Category: Markets
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Malaysia is adding new plant-based beverage scale-up infrastructure this week. Pure Mylk’s Tetra Pak partnership adds processing, pilot, and packaging capability to its Selangor innovation hub.
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A California dairy restructuring will keep Tío Francisco in production. Valley Milk has formed Francisco Foods to take over Rizo-Lopez assets and maintain branded Hispanic-style dairy output under a new joint venture.
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A new APAC sensory study has found that a leading blended chicken mince outperformed a conventional meat benchmark on taste, giving fresh momentum to hybrid meat development.
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Vietnam is pressing ahead with a wider overhaul of food safety law after disruption caused by Decree 46, with a more decentralised enforcement model now emerging.
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Tostitos has rolled out a major packaging refresh that brings ingredient, process, and product-attribute messaging more prominently onto pack across core tortilla chip lines.
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March exposed how fragile food manufacturing economics still really are. Rising energy-linked packaging costs, packaging regulation, and strategic consolidation turned a hoped-for recovery month into a warning about conversion, compliance, and capacity.
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Ambienta has taken a majority stake in Italy’s The Bridge, backing a plant-based producer with in-house UHT and packaging capability as consolidation pressure builds in European dairy alternatives.
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Fermtech has raised fresh funding to scale Koji Cocoa, a fermentation-derived ingredient made from cocoa side streams as manufacturers search for lower-cost and more resilient cocoa inputs.
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Harviestoun has started a new investment phase at its Alva brewery, adding warehouse and office space while continuing upgrades intended to lift efficiency, expand output, and support new product launches.
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Processed foods led regulatory food fraud reports in 2025, ahead of dairy and beverages, as the latest global trend data pointed to a further rise in reported incidents.