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| 03.09.2026 | Giving up vegan arm helps Britain’s biggest meatpacker eye profit surge | The UK’s biggest meatpacker has upgraded its profit target after offloading its loss-making vegan arm.
FTSE 250 listed Hilton, which packages beef, lamb and fish, said it now expected to make a pre-tax profit of between £66m and £71m, a 10 ... |
| 09.07.2026 | Deep Dive: What’s Driving the Consolidation Wave in Alternative Protein? | 11 Mins Read More than 80 alternative protein startups have experienced M&As, insolvency, or closures over the last two years – and investors and founders don’t expect this consolidation trend to stop.
”I think the next generation of fo... |
| 01.07.2026 | LIVEKINDLY Collective Acquires German Plant-Based Brand Greenforce | LIVEKINDLY Collective is acquiring Greenforce Future Food AG, a Munich-based manufacturer of plant-based foods. The agreement was signed on July 1, 2026. With the integration of Greenforce, the company is further expanding its presence in o... |
| 17.12.2025 | LIVEKINDLY Collective Adds TiNDLE to Its Foodservice Portfolio in US, Germany, and UK | Plant-based food companies LIVEKINDLY Collective (LKC) and TiNDLE Foods have entered into a new partnership focused on foodservice and online distribution channels in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
“This move represents... |
| 19.11.2025 | LIVEKINDLY Collective Achieves Profitability for the First Time Since 2020 | LIVEKINDLY Collective (LKC), a global player in the plant-based food sector, reported its first profitable months since its inception in 2020. The plant-based food producer revealed that September was not only its first profitable month but... |
| 27.08.2025 | Plant-Based Brand Like to Launch in Major UK Supermarkets Starting with Tesco | Plant-based protein brand Like will debut in major UK retailers next month, starting with Tesco on September 8th. The launch will feature three products: Like Hot Dogs, Like Chicken Burgers, and Like Popcorn Chicken, all designed to offer p... |
| 13.08.2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Pamela Anderson, Oatly x Häagen-Dazs & Domino’s Peta | 4 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Pamela Anderson’s vegan pickles, Oatly and Häagen-Dazs’s ice cream collab, and Actual Veggies’s Indian-inspired b... |
| 08.08.2025 | Livekindly Collective Announces Departure of European Head Anja Grunefeld | Anja Grunefeld has stepped down from her role as Head of Europe at Livekindly Collective to pursue other opportunities. Grunefeld, who joined the company in November 2020, also held the position of Managing Director for the DACH region and ... |
| 16.01.2025 | The Rise of Plant-Based Leadership and Nutritional Awareness in India | In a world increasingly leaning towards sustainability and health, two recent developments highlight the shifting tides in food production and nutritional awareness. LIVEKINDLY Collective has appointed Bart Wolfert as its Global Head of Ope... |
| 13.01.2025 | LIVEKINDLY Collective Names Bart Wolfert as Global Head of Operations | LIVEKINDLY Collective (LKC), a global group of plant-based food brands, has announced Bart Wolfert as its new Global Head of Operations. In his role, Wolfert will oversee operations across LKC’s three manufacturing facilities located in Oss... |
| 03.08.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Konscious Foods snags $26m for alt-seafood, Ocean 14 Capital reels in $33m | Top agrifoodtech news this week was all about the ocean. Plant-based seafood-maker Konscious Foods announced new funding, as did impact investor Ocean 14 Capital. Other funding rounds from the week included coffee tech, agribusiness marketp... |
| 02.08.2023 | Alpha Foods: Frozen Vegan Meat Startup Acquired by LIVEKINDLY Collective | 3 Mins Read The LIVEKINDLY Collective (LKC) has acquired Californian plant-based meat startup Alpha Foods, which becomes the sixth food brand under the former’s portfolio. Founded in 2015, Alpha’s lineup includes frozen burritos, burgers, n... |
| 01.08.2023 | Alpha Foods looks to growth in 2024 under LIVEKINDLY Collective umbrella | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Alpha Foods.]
New York based LIVEKINDLY Collective (LKC) has expanded its plant-based portfolio with the acquisition of Glendale, California-based Alpha Foods.
