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Fresh Look & Marketing Drive for SHEESE in Bid to Lead the UK Market

SHEESE, the vegan cheese made by Bute Island Foods, is the UK’s fastest-growing plant-based cheese brand with a reported 74% growth. Today it announces a total rebrand and its biggest ever marketing investment in the [...]
Fairs & Events

Madrid’s Organic Food Iberia & Eco Living Iberia Postponed to September

Organic Food Iberia & Eco Living Iberia, the largest trade event in Spain and Portugal, originally scheduled to take place in June this year, has been postponed until September. The new dates for the show [...]
Products & Launches

Silk Launches Silk ULTRA Plant-Based Protein Drinks for Vegan Athletes

Danone’s Silk introduces new Silk ULTRA – one of the first multi-serve beverages on the US market, offering 20 grams of complete plant-based protein, calcium, vitamin D, B2 and B12. The new line was developed [...]
Market & Trends

Meat Alternatives Becoming The New Normal in Spanish Supermarkets

The last few years have seen a great transformation in Spain’s supermarkets. With Spanish brands like Heura Foods, NovaMeat, and GrinGrin Foods, among many others, the plant-based revolution has the potential to turn the Iberian [...]
Health

Danish Government Publishes Dietary Guidelines for Healthy and Climate-Friendly Food

For the first time, the Danish government has added guidance to the country’s official dietary guidelines on how consumers can eat in a more climate-friendly way. The Danish Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Rasmus [...]
Companies & Portraits

Seafood Restaurant Nordsee Invests in Plant-Based Fish Producer Novish

Dutch plant-based seafood brand Novish has announced the closing of a funding round including QSRP Funding and Kharis Capital, the owner of German seafood restaurant chain Nordsee. Novish produces a range of vegan seafood products [...]
Products & Launches

Lewis Hamilton’s Neat Burger Launches Vegan ‘Filet-no-Fish’ to Rival McDonald’s

Lewis Hamilton‘s UK-based vegan restaurant Neat Burger today launches the Filet-no-Fish burger, which the chain claims is the first plant-based fish burger in a UK fast-food chain. To mark the launch of the Filet-no-Fish burger, [...]

The VegTech Sector is Proving That Animal-Based Meat & Dairy May Soon be Obsolete

January 11, 2021

Twenty years ago, you would be lucky to walk into the supermarket and find soymilk on the shelf. If you spotted the bleak rectangle shelf-stable box it was a banner day. But as we are […]

Maple Leaf Announces $100M Indianapolis Tempeh Plant for Lightlife

January 11, 2021

Maple Leaf Foods announced today through its plantbased subsidiary Greenleaf Foods, the acquisition and planned build-out of a food processing plant in Indianapolis, for the production of Lightlife tempeh products. The company states that this […]

Rihanna Invests in Jay-Z’s Favorite Vegan Cookie Producer Partake Foods

January 11, 2021

Following successful investments from Jay-Z and Grammy-award winning singer H.E.R, the allergy-free brand Partake Foods has raised $4.8 million in a new funding round. Interesting to note is CEO and founder Denise Woodard is the […]

Moving Mountains Launches “World’s Meatiest Plant-Based Product”

January 11, 2021

British alt-meat company Moving Mountains has launched what it claims is “the meatiest plant-based product in the world”. The strips are made with pea, soy, and wheat proteins, fortified with vitamin B12, and the fast-growing […]

Research Reveals Most Affordable Vegan Products in the UK

January 11, 2021

Voucher site vouchercodes.co.uk has analysed a range of meat alternatives available in the UK to determine which provide the best value for money. Quorn sausages came out on top, costing an average of 58p per […]

Plant-Centered Meal Delivery Service Thistle Raises $10M in Series B Funding Round

January 11, 2021

San Francisco-based healthy meal delivery service Thistle has raised $10.3M in its Series B funding round. The round was led by previous investors PowerPlant Ventures, with contributions from others including Alumni Ventures Group and Siddhi […]

Wagamama Launches Veganuary Menu, Vows to Make Half Its Dishes Meatless in 2021

January 11, 2021

UK-based Asian fusion chain Wagamama has launched a range of new menu options for Veganuary. The restaurant’s much-loved Firecracker curry can now be ordered with tofu instead of chicken, while the Grilled Duck Doburi can […]

Survey Reveals 85% of Brits Want an End to Factory Farming

January 8, 2021

It has been revealed that nine in ten Britons want the Government to introduce an immediate ban on intensive farming methods amid concerns over viruses spread by animal agriculture. A new poll out today will […]

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