Brief: Rakuten, KKR buy into Walmart’s Japanese supermarket giant Seiyu
March 3, 2021
“We are excited to accelerate Seiyu’s digital transformation […] to become Japan’s leading omnichannel retailer,” said new CEO Tsuneo Okubo.
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Brief: Tesco brand bows out of Asia after Thai food giant’s $10bn buyback
February 19, 2021
The last visible vestiges of Tesco’s Asian retail operations are set to disappear as stores carrying the UK company’s name undergo a rebrand.
With a fresh $31m, Too Good To Go wants to make saving food as easy as throwing it away
January 15, 2021
The UK app lets users buy a ‘mystery bag’ of food items that would otherwise end up in landfill.
Behind the greens: Why greenhouse lettuce is not competitive yet
January 11, 2021
Economic and retail data may help to explain why hydroponic lettuce has some way to go before it can compete on price with conventionally grown plants.
Unfazed by Covid-19, Infarm arrives InJapan and InCanada
March 26, 2020
Vertical farming venture Infarm’s Emmanuel Evita shares with AFN how Covid-19 is disrupting and driving its expansion and demand for hyper-local fresh food.
EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Agrando closes seed funding for online agribusiness marketplace
February 13, 2020
The design process is about not patronising farmers with solutions they do not need, but realizing farmers as concerned about boosting their bottom line in a tight margins business. “Every farmer is a CEO, Agrando’s founder tells AFN.
Why Dan Vradenburg joining Trace Genomics as CEO is a big deal
October 9, 2019
Daniel Vradenburg is the former president of Wilbur-Ellis and the board chair of Cavallo Ventures and now he’s joining soil science startup Trace Genomics.
World Bank, Tesco, Sodexo, pledge to combat food loss and waste
September 25, 2019
What do the World Bank, Tesco, and Sodexo have in common? Well, they made huge commitments to slashing food waste at Climate Week NYC. Read on for details.
Kuli Kuli launches moringa products into 2,500 Walmarts
September 19, 2019
Kuli Kuli is driving the moringa products market in the US with over 50% of a segment that’s now in 3% of US households.
Tesco’s head of agriculture: ‘Water quality is a key issue no-one is innovating for’
October 11, 2018
We can spend a lot of money on feed rations, but if the animal’s gut integrity is wrong because of bacteria in the water line, that nutrition is wasted and is also a welfare issue, says Barney Kay, head of agriculture at Tesco.
Who Will Win the Agribusiness Marketplace Race for Inputs?
July 5, 2018
We caught up with Curtis Garner from Bowles Farming, who has been assessing the way the business purchases its inputs in the hope of saving costs, to find what he thinks about all the agribusiness marketplace startups cropping up.
Target Tests Food Transparency Innovations from its CoLab with MIT and IDEO in Store
April 29, 2016
Food + Future coLab is now testing two new technologies aimed at finding out what information consumers want about their food while they shop.
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