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What’s Been Happening at OmniFoods?

The Hong Kong-based company continues its efforts to remove animals from plates in various global markets. Let’s look at what OmniFoods has been up to recently.  United States In the United States, the recent launch of the Katsu OMNI Luncheon Musubi at 7-Eleven Hawaii received an impressive response, with the product selling out in just three days. The positive reaction secured it a place as a regular item at 7-Eleven Hawaii locations. OmniFoods is currently selling at Walmart, Whole Foods and Sprouts around the country, but it has also hit the shelves at Lily’s Vegan Grocery store in New York and at New Seasons Market locations where it has received a lot of good feedback already. The brand has plans to continue expanding its food …

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Green Monday Launches OmniSeafood Dishes and Discounts to Celebrate World Ocean Day

In support of World Ocean Day, Green Monday has partnered with restaurants and supermarkets in Hong Kong to offer OmniSeafood dishes and product discounts for a month. Green Common, the company’s online platform combining retail, distribution, and dining service with stores in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore, will also provide retail deals and dinner options. The initiative aims to encourage consumers to cherish the oceans and protect marine life by switching to plant-based seafood. Green Monday is the operational arm producing and distributing plant-based food products in Asia and beyond, including OmniFoods and Green Common. OmniFoods is a global plant-based food brand retailing in over 20 markets. Its Canadian-based R&D team is responsible for the company’s plant-based series: OmniPork, OmniSeafood, and OmniEat.   Switching to OmniSeafood  The OmniSeafood …

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Investments & Finance

Minor Figures Oat Milk Secures Investment from Danone VC Firm and Green Monday

UK oat milk brand Minor Figures has received investment from Danone Manifesto Ventures and David Yeung’s Green Monday Group. The investment amount was not disclosed. Clemence Delcourt, Danone Manifesto’s chief investment officer, has also joined Minor Figures’ board of directors.  The news comes as Minor Figures, a fast-growing alt-dairy brand, continues to expand its product portfolio and international retail growth. In March, the company predicted 100% YOY growth as it launched its oat milk into 700 Tesco stores across the UK. This week, it debuted its first refrigerated plant-based beverages at 250 Waitrose locations. “Minor Figures is fully aligned with our goal to partner with mission-driven food and beverage companies that are creating a healthy and sustainable future,” commented Clemence Delcourt of Danone. “ Stuart and the …

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400+ Companies Join Green Monday’s #WeCareWeDare Campaign for Earth Month

Hong Kong-based social venture Green Monday is celebrating its tenth anniversary and Earth Month with a new campaign called #WeCareWeDare. The campaign’s goal is to encourage everyone to adopt a plant-based or flexitarian diet, ultimately making net-zero carbon emissions a reality. Over 400 restaurants and retailers have joined #WeCareWeDare so far, offering new dishes and promotions during Earth Month. These include Ôdelice, Hemingway’s By The Ways, Lan-yang Taiwan, Hoi Hoi Pancake House, and Eat For Green. Many of these are offering menu options made with Green Monday’s own OmniFoods meat and seafood alternatives. “Green Monday will strive to dedicate our best innovation and efforts to contribute to a carbon net-zero future.” Additionally, Green Monday’s plant-based concept store Green Common will be hosting an “Earth Month …

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Our Business Year in Review: David Yeung, Green Monday and OmniFoods

With 2021 drawing to a close and 2022 full of promise, vegconomist is checking in with some of the biggest names in the plant-based world to find out their thoughts on the last year and their plans for the next. First up, we had the pleasure to talk with David Yeung, founder of Green Monday Holdings and OmniFoods, who has enjoyed yet another year of growth and expansion. The maker of OmniPork has just announced a partnership with a number of new restaurant outlets and local nonprofits to help raise awareness for food insecurity during Veganuary, including Rethink Food, Spotless Burgers, Plantega in New York City, and Support + Feed, a non-profit founded by Maggie Baird – mother of artists Billie Eilish and Finneas. What …

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Green Monday to Raise $100 Million in Collaboration With Bank of America

Green Monday to raise $100 million in funding, believed to be working with Bank of America. As reported by Bloomberg, sources have indicated that plant-based platform Green Monday is seeking to raise a further $100 million in funding. The news comes after the Hong Kong-based company raised a record $70 million last year, led by leading global investment firm TPG and British conglomerate Swire. For the planned raise, Green Monday is reported to be working with Bank of America Corp, but details such as the size and timing of the raise have yet to be confirmed. Representatives from Green Monday and Bank of America have declined to comment. Green Monday in 2021 Earlier this year, Green Monday was named one of China’s 20 most influential …

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Products & Launches

OmniPork Continues World Domination, Now Available in 25 Restaurants Across the USA

OmniFoods, the food innovation arm under the award-winning Green Monday Holdings which produces the Asian success story OmniPork, announces that its 100% plant-based pork protein will be served in 25 restaurant brands across the USA this summer. “We are continuing to work with fantastic restaurant partners and creative chefs who appreciate the impact food can have on our world” – David Yeung With R&D in Canada and a distribution network in over 20 markets, OmniFoods’ range of alternative protein products includes the OmniPork series, the recently launched OmniSeafood series and the OmniEat series. 15 new restaurant partners After an initial launch into ten restaurants this past spring in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Honolulu; a total of 15 new restaurant partners will feature OmniPork on …

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OmniFoods Reveals Full Range of “OmniSeafood” From Plant-Based Salmon & Tuna to Fillets & Burgers

Following the worldwide success of its OmniPork series, including OmniPork Mince, OmniPork Strip and OmniPork Luncheon, which are now available at over 40,000 points of sale, OmniFoods today announces the launch of OmniSeafood, comprising a full range of plant-based seafood products. “With today’s milestone launch of OmniSeafood, we believe it is a big leap forward to a real sea change.” This May, the Hong Kong based plant-based phenomenon, which provides its famous vegan SPAM to McDonald’s in China, announced the major news of an international price reduction of 22% across signature products OmniPork Mince and OmniPork Strip as well as a 17% drop for OmniPork Luncheon, also announcing it is ramping up production in Thailand, establishing a second production site in China’s Guangdong province, and …

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Green Monday and Ernst & Young Sign MOU Asking Over 20,000 Employees to Go Vegan One Day a Week

On the first working day of the new year, the first big news from Green Monday came with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Green Monday and Ernst & Young yesterday, encouraging over 22,000 employees of Ernst & Young China to eat plant-based once a week to reduce carbon emissions. The MOU was signed yesterday at the “EY-Greenpeace MOU Signing Ceremony and EY China 2021 Carbon Neutral Campaign Launching Ceremony”. Both parties will work together to study and practice carbon neutrality and promote environmental protection based on the principles of “leveraging strengths, mutual promotion, long-term cooperation and mutual benefit”. During the event, Green Common, a subsidiary of Green Monday and newly established in Shanghai, prepared the “Future Lunch Box” for the staff …

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Green Monday Holdings Raises US$70 Million, is Named on Fortune’s 2020 “Change the World” List

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 in its 2020 Change the World list of companies doing good in the world.

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