Bayou Best Foods nets plant-based seafood peer BettaF!sh

US plant-based seafood institution Bayou Best Foods has acquired German adjacent BettaF!sh.

Bayou Best Foods, founded successful 2024, sells plant-based shrimp to US restaurants. BettaF!sh products are sold done retailers successful Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

In a statement, Bayou Best Foods pointed to the companies' "complementary strengths" successful innovation and distribution.

Bayou Best Foods CEO Kelli Wilson said: "We stock the aforesaid content that seafood should beryllium delicious, accessible, and sustainable, and we spot tremendous imaginable successful what we tin physique together."

Once the woody is completed, determination are plans to instrumentality each other's products into their respective markets.

Wilson told Just Food she is aiming to motorboat Bayou Best Foods' plant-based shrimp successful Europe successful the 3rd quarter.

BettaF!sh sells seaweed-based products including Tu-Nah, a tuna alternative, and Sal-Nom, a salmon substitute.

The products are slated for the US marketplace successful the archetypal fractional of adjacent year.

Deniz Ficicioglu, BettaF!sh's laminitis and CEO, added: "This is simply a earthy adjacent section for BettaF!sh. By joining forces, we tin determination faster, scope much customers, and assistance signifier the aboriginal of seafood together."

Both companies trust connected declaration manufacturers.

Last week, Livekindly Collective bought Germany-based plant-based nutrient shaper Greenforce Future Food.

Greenforce is led by CEO Thomas Isermann and markets plant-based meat, ovum and food alternatives.

Last month, Schouten Europe snapped up chap Dutch meat- and seafood-alternatives shaper Bobeldijk Food Group.

Family-owned Schouten Europe said it acquired Bobeldijk Food Group to boost its accumulation capableness and "strengthen" its presumption successful the region.

"Bayou Best Foods nets plant-based seafood adjacent BettaF!sh" was primitively created and published by Just Food, a GlobalData owned brand.