Two years ago, in between her work as then executive vice-president of her family’s candy business Smarties, Liz Dee had an idea: To connect and empower vegan women to get… Read More
This former livestock agent started an international vegan food business
Wally Fry had just finished building an industrial piggery. He was proud of the work he’d done on the project with his construction firm in his native South Africa and… Read More
Meet the vegan powdered food brand that’s set to turn over $45 million just three years after launch
In 2015 serial entrepreneur Julian Hearn launched Huel, a powered food product that he lauds as being “nutritionally complete”. The UK-based company – a portmanteau for ‘human fuel’ – came about… Read More
Fast food: The future is vegan
In August this year, a former Burger King restaurant in Encinitas, California, was taken over by another company which continued to serve burgers, fries and shakes via the drive-thru window…. Read More
Luxury shoes are going vegan at last
It’s no secret that vegan food products are a massive growth market. Even the US’s largest meat producer is jumping on the plant-based protein bandwagon. But the food industry isn’t the… Read More
Here’s why vegan initiatives in corporate workplaces are good for business
Nearly three decades ago, Philip Wollen left his position as vice-president of Citibank in Australia after an experience that changed him forever. The merchant banker visited a client’s premises, which… Read More
Banning terms like ‘meat’ for vegan products is a dangerous precedent and hypocritical
This week a law came into effect in Missouri which bans the use of ‘meat’ terminology to describe any food products that haven’t come from a slaughtered animal. It means that vegan… Read More
Vegan vacations are in high demand: Here’s how the travel industry is responding
In 2004 travel firm VegVoyages launched, offering three trips in one country. Fourteen years later, the company, which specializes in vegan adventure tours in Asia, now runs up to 23 trips a… Read More
These restaurants ditched animal products and went vegan: Take a look at the results
What happens when a successful restaurant with lines of eager customers outside the door virtually every evening decides to risk the entire business by taking meat, dairy, eggs and other… Read More
Should vegan products be sold in the meat and dairy sections at retail stores?
Plastic straws are the enemy du jour at the moment. This heartbreaking video of a sea turtle with a straw stuck up his or her nostril has resulted in multi-national corporations pledging… Read More
