Retail, Food service & E-commerce

KENYA – Local potato farmers in Kenya have shifted to planting the Memphis potato variety, desirable by the American fast-food restaurant chain, KFC, to cut…

MOROCCO – A food technology startup, Terraa, based in morocco has raised US$1.5 million in a pre-seed funding round to help revolutionize the African food…

KENYA – Kenyan-based technology food distribution platform, Twiga Foods, has entered into a strategic partnership with automobile manufacturer Isuzu EA and commercial bank NCBA Bank…

USA- Gopuff, a platform for grocery delivery, has teamed up with Grubhub to expand the delivery of selected items on the app of the meal…

USA- Swiftly, a retail technology platform and provider of omnichannel tools for retailers, has announced a US$100 m Series C funding, bringing the company’s total…

UK- The family-owned German discount supermarket chain Aldi has surpassed Morrisons to become the fourth largest grocery chain in the United Kingdom. According to market…

SOUTH AFRICA – Nile, an agritech company that connects farmers to commercial buyers of fresh produce in Southern Africa via its online platform, has opened…

KENYA – Kenyan fresh food producer and exporter, Kakuzi Plc, has won back the trust and business partnership of European based supermarkets, with its parent…

KENYA – Twiga Foods, a business to business food distribution company in Kenya, has launched its operations in Eldoret as part of its plan to…

KENYA – Twiga Foods, a Kenyan tech-enabled food distribution platform is seeking to set base in Kisumu county as part of its plan of expanding…