drinks, a UK-based producer of plant-based oat and pea milk, has entered administration following financial difficulties linked to rising costs and declining consumer confidence. The company, which was one of the UK’s fastest-growing... |
| Jun 6, 2025 | Bel Group to Shutter Plant-Based Cheese Brand Nurishh After Failing to Turn A Profit | 4 Mins Read French dairy giant Bel Group has announced that it will discontinue its Nurishh brand of vegan cheese by the end of the year after failing to capture enough consumers.
Despite its efforts to expand its plant-based cheese offerin... |
| Jun 5, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: India’s Udaan scores $340m, climate forecaster Jua nabs $11m, FDA launches AI tool | Notable fundraises this week came from Indian B2B trading platform Udaan, Swiss climate-forecasting startup Jua, and Japan-based “hot chain” foodservice startup Wada FoodTech, best known for its automated bento vending machines.
Elsewhere, ... |
| May 27, 2025 | Crisco owner B&G Foods sells tomato brands amid efforts to reshape portfolio | Listen to the article 2 min
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B&G Foods sold two of its tomato brands to a private equity company as the Crisco owner looks to offload some of its portfoli... |
| May 15, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Xoople secures $129m, Farmley raises $40m, Foodiq bags $11m | Among several agrifoodtech startups securing funding this week were Spanish “earth intelligence” startup Xoople, Indian snacks brand Farmley, and Finnish food manufacturing startup Foodiq. Indian quick-delivery darling Zepto was also back i... |
| Apr 17, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Mombak lands $17m in debt, ClearCOGS secures $3.8m, OlsAro bags $2.8m | This week carbon-removal-focused startup Mombak raised capital to expand reforestation efforts in the Amazon, Chicago-based restaurant predictive analytics provider ClearCOGS closed a seed round, and Swedish startup OlsAro raised funds to e... |
| Apr 15, 2025 | Eat Just strikes deal with VFG to take plant-based JUST Egg to Europe | Eat Just—the US market leader in plant-based egg alternatives—has struck a deal with UK-based Vegan Food Group (VFG) to take its flagship JUST Egg product to Europe.
A holding company formed last year, VFG is the parent company of VFC, Meat... |
| Apr 11, 2025 | TreeHouse Foods to cut 150 corporate jobs in a cost-saving move | Listen to the article 3 min
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TreeHouse Foods said it will cut 150 jobs to centralize and reorganize its corporate support functions in an effort to improve ef... |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Aussie Investment Firm Rescues Leading Plant Protein Manufacturer to Protect Jobs & Farmers | 5 Mins Read Australian Plant Proteins, which went into insolvency last year, has been acquired by investment firm My Co and will resume operations next month.
My Co, the investment vehicle of the Paule Family Office, has taken over Melbourn... |
| Jan 30, 2025 | Arla Withdraws Jörd Plant-Based Milk from UK Stores, Shifts Focus to Food Service | Danish dairy cooperative Arla Foods has confirmed it will withdraw its Jörd plant-based milk brand from UK retail stores and focus on the food service sector. The company first introduced Jörd in 2020 as its entry into the plant-based bever... |
| Jan 25, 2025 | The Broth Recall: A Cautionary Tale of Food Safety and Corporate Responsibility | In the world of food production, safety is paramount. A recent incident involving TreeHouse Foods and Walmart's Great Value chicken broth serves as a stark reminder of the complexities of food safety and the ripple effects of corporate... |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Packaging materials didn’t cause Walmart broth recall, says TreeHouse Foods | Dive Brief:
TreeHouse Foods, the company that makes Walmart’s Great Value chicken broth that’s part of a recall, said via email that the recent issue is because of an “internal procedural error that has been corrected” and not the packaging... |
| Jan 21, 2025 | The Rise of Trump's Crypto Empire: A New Era of Memecoins and Market Speculation | In a whirlwind of digital finance, Donald Trump has launched his own cryptocurrency, $TRUMP, and the market is buzzing. This new memecoin has skyrocketed to a staggering market cap of over $10 billion in just a few days. It’s a spectacle th... |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Трамп выпустил щиткоин на $75 млрд из воздуха, а также геймерский скандал вокруг Илона Маска | Самые интересные новости финансов и технологий в России и мире за неделю: подтверждение покупки вибраторов через Госуслуги, испанский налог на покупку жилья в размере 100%, ограничение срока казахстанских карточек в 1 год, блокировка TikTok... |
| Dec 9, 2024 | Researchers Develop ‘Honey-Like’ Protein That’s 10,000 Times Sweeter Than Sugar | 5 Mins Read The latest entry in the sweet protein space, X3 is a honey-like sweetener developed by German researchers to cut the sugar content in packaged food and beverages.
