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Charcuterie company Aoste launches plant-based products

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Products & Launches

French Charcuterie Company Aoste Launches Plant-Based Meat Alternatives

French charcuterie company Aoste has expanded its presence in the meat alternatives market with the launch of a new range of products under the Better Balance brand. The range features five meat alternatives — burgers, sausages, breaded cutlets, original chunks, and chunks with herbs. They are made from ingredients such as soy, peas, wheat, and vegetable oil, and are free of palm oil. The products will be available for both retail and food service, and all five have received a Nutriscore of A. The launch is said to be Aoste’s most significant in a decade in the French market, and the company aims to achieve a 10% market share in plant-based by 2026 according to Points de Vente. Aoste will promote Better Balance through a …

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Company News

Renegade Foods Triples Production of Vegan Charcuterie Products Just Months After “Game-Changing” Launch

Berkeley, CA-based Renegade Foods, a producer of plant-based charcuterie products like salami, chorizo, and sobrasada, announces it has tripled its production capabilities amid increased consumer demand. Co-founder and CEO Iona Campbell states that the brand’s “commitment to creating delicious food leveraging age-old techniques and high-quality ingredients” is fueling company growth. Launched in 2019 by Campbell and Co-founder Kalie Marder, Renegade Foods today reports the addition of more than 20 new accounts following the launch of an “industry first” shelf-stable, vegan salami that can be stored, shipped and merchandised without the need for refrigeration. Furthermore, the company says it has eliminated 80% of its packaging, while dramatically reducing shipping costs.    Since the announcement in March of the shelf-stable sausage, Renegade says it has achieved more than …

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Harry David + Renegade Plant-Based Salami

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Food & Beverage

112-Year-Old Harry & David Partners with Renegade Foods for First Vegan Charcuterie Box

Harry & David, one of the oldest purveyors of gourmet gift baskets, is introducing its first selection of plant-based cured meats, reports VegNews. The Vegan Charcuterie Collection features three varieties of salami by Renegade Foods – a California maker of premium meat-free charcuterie. Now available for US nationwide shipping, the collection retails for $74.99 and features three flavors: Toscana, Spicy Chorizo and Sopresatta.  Founded in 1910, Harry & David is renowned for its deluxe baskets and food gifts filled with fruits, chocolates, and conventional meats and cheeses. Renegade’s co-founder, Iona Campbell, says her brand first reached out to the iconic company after learning it was seeking to add plant-based meat options, but was not satisfied with the currently available alternatives.  “From what I’ve heard, Harry …

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vegan deli slices made by following the traditional European cuisine

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Meat- and Fish Alternatives

UNLIMEAT Develops Plant-Based Pepperoni and Mortadella With Famous Charcuterie Institute

Korean plant-based meat brand UNLIMEAT has collaborated with Germany’s Bayerische Fleischerschule Landshut, a world-renowned charcuterie institute, to create plant-based deli products according to traditional European cuisine. The products developed so far are plant-based pepperoni and mortadella. In November 2021, UNLIMEAT’s parent company Zikooin secured $23 million to construct one of the largest plant-based meat factories in Asia. Since then it has focused on expansion in the US, initially launching in the US market in January with a Times Square billboard, introducing its plant-based meats into food service through LA restaurant Jeong Yuk Jeom this June, then expanding into Amazon and GTFO It’s Vegan. While the company’s current portfolio features a specialty line of Asian-focused products including Korean BBQ, Pulled Pork, Jerky, and Beef Mandu, the …

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Kokiriki plant-based ham

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Kokiriki Expands Plant-Based Offerings from Vegan Charcuterie to Alt Tuna to Carrefour France

French plant-based producer Kokiriki is continuing to expand its alt meat offerings with the launch of an extensive new line. Having started with the production of vegan charcuterie, the brand is now launching a range of vegan nuggets and breaded alt fish products, as well as its awarding-winning plant-based tuna.  Kokiriki, a subsidiary of the Morbiano Jouault group, has been producing vegan meat in the form of charcuterie, burgers, and meatballs since its launch in 2021 and has been listed nationally in all Carrefour hypermarkets in France since the beginning of February. The product range launch comes after the brand won the Most Innovative Product award in the fresh and frozen category award at the Gulfood international trade fair in Dubai for its Veg-Toona plant-based …

