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UNLIMEAT Launches LA Food Truck Tour for Korean-Inspired Plant-Based Pulled Pork

March 27, 2023March 24, 2023

Korean-inspired plant-based brand UNLIMEAT announces the launch of its LA Food Truck Tour. Designed to promote UNLIMEAT’s pulled pork products at Albertsons, the event will travel across Los Angeles to sample the brand’s creations. The tour officially kicked off on March 19th, and is scheduled to appear at various community events and festivals, including Vegan Exchange, Smorgasburg Los Angeles and Vegan Street Fair on Sunday, March 26. The tour will also stop at select Albertsons, Safeway, and Vons market locations. According to UNLIMEAT, the food truck will serve a “delightful” menu of Mexican-Asian fusion dishes including: Bulgogi Tacos made with their signature plant-based Korean BBQ; Pulled Pork Sliders; and Fried Mandu Dumplings with chili oil and soy sauce. UNLIMEAT says it selected Los Angeles as …

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Investments & Finance

Barvecue Completes Seed Equity Round to Support World’s Largest Plant-Based Smokehouse

March 8, 2023

Plant-based BBQ brand Barvecue announces it has completed the opening capital raise for its Series Seed equity funding round. The company will use the funds to support continued growth of its retail and food service business, as well as sustaining operations of its Carolina Smokehouse production facility. Based in North Carolina, Barbecue produces a range of authentic, wood-smoked Pulled BVQ and Carnitas that replicate the taste and texture of pulled pork. In the last two years, its distribution has expanded to over 1,000 US grocery stores including Whole Foods, Harris Teeter, Giant, Gelson’s and The Fresh Market. Barvecue has also partnered with WebstaurantStore, the largest online restaurant supply store, to expand its food service business. In 2021, the company broke ground on The Carolina Smokehouse …

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Meat- and Fish Alternatives

UNLIMEAT Launches Plant-Based Korean BBQ and Pulled Pork at Albertsons Across USA

December 22, 2022

Korea’s UNLIMEAT is preparing to launch two products — plant-based Korean BBQ and pulled pork — at 1,500 Albertsons stores in the US. The Korean BBQ is a plant-based alternative to barbecued beef brisket, and according to UNLIMEAT can be grilled or stir-fried and used in both Eastern and Western cuisines. The pulled pork, which has already proven popular in pre-launch events, comes in two flavours — original (traditional barbecue flavour) and sweet & smoky (charcoal grilled rib flavour). The three products are UNLIMEAT’s most popular meat alternatives and are made with upcycled ingredients such as defatted soybean powder and rice bran. This prevents waste and makes use of highly nutritious byproducts; 90% of the nutrients in rice are found in the bran. “Tastier and …

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Food & Beverage

Meet Tender: A Startup Using Cotton Candy-Like Technology For “Superior” Plant-Based Pork

December 14, 2022

Tender, a plant-based meat startup in Boston, is using old-school technology to create ultra-realistic alternatives to pork and other structured cuts of meat. Utilizing processes similar to those found in cotton candy machines, the company spins plant proteins into fibers to create products it says are “just better” in taste and texture than most plant-based offerings on the market. “Our goal is to create superior quality in alternative meats”, Tender co-founder and CEO Christopher Chantre told the Boston Globe. “That’s really what we’re going after – is that next-level quality of texture.” First developed in a Harvard laboratory, Tender officially launched in 2020 in Greentown Labs in Somerville, MA. The company was initially founded as a graduate project by Chantre, who reportedly spent nine years …

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Investments & Acquisitions

Natalie Portman Joins Tender Food’s $12M Seed Round for Plant-Based Meats “Indistinguishable” From Real Thing

March 16, 2022March 15, 2022

Tender Food, a food tech startup based in Boston, has raised $12 million in a seed round featuring actress and animal rights activist Natalie Portman amongst other VC’s, for uniquely textured plant meats. Founded by Harvard engineers, Tender Food uses novel tech to spin plant-based fibers into alt meat, creating whole muscle cut products like chicken breasts, pulled pork, and steaks, and plans to launch its first products later this year. “Our ambition is to make products that are indistinguishable from butchered meat” Claiming that its novel plant-based fiber spinning tech – similar to making cotton candy – gives its alt meat analogs a more similar texture to animal meat, Tender Food will use the new funding to scale production for its coming products lines. …

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Food & Beverage

Barvecue Announces New Retail Partnerships and Giveaways for Veganuary

August 11, 2022January 12, 2022

North Carolina’s Barvecue, producer of plant-based BBQ pulled “pork”, announces three retail launches as well as promotions with Lowes Foods and Central Market and an Instagram giveaway to mark Veganuary. Building on the remarkable momentum achieved in 2021, Barvecue is now partnering with New Seasons Market in January followed by Harmons Grocery and The Fresh Market in early February, bringing its retail footprint to 950+ stores across the US. Continued trajectory of plant-based success In February 2021 Barvecue launched its full line of plant-based meats is available now on ShopVejii.com. The following month, the company announced it had broken ground on the world’s largest plant-based smokehouse – a 10,000 square foot production facility called The Carolina Smokehouse with an initial capacity of 800,000 pounds per year. In May, …

