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Supply chain 5.0 is not optional – ‘It’s the only way’
22 Jan 2024
Experts are predicting a new era of supply chain management, focusing on consumer centricity, sustainability and human rights, and advanced digitalisation.
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France follows Italy’s lead with proposals to ban cultivated meat
19 Jan 2024
France has become the latest country to consider placing restrictions on cultivated meat after parliamentarians presented a bill in the National Assembly that bans the commercialisation of cell-based meat.
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Confectionery wars: Italian artisans battle Swiss firm Lindt over chocolate recipe
18 Jan 2024
Italian artisan chocolate makers are going head-to-head with the Swiss confection giant Lindt over gianduiotto, a delicacy from Turin that is the subject of heated discussion over its ingredients.
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UK High Court allows Oatly to use 'milk' on packaging
17 Jan 2024
Oatly has scored a landmark victory in the use of the word milk after the UK High Court ruled against the country’s dairy industry and permitted the term to be used on packaging.
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How brands are overcoming challenges in the plant-based sector
16 Jan 2024
Following the turbulent evolution of the plant-based market in recent years, industry players are finding innovative ways to tackle challenges such as taste, price, and nutrition and are in turn unlocking new opportunities for growth.
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Chobani expands drink presence with La Colombe acquisition
16 Jan 2024
Greek yoghurt giant Chobani has purchased US coffee brand La Colombe Coffee Roasters for $900 million, furthering its expansion into beverage categories like coffee, oat milk, creamer and ready-to-drink offerings.
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Mapping the rise and fall and (rise, again?) of the plant-based sector
15 Jan 2024
Recent challenges in the plant-based sector such as consumer acceptance and price inflation led to dips in certain regions while others surged. Kalina Doykova, senior research analyst at Euromonitor, shares her insights into the evolution and future tr...
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Alt-protein dip not enough to distract consumers from meat replacement realties
12 Jan 2024
Despite a recent downturn in alt-protein’s fortunes, consumers haven’t lost faith in the idea of cultivated meats and plant-based food becoming a permanent fixture in diets of the future, according to Alex Mayers, managing director of the Good Food Ins...
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Supergrain fonio expands its reach in US market
11 Jan 2024
More US consumers will find nutritious, climate-smart grain fonio in supermarkets thanks to a new distribution structure for the import’s most prominent commercial brand, Yolélé.
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PepsiCo to reshape convenient foods portfolio with less sodium and more plant proteins
10 Jan 2024
PepsiCo has revealed details of two nutrition goals that look to reduce sodium and boost consumption of legumes, whole grains, and plant-based proteins as part of the multinational’s expanded convenient foods portfolio.
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Supermarkets innovate with private label plant-based ranges
9 Jan 2024
Plant-based product ranges are an important part of retailers’ private label innovation efforts – and represent an important way for supermarkets to reduce their environmental impact.
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Sustainability meets innovation at Fi Europe 2023's Sustainability Ingredients Zone
9 Jan 2024
Fi Europe’s Sustainable Ingredients Zone showcases ingredients forging a path toward a greener future. Three innovators are redefining what sustainability within the food and beverage industry means, with upcycled products, regenerative agriculture, an...
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