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Gastronomy & Food Service

Shinsegae Foods Opens ‘Better Meat’ Store in Seoul’s Trendy Gangnam District

Shinsegae Foods, the food business arm of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group, has announced the opening of a store and restaurant for its plant-based brand Better Meat, in Seoul’s trendy Gangnam district. The company’s new premium store, The Better Vecchia & Nuovo, located in the SSG Food Market, offers a selection of  Better Meat’s products and dishes, including cold cuts, meatballs, pasta menus, and vegan meat salads.  According to Shinsegae Foods, the move follows the success of a Better Meat pop-up store that opened in the same gourmet market from July to December 2022, which attracted more than 13,000 customers, many of whom requested the company to open an official store. Better Meat and Better Foods Shinsegae Foods launched Better Meat in July 2021, partnering with …

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Products & Launches

unMEAT’s SPAM Style Canned Luncheon Meat Debuts in Select US Walmart Stores

Plant protein brand unMEAT announces its shelf-stable Luncheon Style Meat is launching in select US Walmart stores. Described as a “first of its kind” alternative, unMEAT says the Luncheon is the only plant-based canned meat option currently on the US market.  According to unMEAT, its Luncheon Style Meat tastes like original luncheon meat but with healthier ingredients. Priced at $3.58 per can, the product is a non-GMO offering with 30% fewer calories and 60% less sodium than leading meat competitors, while containing zero sodium nitrites. unMEAT adds that its canned meat alternatives are also rich in fiber, with no cholesterol or trans fats.  Owned by Asian food and beverage giant Century Pacific Food, unMEAT made its US retail debut in 2022.  Last year, unMEAT’s Luncheon debuted …

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Market & Trends

What’s Behind the Recent Vegan Spam Explosion? Five Reasons Why Vegan Spam is “Hitting Meat Right Where it Hurts the Most”

The Phillippines’ largest branded food company, Century Pacific, has launched a vegan spam through its unMEAT brand, becoming the third company in a month to release a plant-based canned pork. What’s going on with this apparent vegan spam explosion? Plant-based meat brand unMeat this week announced two varieties of plant-based luncheon meat — Luncheon Style Meat and Burger Style Luncheon Meat — for the US market. The products are available via online retailers, GTFO It’s Vegan! and Weee!, along with select stores throughout the Midwest and East Coast. Brought to retailers by Century Pacific Food, the launch is the most current in a series of rollouts conducted by several food and retail giants across Asia Pacific and aimed at the US market. Here we take …

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Food & Beverage

Singapore’s OTS Holdings Plans to Export New SPAM-Style Canned Vegan Meat to Over 40 Countries

OTS Holdings recently announced its plans to enter the global market with its plant-based protein products. One of Singapore’s biggest manufacturers of chilled, frozen, dried, and canned meat products, the food giant’s plant-based ANEW brand makes its debut with a new plant-based SPAM-style canned vegan meat. OTS is one of Singapore’s largest food producers, exporting 40% of its products to Asia, Europe, and other countries. The company’s plant-based brand ANEW is set to focus on ready-to-eat products that “push the frontiers of food innovation with a taste of heritage.” The result of over two years of research and development work, ANEW’s plant-based canned meat is made from wheat, soy protein, vegetable juice, and Eucheuma Seaweed. Growing supply for plant-based SPAM First invented by US-based global …

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Products & Launches

Korea’s Shinsegae Food Launches Vegan SPAM-Style Canned Ham

Shinsegae Food, the food business arm of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group, has launched a vegan SPAM-style product under its newly announced Better Food Inc subsidiary. The canned ham is made of soy and vegetable oil and does not contain sodium nitrite, often used to create the pink color of processed meats. Last week, the company announced plans to create Better Foods, Inc., a wholly owned US subsidiary. The Better Meat line debuted in 2021, going on to supply  Starbucks Korea with plant-based ham and arugula sandwiches. The US-based Better Foods will see $6 million of investment from Shinsegae in the immediate future, with an additional $4M allocated for the first half of 2023. Intended to boost Shinsegae’s competitiveness in the meat alternatives market, …

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Products & Launches

OmniFoods Launches OmniPork – Including Global Phenomenon Vegan SPAM – Into Sprouts and Whole Foods

