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Returns Gone Sour: The impact of carbon pricing on the dairy sector
Global investor network FAIRR weighs what a carbon tax could mean for the dairy sector.
Archives for July 8, 2021
Baking the Future: ‘First’ accelerator for start-ups in the bakery sector launches in Spain
In an industry first, a new accelerator programme is focusing on sustainability, quality, and innovation to ‘build the future of bakery’. FoodNavigator catches up with Ana Thielen, Cereal Manager, Europastry, to ask what prompted the initiative.
Low cocoa prices pose ‘serious consequences for long-term supply of chocolate’, warns Fairtrade
Chocolate as we know it is facing a difficult future and could become a rare, luxurious treat, the group has claimed.
‘Data is holding back data-driven innovation’: Agrimetrics, Microsoft launch agri digital twin tech
Agrimetrics, an agro-food digital marketplace, has launched Fields of the World, an open-access dataset containing digital twins of fields around the world.
ROAR Organic repositions from sports drink to all-day hydration solution: 'We changed the entire identity of our product,' says CEO
If you took the best of Bai, the best of Vitaminwater, and the best of Gatorade, and made it organic, you would have ROAR, says CEO Alex Galindez, who is applying a new distribution and marketing playbook to the five-year-old brand.
Beyond Meat launches plant-based chicken tenders at restaurants nationwide
Beyond Meat has launched its latest plant-based innovation - Beyond Chicken Tenders – at nearly 400 restaurants across the US.
Soda 2.0: Nostalgic flavors, low sugar, and functional health benefits… the meteoric rise of Olipop
Olipop – a functional beverage brand forging new territory in the soda category with 9g fiber per can – is on course to more than triple revenues this year vs 2020, says co-founder Ben Goodwin, who launched the brand with David Lester in late 2018.
Hunger games: Long term study shows high protein-low GI diet significantly reduces appetite
A high protein-low GI diet prevented hunger better than a moderate protein-moderate GI diet among overweight and obese people, according to data derived from the 3-year PREVIEW randomised intervention study.
Reinventing tempeh: Singapore’s Angie’s Tempeh outlines R&D and retail ambitions on back of funding boost
Singapore-based Angie’s Tempeh is exploring the idea of developing Asian foods such as dim sum with tempeh along with expanding into the ready-to-eat space, as part of its plan to tap into mainstream retail channels after receiving a major funding boost.
One-stop food and nutrition database: South Korea to establish multi-ministerial information platform to compile ‘scattered’ data
Multiple South Korean ministries dealing with food, nutrition and education are seeking to reduce business and consumer confusion be establishing a one-stop information service platform to bring together relevant data currently ‘scattered’ across each...