Alibaba CEO explains what 'New Retail' entails / Wilmar and NUS open joint lab to drive food tech inno vation / Japanese firm raises 300m in seed funding f or lab-grown meat / Larger fast food serving sizes in N Z negating lower sodium content
âNew retailâ â where online and offline strategies converge â may be the sectorâs hottest topic after it was coined by Alibaba founder Jack Ma last year, but what is the thought behind the buzz word?.. Read
Agribusiness giant Wilmar has opened a joint laboratory with National University of Singapore (NUS) to drive innovation in food technology and sustainable biochemicals... Read
Japanese clean meat firm Integriculture Inc has raised JPY 300m in a seed funding round as it strives to make products affordable for the mass market... Read
The sodium density of fast food in New Zealand has dropped by 7%, but the overall increase in serving size has resulted in higher energy and sodium intake, a group of researchers found... Read
China's omega-3 market appears to be at a tipping point, with slowly rising consumer awareness being buoyed by both the ingredient's sports nutrition potential and growing opportunities for personalised nutrition... Read
From PepsiCoâs new innovation group (The Hive) to the success of the NutriScore food labeling system in France to drive healthy food choices, hereâs a round-up of the top seven global food and beverage news items from the past seven days... Read
Probiota Asia, our three-day summit dedicated to probiotics and prebiotics, returns to Singapore in October with a raft of industry experts now confirmed as speakers... Read
Asians are at higher risk than Europeans when it comes to obesity and related cardio-metabolic disorders in older age, and functional ingredients may be vital to helping them combat these issues... Read
PureCircle has reached a critical mass of its proprietary Reb M Starleaf stevia, with enough supply to to sweeten approximately 500 million cases of zero-calorie carbonated soft drinks, and in three years, the stevia supplier estimates that it will have enough supply to sweeten 1 billion cases... Read
Unileverâs noodle brand Pot Noodle has relaunched its Pot Rice range of instant rice snacks in response to âconsumer demandâ, supported by a £1m marketing campaign... Read
The UK public is more receptive to interventions such as sugar taxes and minimum unit pricing than often supposed, according to a report compiled by a group of independent UK health associations... Read