After completing a US$70 million financing round last September, Green Common has been gradually announcing its plans for Taiwan, Singapore and Europe. Last week, David Yeung’s company opened its first store in Southeast Asia in […]
Hong Kong: Cultured fish producer Avant Meats announces that VHC, the world’s largest pangasius fish company, will establish a strategic partnership with Avant to accelerate commercialization of cultivated fish protein.
Israeli food company Soglowek is best known for its meat products. But in 2018, the company made a surprising announcement — it would be donating some of its products to clean meat startup SuperMeat.
HEXA shoes, a PETA-Approved fashion brand based in Thailand, has released a new collection called COAST SS2021, an entirely new line of vegan shoes and sandals using a NASA Certified Space Technology called Outlast® temperature […]
Beyond Meat announces that it will launch plant-based beef into all 18 locations of Beijing’s 24-hour formal dining restaurant Jin Ding Xuan. This makes the vegan-friendly restaurant the first foodservice location in Beijing to partner […]
After pitching its groundbreaking technology at the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit in 2020, Singapore-based startup Shandi Global has developed a plant-based chicken drumstick. Scheduled to hit the market early this year, the drumstick will taste […]
After seeing the South Korean plant-based industry triple over the last decade, Seoul based food and beverage giant Nongshim has plans to further expand and promote its vegan food brand Veggie Garden this year.
Hey Maet, a Chinese plant-based meat startup, has announced it has raised tens of millions of yuan in a new investment round round, the third round since it was founded in March 2020, as competition […]
Singaporean cell-based milk company TurtleTree Labs has created an arm called TurtleTree Scientific to produce food-grade growth factors. Cell-based companies are reliant on growth factors, but their high cost means that the industry currently struggles […]
Dicos, one of China’s leading fast-food chains, announces that its conventional egg patty will be replaced with JUST Egg‘s pre-baked, folded plantbased egg product, marking the first time a major quick service restaurant has swapped […]
Aleph Farms, Ltd, the Israel-based foodtech startup which revealed its cultivated steak for market in November; was able to “grow steak” in space; and gave a taste of cultivated meat to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last […]
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 […]
Domino’s Pizza has introduced India‘s first plant protein-based pizza. ‘The Unthinkable Pizza’ offers a vegan chicken topping. It must be noted that, as with the recent Pizza Hut / Beyond Meat news, this product at […]
China: the cultivated meat startup previously known as Nanjing Zhouzi has raised CNY 20 million (around USD 3 million) from Matrix Partners China in an angel round, while newly formed CellX has raised an undisclosed […]
DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences published its latest research study in collaboration with IPSOS, a global market research firm, revealing a significant increase in demand for plant-based meat alternatives in key Asia Pacific (APAC) markets.
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