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| 28.10.2024 | Dow Recognizes the Winners for the 35th Dow Packaging Innovation Awards at Tokyo Pack 2024 | TOKYO, Oct. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Dow (NYSE:DOW) announced today the winners of the 35th Packaging Innovation Awards (PIA). The winners were unveiled during an awards ceremony held in conjunction with Tokyo Pack 2024, where the winning e... |
| 03.10.2024 | Heura's Bold Leap: Redefining Plant-Based Foods with Innovation and Nutrition | In the bustling world of plant-based foods, Heura is making waves. This Spanish company, known for its plant-based meat alternatives, is now venturing into uncharted territory. It aims to transform ultra-processed foods into nutrient-dense ... |
| 03.10.2024 | Heura Expands Beyond Plant-Based Meat, Transforming Ultra-Processed Foods With Patent-Pending Technology | Spain’s Heura Foods, best known for producing plant-based meat alternatives, has announced it will be expanding into new categories to improve nutritional density and transform foods often labelled as ultra-processed.
The company will use i... |
| 27.09.2024 | The Future of Protein: Cultivated and Zero-Carbon Innovations Lead the Charge | In a world grappling with climate change and food insecurity, the quest for sustainable protein sources has never been more urgent. Two innovative approaches are emerging as frontrunners: Fermtech's zero-carbon protein and cultivated meat. ... |
| 27.09.2024 | The Future of Food: Innovations in Sustainable Protein Production | The world is hungry for change. As the global population swells, the demand for sustainable food sources grows louder. Two innovative companies, Fermtech and Believer Meats, are stepping up to the plate, each with a unique approach to revol... |
| 26.09.2024 | Fermtech Raises Over £325,000 in Crowdfunding for Zero-Carbon Protein Trialed by Major Food Companies | Fermtech, an Oxford-based startup developing what it claims to be a zero-carbon protein, has raised over £325,000 in a crowdfunding round launched on the Crowdcube platform last month. The company has already surpassed its initial funding g... |
| 14.09.2024 | The Flavor Revolution: How BARCODE and Violife Are Changing the Game | In a world where taste and health often clash, two brands are rewriting the rules. BARCODE Performance Water and Violife are leading a flavor revolution. They are not just selling products; they are crafting experiences. Each brand has a un... |
| 10.09.2024 | The Future of Food: Navigating Sustainability and Innovation | The food industry stands at a crossroads. On one side, the pressing need for sustainability. On the other, the promise of innovation. As the world grapples with climate change, the food sector is under scrutiny. Consumers demand transparenc... |
| 10.09.2024 | The Votes Are In: Violife® Takes the #1 Dairy Free Cream Cheese Title. No Debate. | America has spoken—Violife® is the winning dairy free cream cheese and celebrates with a bold election-themed victory tour
HACKENSACK, N.J., Sept. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today we celebrate a resounding victory for taste and the American s... |
| 05.09.2024 | New Alliance to Develop Internationally Accepted Standards for Environmental Scoring of Food | Food innovation community EIT Food has announced a partnership with non-profit organisation Foundation Earth to develop internationally adopted and accepted standards for the environmental scoring of food and drink.
Foundation Earth already... |
| 05.09.2024 | Flora Launches “Category First” Plant-Based Smoked Garlic Butter | Upfield-owned dairy-free spread brand Flora has expanded its range with the launch of a new plant-based smoked garlic butter.
The limited-edition product is claimed to be a category first for butters, spreads, and margarines. According to F... |
| 29.08.2024 | Dow Announces Finalists for 35th Packaging Innovation Awards | TOKYO, Aug. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Dow (NYSE:DOW) today announced the finalists of the 35th Packaging Innovation Awards (PIA). The winners will be unveiled at an award ceremony on October 24, 2024, held in conjunction with Tokyo Pack. Win... |
| 28.06.2024 | Violife® Launches Canada’s First 100% Dairy Free Cream Cheese Block | From Canada’s #1 selling dairy free cream cheese brand* comes a new whippable, spreadable and bakeable dairy free cream cheese block.
TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–There’s a new kid on the block and it lives up to the hype. Meet Violife®’s 100% d... |
| 11.06.2024 | Upfield Reports €3.3Bn in Net Sales & Significant Emissions Reductions in 2023 | Global plant-based food producer Upfield has published its 2023 Financial & ESG Summary, reporting significant business growth and sustainability achievements.
The company achieved net sales of €3.3 billion for the calendar year 2023, r... |
| 04.06.2024 | Heura Launches at Leading Northern Italian Retailer Esselunga, Expands Presence in UK & Netherlands | Spanish plant-based meat brand Heura has announced that it is launching at Esselunga, a leading supermarket chain in Northern Italy.
