The 2020 Future Food Asia conference has revealed Thai startup Let’s Plant Meat and Japan-based plant protein supplier Daiz as winners of Asia’s Plant Protein Award. The prizes were awarded on the basis that both companies not only produce in Asia, but also specifically target the Asian consumer.
September 2020
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Sustainable Material Pioneer Desserto Introduces First Ever Cactus Leather Boxing Gloves
Mexican cactus leather company Desserto is making big strides in sustainable fashion. After being awarded the International Gold Design Awards 2020 in Australia, it is now supplying its cactus material to the company Sanabul, known for its martial arts and boxing clothing and accessories.
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Natural Fast Food Chain LEON Pivots its Best-Selling Dishes Into Sainsbury’s After Restaurant Crisis
Natural fast food chain LEON recently announced it will strengthen its presence on the shelves of British supermarket giant Sainsbury’s with a wide range of vegan options in response to the restaurant crises arising from the pandemic.
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Female Biologist-Led Brand Les Merveilloeufs Develops Vegan Egg that Comes in a Shell
Les Merveilloeufs is a dynamic new company founded by two female French Biologists with the aim of introducing a new vegan egg product, which looks like a hen’s egg and even comes in its own shell.
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Vegans in UK and Netherlands Can Enjoy Fish & Chips as Vegan Zeastar Introduces Vegan Cod
Vegan Finest Foods has announced that it has created a new line under its Vegan ZeaStar brand. The Dutch company has created the plant-based Tasty Codd, a “revolutionary” new product that comes after the successful introduction of its plant-based sushi fish, shrimps and calamari.
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Better You Bottom Line with Compassionate Decision Making
Can you better your bottom line with compassionate decision making? Harvard Business Professor Max Bazerman weighs in.
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Daiya Launches New Campaign Encouraging Consumers to “Enjoy the Unexpected”
Daiya Foods is the latest vegan food company to branch out in terms of advertising; last week we reported that TV campaigning is on the rise in the plantbased world and is being currently used as a tactic by brands including Beyond Meat, Meatless Farm, Dr. Praeger’s, and Iglo.
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Impossible Foods Partners With Slutty Vegan Founder Pinky Cole and Music Mogul Jermaine Dupri to Kickstart a Nationwide Voter Registration Drive
Impossible Foods, Slutty Vegan, Jermaine Dupri, and The Pinky Cole Foundation joined together to form the first-of-its-kind collaboration, VoteNik Zoom to the Polls. The Zoom series was created to boost voter turnout in the weeks leading up to the Presidential election and runs every Tuesday from September 22 through November 3.
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Little Bandits: “Passionate That No Child Should Miss Out”
Little Bandits is a free-from brand for kids inspired by the founder’s family food allergies and the challenges faced when looking for convenient and healthy food for children. Founder Jessica Harris says that her brand is unique in the space for free-from or plant-based products for families and tells us of her recent launch into the UK market.
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Nestlé Launches R&D Accelerator to Drive Innovation in Dairy Alternatives
The world’s largest food and beverage company has launched a new research and development accelerator to accelerate the sustainability of traditional milks and the efficiency of vegetable milk development.
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The Women Working Hard to Make Japan a More Vegan-Friendly Country for Consumers and Businesses
One of the most unique countries on Earth, Japan is a land of contrasts and similarities, with strong traditions influenced by external powers over the centuries. Among the most populous, and fascinating, countries in the world, people travel from all over the world to get a taste of the Land of the Rising Sun, both figuratively and literally.
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Terra Burger & Bowl, Which Uses Konjac Root for its Burgers, Opens Tokyo Restaurant
Terra Burger & Bowl opened at the end of August 2020 in Daikanyama, a prime location in Tokyo. The young company started in 2016 with a small kitchen car as a new Japanese vegan burger concept. Now the team has opened a real store with the desire to have more people experience these plantbased innovations.
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Shiok Meats Secures $12.6 M Series A, Will be the First in the World to Commercially Launch Cultivated Shrimp
Shiok Meats, the world’s first cell-based crustacean meat company, announces this hour that it has raised $12.6M in Series A funding, bringing the it closer in its mission to disrupt the seafood industry, according to an announcement sent to vegconomist from the Singapore based aquaculture pioneers.
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Bright Green Partners – a Global ‘Plant and Cell Tech Strategy Boutique’ – Officially Launches in Amsterdam
Bright Green Partners, with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Copenhagen, focuses exclusively on plant-, fermentation- and cell-based products and markets – be it food and feed (e.g. alternative proteins, meat, dairy, feed), materials (e.g. alternative leather), or specialties (e.g. alternative ingredients for beauty products).
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Gardein and Upton’s Naturals Launch Plant Meat-Filled Canned Soups for Winter Season
Winter is coming in The US and news that Gardein and Upton’s Naturals are both introducing a range of animal-free soups will be a comfort to many plantbased consumers in North America as well as the ever growing population of American flexitarians.
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The Meatless Farm Raises $31M for Production to Keep Up With Post- COVID Demand
The Meatless Farm announced today the closing of a $31 million funding round to support its global growth strategy. As a result of the pandemic, new global markets for plant-based alternatives are emerging and open up numerous expansion opportunities for the alternative meat brand.
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Lever China Alternative Protein Fund Announces Investments in Five Pioneering Plant-Based and Cultivated Meat Startups
The Lever China Alternative Protein Fund, including early investors in Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, announces today it has completed its first five investments in pioneering early-stage plant-based and cell-cultivated meat companies in China.
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Plantbased Business Minute: Top Headlines for the Week Ending September 27, 2020.
Every week, Plant-based Business Expert Elysabeth Alfano breaks down the headlines with her review and analysis. Here is the rundown from her video (which you can watch below) for the week ending September 27, 2020.
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Vevolution Announces £100,000 Global Investment Competition Pitch & Plant for Vegan Entrepreneurs
Today Vevolution announces the launch of Pitch & Plant 2020, which will be run as a global investment competition for plant-based and animal-free startups, offering a minimum investment budget of £100,000 for selected finalists.
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New Study Finds Large Demand for Cultured Meat in France and Germany
A study carried out by the University of Bath, the Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, and Ipsos has found that increasing numbers of French and German people are open to meatless diets. The study also found that many people in both countries would consider eating cultured meat.