PLANT&CO BRAND (CSE:VEGN | FSE:VGP | OTC:VGANF)
Global Investment Bank Heavyweight UBS recently stated the plant-based food industry is expected to grow from $5 billion to $85 billion by 2030. That’s a whopping 1600% increase in spending on vegan and vegetarian eating! Any investor worth their salt should be looking in this direction to yield a piece of the action.
Plant&Co. Ltd. is a company breaking into the plant-based nutrition space in 2021. It has an edge on the competition thanks to its growing selection of branded products. These include Holy Crap cereal and YamChops – a wide variety of meat-alternatives. This is a company with serious growth potential and an existing fan base. Its popular products are in vogue with Generation X and millennials, they taste great and are already being widely distributed with considerable scope for expansion.
Veganism Becomes A Mainstream Option
Veganism and plant-based eating is taking on a life of its own. What began as a small subset of society choosing an alternative way of living for health or moral reasons has become a mass movement. The month of January is now known as Veganuary in a nod to the effort of those making the health-conscious effort to quit meat after an indulgent year end. Society is going wild for plant-based and vegan products. Supermarket sales of this booming sector are soaring, and Veganuary confirms plant-based eating is here to stay as its pace of growth astounds.
The drive to create a more sustainable planet also has a hand in this movement. By making small changes, individuals can collectively make a big difference. Reducing our carbon footprint and saving the planet from climate change are at the forefront of education and mainstream media. It can feel like an impossible task to tackle alone. But, if opting for plant-based foods over traditional meat and dairy products makes a difference, then consumers are willing to give it a go. The more choice there is available, the easier it becomes to transition.
Plant&Co is fully aware of this and is using its networking prowess to capture the market by storm. It’s identifying excellent brands and bringing them all under one banner to distribute on a wider scale. While Veganuary has cemented its place in modern life, this is not just a fad for January, but a global phenomenon. The potential is awesome.
Plant Powered Progress
To witness the plant-based popularity unfolding, we just need to glance in the direction of Plant&Co’s peers. Many of them are making serious strides in the space, with what looks like effortless success driven by crazed demand.
Beyond Meat (NASDAQ:BYND) now has a market cap of $10 billion and after joining forces with PepsiCo its share price rocketed. Its chief competitor Impossible Foods’ market cap exceeds $7.6 billion. While this is impressive, there has also been considerable and notable growth in small vegan stocks in the past year. These include Else Nutrition (CVE:BABY), The Very Good Food Company (CNSX:VERY), Tattooed Chef (NASDAQ:TTCF) and Modern Meat (CNSX:MEAT). Else Nutrition’s share price shot up 450% in the past year. The Very Good Food Company soared 830%, Tattooed Chef’s share price has risen 123% and Modern Meat’s stock is up over 80%.
In addition to its collaboration with Beyond Meat, PepsiCo bought fruit and veggie chips maker Bare Snacks. Meanwhile, Mondelez acquired Perfect Snacks protein bars and Hershey acquired Amplify Brands, which makes SkinnyPop popcorn. This trend is not just making headlines stateside. All UK supermarkets are bringing in plant-based brands and some are launching their own inhouse ranges too.
Big Brand Hook-Ups
Just like the sensational rise of high value collaborations in the fashion world, it seems to be the next natural step in the plant-based food phenomenon too. The PepsiCo / Beyond Meat joint venture is an opportune tie up that marks a growing trend. The veganism space is hotting up, not just for meat-based alternatives, but for an entire range of plant-derived food groups from sweet and savoury snacks and meals, to all manner of consumer goods.
Just like Oreo teamed up with coveted fashion label Supreme and now Beyond Meat is collaborating with PepsiCo, (and suspected to be behind the McDonald’s new plant burger), it adds a certain sparkle to the brand. Adding the cool kid factor by association can bring a whole host of additional fans and opportunities to get noticed via social media and marketing manoeuvres.