As the race to replace sugar with better-for-you alternatives rag... |
| Dec 2, 2024 | TreeHouse Foods buys private label tea business for $205M | Listen to the article 3 min
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TreeHouse Foods is buying the private brand tea business of Harris Freeman & Co (Harris Tea) for about $205 million.
The acqu... |
| Oct 22, 2024 | TreeHouse Foods expands recall due to ‘potential’ of listeria | Listen to the article 1 min
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Treehouse Food is expanding a recall to include all products manufactured at its Ontario, Canada, facility due to the possibility that they c... |
| Oct 4, 2024 | In Latest Setback to Green Deal, EU Proposes 12-Month Delay to Anti-Deforestation Law | 5 Mins Read The EU is considering a year-long delay to its landmark anti-deforestation law after facing calls from governments and companies alike.
In the latest episode in the EU’s long-running tussle over environmental policies, the bloc ... |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Slutty Vegas, Impossible Chicken Salads & A Vegan Cream Liqueur | 7 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Upside Foods’ tasting event at a taqueria, Japan Airlines’ sw... |
| Sep 18, 2024 | The Future of Dairy: Are Alternative Protein Startups the Solution to Big Dairy’s Problems? | 5 Mins Read A new report looks at the challenges facing dairy and its more planet-friendly alternatives, and how collaborations between them can shape the future of dairy.
Globally, dairy might be a $944B market, but it is facing growing pa... |
| Sep 16, 2024 | Denmark’s Matr Foods Secures €20M EU Loan for Mycelium Meat Factory | 4 Mins Read Danish meat analogue startup Matr Foods has received €20M in debt funding from the European Investment Bank to open a large-scale mycelium meat facility.
Mycelium meat maker Matr Foods has received a €20M loan from the EU’s lend... |
| Sep 11, 2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Domino’s, Plant-Based Dairylea & A KitKat Copycat | 4 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Fry’s Family Foods’ formable mince, Domino’s vegan cheese col... |
| Aug 15, 2024 | Fujitsu: японский IT-гигант родом из эпохи Тайсё | Идея возникновения будущей крупнейшей технологической корпорации возникла в 1923 году, сразу после Великого землетрясения Канто, разрушившего почти полностью коммунальную инфраструктуру Токио и Йокогамы. Экономические потери страны составил... |
| Jul 10, 2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Crownless Pineapples, Spent Coffee Cookies & A Brat Summer | 6 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Aldi’s zero-waste pineapples, a Charli XCX-inspired marketing... |
| Jul 9, 2024 | Ahimsa Companies Acquires Good Catch Production Facility from Gathered Foods | Gathered Foods, known for its Good Catch plant-based seafood brand, has announced the sale of its production facility, Trellis, located in Heath, Ohio, to Ahimsa Companies.
Ahimsa Companies, the newly formed holding company for plant-based ... |
| Jun 29, 2024 | The Race to Make Plant-Based Meat More Affordable | 6 Mins Read An often insurmountable price barrier is keeping many people from buying plant-based alternatives to beef, pork, and chicken.
By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Isobelle McClements was 13 when she came home from school and told her parents... |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Quorn’s Mycoprotein is Going to Be Blended with Animal Pork. Here’s Why This is a Good Thing. | First of all, to be clear, hybrid products are no new thing and have existed for years, both successfully and unsuccessfully. As a publication specialised solely in the vegan business niche, we have widely avoided the topic of products cons... |
| Jun 13, 2024 | Mummy Meegz Unveils Next Vegan Dupe with ‘M’z Gems’ Vegan M&Ms | UK-based vegan chocolate brand, Mummy Meegz, announces its latest dupe of a confectionery classic, this time with the launch of ‘M’z Gems’, fully vegan M&M alternatives in both Chocolate and Peanut flavours.
Mummy Meegz (previously Meag... |
| May 17, 2024 | The World’s Largest Dairy Company Just Launched A Plant-Based Milk Brand | 5 Mins Read Lactalis Canada, a subsidiary of the French dairy giant, has introduced a new plant-based milk brand to the market, just after converting one of its facilities into a fully vegan hub.
