Meat, fish and savory ingredients

Report: Trader's Joe's, Wegmans, H-E-B top the rankings in supermarket customer satisfaction

25-Feb-2020 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Customer supermarket satisfaction is stable after slipping one year ago, with Trader Joe's, Wegmans, and H-E-B all scoring high points for customer service, quality of food, and easy-to-shop store layouts, according to the 2019-2020 American Customer...

Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Consumer Brands Association uncovers what keeps CPG leaders up at night

21-Feb-2020 By Elizabeth Crawford

The consumer packaged goods industry may be composed of diverse companies offering disparate products ranging from toothpaste to pet food to canned soup, but a recent survey conducted by the Consumer Brands Association reveals 86% of CPG leaders place...

GUEST ARTICLE: Lessons that novel proteins should learn from biofuels

18-Feb-2020 By Mark Warner, founder, Warner Advisors LLC

Can 60% of current meat consumption be replaced by novel vegan meat replacements and cultured meat in the next 20 years? That is what AT Kearney has recently projected, but the analysis does not outline a path for achieving the forecast. Is reaching...

Launch of Eat Beyond Global investment fund opens doors for retail investors in plant-based segment

18-Feb-2020 By Elizabeth Crawford

Drawn to the rapid sales growth and widespread consumer interest in plant-based alternatives to animal products, a team of investors and industry experts has launched the Eat Beyond Global Investment Fund to connect retail investors with potentially fast-growing...

Country Archer to again double production capacity with $12m boost

18-Feb-2020 By Gill Hyslop

Country Archer Jerky Co. is moving to a new meat snack facility to more than double its production capacity for the second time in less than two years to keep pace with its explosive growth.

Keto diet best in small doses, suggests mouse study

17-Feb-2020 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Touted as an effective weight loss regimen, the keto diet has gone from niche to mainstream, with CPG products clamoring to align themselves with the trend. But are its immediate results outweighed by longer-term negative effects?

Most consumers don’t link diet & climate, but sustainability marketing could boost plant-based sales

17-Feb-2020 By Elizabeth Crawford

Rising consumer concern about climate change is a powerful – but underused – marketing lever for plant-based products, according to new research from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

Kraft Heinz CEO on 'disappointing' 2019 results: 'We have taken critical actions over the past six months to re-establish visibility and control'

13-Feb-2020 By Elaine Watson

While Kraft Heinz’s 5.1% drop in net sales and 4.2% dip in volumes in Q4 is hardly cause for celebration, analysts at Bernstein say there are good signs that CEO Miguel Patricio "is taking the necessary steps to stabilize the business rather than...

Don Lee Farms files 3rd amended complaint vs Beyond Meat, seeks damages

12-Feb-2020 By Elaine Watson

Don Lee Farms has filed a 3rd amended complaint vs Beyond Meat, accusing it of doctoring a food safety consultant’s report and sharing trade secrets with Don Lee's rivals to help them “actively solicit” to replace Don Lee as Beyond Meat’s co-manufacturer...

Blue Apron taps into meal prep 'movement' with 8-serving menu offering

11-Feb-2020 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Blue Apron has added more flexibility to its meal kit plans with the introduction of a meal prep offering, which provides consumers with eight servings of food for an entire week, all made in one prep session.

Cell-based meat in focus: In conversation with Meatable, Finless Foods, New Age Meats

11-Feb-2020 By Elaine Watson

While a new cell-based meat company emerges from stealth mode almost every month, the amount of money invested in the embryonic sector to date pales in comparison to the megabucks poured into plant-based meat over the past couple of years. So is slaughter-free...

Alpha Foods raises $28m to fuel growth of plant-based food empire

11-Feb-2020 By Elaine Watson

Plant-based food brand Alpha Foods has raised $28m in a funding round led by VC fund AccelFoods and supported by New Crop Capital, Green Monday and Blue Horizon, bringing its total funding to around $40m.

Displaying entire nutrition profile of animal protein could protect sales from plant-based competition

11-Feb-2020 By Elizabeth Crawford

So far, the health halo surrounding plant-based products has led many consumers to overlook characteristics of newer versions of meatless products that might be a turnoff in other food categories, including longer-ingredient lists and less favorable nutritional...

Beyond Meat hits back at former co-manufacturer as shareholders file lawsuit: ‘We simply couldn’t get Don Lee Farms to meet our standards’

03-Feb-2020 By Elaine Watson

Beyond Meat has hit back at former co-manufacturer Don Lee Farms after experiencing further setbacks in its legal dispute with the firm, which alleges it wrongfully terminated a supply contract, telling reporters that, “We simply couldn’t get Don Lee...

Citrus fiber can help plant-based dairy and meat brands clean up labels, says Fiberstar

27-Jan-2020 By Elaine Watson

Growing demand for dairy and meat alternatives with shorter, cleaner ingredients lists is driving demand for citrus fibers, which can replace everything from carrageenan, gellan gum, mono diglycerides, and lecithin in plant-based milks, to methyl cellulose...