Best wishes for health, peace and success in the New Year 2025

This year has been full of innovations, particularly in our business model core segments: blending services, plant-based innovations, and partnerships in functional ingredients. At the same time,...

Congress on Food Safety and Sustainability: A Look at the Future of the Sector

As pioneers in digitalization and the implementation of advanced technologies for food production and quality control, Carlos Calleja, IT Director of Blendhub, will be a guest speaker at a...

Adil Benjelloun, new regional sales director for the Middle East at Blendhub

Plant-Based Yogurts and Desserts: Mastering Texture to Attract Consumers The European plant-based yogurt segment is on the rise, with an estimated growth rate of 13.9% to reach $6.67 Billion USD...

Drinkable Greek Yogurt: The next big thing in dairy innovation!

Plant-Based Yogurts and Desserts: Mastering Texture to Attract Consumers The European plant-based yogurt segment is on the rise, with an estimated growth rate of 13.9% to reach $6.67 Billion USD...

Snacks, bread, and beverages from beer spent grain: these are the finalist projects of the Impactaste challengect Consumers

Plant-Based Yogurts and Desserts: Mastering Texture to Attract Consumers The European plant-based yogurt segment is on the rise, with an estimated growth rate of 13.9% to reach $6.67 Billion USD...

III Food Industry Congress in Castilla y León: a meeting point to foster sustainable growthPlant-Based Yogurts and Desserts: Mastering Texture to Attract Consumers

Plant-Based Yogurts and Desserts: Mastering Texture to Attract Consumers The European plant-based yogurt segment is on the rise, with an estimated growth rate of 13.9% to reach $6.67 Billion USD...

Plant-Based Yogurts and Desserts: Mastering Texture to Attract Consumers

Plant-Based Yogurts and Desserts: Mastering Texture to Attract Consumers The European plant-based yogurt segment is on the rise, with an estimated growth rate of 13.9% to reach $6.67 Billion USD...

Kickoff of the HRI initiative to promote the co-creation of agri-food solutions to combat malnutrition and hunger

Blendhub’s HRI (Humanitarian and Resilience Investing) Initiative aims to promote collaboration among various stakeholders in the agri-food chain for the co-creation of agri-food solutions that...

Keys to capturing Growth in the Plant-Based Dairy Segment

At Blendhub, with a wide experience in the plant-based segment and a proven Food-as-a-Service strategy to help food companies from ideation to market launch of healthier and affordable food...

Fortified gummies, a new booming trend in food supplements

A new category has come along to revolutionize the industry: functional gummies, which provide a solution to an increasing consumer demand for food supplements. It is a new way to incorporate...

Impressive Milestones at CES 2024: Unlocking Opportunities Together

As part of Siemens’ goal to unveil how their technological innovations are reshaping the consumer, retail, and food and beverage industries, we were invited to present our model of...

Blendhub presents multilocalized network of production hubs at CES Las Vegas with Siemens as technology partner

Blendhub was invited by Siemens to present its Food-as-a-Service model, which sets a new standard in efficient, sustainable food production, delivering tangible benefits for the industry. Enabled...

Best wishes for health, peace and success in the New Year 2024

In the last year Blendhub has consolidated its Food-as-a-Service project to facilitate entrepreneurship in the food sector. Through this strategy Blendhub supports SMEs, startups and industry...

Collaborative innovation with ColoPlus to launch nutraceutical food products from bovine colostrum

In the last year Blendhub has consolidated its Food-as-a-Service project to facilitate entrepreneurship in the food sector. Through this strategy Blendhub supports SMEs, startups and industry...

Foodiq joins Blendhub’s Food-as-a-Service platform to collaborate around the development and production of novel plant-based dairy alternatives

In the last year Blendhub has consolidated its Food-as-a-Service project to facilitate entrepreneurship in the food sector. Through this strategy Blendhub supports SMEs, startups and industry...

Plant-based beverages: redefine taste and optimize costs of dairy alternatives

In the last year Blendhub has consolidated its Food-as-a-Service project to facilitate entrepreneurship in the food sector. Through this strategy Blendhub supports SMEs, startups and industry...

Awards Ceremony of the Affordable Nutrition Scale-Up Challenge

In the last year Blendhub has consolidated its Food-as-a-Service project to facilitate entrepreneurship in the food sector. Through this strategy Blendhub supports SMEs, startups and industry...

10 European startups selected in the Affordable Nutrition Scale-Up Challenge

In the last year Blendhub has consolidated its Food-as-a-Service project to facilitate entrepreneurship in the food sector. Through this strategy Blendhub supports SMEs, startups and industry...

Ice cream Expo: new stabilizer-emulsifier systems to grow your ice cream business

In the last year Blendhub has consolidated its Food-as-a-Service project to facilitate entrepreneurship in the food sector. Through this strategy Blendhub supports SMEs, startups and industry...