Founded i... |
| 01.08.2023 | LIVEKINDLY Collective Significantly Expands US Presence with Alpha Foods Acquisition | The LIVEKINDLY Collective (LKC) has announced the acquisition of California-based Alpha Foods, a popular plant-based brand known for its frozen burritos, wraps, tamales, breakfast sandwiches, and meat alternatives.
“LIVEKINDLY Collective is... |
| 24.05.2022 | Blue Horizon: “One of the Clear Leaders in Sustainable Food Investing” | Björn Witte is Managing Partner and CEO of Blue Horizon Corporation. He was also a Co-Founder and acted as CEO of the LIVEKINDLY Collective.
Björn talks to vegconomist about the future of protein and how Blue Horizon is on track to reach th... |
| 08.03.2022 | LikeMeat Will Feature Innovative Plant-Based Chicken at Expo West 2022 | LikeMeat, a LIVEKINDLY Collective brand, announces the company will showcase its authentic plant-based chicken products at this year’s Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, California. Throughout the event, LikeMeat will be sampling a full... |
| 02.02.2022 | LikeMeat’s Like Chick’n Wings Launch in Over 3,600 US Walmart Stores | Germany’s LikeMeat announces its plant-based Like Chick’n Wings are now available at US Walmart locations nationwide. Acquired by the LIVEKINDLY Collective, the brand debuts its wings at the world’s largest retailer just ahead of the Superb... |
| 26.11.2021 | New Campaign by PETA and LIVEKINDLY Encourages Shoppers to Choose Wool-Free Fashion | Animal rights group PETA and The LIVEKINDLY Collective have joined forces for a campaign urging consumers to avoid sheep’s wool over the festive season.
The campaign involves a short film featuring Florence, a cartoon lamb drawn by renowned... |
| 19.10.2021 | LIVEKINDLY Collective: “On Track to Become One of the World’s Largest Plant-Based Food Companies” | The LIVEKINDLY Collective was founded with the goal of changing people’s beliefs and habits: “Ultimately, we want to transform the broken food system into a sustainable, plant-based one.”
To achieve this mission, the collective of food indu... |
| 14.07.2021 | Next Gen Foods’ tech-inspired, asset-light model just closed plant protein’s biggest-ever seed round | Even before Next Gen Foods secured an additional $20 million in funding this week, it had already raised the largest seed round on record for a plant-based protein startup.
The extension announced yesterday comes on top of the $10 million t... |
| 06.07.2021 | LIVEKINDLY Collective Collaborates With Dutch Cartoonist Toon van Driel to Influence Children’s Perceptions of Food | The LIVEKINDLY Collective has collaborated with Dutch cartoonist Toon van Driel to raise awareness of animal welfare in a series of short animated films called Kind Heroes, with the idea of influencing younger generations and their percepti... |
| 26.05.2021 | Kees Kruythoff on Creating a Total Systems Change in the Global Food Supply | Kees Kruythoff, former President of North America of Unilever and Current Chairman and CEO of The LIVEKINDLY Collective, speaks with Plantbased Business Consultant Elysabeth Alfano on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss:
the LIVEKINDLY ... |
| 01.04.2021 | Mosa Meat CEO on choosing non-GMO, differentiation & pricing the novelty factor | Editor’s note: This post is part of a collaboration with F&A Next, an AgFunder Network Partner. F&A Next was founded by Anterra Capital, StartLife, Rabobank, and Wageningen University & Research.
F&A Next is a platform dedic... |
| 30.03.2021 | Daily funding roundup - March 29th, 2020 | Cityblock Health raised $192M; Crossover Health landed $168M; LiveKindly Collective secured $103M
Cityblock Health: Cityblock Health is a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based startup that pairs community outreach, local clinics and virtual care with softwa... |
| 30.03.2021 | Com Bono Vox entre os investidores, startup de carne vegetal capta US$ 335 milhões | A Livekindly Collective, um grupo de marcas de proteínas à base de plantas, anunciou que recebeu um aporte de US$ 335 milhões liderado pelo The Rise Fund, plataforma global de investimento de impacto administrada pela TPG Capital em parceri... |
| 29.03.2021 | Brief: Plant-based house of brands Livekindly Collective nets $335m funding | The Livekindly Collective — “a collection of heritage and start-up brands” marketing plant-based food products — has raised $335 million in a funding round led by TPG Capital‘s The Rise Fund.