In a huge sign of the plant-based industry’s... |
| May 17, 2024 | Singapore retailer first worldwide to sell lab-grown meat | Consumer TechNewsStartups
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Singapore-based Huber’s Butchery has become the first retailer globally to sell lab-... |
| May 9, 2024 | B&G Foods exploring sale of Green Giant frozen, canned vegetable businesses | Listen to the article 4 min
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B&G Foods is “evaluating a possible divestiture” of some or all of its brands in the frozen and canned vegetable space, the c... |
| May 1, 2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Cultivated Quail, MasterChef Pros & A Cheese Debacle | 5 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Vow’s Tippling Club collab, US bans on cultivated meat, and a... |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Ben & Jerry's and Häagen-Dazs could serve up IPOs | Unilever, Nestlé and sponsor PAI Partners are likely to take their ice cream businesses public rather than sell, sources familiar with the situation say.
Why it matters: Deal valuations haven't quite recovered yet, but the public marke... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Aqua Capital closes $450m fund, Onego Bio ‘poaches’ $40m, BurnBot raises $20m | Agrifood private equity firm Aqua Capital this week announced the close of its $450 million Fund III, which will invest in sustainable agrifood solutions. Other noteworthy raises this week (and there are a bunch) include egg protein startup... |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Cargill: “We Take the View That We Need All Forms of Protein on the Table” | Minneapolis headquartered agribusiness giant Cargill, the largest privately held company in the United States in terms of revenue, has been active in the plant-based and alternative protein space for several years.
As a platform concerned s... |
| Mar 12, 2024 | Cultivated meat consolidation begins as UMAMI Bioworks to merge with Shiok Meats | Singapore-based cultivated seafood startups UMAMI Bioworks and Shiok Meats are in talks about a proposed merger in which UMAMI will acquire assets from Shiok to accelerate its scaleup plans and broaden its product pipeline.
The deal is like... |
| Feb 28, 2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Fresh Oat Milk, Maple Leaf Merger & Vegan Easter Eggs | 4 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Oato’s oat milk launch in retail, Maple Leaf Foods’ consolida... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Oatly Agrees to $9.25M Settlement Over Allegations of Overstated Environmental Claims | Swedish oat drink company Oatly has agreed to a $9.25 million settlement following allegations of greenwashing. The lawsuit, initiated by investor Kai Jochims in July 2021, claimed that Oatly’s promotional strategies had led to “artificial”... |
| Jan 24, 2024 | VBites: Heather Mills Rescues Her Alt-Meat Brand a Month After Entering Administration | 6 Mins Read British entrepreneur Heather Mills has secured a rescue deal for her plant-based brand VBites, buying the assets of the business from administrators for £1M and waiving nearly £5M of debt owed to her, a month after first announc... |
| Jan 9, 2024 | What business model makes sense for cultivated meat? ‘Startups cannot be in the capex business,’ says UMAMI Bioworks | What’s the optimal size and scope for a commercial-scale cultivated meat facility? And who is going to fund these facilities if VC funds are no longer willing to stump up cash for capex projects?
Josh Tetrick, whose plans to build a large-s... |
| Jan 8, 2024 | Hain Celestial Celebrates 30th Anniversary on the NASDAQ Exchange | Better-for-you brand manufacturer, The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAIN), celebrates its 30th anniversary of being listed on the NASDAQ. The occasion was marked by president and CEO Wendy Davidson, alongside Hain’s Executive Leaders... |
| Dec 29, 2023 | 2023 in review: Beyond Meat in ‘survival’ mode, ‘jaundiced’ indoor ag investors, AI in every pitchdeck… | 2023 has been a tough year for agrifoodtech startups, with high interest rates, inflation, fundraising challenges, banking scares, and souring investor sentiment in sectors from indoor ag to alt proteins, prompting pivots, layoffs, and busi... |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Future Food Quick Bites: Bee-Free Honey, Co-Fermented Fish & A New Netflix Doc | 3 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Melibio’s UK debut, Canada’s ‘unlawful’ plastic ban, and a ga... |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Sustainability dominated the foodtech landscape in 2023. Here's what it means for 2024 | Foodtech is one of the most relatable topics in my conversations with non-tech enthusiasts. The allure of trying edible insects and exploring vegetarian alternatives resonates widely.
