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World’s Biggest Meat Trade Show Adds Alternative Proteins To Its Focus
The world’s leading trade show for the meat industry, the International Trade Fair for the Meat Industry (IFFA), has announced that it will broaden its base to include alternative proteins in its coming edition planned for 2022. It marks!-->…
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IKEA Pledge: 50% Of Its Restaurant Dishes Will Be Plant-Based By 2025
In its latest sustainability push, home furnishing giant IKEA has committed to making at least 50% of dishes served at its restaurant section plant-based by 2025. The Swedish company will also be bolstering the number of plant-based!-->…
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‘Indistinguishable’ Vegan Ice Cream Maker Eclipse Foods Raises Star-Studded US$12M Series A
Eclipse Foods, the food tech that makes dairy products that are “indistinguishable” from its conventional counterparts, has raised US$12 million in its Series A funding round. Having already launched its vegan ice cream via retail!-->…
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Plant-Based Chorizo: 5 Things Chile’s Pow! Foods Founders Want You To Know
Did you know that 5% of Chileans now consider themselves vegetarian? This is huge news in a country where meaty family barbecues are an every-weekend occurrence. Meet Pow! Foods, Chile’s up-and-coming startup creating plant-based meat!-->…
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Change Foods Closes Oversubscribed US$875K Pre-Seed Round For Animal-Free Cheese Made By Precision Fermentation
Change Foods is on a mission to create the dairy products that consumers love, but without the environmental, ethical and health issues associated with traditional dairy production. Unlike many non-dairy alternatives made from plants,!-->…
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M&S Launches Innovation Hub To Develop Plant-Based Foods & Plastic-Free Packaging Solutions
British retailer M&S will be opening an Innovation Hub to house its new “specialist team” focused on developing food solutions, including plant-based proteins and plastic-free packaging materials. It comes amid a wave of announcements!-->…
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Middle East:Burger King Brings Plant-Based Rebel Whopper To Dubai
Burger King has brought its Rebel Whopper made with The Vegetarian Butcher’s plant-based patties to Dubai, after rolling out the new meatless option across 25 countries in Europe last year and adding vegan chicken nuggets to menus in!-->…
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Impossible Pork Named To Time Magazine’s ‘100 Best Inventions Of 2020’ List
Silicon Valley food tech Impossible Foods’ plant-based pork has just been named one of the best inventions of the year on Time Magazine’s prestigious annual list. Impossible Pork debuted earlier this year at a major tech trade show held in!-->…
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Australia’s Alt Protein Sector Poised For Exceptional Growth Thanks To Homegrown Superstars
Australia is no exception to the global plant-based trend in recent years, with the movement only picking up pace since the coronavirus pandemic with consumers increasingly shifting away from conventional meat amid headlines of!-->…
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Indian Cell-Based Food Tech ClearMeat To Trial Cultivated Minced Chicken At Price Parity
India's first cell-based meat startup ClearMeat is set to pilot its first product, cultivated chicken mince, and has already reached price parity with its animal-based counterpart, marking a major feat for any alternative protein food tech!-->…
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Canada’s The Very Good Food Company Goes Public In The U.S., Marking 2nd Plant-Based IPO
The Very Good Food Company, the parent group of Canadian plant-based meat brand The Very Good Butchers, has been approved for trading in the U.S. after its first IPO on the Canadian Stock Exchange (CSE) earlier in June this year. It will!-->…
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Singapore’s Shiok Meats Debuts World’s First Cell-Based Lobster Meat Prototype
Shiok Meats has just unveiled the world’s first cell-based lobster meat. In an exclusive tasting event, the Singapore cultivated seafood food tech showcased its newly developed crustacean-free product in a range of dishes alongside their!-->…
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Burger King Launches V2food’s Plant-Based Whopper In Philippines
Fast food giant Burger King has just partnered up with Australian food tech v2food to launch a new plant-based whopper to its menu in the Philippines. Firstly landing on the menus of Metro Manila and Luzon locations, the collaboration will!-->…
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OmniPork Luncheon Lands In Singapore Ahead January 2021 Green Common Store Launch
Hong Kong-based Green Monday has announced that it has launched its famous OmniPork Luncheon, the world’s first plant-based version of Spam, and OmniPork Strips to Singapore. It will be available on menus of partnering restaurants and at!-->…
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Hong Kong’s Avant Meats Debuts Asia’s First Cultivated Fish Fillet
Hong Kong-based cell-based food tech Avant Meats has just unveiled its cultivated fish fillet in a regional first. The cultured fish fillet grown by the startup has been showcased in a cooking demonstration led by the city’s renowned!-->…
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Hero Protein: Shanghai’s New Plant-Based Meat & Seafood Startup Attracting China-Focused Investors
While China’s plant-based meat industry is still in its early days, there are a growing number of homegrown startups rising to develop alternative proteins that are tailored to the local market, and Hero Protein is the latest to join the!-->…
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Chinese KFC-Rival Dicos Rolls Out Starfield’s Plant-Based Chicken Nationwide
Chinese fast food giant Dicos, famous for its fried chicken, has just announced a new partnership with homegrown plant-based food tech Starfield to add plant-based chicken burgers to its menu nationwide. Boasting over 2,500 locations in!-->…
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Unilever Sets €1 Billion Plant-Based Meat & Dairy Alternatives Annual Sales Target
Unilever has set a global annual sales target of €1 billion (US$1.19 billion) for its plant-based meat and dairy category within the next five to seven years. The Anglo-Dutch consumer goods behemoth says that the new goal will be driven by!-->…
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Alt Protein Startups MycoTechnology & BlueNalu Take Home Top Prizes In Radicle Protein Challenge
MycoTechnology and BlueNalu have been named winner and runner-up of the Radicle Protein Challenge by Syngenta, bagging home US$1 million and US$250,000 in investment respectively. The challenge was launched by California-based VC Radicle!-->…
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Beyond Meat Unveils Plant-Based Minced Pork In Shanghai In Battle Over Chinese Market
Beyond Meat has just unveiled its newest product for the Chinese market, a plant-based minced pork. Dubbed Beyond Pork, the vegan version of the country’s favourite meat will be available in Shanghai at partnering restaurants for a!-->…
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Cultivated Meat Investor Agronomics Raises US$13.2M In Oversubscribed Equity Round
Agronomics, a U.K.-based investment company focused on cultivated meat and alternative proteins, has completed an oversubscribed equity fundraise of £10.0 million (US$13.2 million). The capital will go towards supporting the company’s!-->…
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