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...Meanwhile, too small to register in the above charts are meatless meat specialists such as Ontario-based Maple Leaf Foods, which in November wrote down the value of its plant protein business by $191mn....
...That is a strong level of profitability given relatively low-tech products. Capital should chase profits....
...Last year JBS, a leading meat group headquartered in Brazil, closed its US plant-based meat business Planterra, while Canada’s Maple Leaf reduced the size of its venture....
...Canadian meat group Maple Leaf Foods is among those companies warning that hopes for a quick rebound in sales are fading....
...The category is particularly vulnerable because its products are typically sold at a premium to real meat, industry analysts say....
...Maple Leaf Foods, the Canadian meat group that owns plant-based meat brand Lightlife, said it had completed a review that showed consumers were not making repeat purchases because the products were not meeting...
...The Japanese company was a pioneer of electric vehicles with the launch of the Leaf in 2010....
...The sales decline comes after weak revenue figures over the past few weeks from Beyond Meat and Maple Leaf Foods, the Canadian meat group that owns the plant-based protein specialist Green Leaf....
...As Stephen Bates, author of Royalty Inc, puts it: “The monarchy is one thing the Americans don’t have.”...
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...About 10 per cent of the 20,000 funds analysed received just one leaf. Investor demand for green products accelerated sharply last year....
...We should build products based on demand and grow organically rather than building to capacity and using incentives and dealer volume bonus to push the product.”...
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...Former Twitter and Facebook product executive Sriram Krishnan has joined Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner. StepStone Group has promoted 10 partners and 10 managing directors....
...The Sterling Dual Capsule cigarillo is the same size as a normal cigarette but is classified as a cigar-type product as it is wrapped in tobacco leaf....
...Meat companies such as Tyson Foods and Maple Leaf are coming out with their own alternative proteins, and big consumer goods companies like Nestlé and Unilever also want in....
...burning the leaf does....
...Canada’s Maple Leaf Foods and Nestlé have already made a push into alternative proteins....
...As cigarette sales decline in the west, Big Tobacco has swung its focus from traditional leaf and paper products to vaping and heated tobacco devices that, with the need for aftercare, refills and digital...
...How can they be trusted not to prioritise their own products at the expense of smaller operators?...
...Canada’s Maple Leaf Foods, which bought two plant-based brands in 2017 for $270m, announced this year that it would spend $310m constructing a plant-based product facility in Indiana....
...e) If Nissan Leafs can be made more affordable, the demand is extraordinary....
...“When we come up with a new product that gets customers to come in, that is how we create same-store sales,” Ms Wat added....
...More than 40 big companies, including Mars Inc, PepsiCo and Unilever, are now experimenting with reusable packaging, according to the foundation....
...Yet in another key part of product development Snap has been too slow....
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