Growth hungry HelloFresh is defying concerns that rising consumer demand for meal-kit delivery services may wane as lockdown restrictions ease. However, its biggest threat remains online supermarkets, say analysts.
Ingredient supplier Corbion has secured a European patent for its fruit ferments containing natural organic acids and other flavour compounds. The company says the ingredients are a natural way to reformulate products and reduce food waste.
Consumers across Europe are willing to change their eating habits as long as buying sustainable food becomes easier with better pricing, improved information, and more options, according to BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation (Bureau Européen des...
The challenge of responding to coronavirus has highlighted the need to leverage big data, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence in the FMCG space. However, AI start-up Spoonshot stresses, the long-term opportunities this technology can unlock...
A better understanding of the emotional impact of food can help manufacturers overcome the challenge of new products that fail, and also adapt to disruption in the industry.
The British Meat Processors Association has slammed a new report which claims that factory farming is both vulnerable to pandemics, and guilty of creating them.
Ex-Morrisons marketing director Mike Hoban is the new chief executive of royally appointed Scottish butcher Donald Russell – a winner at William Reed’s Butcher’s Shop of The Year Awards 2019.
Swedish start-up Hooked is developing what it claims to be the ‘world’s first’ plant-based shredded salmon product. The aim? To meet the ‘rapidly increasing’ demand for seafood with healthy, tasty, and planet-friendly alternatives, the founders tell FoodNavigator.
The British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) has called on the government to help keep production lines operating by adding ‘butchers’ to the Shortage Occupation List used to vet skilled migrants.
Swedish start-up, Volta Greentech, just closed a SEK 5m (US$500K) funding round to expand pilot production of a product derived from the red seaweed, Asparagopsis, to reduce methane emissions in cows.
Consumer confidence in eating out is set to take a plunge as people are anxious about returning to pubs, bars and restaurants, according to research from plant-based food company Meatless Farm.
