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| Jul 7, 2026 | Quorn’s Mycoprotein Powers New Blended Meat Range for British Restaurants | 4 Mins Read Quorn’s foodservice arm has supplied its mycoprotein to William White Meats for the launch of UltiMeat, a lineup of blended meat products for UK restaurants, caterers, and retailers.
As blended meat continues to gain steam acros... |
| Jul 7, 2026 | Philippines Meat Market 2026-2034: Industry Growth and Opportunity Analysis | Market Overview
The Philippines meat market size reached USD 4.5 Billion in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 6.0 Billion by 2034, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.23% from 2026 to 2034. The rising disposable incomes, r... |
| May 27, 2026 | Pacifico Biolabs nets $8m, targets alt-meat cost parity with brewery retrofit model | Pacifico Biolabs—a German startup making whole-cut alt-meat from mycelium by tapping into idle infrastructure from the brewing industry—has closed a €7 million ($8.1 million) Series A round and says products could reach retail shelves via b... |
| Jan 28, 2026 | Planetary explores collaboration to unlock low-cost mycoprotein production in India | Swiss fermentation company Planetary is exploring a collaboration with leading sugar producer Dhampur Bio Organics (DBO) to make mycoprotein in India at industrial scale at below $1/kilo.
“Subject to final agreements and regulatory approval... |
| Jul 21, 2025 | Quorn Secures £18 Million Capital Injection to Drive Brand Revival | Quorn, owned by Monde Nissin through Marlow Foods, has secured an £18 million investment as part of its efforts to address debt and revitalize the brand. The investment follows the issuance of new shares by Marlow Foods in late May, which r... |
| May 19, 2025 | Quorn Foods narrows losses in sluggish UK alt meat market, expands KFC trial in France | Instant noodles giant Monde Nissin says sales in its Quorn Foods meat alternatives business fell 5.8% on a constant currency basis in the first quarter of 2025, slightly outperforming the alt meat category in the UK, its core market, which ... |
| Feb 21, 2025 | Brief: Monde Nissin may book ‘significant’ write down for struggling Quorn business | Instant noodles giant Monde Nissin says it may book £80-100 million ($101-126 million) in impairment charges for its Quorn mycoprotein-based meat alternatives business in fiscal 2024, after the division posted double digit declines in sales... |
| Jan 31, 2025 | Meet the Asian Students Taking on the Future of Food with Global Industry Giants | 6 Mins Read Self-heating vegan Hanwoo beef, plant-based octopus legs and Beyond Lamb were among the winners of the 2025 ProVeg Food Innovation Challenge.
Student-led teams across Asia-Pacific have won big at the fifth edition of the ProVeg ... |
| Jan 18, 2025 | The Climate Conundrum: Singapore's Wet Future and the Rise of Sustainable Food Innovations | Singapore is bracing for a deluge. The island nation is caught in the grip of the northeast monsoon, with predictions of more rain and cooler temperatures. The weather is shifting, and the culprit is La Nina. This climate phenomenon is like... |
| Jan 17, 2025 | Self-Heating Plant-Based Beef & Rice Box Wins ProVeg Food Innovation Challenge | ProVeg has announced the winners of its fifth annual Food Innovation Challenge, held in conjunction with major food companies and open to students across the Asia-Pacific region.
In first place is a self-heating plant-based food box contain... |
| Oct 23, 2024 | As Losses Swell, Quorn Shakes Up C-Suite with Ex-Heineken Exec As New CEO | 5 Mins Read David Flochel, former managing director of Heineken UK, will take over as CEO of Quorn Foods following a period of continued sales pressures on the business.
The UK’s largest meat-free business is hoping to turn the page on a tu... |
| Oct 1, 2024 | The Shifting Landscape of Health and Food: A Tale of Two Industries | In the world of food and health, change is the only constant. Two recent developments highlight this truth: the struggles of Marlow Foods, the parent company of Quorn, and the bold new initiative by the General Medical Council (GMC) in the ... |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Amid NHS Blended Meat Deal, Sales Hit 6-Year Low for Quorn Maker Marlow Foods | 4 Mins Read Marlow Foods, the parent company of Quorn and Cauldron Foods, saw pre-tax losses surpass £60M in 2023, four times higher than the year before.