Food production contributes to 25 percent of global gree... |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Lindt & ChoViva Team Up to Launch a Vegan Chocolate Bar for Veganuary | 5 Mins Read Chocolate giant Lindt has partnered with German cocoa-free brand ChoViva to launch a limited-edition vegan chocolate bar for Veganuary. There are only 1,000 of the Soft & Creamy Hazelnut bars, which feature Lindt’s Hello Veg... |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Future Food Quick Bites: Oat Milk Soap, New TiNDLE CEO & Plant-Based Diplomas | 8 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Beyond Meat’s giant Costco partnership, a new CEO for plant-b... |
| Dec 6, 2023 | Future Food Quick Bites: Panettone, Piranhas, Powders & Plant-Based School Milk | 7 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers the launch of Italian Christmas desserts made from cocoa-free... |
| Nov 30, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: AgroSpheres nets $25m, ex-Motif CEO joins MycoTechnology, Kitchen United shuts ghost kitchens | All eyes are on COP28 this week, where agrifood looks to be a central point of discussion. Elsewhere in the industry, AgroSpheres raised new funds for its novel crop protection tech and Motif FoodWorks former CEO moved over to MycoTechnolog... |
| Nov 29, 2023 | Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Deviled Eggs, Low-Cost Lidl & California Calling | 6 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers a vegan deviled egg launch, cultivated meat approval guidance... |
| Nov 28, 2023 | Hooked Foods: Swedish Vegan Seafood Startup Docks Into Germany with Plant-Based Salmon & Tuna | 6 Mins Read Months after teasing an expansion into Germany, Hooked Foods has delivered on that promise with a listing in 400 Rewe West stores across the country. The Swedish vegan seafood maker is launching four SKUs – including its Salmoon... |
| Nov 28, 2023 | Blended & Hybrid Meat: What Do Sustainable Protein Policy Advocates Think? | 8 Mins Read As blended and hybrid meats begin to sizzle, Green Queen speaks to alternative protein bodies the Good Food Institute and ProVeg International to get their take on this novel approach to protein diversification.
This article is ... |
| Nov 27, 2023 | Tempeh Reinvented: Better Nature Makes Whole-Cut Chicken From Upcycled Soybean Mycelium & Pulp | 2 Mins Read British tempeh brand Better Nature is working on a new whole-cut vegan chicken ingredient made from tempeh mycelium and okara, the pulp left over from soy milk production. Speaking to Green Queen, the company spills the beans on... |
| Nov 27, 2023 | The Seed Oil Conundrum: Why are Fast-Food Restaurants Ditching These Fats? | 8 Mins Read A handful of restaurants and fast-casual chains are bidding adieu to seed oils as consumer concerns about the health credentials of these fats grow. Some are turning to alternatives like Zero Acre’s sugarcane-based cultured oil ... |
| Nov 16, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Delivery startup Crisp bags $38m, ‘mindful drinking app’ Sunnyside lands $11m, Bowery layoffs | Announcements from this week suggests foodtech funding rounds are slowly gaining speed again. Crisp bucked the downward trend of food delivery startups with a Series C raise, Sunnyside raised funds for its alcohol monitoring app, and Le Fou... |
| Nov 15, 2023 | Future Food Quick Bites: Plant-Based Cows, Vegan Flying & A Mycoprotein Bet | 8 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers The Laughing Cow’s vegan cheese, plant-based burgers in Puert... |
| Nov 11, 2023 | 8 successful CEOs, politicians, and more who started their careers working at McDonald's | Careers 8 successful CEOs, politicians, and more who started their careers working at McDonald's
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| Nov 10, 2023 | Monde Nissim CEO Provides Financial Support to Quorn from Family Fortune, Confident Growth Will Return | Henry Soesanto, CEO and major shareholder of Monde Nissim Corp., has announced he is to provide financial support for its alternative meat company Quorn via MNSG Holdings, a family business.
In April, Monde Nissin took an impairment charge ... |
| Nov 9, 2023 | Hain Celestial, Owner of Yves Veggie Cuisine & Linda McCartney’s, Reports Increased Sales and Market Share in Plant-Based Category | Global food and personal care company Hain Celestial recently disclosed its financial performance for the previous fiscal quarter and outlined first-quarter expectations for 2024, with a notable focus on the positive outcomes within its mea... |
| Oct 18, 2023 | JM Smucker selling 4 condiment brands to TreeHouse Foods for $20M | Dive Brief:
J.M. Smucker is selling four condiment brands to private label giant TreeHouse Foods for about $20 million, the companies said.