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Barvecue Plant-Based Pulled Pork

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Products & Launches

Barvecue Says Expansion Into 360 Sprouts Farmers Markets is One Of This Year’s Most Important Milestones

August 31, 2021

Following a year of growth and expansion, wood-smoked, plant-based barbecue specialist Barvecue is now launching across the US in 360 Sprouts locations. The move follows an expansion of its distribution channels through national wholesale food distributor KeHE. “2021 has been a strong year for Barvecue […] a year of incredible growth and expansion” After opening the world’s largest plant-based smokehouse, as well as putting its products on the menus of college campus diners, mission-driven company Barvecue has hit another milestone with the nationwide rollout. Seeking to create the leading plant-based barbecue on the market, the company is backed by Stray Dog Capital. In a previous interview with vegconomist, Founder and CEO Lee Cooper stated: “We are continually increasing availability with regards to both retail outlets …

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Products & Launches

Oumph! Launches Award-Winning Pulled Oumph! in Australia After Huge Success Throughout Europe

August 21, 2021July 22, 2021

LIVEKINDLY- owned plant meat brand Oumph!, originally from Sweden, today announced the launch of its Pulled Oumph! onto the Australian market following multiple successes throughout Europe. Oumph! is currently available in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, South Africa and Australia, as well as the UK where it reported a 400% increase in UK sales and the most recent addition of Germany. The soy-based products are designed for use in cooking and recipes, which the company says sets it apart from the many ‘ready meal’ style plant-based products currently available in Australian retail. LIVEKINDLY Collective Australia’s General Manager Shaun Richardson said, “We’re excited about what Oumph! will bring to the Australian market. We want to kill boring and see a huge opportunity to satisfy consumers …

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Barvecue Begins National Retail Rollout Strategy With All Ten Texan Central Markets

August 27, 2021May 31, 2021

Barvecue, the North Carolina based producer of vegan BBQ products such as its popular “pulled pork”, is to launch at all ten Central Market locations in Texas. The stores are in Houston, Fort Worth, Plano, San Antonio, Southlake, Austin (two locations), and Dallas (three locations).

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Barvecue Announces The Carolina Smokehouse – World’s Largest Plant-Based Smokehouse

March 16, 2021

Barvecue, producers of a hugely popular wood-smoked vegan ‘pulled pork’ BBQ products, has announced it has broken ground on what it says will be the world’s largest plant-based smokehouse at 10,000 square foot production facility. Later this month Barvecue will complete an additional $1M capital raise from current investors following the $2M secured last year.

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Food & Beverage

Barvecue’s Famous Vegan BBQ Pulled Pork Now Available For Home Delivery on Vejii

August 24, 2022February 17, 2021

Vejii Holdings Ltd. announces a new partnership with Barvecue, a plant-based barbeque brand of hugely popular wood-smoked vegan pulled pork from soy and wheat. Through the new agreement, Barvecue’s full line of plant-based meats is available now on ShopVejii.com. Barvecue products will be cold packed and can be delivered within 2-3 business days across the United States.

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Food & Beverage

Australia’s Fable Foods, a Good News Story

August 3, 2021November 4, 2020

For Fable Foods, the story just keeps getting better. The Australian makers of mushroom meat have been on a steady climb to success in the past 12 months, after coming onto the scene late last year through the Mars Seeds of Change Accelerator.

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Lee Cooper of Barvecue

Lee Cooper of Barvecue

Barvecue: “The Word Excited Doesn’t Begin to Express How We Feel About the Possibility of Having an Impact in the Plant-Based Space”

September 28, 2021October 7, 2020

North Carolina based Barvecue Inc, produces a hugely popular wood-smoked vegan pulled pork from soy and wheat, and is proud to produce with clean-label, non-GMO, US grown and processed ingredients. The company aims to “bring the best tasting barbecue to vegetarians, omnivores, and adventurous carnivores around the globe.”

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Food & Beverage

Karana Announces US$1.7M Seed Funding, Now Set to Debut Its “Pork” Jackfruit Products Imminently

July 13, 2020

Karana, Asia’s first whole-plant based meat brand, reports the closing of US$1.7m in seed round funding. The Singapore-based start-up is creating ‘pork’ from organic jackfruit and is set to launch its products imminently in Singapore in collaboration with some of the country’s top restaurants.

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Stray Dog Capital Leads a $2M Investment Round For Plant-Based Barbecue Innovators Barvecue

July 9, 2020

Stray Dog Capital, a VC fund focusing on the investment of young plantbased brands, announces it has led an investment round for North Carolina-based producer of plant BBQ meat, Barvecue®, bringing a total in this round to USD $2 million.

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