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AI Fermentation Platform Lands $1.4M Seed Round

Crush Dynamics and Atomic47 Labs secured $1.4 million to build an AI-enabled fermentation platform targeting food and beverage production.

Bear Robotics' acquisition of Kinisi adds humanoid capability to its food-service robot lineup, signaling a broader push beyond tray-carrying.

Grocery CEO compensation 2025 hit multimillion-dollar highs across major public retailers, even as two top executives announced retirements.

Claire Peters, a former Amazon executive, takes the helm at ADUSA as the grocer doubles down on omnichannel growth strategy.

Investor interest in Sensient Technologies is rising as regulatory color shift pressure reshapes the natural colorant market for food manufacturers.

Mars launches M&M's dye-free options exclusively on Amazon, but the reformulation quietly eliminates several signature colors from the lineup.

Jellatech's deal with South Korea's Hugel moves cell-cultured human collagen from lab bench to commercial aesthetics pipeline.

Wildtype's Kickstarter campaign puts cultivated lox directly in shoppers' hands, bypassing retail entirely for the first time.

New CEO Greg Foran is rebuilding Kroger's value proposition through pricing transparency and in-store experience, not just promotions.

Mars artificial dye-free reformulation of M&M's is exposing the real technical cost of clean-label confectionery at industrial scale.