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How Kraft Heinz’s ‘keeper of the tomatoes’ is keeping the business in sauce
Tomato is king at Kraft Heinz, so it’s little wonder the blue chip has an army of people dedicated to ensuring its annual supply of 600m bottles of ketchup
News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Big Interview
Tomato is king at Kraft Heinz, so it’s little wonder the blue chip has an army of people dedicated to ensuring its annual supply of 600m bottles of ketchup
Which of Europe’s food and beverage categories will likely see the most merger and acquisitions in 2025? Two experts give their thoughts.
Start-up pitch
Developing and scaling the production of new food and beverage technologies is a major focus for the industry. But it can be complex and extremely costly. Enter New Wave Biotech.
Ingredients firm Beneo’s German faba processing facility will soon take on its first major commercial opportunity.
Opinion
Unilever’s food brand shake-up will put the Vegetarian Butcher on the chopping block, raising questions about what brands could be next.
Unilever has promised bigger innovation bets, premiumisation and to ditch food brands that no longer align with a new core strategy.
From renewable energy to R&D, big players have been making big investments over the last few weeks
Bakery ingredients major the CSM Collective has highlighted start-ups as a vital part of its growth strategy, managing director of CSM Group Christian Sobolta told FoodNavigator.
Cargill is targeting a “growing middle” class consumer base with a slew of NPD and investment, as well as moving into new markets.
In Thailand, an unconventional palm oil supply chain makes traceability, and therefore EUDR certification, much more difficult.
Start-up pitch
Cutting food waste at all stages of production is key to future food security, but it needs to be profitable for brands to embrace it. Carbiotix can help.
Big Interview
“There’s no better time to be in food than now,” believes Mars Food & Nutrition global VP for R&D Karina Zimerfeld
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Video
Plant-based colour creator, Exberry, reveal why innovation is at the centre of its long-term growth strategy.
Ingredients major dsm-firmenich will invest in a trio of areas to bolster business growth over the coming years.
Fast-food giants across Europe are failing foul on poultry welfare measures, with few making recent progress and others moving backwards on previous gains, a damning new report criticises.
Ingredients giant ADM has revealed the NPD and consumer trends driving its business forwards, including healthy indulgence.
Arla Foods Ingredients will push ahead with its acquisition of Volac Whey Nutrition following local competition authority approval.
Start-up pitch
Climate change is threatening existing food sources, making the discovery of viable alternatives essential. MicroHarvest believes microorganisms to be a sustainable, scalable solution.
EUDR’s 12-month delay has been met with condemnation from organisations across the world following yesterday's controversial vote.
The RSPO’s standards on sustainable palm oil certification have been approved. Do they align with Europe’s upcoming regulation?
Beyond Meat has grown revenues, after several crunching years, but is the alt-meat major out of the woods?
Start-up pitch
Food waste is a serious issue for the planet and a major threat to food security. Senoptica Technologies claims to hold a solution to one of the many flaws in the food system – ‘use by’ dates.
Marketing can be complex, time consuming and costly. We run down the top tips and tricks to successfully market a food and drink brand on a tight budget.
Tate & Lyle has returned to volume growth in the first six months of its financial year, but revenues are down and predicted to be lower still at year end.
Glanbia has split its business into two entities to boost performance in its “next growth phase”.
Summer revenues for Coca-Cola Europacific Partners were stung by poor weather, though Euro football and the Paris Olympics contributed towards what is shaping up to be a “solid year” for the group.
Start-up pitch
Alt dairy is proving to be one of the great plant-based success stories. But associations to UPF and questions over sustainability are holding it back. Fabas Foods believes it has the solution.
Food and drink manufacturing CEOs are notoriously competitive, keeping their strategies and tactics close to their chests. But who is in charge of the top food and drink businesses and what have they been doing?
Kraft Heinz has cut its full-year 2024 forecast following a third-quarter net sales slump, as price hikes worked against the food major by dampening consumer demand.
Confectionery and snacking giant Mondelēz International has driven revenues and profits above expectations, through higher volume sales as both Unilever and Danone also showed this month.
Mega deals within snacking are picking up pace after a quiet start to the year, with Mars’ Kellanova acquisition the tip of the iceberg as strong financial performances provide corporates with healthy cashflows.
Food safety is constantly changing. Following its recent acquisition of Bureau Veritas’ food safety business, Mérieux NutriSciences aims to address the risks to product food safety.
Red tape, lacking investment and negative connotations around new and novel food types are just three of many issues standing in the way of Europe’s food and drink sector progress, experts have warned.
Creating and building brand awareness, with potential customers, is essential to success. Here’s how to recognise and connect with your target market.
The US has bolstered agri-food imports, making it the largest value increase of all nations buying in EU produce. China, however, reduced value imports more than any other nation.
Start-up pitch
The cultivated meat market is growing, but price remains a major barrier to success. Roslin Technologies believes it has the answer, with its animal stem cell solution.
Powerhouses Unilever and Danone have outpaced third-quarter financial forecasts, a result of increased volume sales, and in contrast to competitor Nestlé’s downgrade earlier this month.
Video
What do food and drink start-up businesses get wrong? It’s the big question facing many fledgling businesses. FoodNavigator speaks to nine industry experts to find out.
Plant-based meat alternative heavyweight Redefine Meat has plotted a series of new launches and retail listings as the market rebounds following a recent tumble and stagnation.
European discounter major Lidl is betting big on plant-based following booming sales, introducing a raft of new listings under a new own-label range.
Start-up pitch
The plant-based seafood market is underserved – enter BettaF!sh. This week we're discovering how founder, Deniz Ficicioglu, is revolutionising the fish-free fish space in the first edition of FoodNavigator’s start-up pitch series.
Nestlé is laser-focused on a ready meals innovation and is launching a strategy to boost sales, following weaker than expected third-quarter results that led to a financials downgrade and senior team reshuffle.
Nestlé is making senior leadership and operational changes as the global food behemoth trims its full-year sales forecast again due to a weak market.
Broad unpreparedness led the world to rebel against EUDR’s enforcement. Now the clock could be reset for another 12 months, what can the global supply chain do to reach compliance?
A biotech start-up is producing iron compounds, through precision fermentation, that are more bioavailable than much naturally occurring iron in plants.
Future Food-Tech 2024
Food safety and quality are two sides of the same coin. But how is the process of making food not only safe but beneficial for the consumer being made more efficient?
Novel foods in Europe will be subject to new safety assessments early next year as the European Food Safety Authority updates processes to better reflect the changing landscape and potentially speed up approvals.
More consumers are buying pricier organic food and drink, despite continuing cost-of-living pressures, with sales expected to rocket as governments push to make organic farming central to future sustainability strategies.
Hangover cure? Apparently so as one US start-up claims the consequences of a heavy night could be resigned to the past for Europeans, should the brand debut on this side of the pond.