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California’s Renegade Foods Launches Holiday Charcuterie Kit of Vegan Salamis

Renegade Foods has announced the launch of a curated Holiday Charcuterie Kit offering a variety of artisanal, premium organic salamis made entirely from plants, such as a Soppressata, Italian Toscana and spicy Chorizo. The company counts Ryan Bethencourt of Wild Earth and Sustainable Food Ventures as its advisor. The mission of the two founders, sisters Iona Campbell and Kalie Marder, is to empower communities to make more considerate food choices, stating, that it “isn’t just about the food, it’s about having a positive impact on our planet and all animals that call it home”. Small Board – $85.00 MSRP – Kit contains: 3-pack of Renegade Salami (Smoky Soppressata, Sweet Toscana, Spicy Chorizo) Moonshot Snacks Organic Sourdough Sea Salt Climate-Friendly Crackers Nuts on the Run Rosemary Almonds Steve’s …

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Renegade Foods Hungarian salami

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Renegade Foods Adds French-Hungarian Flavors to Gourmet Vegan Salami Line

Renegade Foods, a Bay Area company specializing in plant-based meats, has announced the addition of three new products to its European-style vegan salami range. Pulling inspiration from French and Hungarian culinary traditions, the new offerings are designed to offer more diverse options for different taste palates, expanding the company’s appeal to both home cooks and professional chefs. Iona Campbell, CEO and co-founder of Renegade Foods states, “For more than four years, we have been sharing our love of southern European culinary traditions. Our traditionally fermented and smoked Italian and Spanish-style plant-based salamis have been included on the menus of celebrity and Michelin-starred chefs as well as in the homes of tens of thousands.”  She added, “Recently, Renegade’s culinary explorations have taken us across western and …

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Florencio Garcia, CEO of Better Balance

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Interviews

Better Balance: “We are Constantly Working on Strategies with the Objective of Being One of the Leaders in the Plant-Based Market”

Better Balance, the plant-based food division of the Sigma Group, has achieved remarkable growth in the competitive market for plant-based products, standing out especially in key categories. With a strategy based on innovation and sustainability, the brand continues to expand its presence in the Spanish and European markets. On this occasion, we spoke with Florencio García, Better Balance’s general manager in Europe, to learn more about the company’s recent achievements, including its breakthrough in segments such as plant-based sausages, the launch of veal-flavored Better Bocados and its vision for the future of the plant-based sector. What inspired Better Balance to develop veal flavored Better Bocados and how does it differ from other products on the market? At Better Balance we wanted to offer an innovative …

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Kallø Veggie Dips

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Kallø Enters New Category With Organic & Clean-Label Veggie Dips

UK-based healthy snack brand Kallø has entered the dips category for the first time with a new range of plant-based Veggie Dips. The clean-label dips consist of a tomato base combined with organic vegetables and pulses. Three varieties are available — Chutney Tomato & Lentil, Tomato & Olives, and Spicy Tomato. Unlike many dips, the products are sold in an ambient format and packaged in a fully recyclable glass jar with an aluminium lid. The resealable format means they can be easily transported and helps to reduce food waste. The dips are said to be an ideal pairing for snacks such as Kallø’s Veggie Thins, a range of chickpea-based flatbreads that launched last November. They can also be used as a cooking ingredient. “Plants can …

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Market & Trends

Albert Heijn Named Most Vegan-Friendly Supermarket in Belgium

Albert Heijn has been recognized as the supermarket chain with the most extensive vegan offerings in Flanders and Brussels, according to a recent study conducted by BE Vegan and ProVeg Belgium. The analysis evaluated the availability of plant-based products in six major supermarket chains: Albert Heijn, Delhaize, Carrefour, Colruyt, Lidl, and Aldi.  Albert Heijn leads the rankings, with Delhaize in second place and Colruyt in third. Notably, Colruyt has moved up to third place, overtaking Carrefour for the first time. “It is mainly the expansion of plant-based ready meals that places Colruyt in third position. There are more options for easy plant-based meals. Colruyt is also catching up in the area of ​​meat and fish substitutes: the offer has increased by 30% since 2022, and …

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Lorenz Wyss-CEO of the Bell Food Group

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Cultivated, Cell-Cultured & Biotechnology

