Little Northern Bakehouse, gluten-free, Samah Dada

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Food & Beverage

Little Northern Bakehouse Teams With Samah Dada’s NBC Digital Cooking Show to Highlight its Gluten-Free Bread

Little Northern Bakehouse, the maker of gluten-free and plant-based bread and bakery products, has recently teamed up with NBC’s Digital Show, #Cooking with Samah Dada. Ms. Dada, host and mastermind behind the popular online food destination, will highlight its bread in three, simple to make, recipes. 

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Company News

Fazenda Futuro to Bring its Future Meat to UK, Germany & Netherlands as it Continues Mission to Conquer World

Fazendo Futuro announced its European launch this spring and now it is clear that the Brazilian plant meat brand will focus on UK, Germany and Netherlands in autumn, as part of its “mission to conquer the rest of the world” having already conquered Brazil. The details were confirmed to vegconomist by founder Marcos Leta yesterday.

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Company News

Unilever Partners With Algenuity to Explore Algae as a Source of Protein for Future Foods

Plant-based products make up about a third of Unilever‘s portfolio and the company is aiming to demonstrate that it is focused on the global transition to sustainable proteins. We reported yesterday that Unilever has pioneer status accredited by the FAIRR Initiative, for its commitment to shifting its food portfolios away from animal-based.

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Market & Trends

Clarification for Earlier Article on Cultivated Bacon and More on Cultivated Meat Market

In an earlier article about Higher Steaks, a leading UK food tech company, we said the company had revealed “the world’s first cultivated bacon and pork belly”. We have since been contacted by Mission Barns, another food technology company, kindly letting us know that it had unveiled its cultivated bacon earlier this year.

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Startups, Accelerators & Incubators

UK Startup Little Bandits Opens Market for Vegan & Allergen-Free Foods for Kids

UK based startup Little Bandits is the first free from and plant-based brand for kids, including all important vitamins for kids, excluding allergens and with low sugar content. The startup launched last week exclusively into 157 Asda stores with its debut product line of coconut-based strawberry and banana yogurts.

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Plantbased Business Hour

What’s The Next Big Move for Plant-based Foods? Investor Chris Kerr of New Crop Capital is on The Plantbased Business Hour

Chris Kerr of Unovis Asset Managers / New Crop Capital joins Elysabeth Alfano on The Plantbased Business Hour.  Chris has invested behind all the biggies including Beyond Meat, Miyoko’s, Alpha Foods, Kite Hill, Purple Carrot. Now, he lets us in on a secret: what’s NEXT!

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Society

New Report: “Protein Transition Has Gone Mainstream” as Investments in Plant Protein Hit $1.1Bn in 2020

A new report from the FAIRR Initiative states that “2020 is set to be a watershed in the shift from animal proteins towards plant-based and new protein sources. The protein transition has gone mainstream,” stating that investments in plant-based proteins have already reached $1.1bn in the first half of 2020, almost double that of 2019. 

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Kees Kruythoff, Chairman and CEO LIVEKINDLY co. and Alexander Ospelt, CEO Ospelt-Group, signing the contract. © The LIVEKINDLY co

Kees Kruythoff, Chairman and CEO LIVEKINDLY co. and Alexander Ospelt, CEO Ospelt-Group, signing the contract. © The LIVEKINDLY co

Company News

LIVEKINDLY Collective Partners With Ospelt Group to Produce Plant-Based Ready Meals

The LIVEKINDLY Collective has announced a strategic partnership with the Ospelt Group, a Swiss producer of products such as filled pastas, pizzas and ready meals as well as pet food, to develop “plant-based food solutions” to include ready-made and convenience meals.

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Company News

Biodesign Geltor Receives $91.3M Series B Funding

Geltor yesterday announced that it has closed its Series B financing round at $91.3M. The California based biodesign company creates advanced designer animal-free products aimed at consumer brands with global scale in the beauty, nutraceuticals, and food/beverage sectors, recently launching plant-based elastin Elastapure and collagen products.

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Interviews

Moving Mountains: “We Expect to See a Burgeoning Trend of Even the Most Committed Carnivores Replacing Meat With a Plant-Based Substitute.”

Simeon Van der Molen is the founder of Moving Mountains, which launched in 2018 its signature “bleeding” burger which, as we reported last month, is now outselling beef burgers through UK wholesaler Brakes. This week Moving Mountains announced its debut into 14 establishments in the metropolitan area of Hong Kong.

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