Food and Drink Federation Awards 2016

Rapeseed oil remains Germany's most popular cooking oil

Relevance is also growing in the organic segment

Mutti Germany grows to 81 million euros in sales in 2025 and becomes the second strongest market after Italy

in 2025, Mutti processed more than 725,000 tons of tomatoes - the highest quantity in the company's history

Barilla is looking for start-ups for Good Food Makers 2026

The company is seeking solutions in three areas: AI onboarding, ready meals and mood snacks

The Paulaner Brewery Group and Brouwerij Dilewyns enter into partnership

The Munich-based brewery targets the top spot in German wheat beer off-trade sales in Belgium

Austria's changing coffee culture: Gen Z drinks coffee more on the go than any other generation

94.2 percent of 15 to 29-year-olds buy coffee to go - only 50.8 percent of baby boomers do so

Griesson - de Beukelaer honored as Best Managed Company 2026

Family-owned company impresses with sustainable strategy, value-based management and clear commitment to Germany as a business location

Million-euro investment: Westfalen doubles industrial gases capacities in Switzerland

Capacity in Eiken is almost doubled and secures gas supply for customers in the pharmaceutical, laboratory, medical, beverage, welding and cutting sectors

Innovation meets practice: POWTECH TECHNOPHARM takes centre stage for processing technology again in 2026

Oetker Group successfully asserts itself in a challenging market environment

Germany remains investment focus once again

Arla Foods strengthens presence in Australia with acquisition of cottage cheese producer Brancourts

“Australia is a highly attractive market for Arla, and we have confidence in its long-term potential”

Food fraud: Why criminals counterfeit oregano more often than beef

Food fraud causes up to 12 billion euros in damage every year: TÜV SÜD explains which products are particularly affected

Strong first quarter for GEA

Accelerated growth and further profitability gains

Regional herbs and vegetables from former pigsties

DBU supports startup Stallgrün with 125,000 euros

World's first ice cream production without CO₂

Florida Ice invests 25 million euros

LEVACO invests in Brazil

Specialty chemicals company further expands Brazil as a strategic growth market for agrochemicals and food chemicals

Hochland posts turnover of €2.54 billion and withdraws from the US

The cheese manufacturer is focusing its resources on its core European markets

NanoStruct secures €2.6 million for faster bacterial analysis in food

Nanostructured sensor chips combined with AI are set to replace laboratory tests that take several days

Berief Food switches to Theo Müller

Sale enables location stability and acceleration of international expansion

Food processing and packaging machinery industry in good shape

Swiss-led Initiative for Sustainable, Fair-Trade, Organic Coconut Oil

Nutriswiss, Coop and HALBA guarantee fixed purchase volumes and stable incomes for over 200 smallholders

Coffee doesn’t just wake you up — it may help protect your body from aging

New research identifies a key biological pathway that could explain how coffee helps protect against aging and chronic disease.

Ultra-processed foods damage your focus even if you eat healthy

One extra bag of chips a day reduces your ability to focus and raise dementia risk factors regardless of diet quality

Future Foods Lab: Nomad Foods advances two startups to concept development

Swedish clean-label pizza brand For Real! Foods and Spanish functional snack maker Mia Puccia enter the next innovation phase

Could cultured chocolate unlock the next food revolution?

Chocolate from a bioreactor: UC Davis and food-tech start-up California Cultured aim to reinvent cocoa

New research finds that almost all plant-based meat alternatives contain mycotoxins

Grains, legumes and seeds used in vegan products are particularly prone to mould exposure during cultivation and storage

Less hunger, more environmental problems?