As the wider meat analogue category struggles, the company behind the UK’s leading me... |
| Sep 11, 2024 | Plant-Based Innovation and Female Leadership: A New Era in Food and Pet Industries | In a world where food choices are evolving, two stories emerge from different corners of the industry. One is about a challenge that sparks creativity among students in Asia. The other highlights a woman breaking barriers in the pet food se... |
| Sep 9, 2024 | ProVeg Launches 2024 Food Innovation Challenge for Students Across Asia | This week, ProVeg is launching its 2024 Food Innovation Challenge, which invites students across Asia to develop a new plant-based food product for the Asia-Pacific market.
Open to both undergraduate and graduate students, this year’s compe... |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Quorn CEO on Blended Meat: ‘It Doesn’t Matter How People Join the Meat Reduction Journey’ | 7 Mins Read Quorn Foods is entering the blended meat category as part of foodservice and hospital offerings – its CEO Marco Bertacca explains why the mycoprotein giant is doing so.
British meat-free leader Quorn Foods’ mycoprotein will be m... |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Philippine EV logistics startup bags $6m to grow fleet | InvestmentsNewsTransportation
Elyssa Lopez · 3h ago · 2 min readPhilippine EV logistics startup bags $6m to grow fleet
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As the Philippines seeks to reach total electric vehicle (EV) adoption of at least 40% by 2040 under ... |
| Mar 12, 2024 | UMAMI Bioworks & Shiok Meats Merge to Commercialize Cultivated Seafood | Two cultivated seafood pioneers from Singapore — UMAMI Bioworks and Shiok Meats — have merged to establish a combined entity that will bring cultivated seafood closer to commercial viability.
The strategic merge, believed to be the first in... |
| Jun 5, 2023 | Quorn partners with Prime Roots to help its expansion | Dive Brief:
European mycelium giant Quorn Foods is investing in and partnering with mycelium deli meat maker Prime Roots.
Through the partnership, Quorn will help Prime Roots develop market expansion opportunities and collaborate on new off... |
| May 18, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: GoodLeaf Farms snags $78m, Prime Roots raises $30m, Miso Robotics gets new investment | This week, Prime Roots raised funding for its mycelium-based take on deli meats and GoodLeaf Farms raked in funding to expand across Canada. Elsewhere, restaurant-tech startup Incentivio scored new funding, a South African bank took a stake... |
| Jul 11, 2022 | Philippines’ Monde Nissin Loses Two Billionaires As Two-Day Stock Rout Erases $436 Million In Market Value | Betty Ang is a cofounder of Monde Nissin. Courtesy of Monde NIssin |
| Apr 14, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: eGrocer BigBasket bags $131m, Choco lands $111m to fight food waste | This week, India’s BigBasket raised more than $100 million for online grocery delivery, as did Germany’s Choco to curb food waste by connecting restaurants to suppliers. New Zealand’s Leaft closed funding to make alt-protein from leaves. In... |
| Nov 16, 2021 | Chinese VC Bits x Bites hits $100m final close with capital from Syngenta, Wilbur-Ellis | Chinese agrifoodtech VC firm Bits x Bites has closed its latest fund on $100 million with a string of food and ag corporates as well as investment players signing up as LPs.
Among those participating in the fund’s final close were Syngenta ... |
| Nov 16, 2021 | BREAKING: Chinese VC Bits x Bites hits $100m final close with capital from Syngenta, Wilbur-Ellis | Chinese agrifoodtech VC firm Bits x Bites has closed its latest fund on $100 million with a string of food and ag corporates as well as investment players signing up as LPs.
