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Pepper, an e-commerce platform for food distributors, has closed a $30m Series B funding round led by ICONIQ Growth.

Diageo plans to invest more than €100m to decarbonise its St James’s Gate site in Dublin, Ireland, where Guinness has been brewed for 264 years.

Canadian clean-tech start-up Relocalize has closed a CAD 5.8m (approx. $4.26m) seed funding round to expand its autonomous micro-factory platform.

PepsiCo has announced plans to invest £8m in its Pipers Crisps manufacturing site in Brigg, Lincolnshire, UK, to meet growing demand.

Nestlé has announced plans to invest BRL 1bn (approx. $193.97m) in Brazil by 2026 to strengthen its B2B and B2C presence in the country.

ADM has pledged $1m to Kansas State University’s Global Center for Grain and Food Innovation to support product development, food safety and food security.

San Francisco, Bay Area-based start-up Voyage Foods has closed a funding round totalling $52m, bringing its total funding raised to $94m.

Ferrero North America has opened its first chocolate processing facility in North America, marking its third globally.

ADM has reported quarterly revenue of $21.85bn for the period ending 31 March 2024, a 9% decrease from the same quarter last year.

The Hain Celestial Group has unveiled a series of strategic measures aimed at advancing the 'Focus' pillar of its Hain Reimagined business strategy.

Mondelēz has reported a 1.4% increase in first-quarter net revenue to $9.29bn, compared to an 18.1% increase in the year-ago quarter.

Supermarket giant Lidl GB has announced plans to invest £500m into the British pork sector to bolster the nation's pork industry.