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The innovative NI startup Hill Street Hatch wins over the judges to secure the LEVELUP 2021 Startup Pitch accolade and the £2k cash prize After a competitive startup pitching event at LEVELUP 2021, with 12 early stage startups taking part, Hill Street Hatch, the exciting NI hospitality pop-up incubator, was selected as the overall winners, taking home a £2k cash prize.  Delive...
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Richard Horwell, owner of Brand Relations, a specialist food and drink marketing and branding company shares his insights on why functionality is now key if you are launching a new drinks brand I have a strong admiration for consumers' savviness and ability to pick out the products they want and form a loyalty to them, despite the mass of advertisements projected at them every day. So, when cre...
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The lowdown on Libereat, the Scottish startup that’s on a mission to simplify how people living with dietary restrictions shop and eat If you've got food allergies or intolerances, you'll know only too well how it can at times be a challenge. Whether that's when you're scanning labels for allergens when you're in the supermarket or if you're in a restaurant ( remember those? ) and yo...
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The lowdown on Jack & Bry, the innovative London-based startup that makes a range of plant-based meats, all from Jackfruit Bill Gates recently caused a bit of a stir by saying that we all need to think about switching to synthetic meat - meat grown rather than butchered, such as Meatable, the startup we wrote about in 2018 that needs only cells from the umbilical cord when a calf ...
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The Modern Milkman is a Yorkshire-based startup that's delivering fresh ways to reduce plastic waste, shop ethically and feel good about convenience... In the UK, dairy farmers produce roughly 14 billion litres of milk every year. Not all of this is for consumption as-is, as some has to be used for products like cheese and butter, but that’s still a lot of milk going into mostly plastic b...
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Weezy is a London-based startup that’ll deliver your most needed groceries to your home in a matter of minutes Recently, we wrote about Manna, an Irish drone delivery service looking to make 3-minute delivery within the community a reality. In a world where everyone wants everything right now, drones seem to be the quickest and best way of achieving it; they are taking more of a spotlight...
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The Good Club is a startup and online platform that is on a mission to make good, sustainable and organic food and groceries accessible to all Whilst we may be fully aware of the impact that our purchases can have on the world at large and we’re generally better informed than ever before, most of us could still try that bit harder when it comes to shopping sustainably. And the thing ...
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Crackd is an innovative new startup from Hertfordshire that's created a plant-based substitute for people who can’t, don’t, or won’t eat eggs Veganism is ever more popular these days, with more and more people deciding that they not only don’t want to eat animals, but they don’t want to eat anything that was produced by animals. In 2014, there were around 4 mi...
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Knowledge Recycled is an online platform that is providing a range of virtual classes provided by world-renowned experts from the world of food and drink... Even though most of us have spent more time at home in the past year, thanks to technology, we are still able to do new things. Admittedly we might not be travelling or visiting nice restaurants, however we can still enjoy new and unique fo...
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The lowdown on the Danish FoodTech startup True Gum that's created a healthy and environmentally-friendly chewing gum It’s hardly a shocking revelation that chewing gum is not particularly good for the environment or us. It is made of polymers and resins that are also found in car tyres and plastic bottles and aren’t exactly biodegradable (also pig stomach - don’t forget the pig...
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