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Quorn Foods narrows losses in sluggish UK alt meat market, expands KFC trial in France

Quorn Foods is “building a stronger working relationship” with KFC, says CEO David Flochel. “We’re trialing and expanding our menus in France right now with KFC.”

Alternative protein

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

Quorn Cheesy Nacho Nuggs. Image credit: Quorn Foods

Plant-based meat by numbers: Grim reading for the US retail market, brighter spots in foodservice and globally

US retail sales of plant-based meat fell 7.5% to $1.13 billion in the year to April 20, 2025, with units down 10%, according to new data from SPINS shared with AgFunderNews.

Alternative protein

APAC

Plant-based meat. Image credit: istock/Natalia Semenova

Nestlé bets big on AI and biotech with new deep tech center in Switzerland

Nestlé is on a mission to “accelerate its digital transformation to be a real time, end-to-end connected enterprise, powered by data and artificial intelligence.”

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

Corporates

Quorn Foods narrows losses in sluggish UK alt meat market, expands KFC trial in France

Plant-based meat by numbers: Grim reading for the US retail market, brighter spots in foodservice and globally

Nestlé bets big on AI and biotech with new deep tech center in Switzerland

Plant cell culture startup Green Bioactives preps for first commercial launches in 2026

Guest article: Agtech is not a revolution, it’s a farm tool

BREAKING: Canadian insect ag pioneer Aspire pursues court-supervised rescue deal

Shroom boom: Fable Food’s mushroom-forward approach pays off as alt meat struggles

Investment in India’s life sciences crawls behind US and China. A new initiative could change that

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Xoople secures $129m, Farmley raises $40m, Foodiq bags $11m

IdeeLab achieves CDMO status with new industrial-scale facility for ag biological production

From jumping genes to designer genomes: Anthology’s blueprint for smarter bioproduction strains

Asset manager SLM Partners highlights ‘critical’ revenue from carbon credits in new regen ag case study

Danforth Technology Center launches gene-editing startup Spearhead Bio to solve ‘a major obstacle with CRISPR’

🎥 Designer probiotics startup ZBiotics has sold 8 million ‘pre-alcohol’ shots, launched new ‘sugar to fiber’ product

🎥 Switch Bioworks: ‘Just replacing 25% of nitrogen fertilizer with biologicals at yield parity would be game changing’

Heura bags $22.2m from EIB to expand plant-based tech platform, aims for profitability in Q4

How Farmers Edge and National Sorghum Producers are removing friction from sustainability reporting

🎥 NoPalm Ingredients: ‘Buyers are not prepared to pay a green premium. We have to offer price parity’

Better Dairy targets high-margin nutrition market with precision-fermented osteopontin

🎥 Enduro Genetics aims to deliver its first two projects this year to turbocharge bioproduction: ‘We’re taking some of the ‘bio’ out of biomanufacturing’

Guest article: The Perfect Day lawsuit… an ingredient naming case in disguise?

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Aquaculture co Laxey raises $146m, Hoofprint Biome lands $15m

Yeap gears up to commercialize upcycled yeast protein and unlock new income stream with fiber-rich product

Fermentation will power next wave of natural colors say startups as FDA targets synthetic food dyes

Beyond Meat’s ‘clearly disappointing’ Q1: ‘The Beyond value proposition remains obscured in doubt and misinformation’ says CEO

From bulky bulbs to tiny chips: Uviquity emerges from stealth with far-UVC disinfection breakthrough

Liberation Labs teams up with Vivici to produce animal-free whey protein in Indiana

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