The latest food and beverage industry news and trend analysis

Cargill and Voyage Foods have launched NextCoa, a cocoa-free confectionery alternative utilising grape seeds to deliver a 67% lower carbon footprint, targeting supply chain resilience and price stability in the North American B2B market.

AUSTRIA JUICE has launched a patent-pending fermentation technology reducing sugar in 100% fruit juices by 30%, providing a plug-and-play solution ahead of the 2026 EU Breakfast Directives.

Ardent Mills has appointed Cargill veteran Erik Wibholm as EVP of Trading & Risk Management. His 25 years of global wheat expertise will drive strategic commodity risk solutions for customers navigating an increasingly dynamic and volatile operating environment.

U.S. Sugar’s deploying an autonomous John Deere fleet, using ASI’s robotic kits to enable 24/7 precision farming across 255,000 acres while transitioning labour into high-skilled oversight roles.

IFF’s new Madagascar hub enables "innovation at origin," merging lab analysis and extraction with local expertise to secure a resilient, high-quality global vanilla supply chain.

The opening of Sucro Can's $135M Hamilton refinery establishes a new B2B infrastructure benchmark, utilising a PPP model to deliver 1M tonnes of capacity for the North American food cluster.

Oterra and Debut have launched a multi-million-dollar strategic collaboration to utilise AI-powered precision fermentation to develop a high-performance natural alternative to Red 40, addressing critical supply chain volatility and the escalating regulatory phase-out of FD&C synthetic dyes in the United States.

Germany's largest dairy cooperative DMK Group has invested 25 million euros in a new lactoferrin plant in Altentreptow to target the early life nutrition and pharmaceutical sectors.