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4 Mins Read Thanks to agro-food producer and meat distributor IFFCO Group, California-based food tech giant and plant-based pioneer Beyond Meat is now available to customers in India via select retailers to cater to the rising plant-based demand by Indian consumers. The news was announced by Urban Platter, an online healthy grocery store in a social media post, […]
3 Mins Read Food tech giant Beyond Meat recently opened a production facility in China located in the Jiaxing Economic & Technological Development Zone (JXEDZ) near Shanghai in an effort to increase production of its plant-based meat products, especially Beyond Pork, and focus on improving costs and bringing sustainability into its operations. Back in September of last year, California-headquartered […]
5 Mins Read Beyond Meat has just announced a two new global deals with the “holy grail” of QSR chains McDonald’s and fast food corporation Yum! Brands. The food tech will be supplying the Golden Arches with its plant-based patties for the three-year partnership, while also working with Yum! to launch plant-based menu items across the group’s iconic […]
3 Mins Read Taco Bell has revealed its new partnership with food tech giant Beyond Meat to “explore a new plant-based protein” that will be tested over the year. It marks the fast food chain’s first foray into plant-based meat within its U.S. operations, after its Yum China-owned franchise in mainland China began rolling out meatless menu options […]
4 Mins Read As the plant-based wave continues to sweep across Asia, going mainstream in everywhere from South Korea to Thailand and Japan, the Philippines is no exception to the trend. While Filipino cuisine is often described as a meat-filled melange of sweet, salty, spicy and sour flavours (hello adobo) not to mention meat-heavy (ahem, lechon), the country’s […]
3 Mins Read Plant-based food tech giant Beyond Meat has announced that it will be launching two new versions of the Beyond Burger in early 2021. The company says that one will represent the “meatiest” version to date, while the other will be the brand’s most nutritious patty to meet consumers’ growing attention on both taste and the […]
3 Mins Read Beyond Meat has just announced an agreement with Jiaxing Economic & Technological Development Zone (JXEDZ) to design and develop its manufacturing footprint in the area with a new facility with ready access to Shanghai. This will make the El Segundo, California-based food tech the first multinational company with sole focus on plant-based meat to bring […]
3 Mins Read After entering consumer retail in China earlier this month, Beyond Meat will now sell its plant-based burger patties at select Metro China supermarket locations in Shanghai starting today. It marks the El Segundo, California-based food tech’s continued expansion into the Chinese market as consumers in the region continue to shift towards vegan meat alternatives amid […]
3 Mins Read Beyond Meat, the El Segundo, California-based food tech at the forefront of the plant-based industry, has just entered consumer retail in mainland China. Following its recent high-profile foodservice partnerships with Starbucks China and fast food operator Yum China, the food tech will now be collaborating with Alibaba Group’s retail platform Freshippo to roll out Beyond […]
3 Mins Read Beyond Meat, the meat alternative food tech company that recently announced a 141% year-on-year revenue growth in its latest first-quarter earnings report shortly after celebrating its one year anniversary of going public, is getting ready for localised production. In the earnings release in which CEO Ethan Brown revealed its trajectory going forward, the company also […]
9 Mins Read On May 2, 2019, Beyond Meat, the California-based plant-based food tech company famous for their meat-free burgers and sausages, went public. The company became the world’s first vegan meat alternative to list on the US stock market. A lot has changed since then for Beyond Meat and the wider plant-based industry, becoming one of the […]
3 Mins Read Has it really been one year since the Beyond Meat IPO that rocked the world, breaking records as the year’s second most successful listing and the most successful vegan one of all time? In many ways, it feels like only yesterday. In others, the world feels completely different. By any account, the performance of BYND […]
4 Mins Read Beijing-based plant-based meat startup Zhenmeat is now seeking US$ 2 million in funding from global investors in order to capture the growing demand for plant-based meat alternatives in China. This follows the latest news from Silicon Valley-based Impossible Foods, who debuted two new plant-based pork products at CES in Vegas earlier this month in a […]
3 Mins Read From Beyond Meat’s smashing IPO to record-breaking funding for Impossible Foods and the plethora of new vegan alternative products rolling out on the market, there is no denying that the plant-based meat industry has experienced skyrocketing growth over the past year. However, the pushback by Big Meat & Big Dairy has been swift, with the […]
3 Mins Read After launching in the United States this year in June, Beyond Beef, the latest product by the popular plant-based food tech Beyond Meat, has just arrived on store shelves in Hong Kong through their collaboration with Hong Kong’s social enterprise Green Monday. The launch adds to the rapidly growing range of plant-based options on the […]
5 Mins Read One of the biggest ways we can reduce our individual environmental impact and boost our health is to reduce our reliance on traditional livestock farmed meat. Though the concept of plant-based meat still remains foreign to some, alternatives like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods have become popular amongst mainstream audiences. Now, we’re seeing even more […]
3 Mins Read According to intergovernmental agency World Organisation for Animal Health, the spread of the African swine fever (ASF) epidemic will wipe out a quarter of the world’s pig population. Since last year, Asia has experienced mass escalation of ASF, with the world’s largest pig producer – China – bearing the brunt of the deaths while the […]
4 Mins Read Singapore-based startup Karana is using regionally abundant young jackfruit to create a sustainable and less processed plant-based meat alternative tailored for iconic Asian dishes. Currently served up in a number of restaurants in Singapore, the company is looking to launch their products in Hong Kong by the end of this year. This comes as more […]
8 Mins Read Arguably, no two food tech companies have played a bigger role in making it seem possible for the planet to go plant-based than California-based rivals Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods. Both companies manufacture animal-free burger patties that look, taste and cook like beef and have conquered global audiences with their products. Beyond Meat made history […]
3 Mins Read Malaysian-Hong Kong food tech startup Phuture Foods will launch a vegan pork meat alternative in Hong Kong, Singapore and other Asian destinations in the coming months. The company is eyeing the Asian market especially given the recent epidemic of African swine fever, which is causing a major pork shortage as millions of diseased pigs across […]
4 Mins Read The country that eats more pork than any other could be looking at a pork-less future. As China battles the African swine fever that has wiped out millions of pigs domestically and across the wider Asian region, the alternative meat movement has taken off. A plethora of plant-based and cellular meat startups, including both local […]