BlueNalu announced yesterday the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Pulmuone Co. Ltd, a Seoul-based producer of traditional perishable foods such as tofu and bean sprouts. This move BlueNalu’s first collaboration in South Korea [...]- Japan’s IntegriCulture Inc., a cellular agriculture specialist, has completed a Series A fundraising round of JPY800 million (USD7.4 million) backed by Beyond Next Ventures, NH Foods, and AgFunder, amongst others. The amount raised totals JPY1.1 [...]
Mainland China continues as a central focus for vegan industry as Beyond Meat announces the launch of its plant-based burger patties into Freshippo Markets, owned by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.- Lever VC announces it is partnering with Brinc, a global venture accelerator firm, to launch a joint investment fund and accelerator program to support plant-based and cell-cultivated brands across China. An initial sum of 40 [...]
- Multizen Holdings from Hong Kong has invested in Ripple Foods, a Californian vegan pea-based dairy brand, this marks Multizen’s first sustainable impact investment into start-ups providing disruptive food solutions, according to Green Queen Media.
- KFC is launching a series of products in selected Hong Kong locations under the name The New Era Plant-Based Series, offering plant-based products from two top US plant-based producers: the New Era Nuggets come from [...]
- Singapore-based startup biotech company Turtle Tree Labs, developing the “world’s first cell-based milk”, has announced the completion of a fresh round of seed funding totalling US$£3.2M, from global investors.
- Following a line of successful developments from Omnipork, whose parent organisation Right Treat recently rebranded to Omnifoods when it launched the world’s first vegan SPAM product, the pioneers now announce another advancement for plantbased industry [...]
- Singapore’s Shiok Meats has raised US$3 million in bridge funding from Agronomics, VegInvest, Impact Venture, and Mindshift Capital Fund in the UAE. This latest funding marks a total of US$7.6 million of investment to date [...]
- We have been witnessing in China the emergence of plant-based products vying to get a foothold in the market. The country’s pork industry was decimated with Swine Flu and consumers appear to be ready for [...]
- The Indian startup Epigamia has launched India‘s first plant-based yogurt made with coconuts. With its creamy texture, the company claims the yogurt’s consistency is almost indistinguishable from conventional dairy yogurts.
- Although Japan will hold the Olympic Games in 2021, many of us might view the nation as far from vegetarian and vegan friendly. Meanwhile, the movement called “1,000 Vegan Project” is gathering attention. Hiroto Yamazaki [...]
- South Korean newspaper The Korea Herald reports that the plant-based meat industry there is beginning to take off. According to the Korea Vegetarian Union, veganism has tripled in the last 10 years, but the real [...]
- Karana, a whole plant-based meat company based in Singapore, is weeks away from launching its whole plant pork alternative made from the popular Asian ingredient jackfruit. The company states that with its launch, “Karana is [...]
- The Shanghai Society of Food Science has announced it will be running a plant-based food contest in collaboration with food awareness organisation ProVeg International. The competition will be known as the Plant-Based Food Innovation Contest.
- The Indian plant-based egg startup Evo Foods has announced two new investments. The capital comes from VegInvest, a vegan investment firm, and angel investor Dr. Sandhya Sriram.
- Co-CEO and Co-Founder of GoodDot (India), Abhishek Sinha joins Elysabeth Alfano on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss veganism in India, the cultural pros and cons to embracing same and GoodDot’s exploding business beyond Asia.
- Australia’s V Meat has begun its planned crusade into Asia. The brand was established in October 2019 as part of a strategy in place under the partnership of JAT (Jatenergy Limited) and Oppenheimer Pty Ltd, [...]
- Yum China Holdings Inc, which owns exclusive rights in mainland China to KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, is to introduce the Beyond Burger for a limited time at select locations of all three chains [...]
- As we reported this week, Japanese plant-based meat producer Daiz secured Series A funding of ¥650 (about $6 million) from the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Growth and Industrialization Support Organization in Tokyo, and Mitsubishi UFJ [...]
- Following the news last month that KFC China was trialling vegan chicken nuggets, it has been reported that the outcome of the consumer trial couldn’t have been clearer in Shanghai: pre-sale coupons for the first [...]
- OmniPork’s retail grocery sales increased by 120% from April 2019 to January 2020, according to Food Navigator Asia. Last week saw the company’s rebrand to OmniFoods and launch of the world’s first plant-based luncheon meat [...]
- Japanese plant-based meat producer Daiz has secured Series A funding to the tune of ¥650 million to upscale production and further R&D into its soy-based meat alternative. DAIZ utilizes a unique set of methods to [...]
- Multinational food company Danone has announced that its plant-based Vega One protein products are now available in China. This includes Vega One Sport, a drink aimed at fitness enthusiasts. The products will be sold via [...]
- Right Treat, the food research company of OmniPork, officially rebranded to its new name of OmniFoods last week as it revealed the world’s first vegan SPAM product with a mission to become the world’s most [...]
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