Plant&Co brands are big on marketing via social media so who knows where this exciting trend could take them!
Plant-Based Food Company With Existing Fan Base And Massive Growth Potential
PLANT&CO BRAND (CSE:VEGN | FSE:VGP | OTC:VGANF)
Kicking things off, Plant&Co acquired the popular Canadian cereal brand Holy Crap. This brand has a considerable following in Canada and several years of growth behind it after appearing on Dragon’s Den.
More recently, an exciting development for the enterprise is its acquisition of one of Toronto’s original Plant Based Butcher shops, a chain which is over 12 years old, with very strong financials and solid digital presence. This acquisition, of North America’s first ever plant-based butcher shop YamChops, brings no less than 48 varieties of products under the Plant&Co banner. Making a total of 52 SKUs under the umbrella in under 60 days. Among YamChops offerings include such delights as coconut bacon bits, a selection of sauces, a variety of meat-alternatives including plant-derived pulled pork, chicken, beef, sausage, salmon, meatballs, and skewers. These products are already established and appeal to the masses.
Plant&Co is also thrilled to note YamChops has enjoyed explosive growth in online sales of its plant-based meats and vegan food selection. It realised a 689% rise in online sales for the second half of 2020, in a year-on-year comparison.
Serious Scalability
In addition to Holy Crap and YamChops, the company is keeping an eye out for further acquisitions and is driven to grow to a much larger scale. It already has a distribution network at its disposal and big plans to expand throughout America to new and emerging markets.
By harnessing solid relationships and building on the strength of its acquisitions, Plant&Co is perfectly positioned to seamlessly manage a growth explosion across verticals. Not only that, but it’s got Canada’s largest distributor United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI) on board, it’s successfully integrated with Amazon Seller Central and already has food delivery services in operation through Ubereats, SkiptheDishes, DoorDash, Ritual and Cornershop.
Current distribution channels include Whole Foods Market, UNFI, London Drugs, Organic Garage, Nature’s Emporium, Ecotrend Ecologics, Amazon Prime, Grande Cheese, PSC Natural Foods, Curve, Choices Markets, The Big Carrot, Natural Foods Ambrosia, Natures Fare Markets and Overwaitea Food Group, and many many more!
Some of these are B2B distribution relationships and others are direct to consumers. London Drugs operate over 80 stores employing more than 8000 staff. UNFI is a publicly listed $1.6bn wholesaler with $20bn revenue and the single largest distributor of organic and natural food in Canada.
With M&A targets in the pipeline, a strategy to increase the quantity of high-quality brands on board and revenue streams multiplying, there is great excitement building around Plant&Co. It could be a very interesting investment of 2021.
Poised For Considerable Growth
Plant&Co’s strategy is clear and achievable. It looks for quality brands with a following and brings them under its umbrella. It’s an innovative company operating in a competitive space but with a clear competitive advantage for its size. This much is obvious from its lucrative distribution channels already set up and running in Canada and increasingly the USA.
Brands like Holy Crap are loved and consumed by a loyal following. Prior to the Plant&Co acquisition, Holy Crap lacked the setup and traction to grow its distribution network. Thanks to Plant&Co it’s now got that opportunity to scale.
With the power of social media, Plant&Co can showcase its tantalising selection of plant-derived delights 24/7. Harnessing this influence is the modern route to building brand loyalty and ensuring consumers are excited to try the new products. Plant&Co understands this and is making the most of the opportunity.
The company also has an experienced and driven team at the helm. Along with the infrastructure and distribution network in place, Plant&Co is poised for great things. With demand soaring, it has perfectly timed its entrance into the plant-based product arena. Consumers want healthy, affordable and sustainable food and Plant&Co is gearing up to give it to them.
Healthy Rivalry
Another great attribute worth mentioning is that rivalry is healthy and fair among Plant&Co and its competitors. Plant&Co has struck up an amicable relationship with its rivals to ensure collaboration in selling competing brands in its future premises remains a viable possibility.