Strategic partnership with Upfood to develop innovative products from food surpluses

In the last year Blendhub has consolidated its Food-as-a-Service project to facilitate entrepreneurship in the food sector. Through this strategy Blendhub supports SMEs, startups and industry...

BeAmaz and Blendhub partner to develop nutritious and sustainable food from a Latin American superfood

In the last year Blendhub has consolidated its Food-as-a-Service project to facilitate entrepreneurship in the food sector. Through this strategy Blendhub supports SMEs, startups and industry...

Food 4 Future 2023, successful participation and starting point for new projects

In the last year Blendhub has consolidated its Food-as-a-Service project to facilitate entrepreneurship in the food sector. Through this strategy Blendhub supports SMEs, startups and industry...

Food 4 Future 2023: Blendhub will present its Food-as-a-Service platform

In the last year Blendhub has consolidated its Food-as-a-Service project to facilitate entrepreneurship in the food sector. Through this strategy Blendhub supports SMEs, startups and industry...

Powder ingredients, water & oven baking

Blendhub collaborated with Indespan, a pioneering company in the research and development of innovative solutions in the bakery and pastry industry, in the production and internationalization of...

Blendhub, selected as Top Innovator in the Humanitarian Impact and Resilience Challenge by World Economic Forum

Blendhub has been selected as one the 10 Top Innovators in the Humanitarian Impact and Resilience Challenge by UpLink, the innovation platform for people and planet by World Economic Forum....

Blendhub and EIT Food launch the Affordable Nutrition Scale-Up Challenge

Affordable Nutrition Scale-Up Challenge’s goal is to help bring innovative powder-based food solutions to the next level. Most promising submitted initiatives will be selected by a jury committee...

How can food companies ensure food security and food safety

We at Blendhub were pioneers in developing and adopting Chemometric Brain, a NIR-based software that allows fast and effective analysis of all raw materials and final products without the need...

From localization to hyper localization and towards a more resilient and sustainable food system

Years ago, when I first raised the need to localize food production closer to raw materials and final consumers, I had to fight against the incomprehension of an industry that was still too...

Changing the food ecosystem: inspiring conversations at DLD Conference

Today more than a decade later, we have deployed 7 hubs on 4 continents and now expanding in close collaboration with food industry partnerships and investors interested in adding their location...

Meeting new and ambitious goals in 2023

Today more than a decade later, we have deployed 7 hubs on 4 continents and now expanding in close collaboration with food industry partnerships and investors interested in adding their location...

Blendhub receives World Economic Forum New Champions’ Award for Excellence in Societal Impact

Today more than a decade later, we have deployed 7 hubs on 4 continents and now expanding in close collaboration with food industry partnerships and investors interested in adding their location...

Raúl Fernández, VP of Blendhub, awarded for people management

The Human Resources Management Association of the Region of Murcia (DH), which brings together professionals in this field, has awarded the VI Human Management Awards. These awards recognize the...

The future of food is local

Today more than a decade later, we have deployed 7 hubs on 4 continents and now expanding in close collaboration with food industry partnerships and investors interested in adding their location...

Blendhub culmina con éxito su participación en The Food Tech en México

Blendhub participó la pasada semana en The Food Tech, el mayor punto de encuentro de Latinoamérica para profesionales y empresas de la industria alimentaria. Después de tres años de parón por la...

Ice cream Expo: an opportunity to grow with Blendhub in India

Indian Ice Cream Expo is one of the most significant events in the global ice cream industry. Actually it is South Asia’s only gathering for ice cream manufacturers. More than 200...

We have a date at Ftalks Food Summit Mexico

Blendhub will participate in the first edition of the Ftalks Food Summit in Mexico. The leading event on food innovation in Spain crosses the ocean and will be held for the first time in Latin...

Blendhub, beneficiaria del Cheque TIC del Instituto de Fomento de la Región de Murcia

Blendhub ha recibido una subvención del programa “Ayudas para la contratación de servicios de innovación”, también conocido como “Cheque TIC”, concedida por el Instituto...

José Francisco Fernández Serna, new Managing Director in the Middle East

With more than 20 years of combined experience and leadership in the Food Industry, Venture Capital and Applied Innovation, 12 of which in the UAE, he joins Blendhub to lead the platform’s...

Blendhub, a leading example of sustainable social impact for the World Economic Forum

During its annual meeting in Davos – the focal point for leaders to accelerate the partnerships needed to tackle global challenges and shape a more sustainable and inclusive future-, the...

New range of meal shakes with Isagenix in Mexico

New range of meal shakes with Isagenix in Mexico The multinational company Isagenix, specialized in the development of nutritional products such as shakes and food supplements, with a strong...

Partnership with Essence Food to develop innovative products from food surpluses

Partnership with Essence Food to develop innovative products from food surpluses Blendhub joins a new partner in its service platform for the food industry: Essence Food, a company specialized in...