Bell Food Group CEO Expects Cultivated Meat Burgers to Hit Swiss Restaurants in 3 Years

Lorenz Wyss, the outgoing CEO of the Swiss meat and convenience food giant Bell Food Group foresees that cultivated burgers will be available in Switzerland in three years. In an interview published on Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Wyss predicts that the products will be available first in restaurants rather than in supermarkets; but the burgers could initially contain only cultivated fat. “It is possible that at the beginning you will only cultivate individual ingredients for addition, such as fat,” he said. Investing in cultivated meat Bell Food Group, a leading meat processor selling meat, poultry, charcuterie, seafood, and convenience products, invested €2 million in the Dutch cultivated meat company Mosa Meat in 2018. At the time, the company announced that it would offer cultivated burgers for 10 francs by …

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The new butchery in Málaga

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Meat- and Fish Alternatives

Vegan Butchery Chain El Vegans Opens New Location in Málaga, Spain

After expanding with stores in Catalonian cities such as Hospitalet, San Cugat, Sabadell, and Granollers, El Vegans, a vegan butcher’s shop from Barcelona, has opened its first branch in Málaga. El Vegans was founded in 2018 to help people transition to animal-friendly diets by offering plant-based and delicious alternatives to meat and cheese. Located in Huelín, El Vegans is also the first butcher of its kind in the southern city, offering traditional deli and butcher’s shop items in more sustainable versions: from escalopes, burger patties, various cheeses, and vegan blood sausage, to prepared dishes such as seitan cannelloni, soy meat skewers, croquettes, and fillings for fajitas or kebabs, sweets, and beverages. The products of this innovative store are mainly made in-house with natural ingredients, such …

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Food Service

Prime Roots Partners With Three Little Pigs to Bring Plant-Based Pâté to NYC

Prime Roots, the producer of koji-based deli meats, has partnered with Three Little Pigs, an artisanal charcuterie and pâté maker, to introduce its collection of plant-based pâtés and foie gras to customers in New York City. The range blends traditional French cuisine with the innovative and sustainable ingredients of Prime Root’s plant-based products, including its Black Truffle Koji-Pâté, Harvest Apple Koji-Pâté, and Koji-Foie Gras. These products are developed using koji, a fungi root commonly utilized in Asian cuisines for its umami-rich qualities, which is key to replicating the taste and texture of meat-based products. Founder and CEO of Prime Roots, Kimberlie Le, commented on the launch, saying, “It’s so fun to wow people’s tastebuds with a plant-based koji-pâté, and koji-foie gras that gives people the …

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Market & Trends

Coop Switzerland Reports Downward Trend of Women Purchasing Vegan Alternatives & Upward Trend Among Men

More than a quarter of consumers regularly eat vegan alternatives in Switzerland, according to the newly published Coop Plant-Based Food Report 2024. While the report does note that demand for all meat alternatives has increased significantly since 2018, with burgers, in particular, growing by 279% in this period, Coop does point out that this growth has declined over the past two years. However, vegan sausage and charcuterie alternatives are experiencing a strong upward trend. The top three categories of meat substitutes on the Swiss market in terms of sales are new: vegan schnitzel, sliced meat, and sausage alternatives. A newly emerging masculinity Interestingly, the report notes that in general, there has been a “downward trend in the proportion of women among substitute product customers over …

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Planted Launches the “Cleanest Lyoner Cold Cut on the Market” at Coop Switzerland

Swiss foodtech startup Planted announces the launch of its first plant-based cold cut in Swiss retail through a distribution deal with Coop. The cold cut is an alternative to the Lyoner Wurst style of meat, often referred to as German bologna, and marks Planted’s entrance into the charcuterie category. According to Planted, the cold cut is produced with all-natural ingredients and as such is “the cleanest Lyoner cold cut on the market”. Additionally, compared to its animal counterpart, the plant-based Lyoner creates 34% less CO2 and uses 51% less water, making it an environmentally friendlier option to standard cuts of meat that are sliced from the flesh of an animal. The vegan Lyoner meat is created with pea protein, rapeseed oil, water, spices, yeast, salt, …

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Rob Reames of Planted in front of supermarket with products

