Eyeing alternatives – meat companies with stakes in meat-free and cell-based meat
We present a guide on how meat manufacturers are investing in plant-based and cell-based alternatives.
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The top 21 most-read Just Food news stories in 2021
Which stories from Just Food news pages got you and your industry peers clicking throughout 2021? Here’s a list of the top 21.
Is US plant-based meat market facing inflection point or short-term blip?
Just Food looks at the implications for the US plant-based meat market after recent rumblings hinted at a slowdown.
Beyond Meat names Tyson’s Ramsey new COO
The US meat-alternatives supplier has also hired another Tyson Foods veteran to a new role of chief supply chain officer.
Beyond Meat sales add to alt-meat misgivings
Beyond Meat remains confident about the US market for plant-based meat but its sales have prompted some doubts among industry watchers.
Beyond Meat rebuffs suggestions of waning plant-based appetite in US
Beyond Meat has rebuffed any suggestion of a tail-off in general appetite for plant-based products in the US as third-quarter sales there declined. Sales in the US dropped across retail…
Beyond Meat blames “multiple factors” in revenue downgrade
US plant-based burger firm Beyond Meat has partly blamed people eating out again following the Covid lockdown for its decision to reduce third-quarter revenue guidance. The California-based business also cited…
Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah leaves meat-free firm
Sanjay Shah, Beyond Meat’s chief operating officer, has left the US meat-alternative business after less than two years in the role. In a brief stock-exchange filing yesterday (2 September), Beyond…
Beyond Meat boss: Taxes on negative externalities “do appeal”
Ethan Brown, the founder and CEO of US alt-meat company Beyond Meat, has said taxes on activities creating negative externalities on society “does appeal” – but has stopped short of…
Beyond Meat debuts e-commerce site in China with JD.com
Alternative-protein firm Beyond Meat has launched an online sales channel in China via JD.com, a market where appetite for plant-based meats has yet to take off to the degrees in…
Signs of intent in plant-based meat makers’ Asia push
A clutch of announcements this week underline the optimism among makers of plant-based meat alternatives about the opportunity in Asia, writes Dean Best. In the last 18 months or so,…