Gulfood: new opportunities in the food industry in Middle East

Middle East is an expanding market, strategically located, and with a fast-growing population, which is generating huge growth opportunities for international food and beverage companies and...

Blendhub and Nucaps partner to develop personalized functional ingredients

Blendhub, which operates the world’s first multi-localized network of powder-based food production hubs, and Nucaps, a nanotechnology development platform created in Spain, awarded as the...

#Fooduristic22 “The 50 people who are leading the future of food”

What a work done by the entire KM ZERO Food Innovation Hub team in bringing a value aligned squad #together in book format and in real life, with the objective to accelerate positive #impact in...

Let’s continue creating value together in 2022

We face a new year still with our lives and our professional activity limited by the pandemic and in a difficult economic context, with rising energy and raw material prices that are conditioning...

Personalized nutrition: Blendhub and Qina sign agreement

Qina, an industry-leading platform for personalized nutrition solutions, and Blendhub, operating the world´s first global network of multi-localized food production hubs, have signed an agreement...

Desarrollo de nuevas recetas de soluciones en polvo, saludables y sostenibles

BLENDHUB, S.L ha conseguido una subvención gracias al proyecto “DESARROLLO DE NUEVAS RECETAS DE SOLUCIONES EN POLVO, SALUDABLES Y SOSTENIBLES, PARA LA PRODUCCIÓN INDUSTRIAL DE SMOOTHIES Y...

Henrik S. Kristensen, one of the world’s 10 most influential business leaders in 2021

Our founder and CEO has been recognized by US World’s Leaders Magazine for leading a global change in the food industry This week US World’s Leaders Magazine recognized Henrik S. Kristensen as...

Virtual Reality: experience how a network of multi localized food production hubs can create value for the global food supply chain

The whole world is getting faster and technology is the pacemaker for change. The Covid pandemic has further accelerated this trend because some people understand that fast technology...

Blendhub, a leading company in technology, innovation and sustainability at the first edition of Food 4 Future

The company won the award for the Best Sustainability Project in the Food Industry at the Foodtech Awards. By 2050, the world’s population will reach 10 billion. Feeding the entire...

The plant-based food trend is expanding in Europe: are you ready for the challenge?

The plant-based food trend is unstoppable. European consumers are increasingly shifting towards plant-based products because of a growing trend to vegan and flexitarian diets. In the last two...

Meat products in Europe: optimizing production and keeping high-quality at lower prices

Meat is one the most demanded and highest spending items in the shopping cart in Europe. According to the European Commission, last year this product accounted for 14.5% of family food expenses....

Ragi-based instant beverages: high value product to foster local development in India

Blendhub and local organization eKutir have leveraged their core capabilities to innovate and create shared value along the Ragi value chain by applying technology to improve farming practices,...

Desarrollo de nuevos sistemas para la identificación y cuantificación de ingredientes en mezclas complejas

BLENDHUB ha conseguido una subvención gracias al proyecto “DESARROLLO DE NUEVOS SISTEMAS PARA LA IDENTIFICACIÓN Y CUANTIFICACIÓN DE INGREDIENTES EN MEZCLAS COMPLEJAS” otorgada por el Instituto de...

Processed cheese in Middle East: advanced solutions to improve functionality and cost

In the Middle East there is a strong tradition of cheese consumption, with 98% of people consuming cheese on a regular basis. Market data point to an average growth in the region of 2% in volume...

Ice cream industry in India: optimizing costs and improving quality and performance

Ice cream manufacturers in India have been facing the same challenges for years when producing ice cream: it is often difficult to achieve homogenous blends and smooth, creamy...

A platform from seed to mouth to innovate and grow in the food industry

How can we ensure a safer, more sustainable and healthier food system? Which path should the food industry take to meet current challenges? Last week I took part on the FoodTure event organised...

Instant hot beverage solutions for the US market: an opportunity to innovate

The instant hot beverage market in the US has great growth potential but it involves a big innovation challenge for food brands. Consumers demand diversity of flavors and healthy alternatives,...

Technology and internal communication, keys to the success of teleworking

It has been one year since the outbreak of the COVID19 pandemic and the first lockdown, which forced millions of people to telework. One year later, workers and companies are still adapting to...

Blendhub Mexico obtains certification to manufacture organic products according to the international CCOF standard

Blendhub’s production hub in Mexico has obtained international CCOF certification to handle, store and manufacture fully organic products. CCOF is a nonprofit organization that advances...

Ingredients for Fruit Preparations and Ice Creams in India

Including fruit in ice creams helps improve flavour and colour as well as the products’ nutritional and organoleptic profile. But it also requires ensuring the right texture and performance of...

Powder solutions for instant beverages, new launch in Mexico

We are launching our powdered solutions for instant beverages in Mexico, adapted to capsules, sachets and vending machines. A novel product in this market to innovate in the hot beverage segment....