The jam and peanut maker said it will divest its Bick's pickles, Habitant pickled beets, Woodma... |
| Oct 16, 2023 | Quorn: Mycoprotein Giant Struggles as UK & US Meatless Sales Wane | 5 Mins Read Marlow Foods, the Monde Nissin division that makes meatless brands Quorn and Cauldron, has announced a loss of £15.3M in its yearly accounts, owing to cost hikes, stagnating sales and post-pandemic pressures.
Marlow Foods is the... |
| Oct 12, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Investors fund agri-waste to energy, more precision fermentation, coffee capsule recycling | The largest round this week went to India’s SAEL, a company converting agricultural waste into renewable energy. Other notable fundraises went to precision fermentation, AI imaging for agriculture, restaurant tech in Latin America, and cult... |
| Oct 3, 2023 | Nestle is building a carbon-neutral ranch in Harbin for dairy and agriculture | Amidst the ranch area in Shuangcheng, Harbin is one of Nestle’s earliest dairy farming bases in mainland China. Founded in 2014, the Nestle Dairy Farming Institute (DFI) currently houses around 3,500 cows, with plans to produce 95 tons of f... |
| Sep 28, 2023 | From Burger King To IHOP, Impossible Foods Does Foodservice Collabs Right | 5 Mins Read Impossible Foods has partnered with IHOP on a range of menu items, expanding its US foodservice footprint. A leading plant-based meat company, Impossible has a knack for getting these collaborations with F&B chains just righ... |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Shake Shack NYC Pilots Rain-Fed Sugarcane Cultured Cooking Oil for Stack Burgers and Fries | 5 Mins Read Shake Shack has partnered with Californian startup Zero Acre Farms to trial the latter’s sustainable Cultured Oil on select menu items at two locations in New York City. The pilot is part of Shake Shack’s Stand for Something Goo... |
| Aug 31, 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... |
| Aug 21, 2023 | Mycoprotein Startup Enough Raises €40M to Produce One Cow’s Worth of Protein Every 2 Minutes by 2027 | 4 Mins Read Scottish-Dutch food tech company Enough has raised €40M in Series C funding to accelerate the production of its mycoprotein product, Abunda, which is used in plant-based alternatives like chicken breast, mince and dairy. The bra... |
| Aug 8, 2023 | Pet Care Companies Bank On Sustainability As Consumer Trends Shift | Pet care is generally considered recession-resistant and core necessities of pet care are likely to remain relatively stable even during challenging economic times. Indicating strong resilience, pet food, treats and other products accounted... |
| Aug 4, 2023 | Vegan Chicken Nugget Startup Nowadays Ceases Operations Amid US Plant-Based Meat Decline | 4 Mins Read In yet another sign of an increasingly tough market for plant-based meat companies, US vegan chicken nugget brand Nowadays has announced it is ceasing operations. The Californian startup, which launched its pea-protein-based fro... |
| Jul 19, 2023 | Data Shows Number of “Plant-Based” Job Listings Increased 32% in Q2 | More companies are hiring for positions related to the plant-based industry, reports Just Food. From April to July 2023, the number of open jobs advertised in this segment of the consumer goods sector increased by almost a third, suggesting... |
| Jul 5, 2023 | FTC urged to tackle rampant greenwashing; set criteria for ‘carbon neutral,’ ‘net zero’ claims | What does ‘carbon neutral’ mean? According to a Morning Consult survey conducted last year, most Americans don’t know. Nestlé, meanwhile, is reportedly souring on the term, while Danone is facing a consumer class action lawsuit over its use... |
| Jun 26, 2023 | ‘A new TreeHouse:’ Private label giant builds for success by thinking small, CEO says | TreeHouse Foods has radically transformed itself into a leaner, more focused company that is better positioned to capitalize on the growing demand for private-label offerings from retailers.
“It’s a new TreeHouse. It’s a totally different T... |
| Jun 23, 2023 | Q&A: Local Bounti’s new CEO on greenhouses vs. vertical farms and where CEA’s next priorities lie | Despite turbulent times for controlled environment agriculture (CEA), not every company is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, cash shortages and closures.
US-based Local Bounti, for example, has hit a number of positive milestones over t... |
| Jun 19, 2023 | How To Make Unilever Great Again: A Memo To Incoming CEO Hein Schumacher | Wolff Olins x UnileverWolff Olins x Unilever |
| Jun 6, 2023 | SunOpta’s Humble Nearly $1 Billion Food & Beverage Handiwork | SunOpta’s Humble Nearly $1 Billion Food & Beverage Handiwork Photo Provided By SunOpta |
| Jun 6, 2023 | Plant & Bean Calls in Administrators After Experiencing Rising Operational Costs | Despite growing demand for plant-based meat, UK manufacturer Plant & Bean appointed administrators on the 31st of May, 2023.
