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vWire News launched in 2020, conceived out of a desire to provide vegan businesses with a platform to easily reach the vegan media with their news releases. As a service, it aims to address the [...] -
Private equity firm Vestar Capital Partners announces today it has made a majority investment into Dr. Praeger’s Sensible Foods. Vestar advisor Jeffrey Ansell, previously CEO of Pinnacle Foods – a $3 billion corporation whose portfolio [...]
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Vegan pro surfer Tia Blanco, an early-stage brand ambassador for Beyond Meat, has been officially onboarded as official ambassador for online vegan marketplace Vejii. Additionally, Vejii has launched Tia Blanco’s brand of vegan and cruelty-free [...]
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San Diego’s Jensen Meat, a privately held processor of ground animal beef which supplies large US retailers such as Walmart and Kroger, is expanding both its facilities and its team to manage co-packing opportunities for [...]
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From January 19 through March 19, the United Soybean Board (USB) is teaming up with partners from Soylent and DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences that will be participating in a pilot program to market their products and ingredients [...]
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According to Happy Cow, there are only three vegan restaurants in all of Alabama, a state not typically known for having its finger on the pulse. Which makes it all the more noteworthy that a [...]
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BlueNalu, producer a variety of seafood products directly from fish cells, today announced the closing of $60 million in debt financing from new and existing investors, which is the largest financing to date in the [...]
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Beyond Meat has announced the lease of a vast Los Angeles office space to serve as its new global headquarters. The move is a further sign of the alternative meat giant’s spectacular growth after recently [...]
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Fast-food chain Taco Bell has introduced a plant-based filling called Pulled Oats in the UK. The filling is made with a combination of oats, faba beans, and yellow peas.
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American supermarket chain Trader Joe’s has revealed it is working on plant-based seafood. The company’s category manager for Deli, Frozen Meat, Seafood, Meatless, and Fresh Beverage made the announcement in a recent episode of the [...]
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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 [...]
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Cie, a California-based venture studio, recently announced the closing of a $5 million seed funding round for its co-founded startup Longève Brands, which produces shelf-stable plant proteins. The capital will be used to accelerate the [...]
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Dr. Praeger’s Sensible Foods, a family-owned brand operating for more than 25 years and a leader in the natural, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and kosher frozen food categories, recently announced that it is entering the pizza [...]
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Beyond Meat is partnering with 25 popular local restaurants in key cities across the US to offer free breakfasts made with the Beyond Breakfast Sausage, and help to popularise healthier, meat-free choices for the New [...]
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We have been reporting about Eclipse Ice Cream since early 2019 and since then there has been an influx of news from this startup which makes plant-based dairy that is “indistinguishable from conventional dairy”. Most [...]
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Nafsika’s Garden successfully launched in over 500 stores across the US last year, is currently available in eight countries and is set to expand to several more in 2021. The Greek produced brand, headquartered in [...]
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Following the onboarding of Anna Silva previously of Daiya, fast-growing Canadian plant meat producer The Very Good Butcher has plans to move into the dairy-free sector following an agreement to acquire The Cultured Nut. A non-binding [...]
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Plant-based food company Outstanding Foods has recently raised $10M in a Series A funding round, for the range co-founded by Chef Dave Anderson, creator of the Beyond Burger. The makers of PigOut Pigless Pork Rinds, [...]
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Miami-based hair care brand R+Co has launched BLEU, one of the first luxury ranges to use exclusively recycled and recyclable packaging. The products are available widely throughout the US.
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Dunkin’ continues to increase its on-the-go vegan options, adding a plant-based protein patty to its menu, working with Kellogg’s owned MorningStar Farms to launch the new Southwest Veggie Power Breakfast Sandwich.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Air Protein, a pioneer in the production of meat from elements of the air, today announce the closing of a $32 million Series A round. Led by founder and CEO Dr. Lisa Dyson, Air Protein [...]
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