Blendhub collaborates with Watt’s in Chile to launch new range of Loncoleche plant-based desserts

Watt’s added two new varieties of 100% plant-based desserts based on soya and almonds to its Loncoleche vegetal line in the Chilean market. This is a totally innovative product within the...

Crece la tendencia plant-based en Latinoamérica: ¿te subes a la ola?

La tendencia plant-based crece en Latinoamérica. En Colombia, por ejemplo, el 93% de los consumidores están interesados en adquirir y consumir productos plant-based, que consideran más...

Fantastic news: BIG food conglomerates embrace localized production

This week it has been published that Unilever has developed and is currently testing what they have called a “travel factory” in portable shipping container. Traditional mindsets may think...

Soluciones para optimizar la producción cárnica e innovar en productos adaptados al consumidor actual

La carne es la partida más demandada y de mayor gasto en la cesta de la compra en España. En el último año, este producto se ha encarecido en más de un 35%, según datos de Ipsos. Para mantener...

The Nobel Peace Prize to the World Food Programme, an opportunity to rethink the global food production model

A few days ago, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to fight hunger and improve conditions for peace in conflict areas. This recognition...

Wishing you and your loved ones a safe, healthy and happy new year 2021!

The end of 2020 is close, and we should all be optimistic about the future, longing for a little more stability after a very hard period. Do you realize that, despite the pandemic, we are...

Blendhub se adhiere a la iniciativa “Empresas por una Sociedad Libre de Violencia de Género”

Blendhub se ha adherido a la iniciativa “Empresas por una Sociedad Libre de Violencia de Género”, puesta en marcha por la Consejería de Mujer, Igualdad, LGTBI, Familias y Política Social de la...

Diversity as a driver of innovation

By Carl Watson, Talent Manager at Blendhub When I’m asked about Blendhub’s nationality, I find it difficult to answer. There are things that we know: it’s a company originally from Spain,...

SDG 2: “All our responsible and sustainable initiatives can only achieve their full potential by sharing value and including all operators in the global food supply chain”

Blendhub is the world’s first food-as-a-service platform. By localising food production through a network of multi-localised production hubs, closer to raw materials and final consumers,...

Phil Wright, appointed as Vice President of Operations at Blendhub

Phil Wright has been appointed as new Vice President of Operations at Blendhub. He was formerly VP Engineering, managing the global engineering team, continuous improvement, hub deployments and...

Blendhub, selected as an example of innovative technology company in the book España 5.0 

Blendhub has been selected by Luis Miguel Gilpérez, former president of Telefónica, in his latest book,España 5.0, Hacia un nuevo modelo de industrialización, as an example of an industrial...

Cocospray, una nueva solución de pasta de coco en polvo para bebidas y postres veganos

 ¡Estamos de estreno!  Nuestra gama de productos plant-based crece con Cocospray, una nueva solución de pasta de coco en polvo para producir bebidas veganas, yogures, postres y helados de coco...

Vicente Palanca Orts, appointed as Vice President of Sales at Blendhub

  He was formerly VP Operations, controlling the different centers of the company in Europe, Asia and America, and will now be head of sales and marketing. In his new role, he will promote the...

Azucarera and Blendhub develop an innovative moisture-resistant bakery coating

It guarantees the consistency of the coating, preventing it from dissolving in the defrosting and baking processes.   To develop this pioneering solution, Azucarera has chosen collaborative...

Blendhub’s unique business model as one of top global circular economy solutions

Blendhub’s unique business model, presented at the World Circular Economy Forum as one of top global circular economy solutions.   Blendhub’s food-as-a-service platform has been presented at...

Using the cloud to fix food production. UPPSTART Event 2020

Using the cloud to fix food production was the title of Henrik S. Kristensen’s keynote at UPPSTART, a virtual tech startup conference that took place online on 4th September 2020. This event is...

BLENDHUB WEBINAR: Beverages Processing

In these uncertain times, the Food & Beverages industry is eager to find new ways to reduce costs and grow, while becoming more resilient to unforeseen events.   That’s why we have...

How to move forward in 2021: our solutions for local production might be the answers you are seeking

Supply chain disruption, high rates of unemployment, and overall economic distress pose new challenges for the food and beverage industry worldwide. What we have been (and still...

Chemometric Brain

Last week I was very proud of joining our incredible Beatriz Carrasco in Plataforma Tecnológica Food for Life-Spain (PTF4LS) online event where she presented the novel Chemometric Brain which in...

ExO World

Salim Ismail opening the 3rd and last day of ExO World (OpenExO) making clear that this forum is all about impact and we invite everyone to get their brains “hacked” and participate in making the...

Thought For Food – Live chat

Henrik Stamm Kristensen appeared in a live chat interview with Christine Gould, CEO of Thought For Foods, on May 18, 2020. Read an excerpt from the interview below or watch the interview at the...