In a statement, financial advisory business Interpath Advisory said that Plant & Bean experienced significa... |
| Apr 6, 2023 | Nestlé takes a big swig of Yfood in a deal that values the meal replacement startup at $469M | Yfood, one of the direct-to-consumer food tech startups that has emerged over the last decade around the concept of meal replacement drinks, is bulking up. Nestlé, the food and drink behemoth, has acquired 49.95% of the company’s shares, wi... |
| Apr 6, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Hardee Fresh grabs $56m, Upward Farms shuts down, Wine that tastes like climate change | Vertical farming saw good and bad news this week, as Hardee Fresh raised new funds, Upward Farms ceased operations and Kalera filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Elsewhere, digital-first burger delivery service VICIO secured new cap... |
| Mar 15, 2023 | Inflation tops 100% in Argentina as the price of beef spikes | Inflation topped 100% in Argentina last month, according to official data published Tuesday.
The country logged a three-digit inflation rate for the first time in over 30 years in February.
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| Mar 10, 2023 | Konsious Foods announces plant-based sushi launch, The ISH Company partners with Dot Foods | SeafoodSource is closely following the plant-based and cell-based seafood alternatives market by compiling a weekly round-up of the sector updates.
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada-based Konscious Foods announced the launch of its firs... |
| Mar 3, 2023 | Nestle: Halts pizza plant after poisonings sap sales | A logo of the world’s leading food industry group Nestle
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Food giant Nestle said Friday that it would suspend work at a French factory whose frozen pizzas were suspected to be behind deadly food poisonings i... |
| Feb 28, 2023 | General Mills discontinues animal-free cream cheese Bold Cultr | Dive Brief:
General Mills discontinued its animal-free dairy cream cheese brand Bold Cultr. The brand’s website says it closed on Feb. 27. The decision was first reported by AgFunder News.
Bold Cultr was a startup brand under General Mills’... |
| Feb 15, 2023 | Inflation hits a staggering 99% in Argentina even after spiraling food prices sparked street protests | Argentina's consumer inflation hit 99% in January, as prices of everyday goods doubled on a year ago.
Street protests have broken out as people struggle with soaring food, housing, and leisure costs.
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| Jan 25, 2023 | Brasmar Group acquires Billingsgate-based Holmes Seafood | Brasmar Group, one of Portugal’s larger frozen seafood sector players, has acquired London, U.K.-based Holmes Seafood, its fourth acquisition in as many years.
Guidões, Portugal-based Brasmar Group, co-owned by the private equity firms Vige... |
| Jan 18, 2023 | As China Reopens Ahead of Lunar New Year, Carbon-Intensive Meat Demand Set to Surge | 5 Mins Read With China’s U-turn on its “zero-Covid” policy and the Lunar New Year just around the corner, a boom in carbon-intensive meat consumption is highly likely.
For the rest of the world, 2022 was marked by a return to the pre-pandem... |
| Dec 22, 2022 | Производитель чипсов Pringles договорился о продаже бизнеса в России «Черноголовке» | Американская компания Kellogg, которая выпускает чипсы Pringles и готовые завтраки «Любятово», продаст российский бизнес группе компаний «Черноголовка». Источники «Коммерсанта» сообщили, что покупателем станет компания, ранее выкупившая зав... |
| Dec 14, 2022 | Flowers Foods buys Papa Pita Bakery for undisclosed amount | Dive Brief:
Flowers Foods will acquire Utah-based Papa Pita Bakery for an undisclosed amount. Papa Pita makes flatbreads, bagels, tortillas, breads, buns and English muffins. The deal, which is expected to be completed in the first quarter ... |
| Dec 7, 2022 | Vertical farm GoodLeaf Farms plots Canadian expansion with McCain-led $150m raise | Ontario, Canada-based vertical farming company GoodLeaf Farms has raised $150 million in equity capital.
Canadian frozen food giant McCain Foods led the round, joined by agrifood private-equity investor Power Sustainable Lios.
GoodLeaf will... |
| Oct 26, 2022 | PepsiCo VP Shares Why Partnering With Startups is Beneficial; Here's What He Says | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 26 October 2022, 09:10 am
PepsiCo VP David Schwartz said that partnering with startups is important for the company.
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Pepsi labels are seen on plastic bottles of the soft d... |
