Discover how Bright Green Partners supported a multinational food ingredient company create a strategic roadmap for its plant-based meat analogues division. This case study highlights BGP’s tailored approach, identifying key growth opportunities in Europe’s expanding PBMA market.
"We asked BGP to prepare a technical due diligence assessment for a potential investment in the cultured meat space. We were very much impressed by the quality of the BGP team, the thorough way of working, the valuable and up-to-date insights they provided and the open way of communication.
The assessment has helped us in better understanding the challenges of the company in this quickly evolving industry and in structuring a transaction. In many ways BGP outperformed our expectations and we are looking forward to working with them again."
Victor Meijer
Sr. Investment Manager, InvestNL
"The BGP team helped us assess the alt protein market and better understand the most promising technologies and ingredients. Beyond providing insights and strategy advisory, they also helped us to strengthen our network in this space."
Steve Chantry
Vice President of International Growth Kraft Heinz Company
"BGP brought in uniquely deep insights through their professionally strong and reliable networks and a robust consulting framework, which is what we were looking for. Their work has helped us make better strategic and commercial decisions. We look forward to continuing our partnership."
Yasushi Noguchi
Senior Director Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America
"Utilizing their deep industry experience and extensive technical network, the BGP team navigated our project toward the most valuable solutions, making the most of past insights and existing data. The team stands apart in its approach to driving progress with consistent advancements that offer clarity at every project stage.”
Amanda Bess
Science & Technology Analysis Manager The Good Food Institute
"BGP was amongst the first ones we called when we embarked on our alt protein journey. The team did an excellent job organising an engaging workshop series for our key decision makers. They provided a detailed perspective on the industry and helped us identify relevant internal capabilities and resources to leverage."
Andrey Dribny
CEO of Culinary IFFCO Group
"BGP provides us essential support to help drive our vision towards practical implementation. The depth of industry insights they bring in, combined with their consistently top-quality work, enables us to confidently navigate this fast-changing field."
George Harrigan
Director of Food and Functional Ingredients NEOM
"BGP has been a valuable resource in leveraging industry knowledge, market sizing, and cultivated relationships to help our team further evaluate the Alternative Proteins landscape.
We appreciate their ability to envision and look beyond the current state of the industry, peering into the future state where we can all contribute to feeding 10 billion people differently."
Mike Snodgrass
Managing Director Global Alternative Proteins Griffith Foods
“We worked together with the BGP team to develop our fermentation strategy and to make some very clear choices on where to play and how to win. The insights and support from the BGP team throughout this project were outstanding and they also brought in several experts to do a couple of technical deep-dives. Moreover they ensured that our teams were involved and on board with the proposed strategy. Together with BGP we developed a clear path forward in terms of our fermentation strategy and we are now fully in execution mode.”
Thijs Bosch
Managing Director Cosun Protein
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