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Byline: Simon Harvey Cargill plans to cut 5% of its global workforce, which based on data in the US-headquartered agri-food giant's annual report would amount to around 8,000 jobs. The [...]

London markets: London's historic Smithfield meat market will be closed for good in 2028, alongside the Billingsgate Fish Market, the City of London Corporation has confirmed. Plans to move the [...]

Byline: Shivam Mishra BRF has struck a deal to acquire a processed foods factory in China from fellow meat major OSI Group. The facility, which is owned by Henan Best [...]

Byline: Simon Harvey Matr Foods, a plant-based meat start-up in Denmark, has secured a [euro]20m ($22.1m) loan from the EU's lending arm for its first full-scale production facility. The European [...]

Byline: Andy Coyne Brazilian meat giant JBS says it will quadruple production in Saudi Arabia when a new facility in the country opens in November. JBS, which has exported poultry [...]

Food safety bosses are to announce plans for a system of international co-operation for approval of lab-grown meat, CBD products and insect foods next month. The Food Standards Agency has [...]

Byline: Andy Coyne Brazilian meat giant JBS said it plans to create 7,000 new jobs in its domestic market this year. JBS, already the country's largest employer with a 155,000-strong [...]

Byline: Fiona Holland European meat and convenience food company Bell Food Group has announced plans to split off its international poultry unit. Formerly part of the Bell International Hubers/SÈ­tag branch, [...]

Byline: Ian Quinn Speeding up the time it takes CBD products, insect proteins and lab-grown meat to get to market wasn't played up much by the Vote Leave campaign as [...]

Byline: Ian Quinn Lab tests to assess the safety of cell-cultivated meat products will be launched from the FSA by autumn, under plans revealed in talks with food companies. The [...]

Byline: Simon Harvey Loss-making Beyond Meat is set to report a sixth straight decline in quarterly revenue as the US alternative-protein business reviews its global operations. A preliminary third-quarter statement [...]

Byline: Simon Harvey France's Umiami has added to its Series A funding pot as the plant-based chicken business plans to scale into a new factory and launch in the US. [...]

Byline: Dean Best US cell-based meat business Upside Foods is to set up its first 'large-scale' factory. The California-based business is selling its cultivated meat in restaurants after receiving regulatory [...]

Byline: Andy Coyne Canada-based meat producer Olymel has said its poultry processing plant in Paris, Ontario, is to close. Olymel has already announced the shuttering of three facilities this year. [...]

Byline: Simon Harvey Hilton Food Group is consolidating its factory operations for meat-alternatives as a proactive measure against the 'market restructure' in the category. The London-listed and private-label protein-centric business [...]

Byline: Ed Devlin Food tech business Enough last week delivered a shot in the arm for the meat alternatives category, offering an inconvenient counter-narrative to headlines describing the sector's demise. [...]

Byline: Dean Best The changes Tyson Foods is set to make to how it uses antibiotics in its US supply chain have attracted criticism. Tyson is reintroducing some antibiotics into [...]

The late Anthony Bourdain once quipped: 'Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.' Indeed, cooking over flame is a joyful activity that makes food [...]

Byline: Eszter Racz Nestle's Israel food unit Tivall has teamed up with More Foods, a Tel Aviv-based manufacturer of vegan meat analogues. The exact nature of the partnership is unclear, [...]

Byline: Henry Mathieu Ireland-based meat processor Kepak has announced plans to invest £16m ($19.9m) into its facility in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. The plans were revealed during a visit from [...]

Byline: Dean Best Tyson Foods is to axe a chunk of corporate and executive jobs as part of efforts to make the US meat giant more efficient. The company, home [...]

Tyson Foods will close two chicken plants in May as part of a plan to strengthen its poultry business, impacting nearly 1,700 workers, CNBC's Amelia Lucas reports. In its latest [...]

Byline: Simon Harvey Tyson Foods could shed more than 1,600 jobs as the US meat major plans to shut two poultry facilities. Scheduled for 12 May, the closures affect the [...]

No Meat Factory has closed a Series B funding round totaling $42 million USD. According to a media release, new investor Tengelmann Growth Partners led the round, with participation from [...]

Byline: Jessica Broadbent US plant-based meat manufacturer Impossible Foods is reportedly planning to cut around a fifth of its workforce. The California-headquartered company, which makes chicken, pork and beef alternatives, [...]

Impossible Foods is laying off 20% of its workforce, Bloomberg reported Monday. The plant-based meat maker has also been offering buyouts to employees since late 2022. It's the third time [...]

No Meat Factory has closed a Series B funding round totaling $42 million USD. According to a media release, new investor Tengelmann Growth Partners led the round, with participation from [...]