Thank you Hadi Khatib

Thanks Hadi Khatib for telling the story why Blendhub is much more than a traditional company catering for our own interests and why we believe that helping others to become successful is a good...

Blendhub in Food News International: Blendhubs replication model can support the nutritional needs of healthcare facilities during COVID19

Blendhub was featured in a article from Food News International on April 20th, 2020.   The Food News International team interviewed Blendhub´s founder and CEO, Henrik S. Kristensen, about...

Cloudkitchens and localized food production

Happy to see how Travis Kalanick from CloudKitchens is getting inspired by the localized food production movement or what Blendhub call “food-as-a-service” by facilitating others to serve recipes...

Blendhub in AMEinfo: Blendhub can help small and medium enterprises compete with the big brands

Blendhub was featured in two articles from AMEinfo on April 15th and 16th, 2020.   Reporters Mark Anthony Karam and Hadi Khatib from AMEinfo interviewed Blendhub´s founder and CEO, Henrik S....

Blendhub active in GCC

Blendhub have been active in GCC for 2 decades supporting food industry with powder based sustainable food  ingredients solutions and are today scoping to deploy localized food production hubs in...

Blendhub in Agencia EFE – Efeagro

Blendhub was featured in an article from Agencia EFE – Efeagro on April 5th 2020. Spanish hospitals reinforce their food services to feed patients and staff   Efeagro reporter, Belén...

COVID19: Blendhub offers its capabilities and know how to provide basic nutrition to hospitals and elderly homes

COVID19: Blendhub offers its capabilities and know how to provide basic nutrition to hospitals and elderly homes   Blendhub announced in a press release that, given the current situation,...

Letter from Blendhub’s CEO amid the COVID-19 crisis

Henrik S. Kristensen makes a public call for collaboration to make the global food supply chain more efficient, resilient, and able to meet the rising demands for safe and affordable food...

Blendhub Spain: “We remain operational for all customers.”

Sergio Bravo, Managing Director, confirms that Blendhub falls into the category of essential industries and will remain open   Starting this Tuesday, March 31st, the Spanish government...

Powder-based foods cover basic nutritional needs and reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19 in hospitals and elderly homes

Powder-based nutrition is complementary and an effective alternative to perishable foods in situations such as the current Covid-19 pandemic.   Powder-based food significantly reduces the...

Una Manera de Hacer Europa

Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo   BLENDHUB, S.L ha conseguido una subvención gracias al proyecto “DESARROLLO DE NUEVOS SISTEMAS PARA LA IDENTIFICACIÓN Y CUANTIFICACIÓN DE INGREDIENTES EN MEZCLAS...

Blendhub Featured in El Economista

Blendhub was featured in El Economista on March 3rd. Read a translated excerpt of the interview below, or find the original article by Antonio Lorenzo in Spanish here.   Technology applied...

Food Waste to Food Powder

At Blendhub, we are intensifying work with committed people and companies on turning food waste into food powder. We qualify these ingredients back into nutritional recipes with full traceability...

Diversity of Ingredients

When every single sustainable food ingredient can be used in millions of recipes, why is it then that during the last century we have been eating less variety of food products with less diversity...

Multi-Localization and Supply Chain

Multi-localization is a unique tool for taking global food supply chains local and Blendhub is accelerating talks with exponentially minded business and financial partners about bringing our...

Fresh 2 Powder 2 Fresh

Fresh 2 Powder 2 Fresh makes up 40% of the world’s sustainable food is powder-based and is a superior solution towards zero waste and sustainability. At Blendhub, we have been working for more...

Dehydrated Food Waste

I have since my first job back in 1985 seen how dehydrated food waste like citrus peel or seaweed was turned into valuable food ingredients and then becoming a part of high-quality food recipes...

Made in India Deployment

In 2010, Blendhub initiated our strategy of creating a global network of multi-localized food production hubs, and Made in India was our first successful deployment. Ravi Menon and his local team...

Food Tech Entrepreneurship

After more than 2 decades founding 4 food tech companies and an agtech community platform, all tested, validated and operating under the Blendhub umbrella, I have many times asked myself WHAT IF...

Dani Garcia’s Burgers in McDonald’s

Dani García, a 3 Michelin Star chef in Spain, is now introducing his recipe and food ingredient know-how to a much bigger public as he is collaborating with McDonald’s according to...

Wine and Sustainability

Thank you to Philibert Frick and the amazing wine of yours that we had today in Geneva. Our extensive discussions around sustainable food and recipes made our time even better. Keep up the good...

Forgotten Ingredients

In the plane towards Geneva and again reading a story about traditional ingredients that were “forgotten” in exchange for global brands and standardized recipes for anybody, anywhere – I...

Consumers Set the Menu

Food Ingredients First recently publish a very interesting article, Picture-perfect tints: Age of Instagram strengthens natural colouring offerings.  The piece is about how some of the leading...

