PLT Health Solutions, Inc. named Sharon Peek as technical business manager as part of the company’s global sales team. Before joining PLT, Peek spent seven years in sales, manufacturing and innovation positions at Innophos Nutrition/Novel Ingredients.

IFF announced the North American launch of Nurica™, which gives dairy producers a new way to meet consumer health needs with a premium product that they will love. 

Kemin Industries introduced the Kemin Flour Tortilla Guide, a new downloadable performance resource, complete with troubleshooting checklist, to help tortilla manufacturers resolve common performance challenges they may encounter during the manufacturing process. 

Popcorn has lacked innovation for decades, yet it remains a staple in the snack industry with the microwave popcorn category showing explosive 13.3% growth in the last year alone. Now, Opopop has arrived with the ambition to completely redefine what consumers should expect from microwave popcorn with the launch of Flavor Wrapped™ Popcorn Kernels.

Campbell will lead sales efforts, as food innovators embrace Epogee’s revolutionary alternative fat technology to make better-for-you foods without any compromise.

Motif will have exclusive access to these food technologies, which hold the promise to address two of the most significant challenges in plant-based foods: achieving melt and stretch in plant-based cheese, and healthier fat that marbleizes in plant-based meat.

Silicon Valley-based cellular agriculture company Mission Barns announced a $24M Series A to scale up its cultivated fat technology and build a pilot manufacturing plant in the Bay Area.

Better Brand, Inc., an innovative food tech startup marking a new era of nutrition by leading innovation in the multi-trillion-dollar refined carb space, announced plans to launch its first product, The Better Bagel – turning one of the most carb-heavy foods into the carb equivalent of ½ of an orange, or 1/5th of a banana.

Pegasus Tech Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based global venture capital firm which supports innovation for global corporations, announced a business collaboration with Japan’s food giant Ajinomoto Co., Inc.

NotCo, a food-tech company in Latin America backed by key venture capital names like Jeff Bezos has been named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2021. The company ranked No.1 in Latin America and top 50 globally.