We’ve never had more food, more data or more advice about how to be healthy — and yet diet-related illness keeps rising. A new wave of anti-obesity drugs and smart technology may finally be changing the balance.
The sustained campaign against Bord Bia’s chair is not really about Brazilian beef or conflicts of interest. It is a wider battle over Mercosur, power and the future direction of Irish agri-food policy.
Without flashy gadgetry, Food Village has added predictive software to the recipe of school lunches. Workplaces and international licensing are the next courses on its menu.
Fortress Technology and Boole Nominees are supporting one bid for Senoptica while management back another. The examiner of the foodtech firm urges “a constructive and co-operative approach”.
Examiner Declan de Lacy said he was optimistic about the prospects of Senoptica exiting examinership after four parties expressed an interested in investing in the company.
Two years ago, clients of Cantor Fitgerald who had invested in a protein ingredients business risked losing their funds. Now a major raw material supplier has come to the rescue.
Creditors fought to install an examiner over the objections of Senoptica CEO and co-founder Brendan Rice. An “unusual” committee of creditors has been installed to allay his concerns.
These islands are too small for leading Irish beef and lamb processors. The Queally and Browne families will use lessons learned in a previous French joint venture to leverage their new Kiwi acquisition.
The founders of food packaging technology start-up Senoptica hoped to bring in new capital from a climate-focused VC firm. Its loan-note holders were unhappy with the terms of the deal and blocked it.
The founders of Senoptica have hit back in the Circuit Court against a move by loan-note holders to appoint an examiner to the business. They now want a joint examiner appointed.
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