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Oslo, 10 June 2021: Pablo Barrera, EVP Communications & Procurement in Yara, is seconded to IMAGINE Food Collective, where he will work with leading global companies and stakeholders to help drive systemic change of the food value chain. Pablo Barrera is today Executive Vice President Communications & Procurement in Yara and has since April 2018 been a member of the Yara Group Executive Board where he has held various positions. IMAGINE, a social venture co-founded in 2019 by Paul Polman, Valeri

9th June 2021 Livekindly Collective, the fast-growing US firm that is building up a portfolio of plant-based food brands around the world, has entered into a deal to acquire The Dutch Weed Burger. The Amsterdam-based company offers a variety of plant-based food enriched with seaweed and microalgae such as its Weed Burger, Weed Balls, Weed Dogg, Seawharma and Nuggets. The brand’s products are available direct-to-consumer (DTC), from supermarkets such as Albert Heijn, as well as a variety of restaurants. The deal further expands Livekindly’s brand portfolio that currently includes Oumph!, T...

Founder: Larry Liu Grocery delivery service Weee! raised $315 million in a Series D funding round that closed in March and attracted investments from Blackstone and Tiger Global. It differentiates itself from Instacart, Thrive Market, and other online grocery players by focusing on Asian and Hispanic foods.  The market for what Weee! calls ethnic groceries will be worth more than $464 million by 2030, according to the company. Founder Larry Liu said he believes that communities of color in the US "have been overlooked in the online and retail space." 7. Apeel Sciences ...

 CREDIT: Ramona Rosales "NOT SURE WHAT that says," Michael Dubin swirls his finger at a scribble of graffiti on a pair of garage doors. "But, anyway, this is it."  It's late March, and the co-founder and longtime CEO of Dollar Shave Club has brought me to an alley in Venice, California. To the place where it all started. In January,  Dubin announced his departure as CEO of the company he'd sold to Unilever for $1 billion in 2017. A week later, he signed off on an all-hands Zoom, closed the laptop, and entered the life of an entrepreneurial empty nester. "I was like, 'So, good luck, everyb...

‘Impact will come with scale…’ Ingredion, PURIS, ramp up plant protein capacity Ingredion president and CEO Jim Zallie: 'We’re celebrating a pivotal moment in our company’s history...' (picture: screengrab from Ingredion's March 3 virtual event) Market projections for meat and dairy alternatives vary wildly, with Impossible Foods’ CEO predicting animal agriculture could hit a ‘death spiral’ by 2035, while Wells Fargo reckons plant-based meat will account for a rather more modest 4% of the US meat market by 2029. However, everyone agrees plant-based...