Food startup Verrano closes first financing round

Cheese consumption in Switzerland is growing

Fresh and semi-hard cheeses continue to grow in popularity

Katjes reports record revenue and earnings

The Group is targeting consolidated revenue of over EUR 650 million by 2026

KRONEN continues to grow and achieves a turnover of 22 million euros

Partnership with Urschel opens up markets for KRONEN in North America and Asia

Melitta financial year 2025: Uninterrupted growth despite a persistently difficult environment

Paulig to sell Risenta to Midsona, sharpening its focus on World Foods and Tex Mex

Unilever announces the combination of Unilever Foods with McCormick to create a global flavour powerhouse with a superior growth profile

Unilever to become a pureplay HPC business with leading positions in highly attractive categories, fast growing geographies and channels.

Good Friday fish in the sustainability check

Conscious, sophisticated enjoyment outlasts the quick rush

BOAR Gin® demonstrates that a decline in alcohol consumption can also offer opportunities for producers of high-quality spirits

Ever heard of the barunut?

gebana brings the baruna nut to Europe as a novel food

Growth in visitor numbers, full halls, clear future topics: analytica 2026 sets standards

AI and automation as innovation drivers for the industry

Danone and Arcor form dairy joint venture in Argentina

The new entity combines Danone Argentina, Mastellone Hermanos and a shared logistics subsidiary under equal 50/50 ownership

Nordzucker’s Finnish subsidiary adjusts its production structure

Suomen Sokeri Oy is discontinuing raw sugar refining at its Porkkala site

Italian foodtech Foreverland secures €6M to scale industrial cocoa-free ingredient supply

The company is entering the organic space as the first industrial-scale producer of organic cocoa-free chocolate

Paulaner develops a beer specifically for the Chinese market for the first time

Paulaner drives international growth through a strategic partnership with Tsingtao in China

Berentzen increases consolidated profit and free cash flow in the 2025 financial year

Both figures exceed those of the previous year

NOI Techpark Bolzano: start-up incubator between Munich and Milan

South Tyrolean incubator connects start-up teams with research institutes, universities and investment partners

Berentzen acquires JUMA from a Frankfurt-based start-up and launches a functional lifestyle drink

The brand was acquired by food42morrow and repositioned as an energy tea containing electrolytes and caffeine

Valeo Foods Group acquires Bulgarian sweet goods specialist

With this acquisition, Valeo Foods secures four local brands and a state-of-the-art production facility with approximately 450 employees

Kräuter Mix launches new germ reduction facility after fire recovery

New continuous germ reduction system complements existing batch operations while adding 1,300 m² total space

German biotech company chooses Saxony-Anhalt for protein production facility

MicroHarvest relies on regional molasses as a raw material and short supply chains in uncertain times

German food tech company secures €8 million to combat food waste

Foodforecast aims to scale AI technology for ultra-fresh food

Amazonian cocoa could become a superfood

Brazilian researchers discovered glycine betaine and proline in unroasted beans as natural cell protectors

More meat, lower risk of dementia: study reveals gene-dependent effect

Among carriers of the APOE4 variant, high meat consumption was associated with a significantly slower rate of cognitive decline

Why does oat milk sometimes foam perfectly and sometimes not at all?

New project makes the functionality of plant proteins measurable - for more reliable production of vegan products

German biotech company chooses Saxony-Anhalt for protein production facility

MicroHarvest relies on regional molasses as a raw material and short supply chains in uncertain times

Cherry compounds may slow aggressive breast cancer

Natural compounds in dark sweet cherries could reduce tumor growth, metastasis and therapy resistance in triple-negative breast cancer

How climate-friendly is insect protein really?

New study provides insights into the carbon footprint of the black soldier fly

How can startups revolutionize home cooking?

Nomad Foods seeks startups for new frozen food innovations

Paulaner develops a beer specifically for the Chinese market for the first time

Paulaner drives international growth through a strategic partnership with Tsingtao in China

Research team achieves breakthrough in breeding winter-hardy faba beans

One gene makes the difference

Vascular killer LDL cholesterol: are butter, eggs and cheese the culprits?

In addition to drug therapies to lower cholesterol, a healthy lifestyle is important

AI rebuilds molecules from exploding fragments

Researchers trained a neural network that can use ion momentum to work backward and predict the pre-blast geometry of a molecule

Start-up AveThera acquires Fraunhofer site for biologics production

The young biotech company takes over pharmaceutical biotechnology unit including employees

Change of management at abberior instruments

Meiko Fiedler takes over as CEO

Failed experiment by Cambridge scientists leads to surprise drug development breakthrough

A new light-powered chemical reaction could make drug manufacturing more sustainable

BioNTech co-founders establish new biotech company

Management transition by end of 2026

What paralyzes Europe's laboratories and which levers have an impact

Growing willingness to innovate meets structural blockades, financing problems and stress

WACKER cuts over 1,500 jobs to reduce costs by €300 million

Chemical giant launches largest cost-cutting program in company history

How old are we really?

Blood test reveals biological age

DNA steps out of the "blueprint" role to become an active "field agent"

Plastic bottles turned into Parkinson’s medication

Edinburgh researchers develop an alternative to fossil-based raw materials in pharmaceutical manufacturing

Already approved drug is effective against aggressive brain tumors

Heidelberg researchers tested 107 cancer drugs on mini-tumors

analytica 2026: five exhibition halls full of innovations

More than 1,100 exhibitors will be presenting their innovations

CO2 to E-Methanol, Aviation Fuels and Speciality Chemicals

Six Nominees Announced for the “Best CO2 Utilisation 2026” Innovation Award

Roche launches AI initiative to tackle lengthy development times

New NVIDIA computing infrastructure in the US and Europe connects laboratories with AI models using the ‘Lab-in-the-Loop’ approach

Development of a rapid test for diagnosing hard-to-treat VRE Bacteria

Merck Acquires JSR Chromatography Business

Broadens downstream purification portfolio with next-generation Protein A chromatography for scalable manufacturing

Rentschler Biopharma completes the largest expansion in the company’s history in the US

U.S. site in Milford established as cornerstone of the company’s strategy

Automation and robotics drive growth in the laboratory

Skills shortage and efficiency pressure accelerate automation

BAM, HZB and HU are conducting joint research on sodium batteries

Berlin Battery Lab develops batteries that conserve raw materials and is also open to partnerships with start-ups

Roche grows against the trend and invests over 700 million euros in Germany

Roche sends investment signal for Germany as a business location

Chemistry On Four Paws: How Dogs Change Our Indoor Environment

Surprising effect: Petting releases many pollutants, as skin oils react with ozone to produce ultrafine particles

Contraception without hormones: Research alternatives to “the pill”

The pill is increasingly rejected

Chemical industry at a turning point: six keys to transformation

New study compares German roadmaps with international strategies

A copper complex kills cancer cells 100 times more effectively than conventional chemotherapy drugs

Copper overload kills cancer cells

Tailor-made New Battery Materials

Innovative Battery Materials for Safe and Sustainable Energy Storage

Biotech start-up secures €23 million total for cancer and infectious disease platform

Kupando's dual TLR 4/7 agonist approach targets both tumor treatment and antimicrobial-resistant infections