Meat, fish and savory ingredients

Territory Foods closes $22m funding round to expand chef-crafted, nutritionist-designed meal delivery service

13-Apr-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Territory Foods, a fresh-prepared direct-to-consumer (DTC) meal delivery service that partners with local chefs to create flavorful nutritionist-designed dishes, has closed a $22m funding round led by US Venture Partners.

‘Blockbuster year’ for snacking innovation on horizon after product launches slowed during pandemic

13-Apr-2021 By Elizabeth Crawford

This year promises to be a “blockbuster year” for snacking innovation after 2020 saw drastically fewer new products hit stores than previous years, but of those that did launch the best sellers catered to Americans’ pandemic-influenced demands – portending...

Impossible Foods hires former Apple creative exec as chief experience officer

12-Apr-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Steve Turner, the former global executive creative director for Apple's Media Arts Labs (where he worked with Steve Jobs to launch a number of iconic Apple products), has been appointed as chief experience officer at Impossible Foods, where he will...

Conagra benefits from sustained and elevated at-home demand in Q3 2021

12-Apr-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Still benefiting from a sustained consumer shift to at-home eating over a year past the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Conagra has registered a nearly 10% increase in organic net sales for Q3 2021 compared to the same period last year.

PBFA slams ‘anti-competitive, anti-free market’ Wisconsin bills targeting plant-based dairy and meat

08-Apr-2021 By Elaine Watson

The Plant Based Foods Association has slammed bills proposing restrictions on the use of terms such as ‘milk’ and ‘meat’ on food labels and restaurant menus in Wisconsin, while state lawmakers insist they are urgently required to prevent consumer confusion....

Beyond Meat expands international reach with first end-to-end manufacturing facility outside the US: 'We're committed to investing in China as a region for long-term growth'

07-Apr-2021 By Elaine Watson

Beyond Meat has opened its first end-to-end manufacturing facility outside the US in the Jiaxing Economic & Technological Development Zone (JXEDZ) near Shanghai.

Gathered Foods secures $26.35m funding to dramatically expand reach of Good Catch plant-based seafood

07-Apr-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Gathered Foods, parent company of plant-based seafood brand Good Catch, has secured $26.35m in a B-2 Bridge Funding Round to ramp up product innovation and dramatically increase its retail footprint.

‘We are meat’: Impossible Foods launches first national ad campaign targeting meat eaters

06-Apr-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Impossible Foods has launched its first national advertising campaign targeting meat eaters who haven’t yet tried Impossible products, specifically its flagship product, the plant-based Impossible Burger.

Consumers want clearer, more consistent product information to facilitate omni-channel shopping

06-Apr-2021 By Elizabeth Crawford

As more consumers adopt a “research-online-buy-offline” approach, providing accurate, consistent product information across channels and on packaging is essential for driving discovery, initial trial and repeat purchases – and yet, most manufacturers...

Study highlights ‘troubling’ absence of animal welfare knowledge in aquaculture

05-Apr-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

With traditional fishing methods in decline, aquaculture – the industrial farming of fish, shellfish, and other aquatic species – is on the rise, but with little knowledge of the impact it’s had on animal welfare, says a team of researchers at New York...

Kemin acquires clean label proteins firm Proteus Industries

05-Apr-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Kemin Industries has acquired privately-owned ingredient technology firm, Proteus Industries, Inc., expanding its portfolio of sustainable clean label solutions for meat manufacturing.

Reducing the cost of cell-cultured meat... Growth media in focus

05-Apr-2021 By Elaine Watson

For cell-cultured meat to go mainstream, the cost of the media used to grow animal cells must come down. A lot. And that will require significant movement in the price and availability of recombinant proteins and growth factors. So how much progress is...

Balance consumer demand for innovation & authenticity by providing cultural context for new offerings

02-Apr-2021 By Elizabeth Crawford

As concerns about cultural appropriation and misrepresentation bubble up alongside the push for social equity, food and beverage industry stakeholders are delicately navigating consumers’ sometimes-conflicting demands for authenticity and innovation.

‘We know seafood is a healthy and sustainable choice’: Industry reacts to ‘extreme’ and ‘misleading’ Netflix documentary

01-Apr-2021 By Oliver Morrison

The seafood industry has hit back at a controversial film about the impact of commercial fishing.

Innovators, not imitators: Daymon discusses the rise of private label

30-Mar-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

No longer seen as the budget option by consumers, private label brands are continuing to differentiate themselves from national brands in quality and innovation, according to private label market research firm Daymon.