Heura products will be available at 173 Esselunga stores, expanding the brand’s Italian presence. The count... |
| 01.05.2024 | 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... |
| 25.04.2024 | Czech Retailers Pledge to Make Plant-Based Alternatives More Accessible | At the New Food Forum conference held in Prague on April 18, retailers such as Tesco Czech Republic announced plans to make more plant-based alternatives available at affordable prices.
The news comes as Czech consumers become increasingly ... |
| 09.04.2024 | Willicroft Dairy Alternatives Produce Up to 25X Fewer Emissions Than Conventional Dairy | Dutch dairy alternatives producer Willicroft has published a product emissions report comparing the environmental impact of its plant-based cheeses and butter to equivalent dairy products.
The results take into account agricultural processe... |
| 29.02.2024 | Heura posts double-digit growth in 2023: ‘Our vision is to become the European champion of plant-based meats’ | Two days after Beyond Meat posted an 18% decline in sales to $343.4 million coupled with a $338.1 million net loss in 2023, plant-based meat startup Heura posted a 22% increase in sales to €38.3 million ($41.5 million) and says it’s on cour... |
| 17.01.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Ben & Berry’s, Better Butter & A Covid-19 Study | 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 Ben & Jerry’s new oat milk ice-creams, Beyond Meat’s new ... |
| 27.10.2023 | Elmlea Launches Plant-Based Brandy Flavoured Cream for the Festive Season | Elmlea, a UK brand of cream alternatives owned by Upfield, is expanding its dairy-free range with a new product for the festive season — plant-based brandy flavoured cream.
Like Elmlea’s existing dairy-free double cream alternative, the pro... |
| 05.10.2023 | Flora UK Spreads Are Vegan Again, As Upfield Reviews Global Climate Commitments | 5 Mins Read Last week, CPG spread giant Upfield caused a (positive) stir when it announced its popular Flora Buttery range would go back to being fully vegan in the UK market, three years after the company added buttermilk as an ingredient.... |
| 06.07.2023 | Upfield Launches Whippable Flora Plant Cream in Australia, Aims to Become 100% Plant-Based | Plant-based dairy leader Upfield has launched Flora Plant Cream, an alternative to thickened cream, for the Australian retail market.
The product is whippable and is said to perform just as well as dairy cream in all applications. Like the ... |
| 17.08.2022 | COP27 Will Have Its First Food Pavilion To Address Food System Change | LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - 2021/10/26: Activists are seen next to a banner, calling on the government ... [+] to invest in a plant-based future at COP26 (climate change conference), on the Home Office building during the demonstration. Animal... |
| 27.05.2022 | Upfield’s Global #makeitplant Campaign Will Educate & Encourage Chefs to Focus on Plant-Based | Upfield is to announce the launch of its #makeitplant campaign, at this year’s Worldchefs Congress & Expo 2022 at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) from May 30 to June 2.
“We are at a pivotal moment, whereby people around the... |
| 21.04.2022 | Dutch Food Giant Upfield Releases Methane Footprint Data And Challenges Others To Follow Suit | 4 Mins Read
The Netherlands’ Upfield has disclosed its corporate methane footprint. It marks the first large food company in the world to do so. It claims to have released the data in a bid to push methane transparency into the food industr... |
| 31.03.2022 | Upfield releases breakdown of methane emissions and urges food companies to do the same | Dive Brief:
Plant-based margarines and spreads maker Upfield reported 7.5% of its total greenhouse gas footprint stems from methane. The company released a report detailing the methane emissions in its supply chain this week, saying it is t... |
| 09.02.2022 | Upfield Unveils Strategic Partnership with UK Vegan Egg Leader OGGS | Upfield to enter into strategic partnership with OGGS, with minority stake in the UK-based egg alternative and vegan bakery
Upfield, the world’s largest producer of plant-based spreads and owner of brands including Flora and Violife, has pa... |
| 23.09.2021 | Upfield to Support 140,000 African Smallholder Farmers in Commitment to Reduce World Hunger | Upfield, the largest producer of plant-based butters, margarines, creams and cheeses and owner of brands including Flora and Violife, has announced a commitment to support 140,000 smallholder farmers and plant-based entrepreneurs, by becomi... |
| 02.08.2021 | Upfield Says Its Customers Have Saved Six Million Tonnes of CO2 in a Year by Choosing Plant-Based Spreads | Margarine and spread company Upfield has calculated the greenhouse gas emissions its customers have prevented over the past year by choosing its plant-based products. The total is estimated at up to six million metric tonnes of CO2 equivale... |