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Opinion

Op Ed: Rob Reames of Planted on Navigating the UK Plant-Based Market

Rob Reames is VP of Commercial at Planted, the number one meat alternative brand in Switzerland and Europe’s leading foodtech scale-up, known for its clean-label plant-based meat. In this piece, Rob explains that brands that invest in the long game with a focus on quality, authenticity, and innovation, are poised to redefine our food landscape. Rob’s experience includes some of the biggest global brands and he is no stranger to establishing new categories in the mainstream having led Alpro‘s commercial team across Europe at Board level. Other brand experience includes PepsiCo, Reckitt, and Danone. Rob strongly believes in purpose-driven businesses like Planted and is deeply passionate about accelerating the growth and adoption of meat alternatives as part of healthy, plant-based, and flexitarian diets. Navigating UK …

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Meat- and Fish Alternatives

Former Heston Blumenthal Chef’s Shocken Foods to Hit UK Shelves for Christmas

Award-winning UK plant-based deli meat manufacturer Shocken Foods is preparing to launch its innovative plant-based deli products before Christmas.  Launched by Emma Bowe, a trailblazing female chef now turned vegan food tech entrepreneur, and Peter Kalkowsky, a professional caterer and previous senior manager at a global corporation, the company was first established as Veganly Deli and later rebranded to Shocken Foods.  Bowe has worked with culinary legends such as Heston Blumenthal and Helene Darroze in three Michelin-starred kitchens, including at the Mandarin Oriental and The Connaught. She has also served as an executive head chef for renowned establishments such as Riverford Organic and Elior and has even catered for the BAFTAs, HRH The Queen, and the British Prime Minister. Furthermore, she has earned three nominations in the upcoming Great …

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Prime Roots Partners with Fabrique Délices to Offer Koji-Based Pâtés and Foie Gras

Producer of koji-based alternative meats, Prime Roots partners with Fabrique Délices, an artisanal French charcuterie maker, to create and distribute a line of fungi-based koji-pâtés and koji-foie gras for foodservice. One notable highlight of this partnership is the introduction of the only legally approved plant-based foie gras that can be served in California’s restaurants, addressing ethical and environmental concerns surrounding traditional foie gras production. Prime Roots joins the ranks of other global animal-free innovators disrupting the foie gras industry, including Dr.Foods in Japan and Foodys in Spain. Prime Roots distinguishes itself as the first company to introduce a range of freshly sliced deli meat and charcuterie, pâtés, and foie gras crafted from koji. CEO and co-founder of Prime Roots, Kimberlie Le, explained the significance of koji …

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Land&Monkeys has launched 'le Parisien,' a vegan version of one of the most popular snacks in France: ham-and-butter sandwich.

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Land&Monkeys Unveils Vegan Version of France’s Favorite Sandwich ‘Jambon Beurre’ with La Vie’s New Ham

French plant-based bakery Land&Monkeys has launched ‘le Parisien’, a vegan version of one of the most popular snacks in France: the ham-and-butter sandwich. Known in the country as jambon beurre, the two-ingredient sandwich became a symbol in Paris in the 1950s, and it is “indisputably” France’s favorite sandwich, explains Land&Monkeys. To replace this bakery classic with ethical and sustainable alternatives, Land&Monkeys partnered with two food tech companies.  Zero pig, zero cow The zero pork ham is the latest development of the French startup La Vie. The vegan ham is said to have the same taste and texture as traditional charcuterie without using texturizing agents and is a source of protein (19 grams of protein per 100). La Vie will launch a virtual restaurant next month in collaboration with Taster. …

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Planted collaborates with Fleury Michon

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Meat- and Fish Alternatives

Planted & Fleury Michon Launch Meaty Plant-Based Products Across France

Swiss alt meat brand Planted has joined forces with French agrifood business Fleury Michon to launch a range of gourmet plant-based products into retail. The Emincés Végétaux line consists of seasoned, sliced plant-based chicken, and comes in three varieties — roasted, mildly spiced, and with herbs. The products are clean-label and have received a Nutriscore of A, the highest possible rating for nutritional quality. The perfect pair “We are thrilled to be working with industry expert Fleury Michon on this exciting launch,” said Pascal Bieri, co-founder and member of the executive team at Planted. “Although Fleury Michon predates Planted by over 100 years, they still operate independently and are family-owned to provide products at an affordable price. “As a result, Fleury Michon is the second …

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