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.

The company has committed to purchasing rice from these farmers (using a mass balance approach) in an amount that is equal to the volume of its Success white and brown rice consumption.

Brothers International Food Holdings, LLC, Rochester, N.Y., has acquired Hosh International LLC, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based supplier of value-added fruit and vegetable juice concentrates and purees to global CPG companies. 

The Boston Beer Company and Entourage Health Corp. have partnered with Québec producer, distributor and marketer ROSE LifeScience Inc. to bring TeaPot, Boston Beer’s cannabis-infused beverage, to the Québec market.

Farbest is already known for its robust portfolio of plant and dairy proteins, gums, natural colors, sweeteners, and more to meet customer needs.

The Learning Center is intended to enable packaging products to move from testing to certification-ready at least two to three times faster in an effort to drive the business and the entire industry forward. 

This year marks the eighth year of the Greenhouse Accelerator program, and the first-ever Hispanic edition, which focuses on driving growth of emerging Hispanic-owned food and beverage businesses through collaboration and innovation.

NotCo, a food tech company valued at $1.5 billion with a patented A.I. technology named Giuseppe, announced that Meredith Madden has joined the company as its US general manager. 

ADM and Brightseed announced a global joint partnership to develop evidence-based functional synbiotic products that target microbiome optimization with an undisclosed investment. Specifically, ADM is leveraging Brightseed’s artificial intelligence (A.I.) platform, Forager®, to decipher the molecular interactions between dietary plants and gut microbes, and their potential impact on human health.

DeGennaro will be responsible for establishing, implementing, and executing the business and commercial strategy for the food and nutrition vertical.