#CloudBlending At Its Core

#CloudBlending is an open platform initiative where people and companies up and downstream the agrifood value chain and collaborates to accelerate impact and a global sustainable food system with...

Food Powder and The Global Food Consumption

At Blendhub we have estimated food powder to be between 30% and 40% of global food consumption and without a doubt the world’s most sustainable food source. It can be consumed alone by...

Business as Usual Is Not Good Anymore

“Business, as usual, is not any good anymore,” said David Nabarro to Food Navigator and that is exactly what Blendhub has invested in for more than a decade by concentrating on...

Sustainable Food System

At Blendhub, we imagine a sustainable food system where every single recipe with corresponding ingredients selected by individual consumers could be delivered in less than 2 hours to your home,...

Food in the Circular Economy

The future of food is multi-localized and a circular economy based, counting on 500 million SMEs and innovative startups producing 80% of the world’s food and nutrition. I will be meeting...

We Take Care of the Rest

In March 2018,  we produced the first batch for newly created Manduka Food and since then, Fran Molina has focused on marketing, sales and distribution strategies growing his product reach and...

Turning the Value Chain Upside-Down

Why is it that everyone talks about the need for sustainable food recipes with local ingredients and so little apparently happens? At Blendhub, we decided to take a different approach and turned...

What BankInter and Blendhub Have In Common

Thank you to BankInter for your invitation and my reason for participating in today’s event is exactly what you mention in your tag line “alternativas – lo que NO hace falta es más de lo...

Consumer Created Products

At Blendhub we believe that sustainable food recipes and ingredients are powder-based and that the future of food will be consumer-created products delivered to anybody, anywhere through unique...

Transforming the Challenges of 2019 into the Opportunities of 2029

Transforming the Challenges for the Food Industry of 2019 into the Opportunities of 2029   At the Food Technology Summit and Exposition, Peleg Chevion led a keynote speech on consumption...

Waves of Disruption

Great RethinkX report by Catherine Tubb Tony Seba on “Rethinking Food and Agriculture 2020-2030” with many points in common of Blendhub strategy “hosting any recipe with any ingredient for...

Delivering Eveything

As Amazon is investing in “delivering everything” and now expanding into understanding custom tariffs in the global end-to-end supply chain, at Blendhub we have been investing heavily...

The Wave Project

At Blendhub, we have spent the last years preparing a completely new and collaborative way to ideate, test, validate and launch better food and nutritional products, faster, safer and cheaper to...

Opportunistic Recipe Design

The article, Biology is Eating the World, excellently shows how actual food and nutritional products based on opportunistic recipe design with pre-defined ingredients. Just because a specific...

Blendhub Featured in Entrepreneur Spain Magazine

Blendhub was featured in Entrepreneur Spain Magazine, Emprendedores, on November 09. Read a translated excerpt of the interview below, or find the original article by David Ramos in Spanish here....

The 3 Top Food Industry Trends in Colombia

The Top 3 Food Industry Trends in Colombia   We spoke with Harvey Eduardo Castañeda, General Director of Blendhub Colombia, shortly after the IAlimentos Expo to discuss the latest consumer...

Key Drivers Behind Slow Technology Adaption

Inertia, lack of urgency and, most importantly, the traditional food industry stakeholders protecting the status quo, are key drivers behind the slow technology adaption curve in the agrifood...

Las 3 Primarias Tendencias de Consumo en Colombia

Las 3 Primarias Tendencias de Consumo en Colombia   Hablamos con Harvey Eduardo Castañeda, Director de Blendhub Colombia, poco después de la Expo IAlimentos para charlar sobre las últimas...

Giving the Power to Consumers

Apps like Yuka are moving the selection power of a sustainable food and nutrition menu to consumers. At Blendhub, we have invested heavily over more than a decade in a network of multi-localized...

Platform Economy

The global platform economy is moving forward rapidly and in Dubai, Uber bought Careem and they are now offing traditional Hala Dubai Taxi fully integrated on their App. At Blendhub, we believe...

Our International Team Coming Together

Last week was an amazing one as our global management team, sales and marketing executives and hubs managers discussed data and intelligence-based application “waves”, new hubs deployments and...

Ice Cream in India

At Blendhub, we are not just offering sustainable food production-as-a-service but actually connecting our industrial customers and 500 million SMEs and start-ups where, when and why launching...

Game Changer

Earlier this month, Food Navigator published a great article about Prospera Technologies and Daniel Koppel. Like myself, Daniel believes that “cost-effective data solutions will be key to...

Trade Wars and Food

Trade wars have been a reality for centuries but in today’s world, the immediate losers in the agrifood industry are the farmers and 500 million SMEs producing 80% of the world’s food...

Removing Nutrition Barriers

Get Nourish3d is a great example of a company removing the barriers between food, nutrition and supplements and moving us towards individualized. Melissa Snover’s initiative is not only an...

