Bel, Climax Foods Partner to Innovate Cutting-Edge Plant-Based Cheeses
New initiative leverages the power of data science and artificial intelligence
The Bel Group and biotech start-up, Climax Foods Inc., announced a unique partnership designed to create a new generation of plant-based cheese aiming to meet the main challenges of the food transition: combining pleasure, nutrition and reducing the carbon footprint. By leveraging the power of data science and artificial intelligence (AI), along with their complementary capabilities and expertise, the two companies will co-create plant-based portions of Laughing Cow®, Kiri®, Boursin®, Babybel® and Nurishh® brand foods. These new best-in-class plant-based cheeses aim to be nutritious, affordable, low carbon footprint and indistinguishable from their dairy counterparts. To support the development of Climax's disruptive solution, Bel acquired an equity stake in the company.
Food is a crucial lever in reducing human impact on the environment. To this end, Bel and Climax are joining forces to continue exploring the possibilities offered by the plant world as it has an incredible potential to provide sustainable food.