We monitor blockchain, AI, and metaverse experiences for the food & beverage sectors (traceability, data analytics and decision making). We aim to be a laboratory of ideas, adopting a prospective reflection on the challenges of the Food Tech.
Digital Retail
Across industries, value chains are facing increasing uncertainty from climatic anomalies, geopolitical tensions, and the COVID-19 pandemic, among other factors. Industries as diverse as agriculture, oil and gas, and...
Amazon provided information on Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) . Amazon does seem to be moving forward based on a clear understanding of the different...
A wine board has joined the ecosystem to digitize the wine supply chain. By reading these first lines, you probably want to know who is this wine body, from...
AB InBev reduces manufacturing costs and improves beer quality using Google Cloud Platform, including machine learning. Vivino and Drizly are streamlining accurate, up-to-date data sets and metrics to gain...
Times are changing fast. We conducted market surveys in every key markets in Asia, in North America, and in Europe. As CEO of MiBD MARKET, I worked with some...
E. coli, salmonella, accidental horse meat — there have been a lot of disturbing slip-ups in the food and beverage industry. Blockchain technology could help manufacturers and distributors avoid...
When digital twins synchronize the physical and the virtual. Since the technology to purchase goods over the internet was first introduced, there has been a divide between the real...
When innovation is not created directly by the GAFAM, thanks to their considerable talent pool, it is either captured (Facebook with Instagram and WhatsApp, Microsoft with LinkedIn, Google with...
What do internal functions as diverse as risk assessment, capital-expenditure planning, and workforce planning have in common? Each is fundamentally about understanding demand—making demand forecasting an essential analytical process....
Blockchain is not an immature technology anymore, leading international enterprises are piloting applications built using blockchain technology and enterprise investments in blockchain solutions are now exceeding $20 billion. We...
The benefits of blockchain technology range from saving time and money to making documents more secure, further enhanced by encryption and sharing data across the network. Blockchain technology represents...
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is diffusing, making it one of the broadest technological revolutions ever. Blockchain technology has the unique ability to improve the reliability of AI...
European & African markets
Spain is a major producer and exporter of food and agricultural products, with other EU countries as its primary export...
Although a small country, the Netherlands is the gateway for products into the European Union (EU). It is the largest...
Germany is by far the biggest market for food and beverages in the European Union. The food retail sector is...
The UK retail sector is one of the most sophisticated in the world. The UK was one of the first...
France is the world’s seventh largest industrialized economy and the EU’s second largest economy after Germany. It has substantial agricultural...
48%
Wine Market Attractiveness
Among the 6 countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, 4 authorize the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in a...
58%
Wine Market Attractiveness
The pandemic has particularly affected the tourism, trade and restaurant sectors. Portugal is considered the best tourist destination in the...
Both an agricultural product and a cultural good, both anchored in local economies and traded on international markets, both regulated...
61%
Wine Market Attractiveness
The oil-rich Nigeria relies heavily on food and agricultural imports, valued about $10 billion to feed its more than 206...
72%
Wine Market Attractiveness
Austrians are big wine consumers. In general, consumers are turning to quality products at the expense of low-end products. Helped...
78%
Wine Market Attractiveness
Denmark is the only open Nordic wine market without a monopoly. In 2018 according to the Danish authorities, the wine...
Rumours began to swirl earlier this summer that FMV, the wholesale arm of fine wine merchant Berry Bros & Rudd,...
Digital Foodservice
Recent reports have suggested that Amazon is trialling a service similar to Instacart in the UK, providing third party delivery fulfilment to at least two major supermarket chains and...
Pandemic-era dining ushered in new elements of a night out. Masks, pop-up tents on outdoor sidewalks, extra space between fellow diners and touchless service quickly became the norm for...
In a collaboration with DIAM Bouchage, the Carnot institute CEA List has developed a technology to detect defective corks. This solution uses artificial intelligence to perform an X-ray analysis...
Carslberg has invested several million dollars in a research project based on artificial intelligence (AI). The company is collaborating with Microsoft, the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center at the University of...
Even if you aren’t someone that works in a technology role, you’ve probably heard the term “agile” used to describe software development and project management. It’s sometimes characterized as...
With the help of Covid, digitalized menus and wine lists have become popular. More than a simple digital file accessible on a smartphone via a QR code, the wine...
In a study paper, researchers noted that we tend to trust machines and algorithms more than other humans in a decision-making situation. This study, funded by the U.S. Army...
The digital transformation, driven by data and next-gen technologies, is changing hospitality in unprecedented pace and hoteliers are caught largely unprepared. According McKinsey, the pandemic accelerated digital transformation by...
Magic formulas for some or mathematical formulas full of future for others, algorithms are far from being infallible. Yet today, most of them lead to decisions that influence many...