Independent and Innovative Food Apps

Yuka, a French founded “good for you” food and beauty mobile application is impacting how more than 12 million consumers select their food purchases today. Blendhub and our global...

Sustainable Foods in Africa

At Blendhun, we have been working with African food entrepreneurs like Perez Ochieng, farmers and final consumers to introduce them to alternative sustainable food recipes, and they are now...

Understanding the 2020 Ice Cream Industry in India

Consumer Trends and Barriers in the Ice Cream Industry in India The Director of Blendhub India and market research studies explain what is holding the segment back from growing faster in upcoming...

Supporting SMEs

It is great to see that multiple stakeholders are starting to understand the need for supporting ideation, test, production validation and the launch of food and nutritional products for SMEs to...

Big Challenges Bold Solutions

Billions of recipes with millions of ingredients, produced by and for more than 500 million food and nutrition brands to less than 9.000 million individuals by 2050, anywhere. BIG challenges need...

How to Formulate Sustainable Recipes

Since the foundation of Blendhub, we are aspiring to lead a global change paving the way towards an inclusive and sustainable food industry. Today we offer people and companies a completely...

Plant-Based Protein

Blendhub is offering plant-based protein blends on the world’s first multi-localized network of production hubs ensuring fast new product launch with highest food safety and localized the best...

Global Replication Model

Many people ask me “Why does Blendhub create networks and a global replication model”? This article by Christine Mayer SEED is one that I love and will shine a light on why I believe this is the...

Sugar Substitute

Sweetener solutions and sugar substitutes for industry and final consumers available from our ecosystem partners and ready to be produced for you on the world’s first multi-localized network of...

Cheese in the Middle East and Africa

Blendhub with +20 years of experience in the traditional dairy and processed cheese segments will soon be introducing our novel data-based development waves into the Middle East and Africa...

Business Leaders Need to Focus on Nutrition

When it comes to making a positive impact in the agrifood industry, Blendhub walks the talk. Since taking the decision to transform from Premium Ingredients to Blendhub in 2014, we have taken a...

Beyond Meat

In the article, Beyond Meat Shows the World is Changing, I cheer the scope about Beyond Meat and Seth Goldman is a success story far beyond meat where every single consumer is getting heard and...

Transparency and Traceability in the Agrifood Value Chain

Congratulations Cargill to your investment in PURIS facilitating complete traceability of a specific ingredient from farm to a Beyond Meat recipe creating a sustainable food product wanted by...

Global Business Services

With around 500 million active food industry SMEs feeding 80% of the world’s population, at Blendhub we understood more than a decade ago the need for a standardized, replicable and...

Ultimate Sustainable Food

At Blendhub we believe that food powder is the ultimate sustainable food and nutritional products that are based on zero waste can be turned into any recipe for industry and final consumers...

Any Food Can Be Powdered

If anyone has forgotten that any food can be powdered, take a look at Wen’s from Singapore and understand why this matters. At Blendhub we believe that the future of sustainable food is a...

Change in Paradigm

At Blendhub we believe that we are just in front of a complete change in paradigm on how we identify, select and consume recipes with corresponding food ingredients and get them delivered with a...

Novel Startups Lead to Novel Recipe Development

During +100 years, it was the big food industry brands leading the launch of novel food and nutrition, building state-of-the-art factories and promoting and delivering the final products to...

Blendhub in IAlimentos Magazine

Blendhub was featured in an article from IAlimentos Magazine in August 2019. Disrupting the Industry at Expo IAlimentos 2019 Leading up to the Expo IAlimentos 2019, reporter Meredith Peñuela...

Blendhub in CTC Alimentación Magazine

Blendhub was featured in an article from CTC Alimentación Magazine in August 2019. Interview with Olivier Navello, VP of Global Technical at Blendhub   For their Mindful Eating issue, CTC...

Blendhub and SWT accelerate growth

Blendhub is deploying a second production hub in Mexico to strengthen its presence in the region and to offer SWT’s natural and healthy sweetness solutions As part of its strategic growth plan,...

Blendhub in AgFunder News

Blendhub featured on an article from AgFunder News on April, 2019. Read the full story below: How a 20-Year Old Startup is Decentralizing Food Production with Modular Powdering Factories You...

Yuwa School Founder Visits Blendhub Headquarters in Spain

Franz Gastler saw firsthand how his students’ meals are made. Last year, Blendhub worked with Yuwa School, the American NGO Feed a Billion and the Indian meal shake brand Happy Ratio to provide...

Making Food Available Through Sustainable Growth

Every year at the Abundance 360 Summit, Peter Diamandis brings together hundreds of entrepreneurs, executives and leaders to connect their technology, wealth and knowledge to make an exponential...

Better Food for a Better Future

…exponential impact starting from the bottom What you have just seen is the proof of what we can achieve together when connecting value-aligned people in value-aligned organisations, with the...

