Beauty dealmaking heats up with Trilogy and Thriving Brands portfolio expansions

Beauty and personal care dealmaking is ripe across skin care, hair care, and ingredients, as companies acquire brands to scale science-backed portfolios, manufacturing capabilities, and global market reach.

GEA Invests €4M in New Technology Center for Scaling Biotech and New Food Processes

GEA has moved its Application and Technology Center (ATC) for New Food and biotechnology from Hildesheim to Sarstedt in Lower Saxony, Germany, investing €4 million to convert and equip a facility at the site of GEA Liquid Technologies GmbH.

Online beauty playbook: Brands need creators, AI visibility and retail data

5WPR has found that personal care brands must fine-tune social media strategies with content creator relationships and online data to stand out in what it calls “the most saturated creator content category in America.” The AI communications firm’s The 1,000-Creator Playbook for Beauty 2026 divulges that brands that maintain flexibility in an evolving online market remain competitive. 

Bayou Best Foods Buys Berlin Seaweed Brand BettaF!sh in Cross-Atlantic Seafood Deal

Bayou Best Foods has acquired BettaF!sh, the plant-based seafood brand operated by Berlin company Wunderfish GmbH, combining a US shrimp producer with a European seaweed specialist under one owner.

In-cosmetics Korea 2026: Vytrus Biotech introduces immune re-education active for urban skin

Vytrus Biotech has launched Toleroxyl, a plant-derived human protein that re-educates hyperreactive urban skin to restore immune tolerance, at In-cosmetics Korea 2026, Seoul, South Korea (July 1–3). 

FAO Opens First Global Conference On Smart Farming To Accelerate Innovation For Farmers

July 2026, Rome: Smart farming is no longer a future ambition — it is becoming essential for helping farmers produce mor…

Planteneers Builds Clean Label Systems Without Methylcellulose or Carrageenan

German food ingredients company Planteneers has introduced functional systems for plant-based meat and dairy alternatives that remove two ingredients facing growing consumer scrutiny: methylcellulose in meat and sausage substitutes, and carrageenan in dairy alternatives.

Parima Hits Multi-Tonne-Scale Cultivated Duck Production on Vow’s Production Line

France-based cultivated meat company Parima has produced cultivated duck at multi-tonne scale in a single 22,000-liter run, carried out on a production line operated by Australian partner Vow in Sydney. The company reported a 99% reduction in production cost compared with its earlier runs, attributing the decline to gains in cell-culture yield and the efficiencies of operating at larger volumes.

ICBA Organizes “Millets Harvest Day” to Support the Adoption of Climate-Smart Crops in the UAE

The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) hosted “Millets Harvest Day” to mark World Environment Day, as a field-based milestone that builds on the launch of the National Agricultural Initiative for the Adoption of Climate-Smart Crops in the UAE. The initiative was launched by the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment and ICBA during the Emirati Agriculture Conference and Exhibition 2026.

FAO Launches Cropsuit App To Help Farmers Grow The Right Crops In The Right Places

July 2026, Rome: Farmers, extension workers and governments now have a powerful new tool to help identify the crops best…