Study investigates tradeoffs between human health and sustainability

Reduce, remove and modify: Research team "cuts" wheat chromosomes to size

Study paves the way for faster breeding

Healthier plant-based diet associated with lower risk of Alzheimer’s, other dementias

Lower risk found even among those who adopted the diet at an older age

Not all ultra-processed foods are unhealthy

Healthy ultra-processed foods should be exempt from food policy restrictions

Start-up produces molecules that no fermentation process has previously been able to produce economically

Primogene raises €4.1 million to bring nature's complex bioactive molecules to the industrial scale

Red meat: Evolution’s double-edged sword

Why the food that made us human may be making us sick

Festo is cutting approximately 1,300 jobs in Germany

Family-owned company responds to intensifying competition in Asia and geopolitical crises with a global transformation program

Miltenyi Biotec expands Cologne production site for clinical reagents

Milestone for biotechnology made in Germany: More capacity for cell and gene therapies

Common structural analysis of interfacial water is inadequate, according to a new study

Water molecules at the air-water interface characterised layer by layer for the first time

Water splitting catalyst creates hydrogen at low temperatures

Birmingham researchers’ novel way of producing hydrogen fuel has a lower cost than existing methods

Cytospire Therapeutics announces oversubscribed £61 million Series A financing

London-based start-up aims to activate gamma-delta T cells in both the blood and the tumour to fight cancer

First ​“protein map” of neurons that initiate pain reveals new targets for drugs

Deep Visual Proteomics applied to nerve cells for the first time

Short circuits in solid-state batteries: the mechanism finally proven

Using cryo-electron microscopy under vacuum, a Max Planck team has resolved a decade-long debate on dendrite-induced cracking

One Molecule, Two Effects: A New Drug Concept to Treat Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

Low Dose via a “Trojan Horse”

New biomarkers for detecting cancer

Able to distinguish between tumour stages

Green hydrogen from sunlight and water - without electrolyzers and without electricity

Photreon, a spin-off from KIT, is developing a photoreactor panel that enables direct solar hydrogen production

No need to pull all-nighters here: this laboratory plans its own experiments

KIWI Biolab at TU Berlin combines robots, analysis devices and AI - and uses them to carry out even complex experiments fully automatically

Brain tumor spread in the living brain observed live for the first time

Three-photon microscopy reveals: immune cells of the brain actively influence how far the tumor advances

German plastics recycling on the brink of collapse

Six proposals to save the industry

From the lab to the next generation of startups

IBT Lower Saxony funds research projects from Göttingen and Braunschweig with almost 2.4 million euros

For the first time, researchers are peering inside record-breaking superconductors

Atomic-level insights into lanthanum superhydrides are expected to enable more energy-efficient technologies in the long term

Sustainable chemistry: iron replaces precious metals in catalysis

Researchers develop iron(I) source for catalytic reactions - approach aims to make chemical processes more sustainable

Merck upgrades full-year guidance and expects revenue of up to €21.4 billion

New CEO Kai Beckmann announces adaptation to the operating model

Shimadzu acquires German startup Plasmion and its SICRIT ionization technology

The mass spectrometry technique enables high-sensitivity real-time analysis without complex sample pretreatment

IBU-tec is setting up LFP production without Chinese technology

New plant to produce 15,000 tonnes of European battery material, with a significantly lower carbon footprint than Chinese processes

Europe is pooling billions to turn biotech companies into global champions

EQT will manage the €5 billion fund, investing in biotech, AI and other key technologies

Largest study to date on the genetics of blood proteins highlights new disease mechanisms and drug repurposing opportunities

Machine learning combined with genetic analysis is expected to enable a more targeted use of active substances in precision medicine

DOMO chemical plant in Leuna saved

"This was a last-minute rescue in a procedure that was unusual in every respect"

Sartorius marks positive start to 2026: Considerable sales revenue growth and resilient profit margin

Group sales revenue up by 7.5 percent

Are critical raw materials for EVs less critical than previously thought?

A 15-year analysis identifies four innovation leaps that repeatedly reshaped which raw materials the market relies on

Protein inhibition can weaken leukemia cells

Researchers were able to trigger targeted defense reactions and cell death in cancer cells

Kai Beckmann to become Merck's new CEO on May 1, 2026

At the 31st Annual General Meeting, Belén Garijo symbolically handed over leadership of the DAX company to her successor after five years

Roche acquires PathAI to transform AI-driven diagnostics

This acquisition strengthens Roche’s position in digital pathology