It’s already remodelling a plant-based café in Toronto which will be opening its doors once the lockdown is lifted and it’s safe for consumers to return. This will be home to Plant&Co’s own brands, white labelled goods, and rival makes too.
Consumer Demand Is Exploding
Consumer demand is increasing for several reasons. The vegan or vegetarian diet is believed to offer many health benefits, and it’s also kinder to the planet. The need for proteins in our diet is paramount, and consumers are on the lookout for new products to achieve this. Plant&Co is at the cutting edge of this exciting movement, ready to cash in on the boom.
Meanwhile, government policymakers are looking at ways to tackle both the obesity epidemic and climate change. These are major concerns Western governments are focused on, aside from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Socially responsible investing, otherwise known as ESG investing, is gaining traction as governments shift their focus to these areas. Therefore, a drive to support green initiatives and a reduction in US government support for traditional meat producers are each likely to drive more buyers to these products. This also means companies like Plant&Co should find it easier to tick the ESG boxes than many of their traditional meat counterparts.
A Potentially Lucrative Investment Opportunity
As an investment opportunity, it presents many great reasons for explosive growth at an opportune time. The industry has a couple of big players and lots of individuals with one-hit-wonder offerings. Plant&Co’s strategy to bring many quality brands under the one banner makes sense. It’s what’s missing in this disjointed arena and gives the business a competitive advantage on the world stage.
It has the manufacturing space and facilities to mass produce these small-scale products and make them household names. It’s an exciting trend to be following, not just because with demand soaring there’s a natural buzz around experimenting with plant-based foods. But also, because the individual products themselves are money-spinners with a cult fan base.
An Exciting Stock To Watch
Plant&Co is a modern health and wellness food company focused on curating a portfolio of plant-based foods, immunity, and gut health products to help transform and optimize customer wellbeing. With $1m sales in 2020, there’s plenty to shoot for going forward.
For all these reasons and more, Plant&Co is an exciting stock to watch in 2021. It raised just over $4m last month and is fully funded for the next two years. It has 100% ownership of its facilities, an experienced operations team, and it’s strengthening its industry reputation among its peers. With so much going for it, it’s no wonder that notable institutional investors have taken a keen interest in the business. Plant&Co is confidently hopeful that these relationships will strengthen with time.
This company is coming in strong and momentum is building for great things ahead.
DOWNLOAD OUR FREE IN-DEPTH REPORT TO LEARN ALL ABOUT PLANT&CO’S STRATEGIC ACQUISITION PLANS!
IMPORTANT NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER
PAID ADVERTISEMENT
This communication is a paid advertisement. ValueTheMarkets is a trading name of Digitonic Ltd, and its owners, directors, officers, employees, affiliates, agents and assigns (collectively the “Publisher”) is often paid by one or more of the profiled companies or a third party to disseminate these types of communications. In this case, the Publisher has been compensated by PLANT&CO BRANDS LTD. to conduct investor awareness advertising and marketing and has paid the Publisher the equivalent of five hundred thousand US dollars to produce and disseminate this and other similar articles and certain related banner advertisements. This compensation should be viewed as a major conflict with the Publisher’s ability to provide unbiased information or opinion.
CHANGES IN SHARE TRADING AND PRICE
Readers should beware that third parties, profiled companies, and/or their affiliates may liquidate shares of the profiled companies at any time, including at or near the time you receive this communication, which has the potential to adversely affect share prices. Frequently companies profiled in our articles experience a large increase in share trading volume and share price during the course of investor awareness marketing, which often ends as soon as the investor awareness marketing ceases. The investor awareness marketing may be as brief as one day, after which a large decrease in share trading volume and share price may likely occur.
NO OFFER TO SELL OR BUY SECURITIES
This communication is not, and should not be construed to be, an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security.