Among those participating in the fund’s final close were Syngenta ... |
| Jul 21, 2021 | BREAKING: Shiok Meats adds Asian food industry giants to cap table in latest funding round | Shiok Meats has closed a bridge financing involving several major food companies. While the cell-cultured seafood startup didn’t disclose how much it has raised, it said the round takes its total funding to date to $30 million.
AFN estimate... |
| Jul 21, 2021 | Shiok Meats adds Asian food industry giants to cap table in latest funding round | Shiok Meats has closed a bridge financing involving several major food companies. While the cell-cultured seafood startup didn’t disclose how much it has raised, it said the round takes its total funding to date to $30 million.
AFN estimate... |
| Jun 3, 2021 | Quorn Owner Monde Nissin Goes Public & Plans Global Alt Protein Expansion | 3 Mins Read
Quorn’s parent company Monde Nissin has made its debut on the Philippine Stock Exchange, raising a total of ₱48.6 billion pesos (US$1.02 billion), marking the country’s biggest IPO. The proceeds will go towards fuelling the Mani... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Quorn maker lists at $5bn valuation; plots US expansion of alt-protein portfolio | Shares in Monde Nissin, which owns a number of food brands including alt-protein pioneer Quorn, have closed 0.15% below their IPO price on the Philippines-based company’s first full day of trading.
The stock ended the day at 13.48 pesos ($0... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Quorn maker closes slightly down after $1bn market debut; plots US expansion | Shares in Monde Nissin, which owns a number of food brands including alt-protein pioneer Quorn, have closed 0.15% below their IPO price on the Philippines-based company’s first full day of trading.
The stock ended the day at 13.48 pesos ($0... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Monde Nissin bets on meat alternatives following record $1 billion Philippine IPO | On its market debut on Tuesday, the family-controlled company's shares ended trading at 13.48 pesos versus the 13.50 pesos IPO price. The issue was Southeast Asia's second-largest this year after the $1.8 billion IPO of Thailand's PTT Oil a... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | PTT OIL AND RETAIL BUSINESS
PTT Oil and Retail Business : Monde Nissin bets on meat alternatives following record $1 bln Philippine IPO | * Shares trade flat after biggest-ever local IPO
* Company can bring in strategic investors for Quorn - CEO
* Big IPOs planned in the Philippines this year
MANILA, June 1 (Reuters) - Philippine food maker Monde Nissin Corp is pinning its fu... |
| May 28, 2021 | Gokongwei’s Robinsons Land Joins Philippine IPO Bandwagon With Office REIT Listing | Lance Gokongwei SONNY THAKUR FOR FORBES ASIA |
| May 6, 2021 | Monde Nissin to Raise $1 Billion in Philippines’ Biggest IPO | |
| May 5, 2021 | Philippines' Monde Nissin gets investor commitments for $1 bln IPO - sources | SINGAPORE, May 5 (Reuters) - Philippine food maker Monde Nissin Corp has secured investor commitments for its billion-dollar initial public offering (IPO) at 13.50 pesos ($0.28) each, in what would be the country's biggest IPO on record, th... |
| May 5, 2021 | Philippines' Monde Nissin gets investor commitments for $1 bln IPO - sources | * Philippines shaping up as region's top IPO market of 2021
* Monde Nissin IPO backed by dozen cornerstone investors - sources
* Monde Nissin owns UK meat alternative Quorn
SINGAPORE, May 5 (Reuters) - Philippine food maker Monde Nissin Cor... |
| Apr 27, 2021 | Brief: $1.3bn Quorn IPO gets greenlight in Philippines | The Philippine Stock Exchange has approved the proposed IPO of local food manufacturer Monde Nissin. The offering is expected to begin late next month with a tentative listing date of June 7.