| 15.01.2021 | ‘Plant-Based Censorship’: Alt Dairy Players Petition E.U. To Challenge Restrictions | 1
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Plant-based dairy giants Oatly and Upfield, alongside sustainable food nonprofit ProVeg International, have launched a joint petition to challenge new E.U. restrictions over the use of dairy-related labelling terms. Th... |
| 23.10.2020 | UPFIELD ‘breaks ground’ to begin construction of new Upfield Food Science Centre | Read the full article at https://upfield.com/press/upfield-breaks-ground-to-begin-construction-of-new-upfield-food-science-centre/
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| 24.08.2020 | Flora Parent Company To Carbon Label 100 Million Plant-Based Products | 32 1
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Upfield, the parent company of multiple brands of plant-based spreads, butters and creams including Flora, Proactiv and Becel, has announced that it will be introducing on-pack carbon labelling to 100 million prod... |
| 24.08.2020 | Upfield Introduces Flora Plant-Based Butter and Carbon Emissions Labelling | Upfield has added a new product to its Flora range of plant-based spreads — a vegan butter alternative. The product, known as Flora Plant Butter, produces half the carbon emissions of ordinary butter and is suitable for spreading, cooking, ... |
| 21.08.2020 | Upfield Appoints New North American Operations Leaders as Part of Growth Strategy | © Upfield
Upfield North America, the leading producer of plant-based spreads in the US, plans to strengthen its foothold on the plant-based foods business by recruiting new operations leaders. The company has announced the recent appointmen... |
| 21.08.2020 | Upfield Appoints New North American Operations Leaders as Part of Growth Strategy | Upfield North America, the leading producer of plant-based spreads in the US, plans to strengthen its foothold on the plant-based foods business by recruiting new operations leaders. The company has announced the recent appointments of Andy... |
| 19.08.2020 | Upfield Appoints Violife® and North American Operations Leaders | |
| 15.06.2020 | UPFIELD announces investment of €50m into future of Plant-Based foods | Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 11, 2020 – Upfield Group, the global leader of plant-based margarines, spreads and cheeses today announced its intent to invest €50m in a new state- of-the-art Upfield Food Science Centre in Wageningen, Netherla... |
| 11.06.2020 | Netherlands Emerging as New Plant-Based Industrial Hub as Upfield Announces €50M Investment For the Future of Plant-Based Foods | ©Upfield
Plantbased leader Upfield has just now announced plans for a new state-of-the-art Food Science Centre in the Netherlands. This follows this morning’s news from Beyond Meat on the opening of a co-manufacturing facility as well as th... |
| 11.06.2020 | Netherlands Emerging as New Plant-Based Industrial Hub as Upfield Announces €50M Investment For the Future of Plant-Based Foods | Plantbased leader Upfield has just now announced plans for a new state-of-the-art Food Science Centre in the Netherlands. This follows this morning’s news from Beyond Meat on the opening of a co-manufacturing facility as well as the acquisi... |
| 17.10.2019 | Upfield Acquires Arivia / Violife to Form One of the Largest Plant-Based Manufacturers in the World | ©Violife
Last week’s speculations have now been confirmed: Upfield Group B.V., the global leader of plant-based butter and spreads today announced it has entered into a share purchase agreement with Arivia S.A, leader in the plant-based che... |
| 17.10.2019 | Upfield Acquires Arivia / Violife to Form One of the Largest Plant-Based Manufacturers in the World | Last week’s speculations have now been confirmed: Upfield Group B.V., the global leader of plant-based butter and spreads today announced it has entered into a share purchase agreement with Arivia S.A, leader in the plant-based cheese categ... |
| 10.10.2019 | Upfield to Acquire Violife For €500 Million? | ©Upfield
Various media have reported that spread manufacturer Upfield (Country Crock, Rama, I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter, Lätta, Flora) is holding takeover talks with Violife, a Greek manufacturer of vegan cheese products. A takeover amo... |
| 10.10.2019 | Upfield to Acquire Violife For €500 Million? | Various media have reported that spread manufacturer Upfield (Country Crock, Rama, I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter, Lätta, Flora) is holding takeover talks with Violife, a Greek manufacturer of vegan cheese products. A takeover amount of €5... |
| 28.03.2019 | Flora Margarine Becomes 100% Vegan | Well-known margarine brand Flora has changed the recipes of its spreads which are now 100% plant-based, Upfield has announced. Upfield purchased Flora from Unilever in December 2017, and are supported by vegan chef Alexis Gauthier of plant-... |
