Burger King, Tim Hortons parent to buy Popeyes for $1.8B

Almdudler Germany takes over distribution of disposable containers itself in 2027

Bundling all sales activities strengthens market proximity and creates new growth impetus in the most important export market

Two technology start-ups at TH Mannheim receive millions in funding from the federal government

Energy-efficient technology for long-life food and improved radiation protection in the operating theater

Nestlé to acquire smart food pioneer yfood to accelerate the brand’s international expansion

Nestlé manager Jolanda Schwirtz takes over as head

Nestlé and Helaina partner to advance science-based early-life nutrition

The partnership combines Nestlé's nutrition science expertise with Helaina's biotech capabilities

Largest-ever capital investment at Lake District Creamery

First Milk boosts cheddar output

More than two thirds of Germans regularly drink functional drinks

Survey shows: fruit drinks with vitamins are just behind energy drinks

K+S acquires Qemetica’s salt business for up to 380 million euros

K+S is tapping into new growth opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe with specialty salts for water softening and the food industry

Nomad Foods bolsters UK food supply chain with £2.2m investment in its Lowestoft factory

Green light for Arla Foods and DMK Group merger ​

The combined milk pool totals 19.4 billion kilograms annually

Nordzucker is revising its beet pricing model and investing €160 million in its factories

Two high-yield beet harvests in succession, high stocks in the EU sugar market and decreasing prices have impacted the earnings position

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”

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

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

Less hunger, more environmental problems?

Study investigates tradeoffs between human health and sustainability

Not all ultra-processed foods are unhealthy

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

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

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

Study paves the way for faster breeding

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.

Red meat: Evolution’s double-edged sword

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

Improving taste and texture in oat drinks

Greek-Swedish scientist selected as finalist for the European Inventor Award 2026

What gives stevia its sweetness?

Scientists uncover the genetic secret: The study finds major implications for the food and beverage industry

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

Detecting heavy metals in soil and water: New method for on-site analysis

Simple technology replaces expensive laboratory procedures

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

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

German plastics recycling on the brink of collapse

Six proposals to save the industry

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

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

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

New antibiotics discovered to treat multi-resistant germs

A well-known soil bacterium produces a previously unknown antibiotic that was discovered through improved fractionation methods

Holography meets spectroscopy: Ultrafast microscopy method for optical processes

Research team from Heidelberg and Milan develops novel microscopy technique to study energy materials

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

New drug could slow the development of Alzheimer’s

The active ingredient also shows anti-ageing effects

Researchers solve a 50-year-old mystery: how acid removes water from proteins

Cryo-electron microscopy reveals for the first time which amino acids bind water and which ones release it when acidified

Focused Energy secures US$240 million: the world’s first laser fusion power plant is set to be built in Germany

Record funding round positions the start-up at the forefront of the international fusion industry

Fewer animal experiments thanks to virtual mouse

AI-supported in silico mouse model for biomedical research

New biomarkers for detecting cancer

Able to distinguish between tumour stages

Atomic reshuffle paves way for record-breaking catalysts for hydrogen production

"This opens a new strategy for designing adaptive catalysts for a wide range of applications"

First European biotech with CAR-T and LNP technology under one roof

T-CURX integrates Pantherna Therapeutics, bringing together 16 patent families and 35 employee

Haga Bioscience raises $2.3m in oversubscribed seed round to bridge spatial biomarker discovery and clinical translation

Reversible glue technology goes electric

Water-based adhesive joins electronic components and releases them on demand

Pyrolysis oil instead of crude oil: Faster fluorine analysis reduces the risk for refineries

New method solves a key analytical challenge

Recovering critical materials from batteries

Chinese inventors selected as finalists for the European Inventor Award 2026

Making biomolecules glow: new dye solves problem

Combating unwanted signals in microscopy: method ensures just labelled biological molecules glow

Sunfire to Build Electrolysis Test Facility at BASF Site in Schwarzheide

Test facility supports the industrial-scale deployment of green hydrogen