Green Monday this week announced a record raise of $70 million and states that this record raise is the largest of its kind in Asia. Founder David Yeung has spoken about how the funds will [...]- India’s Axia Foods has contacted vegconomist to announce the introduction of what it claims is India’s first ever high protein, probiotic & prebiotic vegan yogurts. The new yogurts are called “grenyogert” and the high protein [...]
- Dubai’s plant-based foods sector soared during the lockdown earlier this year and since then it is continuing to grow. Consequently, the UAE is becoming increasingly more attractive to foreign companies like Brazilian Fazenda Futuro and [...]
- Green Monday, Asia’s leading plant-based food company, today announces it has raised a record $70 million in funds. Additionally, the pioneering organisation which includes Omnipork / OmniFoods, has been ranked as #32 by Fortune Magazine [...]
- A Singaporean plant-based startup called Float Foods informs vegconomist that it has launched NEW FOOD Startup 2020, Indonesia’s first joint cross-border food incubator. The incubator is aimed towards plant-based food innovators in Indonesia and winners [...]
- Let’s Plant Meat is a plant-based meat alternative startup and is a subsidiary of Nithi Foods, a Thai-based manufacturer of spices. Given its location in the Asian space, the startup aims to become a regional [...]
- When OmniPork Luncheon meat, AKA the world’s first vegan SPAM, was launched by OmniFoods this May, you might say that people were excited. Now, following the incredible success of other OmniFoods products throughout Asia, the [...]
- Following the news that IKEA is furthering its aim towards sustainability by introducing its vegan meatballs to Singapore, Dubai, and Australia; now IKEA in Japan has announced the addition of seven plant-based dishes in its [...]
- Japan’s Shin-Etsu Chemical, the largest chemical company in Japan, ranked No. 9 in Forbes Global 2000 for chemical sector, is reportedly released its intentions to enter the plantbased meat sector to benefit from the rising [...]
- abillionveg, a Singapore based sustainability app, has raised US $3 million in a Pre Series-A funding round, bringing the total funding to $6 million in addition to the seed funds raised last August. It also [...]
- Impossible Foods makes more strides into global domination. Having recently secured a Series G equity round of $200M, the company has also just announced several new major distribution streams internationally, including Starbucks in Hong Kong [...]
- Dutch plant meat brand The Vegetarian Butcher, a subsidiary of Unilever, has had a busy month. It will supply Burger King with a Plant-based Whopper in the Netherlands, has already begun with its plant chicken [...]
- Beyond Meat announced today a historic agreement with Jiaxing Economic & Technological Development Zone (JXEDZ) to bring the production of plant-based meat to the Chinese market. The company claims it will be the first multinational [...]
- Beijing startup Vesta Food Lab has completed its latest financing round, led by Shanghai company Xuerong Biotech. The round raised $2.3M, which will be used for research and development as well as the building of [...]
- We are pleased to announce that this autumn, vegconomist will launch a Chinese language version of our vegan business news magazine. Our Spanish version launch is already planned for next month, as we continue in [...]
- 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 [...]
- This article was contributed by freefrom Inc. The vegetarian market has been growing worldwide, but Japan has taken a slightly different path than many other countries. In this article, we take a look at the [...]
- Chinese alt-meat brand Starfield has completed its Series A financing round, bringing its total funding to over $10 million. The company previously received funding from Dao Foods and New Crop Capital. Following the new investments, [...]
- As part of our celebratory series about the wonderful world of plant milks, leading up to World Plant Milk Day this Saturday 22nd, we are featuring different plant milk brands every day this week. Today [...]
- Israeli food-tech startup SavorEat has raised $4.75 million in capital in two financing rounds. With these investments, the company plans to develop a new generation of meat alternatives using customised 3D printing technology.
- Market intelligence company Transparency Market Research has published a study forecasting a value of USD $2.5 billion for the vegan cheese industry by the end of this year. The global industry analysis and opportunity assessment [...]
- As reported by South China Morning Post on Monday, persistent supply disruptions have caused food prices to rise by 13.2% and pork prices are particularly affected, increasing by 85.7% year-on-year, revealing the fragility of the [...]
- According to HAE News, a South Korea-based platform issuing reports on sustainable living, the plant-based market reached a remarkable dynamic after the pandemic had subsided, as an increasing number of global and local companies are [...]
- Wet markets in China are constantly under suspicion of creating new COVID-19 hotspots, and this is resulting in a shift towards plant-based alternatives. The South China Morning Post reports that China’s plantbased market is set [...]
OmniPork announces a partnership with Hong Kong-based Tong Kee Bao Dim to launch healthy plant-based takeaway options in 100 branches of the well-established restaurant chain. The collaboration revolutionizes the availability of vegan takeaway options and [...]
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