Vegconomist is today pleased to announce a working relationship with Veg Capital. Veg Capital will be working alongside vegconomist in the promotion of young plant-based startups and together we are proud to say we will [...]- For most vegans, vegetarians or flexitarians around Europe and the UK, Swedish brand Oumph! is a well-known and well-loved for offering a huge portfolio of 100% plantbased products with its recognisable branding (and name!) which [...]
- On Monday, the Swiss Retail Giant Migros announced the launch of its own brand V-Love, which starts off with a plant-based BBQ range and is planned to develop into an all-encompassing brand for vegan products. [...]
- Events organiser Informa Markets has announced that its Food Ingredients (FI) Europe event will go ahead from December 1-3, with the aid of various safety measures. Health Ingredients (HI) Europe will take place alongside it [...]
- Discount supermarket Lidl has launched an affordable range of vegan skincare and shower products across the UK. The range consists of four products — shower gel, face cream, hand cream, and body lotion.
- Tesco has become the third UK supermarket to stock Applewood‘s extremely popular vegan cheese. The cheese has been available at Tesco stores nationwide since July 6.
- UK pea milk producer, Mighty Pea, which uses yellow split peas in the creation of its beverages, has secured over £1M in funding from both its existing investor base and the UK Government’s Future Fund. [...]
- Following recent news from the Beyond Meat empire that the company plans to release its patties at a discounted price for customers in the UK, said patties have now been spotted in the budget giant [...]
- Kupfergrün is a sustainable cosmetics brand that specialises in the production and marketing of vegan and handmade cosmetics and care products. The young startup produces its own vegan natural cosmetics line, which not only cares [...]
- Polish dairy brand Jogurty Magda has announced it has made a full switch to producing plant-based yogurt. The family firm has been making dairy yogurts for two generations and now granddaughter Magda says, “I am [...]
- Noel Alimentaria, a Spanish meat producer that processes up to 2,500 kg (over 2.5 tons) of meat every hour, is expanding its previously vegetarian brand Nature to include 100% plantbased products including vegan veal, strips [...]
- Danish startup Beyond Leather Materials, creating apple-based leather alternatives, announces seed funding of €1.1 million, led by angel investor Steen Ulf Jensen via Jensengroup Investment Fund and accompanied by Rockstart and Vaekstfonden. The brand was [...]
- The Vurger Co. founders Rachel Hugh and Neil Potts join Elysabeth Alfano on the Plantbased Business Hour to weigh in on the London scene, reinventing themselves during social distancing, their commitment to sustainability and zero [...]
- London-based Plant-Powered Positive Change movement, Vevolution, has announced a major change of direction. Along with the addition of vegan investor Michiel van Deursen, Vevolution is building a platform for plantbased investment, building on its popular [...]
- Spanish ready meal brand Carretilla has announced it is expanding its range with the addition of a plant-based ready meal. The new meal has been developed in collaboration with the Mediterranean plant-based meat company Heura.
- Simris is a pioneering Swedish agribusiness growing microalgae, aiming at disrupting the marine ingredients industry. As its first market offering, the company has developed an industrial process to produce omega-3, as an alternative to fish [...]
- Beyond Meat, a brand that needs no introduction, has absolutely dominated our timeline since vegconomist first launched in 2018. We caught up with Beyond’s Chief Growth Officer, Chuck Muth to ask about the new facility [...]
- Better Nature announces it is partnering with rePurpose Global, a plastic credit platform helping individuals and businesses rebalance their unique plastic footprint. The brand states that this makes it the world’s first plastic neutral meat [...]
- After successfully launching in Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands; Finnish brand Gold&Green now launches its pulled oat innovation into Planet Organic stores across London. The oat products, made with five simple ingredients – oats, yellow [...]
- Business Finland is funding a project to the tune of EUR 2.1M with VTT Research and the University of Helsinki to support the Finnish food industry to develop plant protein products for the international market.
- Dr. Nino Terjung heads the department of product innovation at the DIL Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (German Institute of Food Technologies). After his apprenticeship as a butcher and a short time as a [...]
- As the foodservice industry globally grapples with restrictions, one entrepreneur in Brighton UK, is starting up a vegan burger delivery service in conjunction with Deliveroo. Mikey Pearce is a YouTube vlogger with 165K followers on [...]
- Following a major coronavirus outbreak in a German meat processing plant, a survey carried out by YouGov has found that almost a third of respondents are considering reducing their meat consumption even after the end [...]
The University of Hohenheim has launched a two-tiered, pan-European study on the acceptance and prevalence of plant-based foods. The study will be sponsored by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT).- Cow’s milk is increasingly coming under criticism for environmental reasons, and its consumption is rapidly declining. Today’s market offers a plethora of plant-based alternatives from soya and rice to almond and oat drinks. But what [...]
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