“Specialty food consumers are looking to make their meal prep easy but exciting and that is driving many of this year’s trends regarding convenience, packaging improvements, and global flavors,” said Denise Purcell, SFA’s vice president,…
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New research from Cargill finds a more informed consumer base is placing greater emphasis on sustainability in their cocoa and chocolate product purchases, driven by a desire to protect both the planet and human rights. 
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Tesco is removing packaging from a range of its most popular bakery products in a bid to remove 33 million pieces of plastic each year. The change is rolling out across UK stores and it will affect items such as loaves of bread, donuts and…
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Portofino Bakery, renowned for its unique artisan breads and buns that stay fresh for longer, is announcing the successful completion of the Radicle Climate Smart training program. This award-winning greenhouse gas emissions reduction…
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Global ingredient supplier Corbion teams up with Cargill and other players across the food industry supply chain to promote adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that lower CO2 emissions, preserve agricultural productivity and…
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Angel Yeast, a leading yeast manufacturer, has announced it aims to play a larger role in increasing people's access to nutritious food, and making food systems more inclusive and sustainable. “Factors such as the ongoing pandemic, climate…
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Givaudan has launched its latest white paper entitled ‘The Protein Horizon: the landscape of alternative protein technologies enabling future food experiences,’ its fourth collaboration with the University of Berkeley, California. This…
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King Arthur Baking Company launched its new sustainability platform to guide how the company balances purpose and profit to transform operations to meet the company's 2030 sustainability goals: from protecting natural resources through…
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A global study by marketing research company Kantar says that the rising cost of living means sustainability is becoming a privilege accessible to high-income consumers only. The Sustainability Index 2022 is a benchmark study of consumer…
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Nestlé will pilot a plant-based product through the company's newly established U.S. R+D Accelerator, bringing it to the U.S. market later this year as a test-and-learn. The product is made with animal-free protein from Perfect Day.
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As part of a larger Finnish research project, Fazer is now exploring the potential of cellular agriculture as a means for growing cocoa. While the company only uses cocoa that comes from sustainably managed sources in Ecuador and West…
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Tate & Lyle has entered into the next phase of its sustainability program for stevia, a plant-derived and in-demand low-calorie sweetener, by enrolling new farmers in China. The program will support participating farmers to implement…
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Cargill has made a USD10m grant to World Food Program USA in support of the United Nations World Food Programme’s response to the global hunger crisis, escalated by the collateral impact of the Ukrainian war.
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Syntegon offers companies in the food industries full transparency on the carbon footprint of all Syntegon machines with a software-based approach certified by TÜV Rheinland, a German Association for technical inspection. 
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Royal DSM, a global purpose-led science-based company, announces that it pledges to purchase all of its electricity worldwide from renewable sources as well as further reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its own operations faster…
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IDH - The Sustainable Trade Initiative and the Conseil du Café-Cacao started Cocoaperation, a new partnership to support the transition of cocoa farming towards a viable business activity for as many cocoa farming families as possible in…
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The governments of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana and 35 companies in the Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI), including IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative and the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), reported progress made towards ending…
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Brands of the Decade, a Kantar new analysis of shopper behavior since 2012, shows that, in 2021, branded FMCG items were chosen a total of 382 billion times, up 16% compared to a decade before. Kantar has identified eleven Brands of the…
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