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Cascades has unveiled a new range of eco-friendly basket designs for the produce sector, capable of supporting a wide range of fruit and veg.

Planet A Foods and Voyage Foods, two start-ups that are developing cocoa-free chocolate, have announced recent successful funding raises.

Henry Dimbleby, co-founder of Leon, has launched Bramble Partners, a venture capital firm on a mission to discover "better ways to feed the world".

Inari, a biotech seed company, has secured a $103m funding round to develop and commercialise higher-yielding seeds that demand fewer resources.

Denmark-headquartered bioproduction company 21st.Bio is granting access to its precision fermentation platform to food and beverage ingredient manufacturers.

Sidel is unveiling its newest technology for quality control in PET bottle production with the introduction of IntelliAdjust.

Too Good To Go has launched a surplus food management solution, enabling grocery retailers to unlock value from excess inventory.

Hailia is transforming overlooked by-products of the fish industry into popular seafood products suitable for both household cooking and commercial use.

TraceGains a solutions and development company, has acquired NutriCalc, a company known for its highly accurate nutritional calculation software.

Aniai, a provider of robotic kitchen solutions, has successfully secured $12 million in a pre-Series A funding round.

Kirin Brewery Company has committed to exclusively use renewable energy for purchased electric power across all company plants and offices from January.

Heineken partners with Siemens for its global Net Zero Production roadmap, to reach net zero in Scopes one and two across all production sites by 2030.