Green Business

France's Edonia turns green spirulina into a brown mince with as much protein as beef and a much smaller environmental footprint than soy. Now, it will be part of 10,000 catering meals, having secured €15M worth of commercial deals. Can…
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The Netherlands has become the first EU country to approve public tastings of foods derived from novel fermentation processes before they're cleared for sale. Extending its future food leadership, the Netherlands has established a…
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Canadian plant-based protein bar maker Trubar has entered an acquisition agreement with Turkish consumer goods company Eti Gıda in a C$201M ($143M) deal. On the back of a year of explosive growth, when revenues hit $50M and its products…
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Plant-based company Beyond Meat has been found to have infringed a trademark covering a slogan used in a joint ad with Dunkin', owing $39M in damages. Beyond Meat can't seem to catch a break. In a year when the company's share price…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Oatly's iced coffees, La Vie and Cathedral City's collab, and Danone and Walmart's listeria settlement. New products and…
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Cultigen Group, which opened an online cultivated meat shop for consumers this year, has now launched a B2B marketplace for companies. To make it easier for the cellular agriculture industry to access equipment and inputs for…
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Israeli food tech startup SuperMeat has secured $3.5M in an ongoing funding round to support the commercialisation of its cultivated meat in Europe. A year after announcing it could produce cultivated meat at price parity with…
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RespectFarms has launched a pilot farm to produce cultivated meat in the Netherlands, with Corné van Leeuwen becoming the first farmer to receive EU funding for these proteins. Backed by public funding from the EU and the provincial…
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Plant-based meat company TiNDLE Foods is pivoting its business model to divest its US operations and focus on private-label products in Europe. Months after rolling out its vegan chicken in hundreds of Kroger stores, marking a ninefold…
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Livekindly Collective, the company behind brands like Oumph, Like and Fry's, achieved profitability in September, countering the plant-based meat slowdown. In September, Livekindly Collective CEO David Suarez revealed that the…
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Prosperity Organic Foods has emerged as the winning bidder for plant-based dairy company Miyoko's Creamery. Its namesake founder is asking the new owner to rebrand in the hope of getting back the rights to her name. Following a dramatic…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Crafty Counter's protein buns, Too Good To Go's Whole Foods partnership, and Space F's cultivated meat tasting. New…
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Spanish startup MOA Foodtech has unveiled the MOA Box, a turkey service for manufacturers to create high-value ingredients from starch byproducts through fermentation and AI. To enable food companies to produce future-facing ingredients…
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US meat behemoth Tyson Foods has settled a greenwashing lawsuit, agreeing to stop labelling its beef products as climate-friendly or claiming it will reach net zero by 2050. A year after getting sued for marketing its beef as…
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The Non-GMO Project has published the first version of its Non-UPF Verified Standard to help companies label foods that are not ultra-processed. What makes a food non-ultra-processed? It's a question the folks at the Non-GMO Project…
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Julienne Bruno, known for its dairy-free Italian cheeses, has been rescued out of insolvency by The Compleat Food Group's Harvey & Brockless. In yet another instance of consolidation in the plant-based category, British non-dairy…
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Swiss manufacturing giant Bühler Group has named three winners of its New Chocolate Challenge, which aims to industrialise climate-resilient cocoa-free ingredients. Foreverland, Green Spot Technologies and Kawa Project have all won…
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In its latest move to weaken climate goals, the European Parliament has voted to scale back rules for ESG reporting, eliminating a fine for human rights and climate violations. The European Parliament has undermined its own climate…
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German discount retailer Lidl has increased the sales of healthy food in the UK by 80% since 2019, two years ahead of schedule, after becoming the first supermarket to align with the Eat-Lancet Planetary Health Diet. Fibre, healthy…
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Swedish food tech startup Re:meat has evolved from a cultivated meat producer to a sustainable protein biomanufacturer, now called Curve. Two months after signing a deal to establish Scandinavia's first cultivated meat facility, Re:meat…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Heura's frankfurter recipe, Eat Just's sector-leading sales, and Beyond Meat's legal victory. New products and launches …
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