INFORMATION
Neither this communication nor the Publisher purport to provide a complete analysis of any company or its financial position.
This communication is based on information generally available to the public and on an interview conducted with the company’s CEO, and does not contain any material, non public information. The information on which it is based is believed to be reliable. Nevertheless, the Publisher does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information. Further, the information in this communication is not updated after publication and may become inaccurate or outdated. No reliance should be placed on the price or statistics information and no responsibility or liability is accepted for any error or inaccuracy. Any statements made should not be taken as an endorsement of analyst views.
NO FINANCIAL ADVICE
The Publisher is not, and does not purport to be, a broker-dealer or registered investment adviser or a financial adviser. The Publisher has no access to non-public information about publicly traded companies. The information provided is general and impersonal, and is not tailored to any particular individual’s financial situation or investment objective(s) and this communication is not, and should not be construed to be, personalized investment advice directed to or appropriate for any particular investor or a personal recommendation to deal or invest in any particular company or product. Any investment should be made only after consulting a professional investment advisor and only after reviewing the financial statements and other pertinent corporate information about the company. Further, readers are advised to read and carefully consider the Risk Factors identified and discussed in the advertised company’s SEC, SEDAR and/or other government filings. Investing in securities, particularly microcap securities, is speculative and carries a high degree of risk. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This communication contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding expected continual growth of the featured companies and/or industry. Statements in this communication that look forward in time, which include everything other than historical information, are based on assumptions and estimates by our content providers and involve risks and uncertainties that may affect the profiled company’s actual results of operations. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that could cause the actual results and performance to differ materially from any future results or performance expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among others: the success of the profiled company’s operations; the size and growth of the market for the company’s products and services; the company’s ability to fund its capital requirements in the near term and long term; pricing pressures; changes in business strategy, practices or customer relationships; general worldwide economic and business conditions; currency exchange and interest rate fluctuations; government, statutory, regulatory or administrative initiatives affecting the company’s business.
INDEMNIFICATION/RELEASE OF LIABILITY
By reading this communication, you acknowledge that you have read and understand this disclaimer in full, and agree and accept that the Publisher provides no warranty in respect of the communication or the profiled company and accepts no liability whatsoever. You acknowledge and accept this disclaimer and that, to the greatest extent permitted under applicable law, you release and hold harmless the Publisher from any and all liability, damages, injury and adverse consequences arising from your use of this communication. You further agree that you are solely responsible for any financial outcome related to or arising from your investment decisions.
TERMS OF USE AND DISCLAIMER
By reading this communication you agree that you have reviewed and fully agree to the Terms of Use found here https://www.valuethemarkets.com/terms-conditions/ and acknowledge that you have reviewed the Disclaimer found here https://www.valuethemarkets.com/disclaimer/. If you do not agree to the Terms of Use, please contact valuethemarkets.com to discontinue receiving future communications.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
All trademarks used in this communication are the property of their respective trademark holders. Other than valuethemarkets.com, the Publisher is not affiliated, connected, or associated with, and the communication is not sponsored, approved, or originated by, the trademark holders unless otherwise stated. No claim is made by the Publisher to any rights in any third-party trademarks other than valuethemarkets.com.
AUTHORS: VALUETHEMARKETS
valuethemarkets.com and Digitonic Ltd and our affiliates are not responsible for the content or accuracy of this article. The information included in this article is based solely on information provided by the company or companies mentioned above. This article does not provide any financial advice and is not a recommendation to deal in any securities or product. News and research are not recommendations to deal, and investments may fall in value so that you could lose some or all of your investment. Past performance is not an indicator of future performance.
ValueTheMarkets do not hold any position in the stock(s) and/or financial instrument(s) mentioned in the above piece. ValueTheMarkets have been paid to produce this piece by the company or companies mentioned above. Digitonic Ltd, the owner of valuethemarkets.com, has been paid for the production of this piece by the company or companies mentioned above.
