<Market Overview> Concerns Over Food Supply Routes Being Blocked Nikkei, 2025/3/18 (JP) #FoodSupplyChain #EmergencyFoodProcurement
Turkish Company Takes Another Shot at Japanese Cuisine Nikkei, 2025/3/14 (JP) #🇹🇷Dardanel #JapaneseFoodBoominTurkey
<Future Food> Unilever to Sell Plant-Based Meat Brand The Vegetarian Butcher to JBS-Owned Vivera greenqueen, 2025/3/21 (EN) #plant-basedmeat #GrowthActionPlan2030 #downturnofplant-basedfood
The Biased Science That Fuelled Italian Farmers’ Anti-Cultivated-Meat March greenqueen, 2025/3/25 (EN) #🇮🇹Coldiretti #NovelFood #FoodSafetyStandards
Shelf-Stable Complete Nutrition Food "Onimochi" Officially Launched. A single serving provides complete nutrition and boasts a one-year shelf life. Vitom Press Release (JP) #vitom #Onimochi #CompleteNutrition #TimeEfficiency #ShelfStableTech #RitsumeikanUniversity #IndustryAcademiaCollaboration
NotCo Uses AI to Create GLP-1 Booster as a 'Natural Ozempic Alternative' greenqueen, 2025/3/17 (EN) #Food×AI #NaturalOzempicAlternative #OzempicRebound 3 Key Takeaways From Natural Products Expo West The Food Institute, 2025/3/7 (EN) #GLP-1 #Children’sNutrition #DiverseValueOfFood No New Sake Brewing Licenses Issued in 70 Years Nikkei, 2025/3/17 (JP) #InatoAgave #CraftSAKE #FutureofSAKE Meiji Introduces Proprietary Loyalty Points, Redeemable In-Store Nikkei, 2025/3/14 (JP) #UnifiedMembershipManagement #LTVEnhancement Asahi Group Acquires German Brewer’s Yeast Manufacturer Nikkei, 2025/3/14 (JP) #🇩🇪Leiber #HealthFoods #SeasoningIngredients <FutureRetail & Restaurant> No More “What Should I Eat?” Dilemmas! “Nanitabe” Officially launches! MENUCOMPANY Press Release, 2025/3/14 (JP) #Nanitabe #MENUCOMPANY #MenuSearchApp #FoodieExperience #RestaurantDX #GourmetTech SHARE DINE Launches AI LAB to Transform the Future of the Food Industry Share Dine Press Release, 2025/3/18(JP) #ShareDine #AILAB #WorkStyleReformInFoodIndustry #AIMatching Less Robots, More Meat: Chipotle Founder’s Big Pivot The Spoon, 2025/3/19 (EN) #Chipotle #Kernel #RestaurantTech #RobotPhaseout #🇺🇸 LEOC Adopts “Eco-Friendly Rice” in Corporate Cafeterias, Cutting Methane Emissions by 30% Nikkei, 2025/3/24 (JP) #FarmPartnership #JCreditSystem <Future Kitchen> Compact “Space performance” Appliances Take Center Stage in New Life Nikkei, 2025/3/27 (JP) #Space-SavingAppliances #IrisOhyama #PanasonicHoldings #AeonRetail #HaierJapanSales #AQUA #LIFULL #CompactHousingTrend Smart Tea Infuser “Teforia” Comes Back From the Dead Seven Years After Shutting Down The Spoon, 2025/3/18 (EN) #Teforia #SmartTeaInfuser #Revival #🇺🇸 Xiaomi to Open 5-10 “Smartphone + Home Appliance” Stores in Japan by Year-End Nikkei, 2025/3/18 (JP) #SmartHome #FirstStoreAeonMallUrawaMisono Haier to Introduce IoT-Enabled Home Appliances in Japan Nikkei, 2025/3/12 (JP) #High-GradeAirConditioners #AI-PoweredHomeAppliances <Food × AI> FarmWise AI-Powered Weeding Tech ‘Commercially Ready’ Despite Company Restructuring and Wind Down AgFunder News, 2025/3/12 (EN) #Agrobotics #OngoingLaborChallenges Lumi AI nets $3.7m to expand conversational analytics platform AgFunder News, 2025/3/25 (EN) #EnterpriseDataAnalytics #SAP #Oracle #Microsoft #On-ShelfAvailabilityInGroceryStores The Spoon Discusses the Current State of AI Workflows With AI for Humans’ Gavin Purcell The Spoon, 2025/3/21 (EN) #AIWorkflows #Interview <Agriculture> Oishii Acquires Tortuga AgTech's IP, Assets, and Engineering Team AgFunder News, 2025/3/24 (EN) #HarvestRobotics #YaskawaRobotics Ghana in Turmoil: “Gold Over Cocoa” Nikkei, 2025/3/18 (JP) #CocoaProductionCollapse Yellowtail, Squid, and Mackerel: Catch Limits Introduced to Build a More Profitable Fishing Industry Nikkei, 2025/3/18 (JP) #MarineResourceRecovery #NorwayLeadingTheWay <Sustainability & Regeneration> Unpacking the Truth: Why Sustainable Packaging Isn’t as Easy as It Seems Market Shake by GourmetPro, 2025/3/18 (EN) #ToyoSeikan #AIinPackage #PlasticWasteSolution Insurance Companies Cover Costs of Reselling Surplus Food to Reduce Waste Nikkei, 2025/3/23 (JP) #FoodLossInsurance #ContainerAccidentPrevention #MitsuiSumitomoInsurance #AioiNissayDowa #SompoJapan #TokioMarine “Would People Buy Just Because It’s Cheap?” Consumers Spent More on Bread Than Rice for 15 Years, But Now Complain About Rising Prices (by Rumi Ide) Yahoo! News Expert, 2025/3/23 (JP) #FoodLoss #FoodWaste #MediaHype #LeftoverEhomaki <Local Food System> Entering the Low-Temperature Distilled Sake Market: Noto’s Toriyashuzo Partners with Hiroshima Startup for “Jochu” Nikkei, 2025/3/20 (JP) #ExpandingOverseas #NotoBeyondRecoveryFund #Naorai
<Partnerships & Ecosystems> Oisix Builds Food Business Ecosystem in Niigata, Japan’s Rice Heartland Nikkei, 2025/03/20 (JP) #NiigataFoodTechTown #FutureFoodFund Kering Scouts Japanese Startups Nikkei, 2025/03/24 (JP) #SustainabilityTechAwards #FermentStation MiL, Developer of Baby Food Brand "the kindest," Secures ¥500M Investment from Kewpie BRIDGE, 2025/03/14 (JP) #MiL #Kewpie #FirstMeals #TasteDevelopment South Korea Pumps $10M in Regional Lab-Grown Meat Research Hub greenqueen, 2025/03/14 (EN) #Cell-CulturedFoodCenter #UiseongBioValley #PublicInvestment <Food for Well-Being> Not Giving Up Despite Dementia (Part 3): Assistive Tech Brings Back the Joy of Shopping Nikkei, 2025/03/13 (JP) #LIMNO #KAERU |