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Company News

Bunge Limited Makes $30M Capital Investment in Merit Functional Foods, Partnership to Expedite Completion of Plant-Based Protein Facility

Merit Functional Foods has announced its new partnership with ternational agribusiness and food company Bunge Limited. The collaboration will expedite the construction of Merit’s “state-of-the-art” plant-based protein production facility located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where it will produce novel pea and canola protein ingredients.

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Health

ADM Discusses Evolution of Food & Beverage Innovation Following COVID-19, with “Plant-Based Becomes Mainstream” at #2

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has identified six emerging behavioral changes created by the COVID-19 pandemic that will power food and beverage innovation and growth in the months ahead. The company’s research will help manufacturers gain market share in an increasingly uncertain business environment.

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Cosmetics & Bodycare

KVD Vegan Beauty Expands into Ulta Beauty, as Plantbased Cosmetics Explode Internationally

KVD Vegan Beauty, the award-winning vegan cosmetics brand, is expanding its distribution with Ulta Beauty, the largest beauty retailer in the U.S. Kat Von D launched the brand with Kendo in 2008 but earlier this year announced that she was departing to focus on other projects. Kendo has since rebranded the range to KVD Vegan Beauty.

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Food & Beverage

Dunkin’ Offers Vegan-Friendly Planet Oat Oatmilk Coast to Coast at All US Locations 

Dunkin’ now offers oat milk from coast-to-coast in the US. Actress and vegan foodie, Tabitha Brown, recently revealed Dunkin’s launch of Planet Oat’s vegan-friendly milk with a special Instagram post. The company’s partnership with Planet Oat makes it one of the first national quick-service restaurant brands to provide the oat-based beverage in 100% of its locations.

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Food & Beverage

Beyond Meat Launches DTC Platform With 2 Day Home Delivery, is #1 Refrigerated Plant Meat Brand

Beyond Meat has issued a press release stating that, according to the most recent SPINS data, theirs was the #1 brand in refrigerated plant-based meat and owned the top four selling items in all of plant-based meat this July. Also, from today the company announces its products are now available in bulk DTC with two day delivery.

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Company News

The “Vegan Accountancy Revolution” Begins as Established Firm Acquires Another, to Grow & Serve London Vegan Community

Vegan-run accountancy firm Lesser & Co today announces the “friendly acquisition” of London’s Vegan Accountants, with founder Diane Metcalfe stating that she chose Keith Lesser and his team to “kickstart the vegan accounting revolution”. Keith Lesser enthuses that “the potential here is mind-blowing,” and explains why.

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Pet Food

Bond Completes Prototype to Revolutionise Pet Food: “People, Pets, Farm Animals, and the Planet All Win”

Bond Pet Foods, a food tech company that has been working on animal-free pet food since 2017, has successfully created the first prototype of its future consumer-facing chicken without the chicken, which Bond says will revolutionise the pet food space. We spoke to Rich Kelleman, founder and CEO, to find out more.

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Fashion, Design & Beauty

Luxury Brand Apparis Announces $3 Million Funding Round as Vegan Fashion Sector Sees Rapid Growth

Apparis, a New York-based vegan fashion brand known for its cruelty-free fur coats, yesterday announced the closing of $3 million in seed round funding. The investment aims to support the conscious fashion brand in its mission to become a high-end key player in the rapidly growing vegan fashion market.

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Company News

Burger Wars: Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods Fight Back – Read Their Official Rebuttals to Lightlife

Yesterday, in a bold and heavily criticised move, Lightlife Foods published an open letter to Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods through a full page ad in the New York Times, stating: “Enough with the hyper processed ingredients” and claiming to be committed to “using simple ingredients and methods”. Read on for the responses.

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Products & Launches

Spam Producer Hormel Foods Reveals its “Shiny New Toy” With Line of Plantbased Pork Grounds

Hormel Foods, the producer of Spam and several meat brands such as Applegate, is releasing a new line in plant-based ingredients. Over a year ago, CEO Jim Snee, remarked that plant-based foods were to him a “shiny new toy” during a conference; it appears this is his second shiny new toy after launching Happy Little Plants this March.

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Food & Beverage

OmniPork Takes Advantage of Pork Inflation, Launching Across All China

As reported earlier this month, persistent supply disruptions led to a huge inflation of pork prices, while OmniPork was titled as a hot product selling out in Shanghai. At present, OmniPork’s promising coverage continues as the company recently announced to launch OmniPork and OmniEat in 210 stores across all China.

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