Two of France’s most significant cultivated meat companies have merged. Cultivated foie gras start-up Gourmey has acquired Vital Meat, which produces cultivated chicken. The merged entity will be known as Parima.
The merger combines Gourmey’s “full-stack” production facilities, where they have control of the entire process of production from start to finish, with Vital Meat’s 2,000 litre bioreactor capacity and advanced avian cell lines.
Both have applied for regulatory approval in multiple locations, including Europe. In fact, between them, they have nine regulatory filings. Gourmey was the first cultivated meat company to apply for approval in the EU. The merger means that the company is now the first in the world to have applications pending for two different animal species (duck and chicken).
The merger also combines the two brands’ patents: they now have 15 patent families and more than 70 applications.
By combining both products and infrastructure, the merger will allow the companies to upscale.
“This is the right moment for consolidation and scale,” says Nicolas Morin-Forest, CEO of Parima.
“We’ve proven economic viability and are now expanding across species. By uniting two pioneering teams, we’re strengthening Europe’s ability to lead the global shift toward efficient and sustainable animal production through innovation, complementing existing methods and building more resilient value chains.”
