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Turning up the heat: Sustainability & branding in the F&D sector

Sustainability is becoming more critical for businesses across all markets, nowhere more so than in Food & Drink. But what are the challenges in branding innovative products which are sustainable?

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AI in the kitchen: The future of food technology

The idea of robots in the kitchen once seemed like a strange and alien concept. Fast forward to today and AI is well on its way to making itself at home among our slow cookers and air fryers.

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Drinking, dining & disruption: the revolutionaries in the Food & Drink industry – Hampton Court Gin

These days, gin is absolutely booming and craft gin is the hip drink of choice whatever your age. But how hard is it to stand out in such a crowded market?

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Drinking, dining & disruption: the revolutionaries in the Food & Drink industry - Russell & Atwell

How do disrupters in the Food & Drink sector see things themselves and what do they think the future holds? We speak to the passionate Giles Atwell, co-founder of Russell & Atwell to find out.

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CRISPR Beef: coming to a plate near you soon?

We recently covered 5 challenges faced by the cultured meat industry. Now, a start-up has announced a major breakthrough which could address two of these – price and scale-up of production.

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Caterpillar or copy-cat? – a look at copycatting in the food and drink sector

With news that an out of court settlement has been reached between Marks & Spencer (M&S) and Aldi in the widely publicised dispute over caterpillar shaped cakes, we take a deeper look at copycatting i...

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Drinking, dining & disruption: the revolutionaries in the Food & Drink industry - Moorish

How do disrupters in the Food & Drink sector see things themselves and what do they think the future holds? We decided to speak to some of the sector’s most innovative and passionate founders to find ...

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Spice up your life: intellectual property for the recipe revolution

With recipe repertoires growing post-pandemic, and an increased trend for buying recipe kits, intellectual property is of ever-increasing importance in the food industry.

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Drinking, dining & disruption: the revolutionaries in the Food & Drink industry - Nc’Nean

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Novel food and new technologies: are we ready for insect proteins in Europe?

For just the second time ever, an insect has reached the final authorising step as a novel food before the EU’s Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed.

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5 challenges faced by the cultured meat industry

Cultured meat, or lab-based meat, is meat grown from animal cells in tissue culture. The food industry is looking to ever more technologically advanced solutions to feed the world.

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Eating in a cashless, virtual world: how has the COVID-19 pandemic changed how we buy our food?

Answering the need for social distancing, an ever increasing number of grocery stores and restaurants adopt cashless technology to keep their customers safe in a COVID-19 world.

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Don’t be afraid of the dark: how has the COVID-19 pandemic changed where our food comes from?

The pandemic saw the rise of dark stores (such as Getir, Weezy and Gorillas Grocery). They're local fulfilment centres where grocery retailers are able to store their produce and distribute therefrom.

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Trade marks and geographical indications in a post-Brexit landscape

This month saw the first product granted Geographical Indication status under the UK’s new post-Brexit scheme. More will surely follow as food & drink producers get use to the new way of doing things.

Analysis

Bottoms up – what’s brewing in the beer industry?

A recent report published the news that the Netherlands was the largest beer exporter in the EU in 2020. Not only for your regular bottle of beer, but also in the area of non-alcoholic beers. Besides ...

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