The Santa Rosa, Laguna-based company – which fil... |
| Mar 17, 2021 | Quorn Owner Monde Nissin Aims For Philippines’ First Billion Dollar IPO As Its Plant-Based Sales Soar | 3 Mins Read
Monde Nissin Corporation, the Philippine-based food conglomerate, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) aiming to raise ₱63 billion (approx. US$1.3 billion), the country’s largest-ever first-time share sale. The firm, w... |
| Mar 16, 2021 | Monde Nissin Corp Set for Philippines’ First Billion Dollar IPO as Part of Plant-Based Expansion | ©Quorn
One of the biggest companies in the Philippines, Monde Nissin Corp – which acquired plant-based meat brand Quorn in 2015 for £550 million – is aiming to list its shares as the company hopes to attract investors to its expanding overs... |
| Mar 16, 2021 | Monde Nissin Corp Set for Philippines’ First Billion Dollar IPO as Part of Plant-Based Expansion | One of the biggest companies in the Philippines, Monde Nissin Corp – which acquired plant-based meat brand Quorn in 2015 for £550 million – is aiming to list its shares as the company hopes to attract investors to its expanding overseas pla... |
| Mar 5, 2021 | ROBINSONS RETAIL HOLDINGS, INC.
Philippine food maker Monde Nissin targets $1.3 bln IPO, country's biggest ever | (Repeats earlier story for wider readership with no change to text)
* Monde Nissin to offer up to 3.6 bln shares
* IPO set to be country's largest ever
* Philippines companies set for large IPOs this year
MANILA, March 4 (Reuters) - The Phi... |
| Mar 4, 2021 | Philippine food maker Monde Nissin targets $1.3 billion IPO, country's biggest ever | The company's filing on Thursday comes as the Philippines, a historical laggard in Southeast Asia in terms of fundraising and market activity, is shaping up to be the region's biggest IPO market this year.
Monde Nissin is banking on growing... |
| Nov 5, 2020 | Bits x Bites raises $30m for new China fund, backs biotech startup Mojia Bio | Agrifood VC firm Bits x Bites has announced a $30 million first close for its latest fund, with Singapore sovereign fund Temasek among the limited partners backing the new vehicle.
The Shanghai-based firm also revealed its first investment ... |
| Sep 30, 2020 | Aqua-Spark leads $12.6m Series A round for Singapore alt-seafood startup Shiok Meats | Singapore’s Shiok Meats has raised $12.6 million in a Series A round led by Aqua-Spark, a Netherlands-based VC firm focused on sustainable aquaculture.
The alt-protein startup is culturing ‘lab-grown’ prawn, crab, and lobster meat from isol... |
| Jul 9, 2020 | Karana gets $1.7m seed funding for its ‘whole plant-based’ meat alternative made from jackfruit | Meat substitute maker Karana has just raised $1.7 million in seed funding for its jackfruit-derived ‘pork’ analog.
Participating investors included Henry Soesanto — CEO of Philippines-based food company and Quorn owner Monde Nissin — Singap... |
| Jul 9, 2020 | Singapore Vegan Food Tech Karana Closes US$1.7M Seed Funding For Its Jackfruit Alt Meat | 1
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Singapore-based whole foods plant-based meat brand, Karana, has announced today (July 9) that it has closed US$1.7 million in a seed funding round. Using regionally abundant organic young jackfruit, the startup creates... |
| Jul 1, 2020 | Southeast Asia’s food innovation scene bloomed last year with Shiok Meats, Alchemy Foodtech among top funded | Shiok Meats recently secured $3 million in bridge funding as it prepares to begin raising its Series A round, co-founder and CEO Sandhya Sriram told AFN.
The funding comes as new research from AgFunder identified ‘Innovative Foods’ as one o... |
| Jan 23, 2020 | Noquo Foods raises €3.25m in seed funding to crack plant-based cheese | Swedish startup Noquo Foods has raised €3.25 million ($3.7 million) in seed funding from a list of heavyweight investors to develop plant-based cheese. Since starting the company just over a year ago, founder and CEO Sorosh Tavakoli says th... |
| Feb 27, 2017 | 2 Plant-Based Alternative Meat M&A Deals Provide Exits for VC & PE Investors | A private equity firm and a group of venture capital investors have exited their investments in two plant-based alternative meat companies. The deals were announced within a week of each other.
Brynwood Partners, a US private equity firm, s... |