OmniFoods announces that its 100% plant-based pork are now available at Sprouts Farmers Market and Whole Foods Market across 23 states. The range consists of OmniPork Ground, OmniPork Strips and OmniPork Luncheon – AKA vegan SPAM – the hotly anticipated product which was the first of its kind globally. After a recent launch with 25 chef and restaurant partners in California and Hawaii, as well as a national pop-up brand travelling through the Midwest, OmniPork Ground, OmniPork Strips and OmniPork Luncheon are now available at all 371 Sprouts Farmers Market, whereas OmniPork Ground and OmniPork Strips are available in select Whole Foods Market stores. “After our successful expansion throughout Asia, Australia, and the UK since 2018, we are incredibly excited to bring OmniFoods to more …

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Company News

OmniPork Drops Prices By 22% to Achieve Price Parity With Pork, Expands Into 20 Global Markets

OmniFoods today announces an international price reduction of 22% across signature products OmniPork Mince and OmniPork Strip as well as a 17% drop for OmniPork Luncheon, AKA the famous vegan SPAM. The company also reports that in order to upscale it is ramping up production in Thailand, establishing a second production site in China’s Guangdong province for the domestic market, as well as actively seeking a further production site in Taiwan.

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Asia’s Legendary OmniPork Products Arrive in UK Retail Through TheVeganKind

Plant-based pork phenomenon OmniPork has this week made its long-awaited UK  retail debut. OmniPork Mince will now be available at TheVeganKind – the UK’s biggest vegan online retailer – with OmniPork Strips to arrive in June, to be followed by Luncheon Meat AKA the famous vegan SPAM.

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Products & Launches

EXCLUSIVE: OmniPork’s Revolutionary Vegan SPAM to Arrive in Europe 2021

Hong Kong’s Omnipork has seen absolutely incredible success in 2020 with perhaps most notable to vegans (the McDonalds X Omnipork launch being vegetarian friendly but not vegan) being the launch of its vegan SPAM which has been an absolute phenomenon across Asia. In an interview with vegconomist, its European launch is revealed.

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Interviews

David Yeung: “Blessed to Be in a Position to Drive Impact and Tangible Positive Change on a Daily Basis”

It would be difficult to find anyone in plant-based who is not familiar with the work of David Yeung in 2020 when OmniFoods raised a record $70 million; was ranked in Fortune‘s Change the World list; and launched the first-ever vegetarian menu at McDonald’s. With no plans to slow down, here he reveals even more coming news for 2021.

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Food & Beverage

OmniFoods’ “Unprecedented” Vegan SPAM is Now Available in Retail to Enjoy at Home

When OmniPork Luncheon meat, AKA the world’s first vegan SPAM, was launched by OmniFoods this May, you might say that people were excited. Now, following the incredible success of other OmniFoods products throughout Asia, the SPAM has launched into retail, in response to massive customer demand.

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Products & Launches

Spam Producer Hormel Foods Reveals its “Shiny New Toy” With Line of Plantbased Pork Grounds

Hormel Foods, the producer of Spam and several meat brands such as Applegate, is releasing a new line in plant-based ingredients. Over a year ago, CEO Jim Snee, remarked that plant-based foods were to him a “shiny new toy” during a conference; it appears this is his second shiny new toy after launching Happy Little Plants this March.

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Company News

OmniFoods Sees Retail Grocery Sales Increase by 120%, Continues its Plant-Based Domination of Asia

OmniPork’s retail grocery sales increased by 120% from April 2019 to January 2020, according to Food Navigator Asia. Last week saw the company’s rebrand to OmniFoods and launch of the world’s first plant-based luncheon meat AKA vegan SPAM, which is set to make a phenomenal impact upon the Asian meat industry.

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Food & Beverage

Newly Branded OmniFoods Strives to be World’s Most Popular Plant-Based Ingredient – Exactly How Can Vegan SPAM Change the World?

Right Treat, the food research company of OmniPork, officially rebranded to its new name of OmniFoods last week as it revealed the world’s first vegan SPAM product with a mission to become the world’s most popular plant-based ingredient. Let’s take a look at how and why this has the potential to disrupt the entire food industry.

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Food & Beverage

SPAM’s Plant-Based Brand “Happy Little Plants” Available in all Fresh Thyme Locations

Happy Little Plants, a subsidiary of SPAM brand Hormel Foods, has launched its products into all 74 Fresh Thyme locations in 11 states in the Midwest of the USA. Hormel’s boss referred to plant protein as a “shiny new toy” this July at the Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference in Boston.

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Spam Brand Hormel Announces Vegan “Happy Little Plants” Collection

Hormel Foods, whose boss we reported as referring to plant protein as a “shiny new toy” this July, announced at the Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference in Boston, the launch of “Happy Little Plants” – a new plant protein portfolio created as part of the company’s first project under its Cultivated Foods umbrella.

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