From travel agencies to establishments, machine learning is driving a profound reorganization of the industry by introducing more complexity into the value chain between customer and hotel. Artificial intelligence...
American markets
Boston-based Drizly is North America’s largest e-commerce and delivery platform for beer, wine, and spirits. It connects shoppers with local...
Canada is major market for high-value consumer-oriented products. U.S. exports of consumer-oriented products to Canada hit $17.1 billion in 2020....
59%
Wine Market Attractiveness
Colombia is a traditionally free-trading country with a preferential trade agreement with the EU, in force since 2013. American influence...
SVB has been making public forecasts in this report for 21 years. The 2020 report was a challenge for Silicon...
Enforcement efforts around the country have revealed that states grapple with the harmful impacts of non-compliance in the direct-to-consumer alcohol...
University at Buffalo – UB researchers Yingjie Hu, Brian M. Quigley and Dane Taylor present these findings in the open-access...
Intense demand for products has led to a backlog of container ships outside the nation’s two largest ports along the...
Canned wine made huge strides in 2021, both from a technical and a sales point of view, and this will...
Beverage programs need three things: restaurant sales, a good pour cost, and a decent profit margin. Wine by the glass...
71%
Wine Market Attractiveness
Mexico represents the seventh largest market for California wine. Although per capita consumption in Mexico is less than one liter...
There are two powerful truths at work in business. The first is that every consumer wants to find the best...
We’ve analyzed the leading importer’s wine portfolios presence in Miami hotels in 2019. Kobrand was the leading importer in Miami...
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Asian & Pacific markets
China is the world’s second-largest economy, and growth is driven by consumption and investment, but the government has expressed interest...
68%
Wine Market Attractiveness
The combination of factors facilitating the growth of wine sales in Hong Kong includes the removal of Hong Kong’s wine...
63%
Wine Market Attractiveness
Food is one of Taiwan’s top strengths as a tourist destination, whether the tourists opt for night market snacks or...
43%
Wine Market Attractiveness
A middle-income country, Malaysia has implemented an economic transition plan to join the club of high-income countries by 2025. With...
A new report has provided a range of insights into Australia’s domestic market consumer’s behavior and how these have been...
Chile has staged what could be known as the greatest upset in Chinese wine market. Not only did the size...
China’s antitrust watchdog has handed another round of penalties to the country’s tech giants including Alibaba and Tencent that involve...
50%
Wine Market Attractiveness
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam, a strategic crossroads located in the heart of ASEAN, is a country undergoing country in...
China’s wine market failed to pick up steam despite early economic recovery from the pandemic and overall growing consumer spending,...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has formally agreed to set up an investigative panel to examine China’s anti-dumping tariffs on...
Magic formulas for some or mathematical formulas full of future for others, algorithms are far from being infallible. Yet today,...
54%
Wine Market Attractiveness
Thailand amended the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act to ban the online sale of alcoholic beverages. Online alcoholic beverage sales have...
Digital Agribusiness
Between July and October 2021, torrential rains drenched northern parts of China, flooding major agricultural provinces such as Hebei, Henan, and Shandong. The floods affected millions of acres of...
Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) makes some of the world’s most popular beer brands — including Budweiser, Corona, and Stella Artois. This global corporation is all about embracing the future...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changing technological force disrupting industries ranging from retail to media. But can big data and complex algorithms transform winemaking, which not only...
In a collaboration with DIAM Bouchage, the Carnot institute CEA List has developed a technology to detect defective corks. This solution uses artificial intelligence to perform an X-ray analysis...
Innovation can help us find solutions to the problems we face. Without forgetting the complexity of the problems currently facing the agrifood sector, and without pretending to bring too...
Whether for a beer brewer or General Mills, the Bockchain helps them achieve their goal of better communicating their CSR priorities to consumers. The security of exchanges, instead of...
Magic formulas for some or mathematical formulas full of future for others, algorithms are far from being infallible. Yet today, most of them lead to decisions that influence many...
There are 23 autonomous robots working the soil and weeding in French vineyards. The first robot designed for vineyards was Vitirover, a small electric mower awarded a special prize...
According to the 2018 policy paper by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), blockchain could dramatically transform the food supply chain. As per the policy...
As consumer behaviors shift towards greener and more sustainable products due to climate change awareness, companies are increasingly looking to integrate a more sustainable approach to their businesses. Market-leaders...
The drought in the vineyards has become a recurring topic for several years. Winegrowers have to adapt to difficult climatic conditions, extreme temperatures, and a severe water deficit. These...
Machine learning is undergoing important developments and its potential impact in various industries may well surprise in a few years. Machine learning is likely to revolutionize many sectors, both...
