Gastronomy & Food Service

NotCo and Dunkin’ Chile Launch Plant-Based NotDonuts and NotMilk At All Locations

Food tech phenomenon NotCo announces it has joined with Dunkin’ Chile to launch two new plant-based donuts –  the Boston NotManjxr and the Sugar NotManjxr. Along with the donuts, Dunkin’ Chile is also debuting NotCo’s NotMilk, which customers can order hot or iced in any drink or coffee.  Now available at all Dunkin’ locations across Chile, the launch includes NotManjxr donuts – with “Manjxr” referring to the popular “manjar” sweet flavoring found in Latin America desserts. Dunkin’ customers can order the donuts in Boston NotManjxr, Sugar NotManjxr, and Double Boston NotManjxr flavors.  The collaboration also includes Dunkin’s introduction of NotMilk, which NotCo says customers can order for any frothy or creamy drink. Big year The news closes out a blockbuster year for NotCo, which recently partnered …

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Products & Launches

NotCo Launches New NotMilk Sugar-Free in Argentina

Unstoppable Chilean plant-based Unicorn NotCo has added another option to its range of plant-based drinks with NotMilk Sugar-Free. The product is created from a combination of plant ingredients including pea protein, pineapple, and cabbage. In 2021 the company debuted a dairy-free range entailing three products: NotMilk® Original; Low Fat; and Chocolate flavoured NotMilk. Said to be a true alternative to milk, ideal for cooking and generating the perfect foam for coffee, each litre of NotMilk® requires 92% less water and releases 74% less CO₂ than animal milk production. The company states that NotMilk Sugar-Free is unique in the market by offering true animal milk flavour, with the same texture, creaminess and foam, whilst being 100% plant-based and sugar-free. The news closely follows the launch of …

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Company News

NotCo Enjoys Early Success in Australia as Global Sales Triple

Chilean plant-based unicorn NotCo is reported to be growing rapidly in the Australian plant-based market following its recent launch in the country. Backed by Jeff Bezos, Roger Federer, and Lewis Hamilton amongst others, NotCo is aiming to replicate in Australia the rapid growth it has achieved in the US. NotCo is now enjoying early momentum following the launch of its NotMilk product range in 970 Woolworths supermarkets across Australia, with plans to step up retail presence now in motion. This includes the launch of NotCo’s plant-based burgers and chicken nuggets, as well as plans to start manufacturing in Australia once early sales targets are hit. As reported by the AFR, CEO Matias Muchnick states that NotCo’s global sales have tripled over the past 12 months …

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Food Service

NotMilk Launches at All Starbucks Colombia Locations

Chilean plant-based brand NotCo has launched its milk alternative, NotMilk, at Starbucks Colombia. The plant-based milk will be available at all the coffee chain’s locations in the country. NotCo CEO Matias Muchnick said the launch was “fulfilling”, given that Colombia is often considered the coffee capital of the world. It follows on from the brand’s previous launch in the US, including at the Northeast’s largest food retailer Stop & Shop. Milk made with artificial intelligence NotMilk differs from other alt-milk brands because a proprietary artificial intelligence technology has been used to find the best plant-based replacements for milk proteins. According to the company, this means that NotMilk replicates conventional milk more closely than other alt-dairy products on the market. Last year, NotCo’s technology won it …

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Food & Beverage

Got NotBeef? NotCo Bites Back after Alpro Launches Not M*LK

This January, Danone-owned brand Alpro launched a new non-dairy range to supermarket shelves in the UK, claiming to be the brand’s most convincing offering yet to cow’s milk yet, under the name of Not M*lk. A plant-based (not) beef has arisen, however, as that name was already taken by the Chilean food tech pioneer NotCo’s plant-based alternative NotMilk.  In response to this, NotCo has humorously suggested 100 original names for plant-based milk brands to use. Kiko Borger, Global Creative Director at NotCo, posted on social media: “What do you do when one of the biggest players of the food industry uses your name on their plant based milk brand? We decided to give a little creative help. And you can do it too: https://notco.com/us/100names,” with …

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Interviews

NotCo: “Five Years Ago We Set Out On This Journey & Have Since Become the Fastest-Growing Food Tech Brand in Latin America”

Awarded the number one Latin American spot on Fast Company’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2021, NotCo is undoubtedly one of the coolest and most exciting startups in the plant-based world right now. Not least for the fact that it is set to become the first Chilean Unicorn company in its upcoming IPO. This foodtech disruptor is taking the market by storm with its innovations and piquing the interest of high profile global  investors including Jeff Bezos and Danny Meyer. The Chilean startup is using its patented artificial intelligence to revolutionize plant-based food production and is already distributed in markets across the Americas including a new base in New York. “The possibilities are endless. We are excited to see where it will …

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Company News

NotCo Receives New US Patent, Offically Has the Only AI-Harnessing Plant-Based Production Platform in all of Foodtech?

South American plant-based food company NotCo announces it will soon open a new office in New York to host its commercial operations. Just after a few months of launching its NotMilkTM at Whole Foods Market, the foodtech leader backed by key investors such as Jeff Bezos, has been granted a patent for its proprietary artificial intelligence technology in the USA. NotCo produces the NotBurgerTM, NotMayoTM, NotIceCreamTM and NotMilkTM which are distributed in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and soon to be in Mexico and Canada. The patented technology will protect the production process and help to get to the current products to market as well as provide NotCo with an edge on future innovations. NotCo states that it is the only foodtech company to have developed …

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Top Stories

Jeff Bezos Invests $30 Million in Startup Which Uses AI to Create Recipes

The Craftory is a new venture capital fund co-founded by consumer industry veteran Elio Leoni Sceti and Bezos Expeditions, of Jeff Bezos – CEO of Amazon and the richest man in the world. The Craftory, which describes itself as an “Investment House that has grown tired of phoney brands that waste our time and the planet’s resources”, has invested $30 million in Chilean vegan startup “NotCo” – a company which uses Artificial Intelligence to create plantbased food formulas.

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