A toolbox for start-up and corporate collaboration at Unilever
Unilever’s TRANSFORM program, led by PJ Mistry, accelerates corporate-startup collaboration, solving scaling challenges and driving impact-focused innovation.
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IndustryFood & beverage
Food & beverage innovation software
A food trend moves from social feed to shelf demand in months. Regulation rewrites recipes on its own schedule. Winners in food see both early and reformulate before the category forces them to.
Catch consumer shifts while they are still small
A trend used to take years from niche to mainstream. Now it takes months. Track consumer preferences, ingredients, and channel shifts on one radar. Prism flags what fits your categories. You reformulate ahead of demand instead of chasing it.
See the rules that will rewrite your recipes
Sugar targets, labeling laws, novel food approvals, packaging mandates. Each one lands in a product spec eventually. Track regulatory developments on dedicated radars and link each to the products it touches.
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Source food trends where they start
The next trend is already on a menu in Seoul or a market stall in Mexico City. Let local teams submit what they see through a mobile app. Cluster the submissions, rate them, and share the strong ones with every market. Local sightings become global input.
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Partner with food startups before competitors do
The startup with your next ingredient or process already exists. Give it a door. Run a submission portal where startups pitch into your evaluation. Score proposals on fit and maturity. Strong ones reach a pilot, the rest get an answer.
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Get new technologies into production on time
Precision fermentation, alternative proteins, smart packaging. The pilot is easy, the rollout is not. Map every technology program on one roadmap with owners, dependencies, and dates. Slippage surfaces while the launch window is still open.
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Best-practice stories
How to build a global trend scouting community
DMK Group, one of Europe’s leading dairy firms, relies on ITONICS for trend scouting, ensuring early detection of food trends and market shifts.
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How to shape the food retail experience of tomorrow
Jan Lingenbrinck, food tech expert, introduces the Berlin Food Tech Campus, where cutting-edge solutions transform the food retail industry—blending culinary passion with tech innovation.
