Fermentation is expected to be a key component in the shift toward alternative proteins. Fungi and microbes are the livestock of tomorrow. The new GDI overview shows where the pioneers of fermentation are located and what they are producing.

What are the trends and innovations in the food system? How animal-friendly can we make it? Björn Witte, Managing Partner & CEO of Blue Horizon, explains in an interview with GDI which sustainable projects his company is investing in and which innovations are still to come. Read now!

Sinking into a book for several hours? Working with focus for an hour? It's getting harder and harder, and we keep getting distracted. Johann Hari, bestselling author of "Stolen Focus", explains why it is so difficult to focus on anything these days.

In an interview ahead of the 2nd International Food Innovation Conference, global strategy advisor and best-selling author Parag Khanna explains the linkage between migration and food and shares his perspective on how the foodsystem will develop.

Das GDI hat zusammen mit der Unternehmensberatung Horváth & Partners AG das Impulspapier «Next Urban Retail» verfasst und blickt in die Zukunft des Handels. Auf Retail-as-a-Service, Micro-Hubs und Dark Retail sollten sich HändlerInnen jetzt ganz besonders konzentrieren.

Food colouring often contains animal products such as insect shells. The Danish start-up Chromologics shows that there is another way. Its pigment ‘ChromoRed’ is produced exclusively in the laboratory with the help of a filamentous fungus. This saves agricultural land and is therefore not only more animal-friendly, but also more sustainable.

Why are forecasts so difficult? Why is it the case that even experts can usually only speculate about which needs will determine consumer behaviour in the coming years? One of the biggest challenges is that developments do not unfold in a linear direction, rather grow in several directions. If you want to understand a trend, you have to look at both sides of the coin. The trend and its counter-trend. But the data is usually incomplete. Does the same consumer follow several, sometimes contradictory trends? A vegan who loves fast fashion? Or are we observing an increasing polarisation between consumption styles? For example, between the affluent and the poor?

Sind Geschwindigkeit und sofortige Verfügbarkeit alles? China-Experte Duncan Clark ist sich jedenfalls sicher, dass der Westen hier zurückliegt. In China bekäme man in neun Minuten Aspirin geliefert. Die Erwartung an eine sofortige Verfügbarkeit sei enorm. Was wir von Alibaba, Amazon und Co. lernen können, und wie es auch anders geht, das erfahren Sie in unserer neuesten Podcast-Folge.

As CEO of German DIY store Hornbach-Baumärkte, Erich Harsch manages 23,000 employees. In a GDI video interview, he talks about good leadership, the biggest challenges of a multichannel retailer and global supply chains.

Javier Goyeneche makes clothes out of plastic waste through his label Ecoalf. He says: "Instead of asking ourselves which earth we are leaving to our children, we should be concerned about which children we are leaving to the earth." Watch the whole video interview from the GDI Retail Summit here.

Chesran Glidden, Leiterin B2B beim Arbeitgeberbewertungsportal Kununu, weiss, wie wichtig das Image eines Unternehmens bei der Gewinnung von MitarbeiterInnen ist und was Angestellte heute von ihrer Arbeitgeberin erwarten.  Mehr dazu hier in einem Podcast – und in Kürze am European Foodservice Summit.

Max Premium Burgers was already considered a pioneer in climate and environmental awareness before the coronavirus crisis. After all, the chain’s food has been climate-positive since 2018. At the European Foodservice Summit 2021, CEO Richard Bergfors will show how his family business became a sustainability role model.