Rabo Corporate Investments — the VC arm of Rabob... |
| 29.03.2021 | LIVEKINDLY Collective Raises $335M to Fuel Expansion Across US and China | LIVEKINDLY Collective today announces the closing of a growth funding round of $335 million, including $135 million converted from a prior round, bringing the total funds raised in its first year to $535 million. The company states that thi... |
| 29.03.2021 | LIVEKINDLY Collective Raises $335 Million to Accelerate Adoption of Plant-Based Living and Sustainability in the Global Food System | New York -- LIVEKINDLY Collective, a collection of heritage and start-up brands on track to become one of the world’s largest plant-based food companies, today announced a successful capital raise led by The Rise Fund, the global impact inv... |
| 29.03.2021 | LIVEKINDLY screams its way to the top of new plant brands with the close of a $335 million round | LIVEKINDLY Collective, the shouty parent company behind a family of plant-based food brands, has snagged cash from the global impact investing arm of $103 billion investment firm TPG to close its latest round of funding at $335 million.
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| 28.02.2021 | TheVeganKind: U.K.’s Largest Online Retailer Teams Up With THIS To Launch Ready Plant-Based Meal Brand | 4 Mins Read
U.K.’s largest vegan online retailer TheVeganKind recently collaborated with plant-based meat pioneers THIS to launch its first own 100% plant-based ready-to-eat food brand Love Plants!.
TheVeganKind is a 100% plant-based delive... |
| 16.02.2021 | Rival Foods & LIVEKINDLY Collective To Develop The ‘Perfect’ Plant-Based Whole Cut Chicken | 1
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Dutch food tech Rival Foods and plant-based group LIVEKINDLY Collective have announced a new partnership to develop the “perfect” plant-based chicken. The collaboration between the two firms will see Rival Foods levera... |
| 10.02.2021 | Rival Foods Partners Up to Develop Juicy Whole-cut Plant-based Chicken |
Rival Foods, a Dutch gastronomy startup that produces whole-cuts of plant-based meat, announced a partnership with LIVEKINDLY Collective that aims to fasten the development of a perfect plant-based chicken, bringing a tasty and sustainabl... |
| 10.02.2021 | PURIS Holdings and LIVEKINDLY Collective team up on sustainable, plant-based foods mission | LIVEKINDLY Collective, a plant-based food and media company launched last year, has acquired several plant-based foods brands (LikeMeat, Oumph!, and The Fry Family Food Co.) and has the ultimate mission of making plant-based alternative... |
| 11.01.2021 | Iceland Foods: Retail Giant’s Vegan Brand No Meat Acquired By LIVEKINDLY Collective | 9 1
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No Meat, a vegan meat brand developed by British food manufacturer and retail giant Iceland Foods, has been acquired by the LIVEKINDLY Collective. No Meat will join the plant-based food group’s growing portfolio of... |
| 06.01.2021 | LIVEKINDLY Collective Acquires Iceland Foods’ No Meat | No Meat image courtesy LIVE KINDLY
Following the previous acquisitions of Fry Family Food Co., LikeMeat, Oumph!, and the online media platform LIVEKINDLY; LIVEKINDLY Collective today announces it has purchased Iceland Foods’ No Meat. It is ... |
| 06.01.2021 | LIVEKINDLY Collective Acquires Iceland Foods’ No Meat | Following the previous acquisitions of Fry Family Food Co., LikeMeat, Oumph!, and the online media platform LIVEKINDLY; LIVEKINDLY Collective today announces it has purchased Iceland Foods’ No Meat. It is also announced that Iceland will be... |
| - | Com Bono Vox entre os investidores, startup de carne vegetal capta US$ 335 milhões | A Livekindly Collective, um grupo de marcas de proteínas à base de plantas, anunciou que recebeu um aporte de US$ 335 milhões liderado pelo The Rise Fund, plataforma global de investimento de impacto administrada pela TPG Capital em parceri... |