Ice cream production is “hot”: Frosty Boy and Blendhub grow in the Indian market and beyond

The companies crack the Indian market by partnering in multi-localised production Global food manufacturers have regarded India as the “ultimate prize” of the food and beverage industry. As one...

Blendhub features the future of the food industry in Mexico with #CloudBlending

The company will be at Food Tech Summit showcasing its decentralised, pay-per-use platform for design, blending and distribution of powder-based food products In fact, this is not about the...

Blendhub actualiza su Política de privacidad para proteger tus datos

En Blendhub valoramos la privacidad de todos nuestros clientes y partes interesadas. Por lo tanto, hemos actualizado nuestra Política de privacidad para cumplir con las disposiciones de las...

Blendhub updates its Privacy Policy to protect your data

At Blendhub we value the privacy of all our clients and stakeholders. Therefore, we have updated our Privacy Policy in order to meet the provisions of the new EU regulations regarding personal...

Offering our experience to food startups. From incubation to product launch

As 80% of global food supply is produced by SMEs, I believe that food industry value propositions must be about creating value together. We can only make a true impact by collaboration. I call it...

#CloudBlending en Gulfood 2018. Una solución origen a destino para lanzar nuevos productos

Pruébalo para desarrollar nuevas gamas de alimentos veganos, lácteos, quesos o helados bajo un modelo de pago por uso   Si todavía no estás familiarizado con #CloudBlending, Gulfood 2018 es...

Blendhub desarrolla una herramienta para monitorizar en tiempo real la actividad de sus hubs

Blendhub ha desarrollado una nueva herramienta para monitorizar en tiempo real la actividad de sus hubs. “PPB Digital Twin” permite visualizar lo que está sucediendo en cada uno de los centros de...

Blendhub develops a tool to live monitor its hubs activity

Blendhub has developed a new tool to live monitor the activity of the production units within the hubs. “PPB Digital Twin” allows the company to visualize what is happening in each of the...

CloudBlending en FI Europe 2017. Un modelo integral para productores de materia prima

#CloudBlending by Blendhub  es un modelo relacional que utiliza tecnología digital para optimizar las relaciones dentro de la cadena de valor agroalimentaria, facilitando el desarrollo y...

#CloudBlending at FI Europe 2017. An all-included model for raw material producers

#CloudBlending by Blendhub is a relational model which uses digital technology to optimize relationships within the agrifood value chain, facilitating the development and launch of new powder...

Transformación digital en el sector alimentario. CloudBlending en 4th Dairy Asia Pacific Summit 2017

Las estrategias de transformación digital se han vuelto esenciales en la industria agroalimentaria, como afirman más de ¼ de los líderes del sector. La globalización ha hecho aflorar competidores...

Digital transformation in the food sector. CloudBlending at 4th Dairy Asia Pacific Summit 2017

Digital transformation strategies are becoming essential in agrifood industry, as over ¼ of sector leaders claim. Globalization enables lower-priced competitors to emerge while food production is...

Blendhub desarrolla una plataforma de datos en la nube

El proyecto BlendAPP 24/7 project, con nº de expediente: IC4-020000-2016-2, ha sido financiado por la Dirección General de Industria y de la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa del Ministerio de Economía,...

Less waste and costs to feed more, better. CloudBlending in Mexico.

In 2050 the food system will have to sustain more than 9 billion people. And although many are those which require solutions aimed at the increase of production, we have to consider that today...

CloudBlending at Gulfood Manufacturing 2017

CloudBlending is a business model which optimizes the relationships within the agri-food value chain to facilitate the development of new powder based food products and reduce their cost, both...

Discover CloudBlending at Food Technology Summit & Expo Mexico

Digital technologies have enabled not only to connect knowledge on a global scale but also to optimize manufacturing processes. Using this, Blendhub has developed CloudBlending, a new business...

Blendhub comparte su conocimiento en derecho alimentario con profesionales del sector

Olga Enrich, General Counsel de Blendhub, ha impartido una clase como ponente invitada en el Máster en Derecho de la Salud (incluyendo el Derecho Alimentario). El Centro de Estudios superiores de...

Blendhub shares knowledge in food law with industry professionals

The head of the Legal Department of the company, Olga Enrich, has given a lecture on the new EU legislative framework for so-called New Foods Olga Enrich, General Counsel of Blendhub, was invited...

CloudBlending as a Digital Transformation Model at the Agrifood Industry 4.0 Conference

Jose Uriarte, VP Business Development at Blendhub, explains how companies in the industry can immediately add value, with the support of Blendhub’s network of factories or hubs, and its community...

Blendhub launches a new hub hosting food powder blends in Indian domestic market

This solution reduces costs and risks, facilitating the launch of new products and entering new markets for agri-food businesses. The company is about to open its second hub[1] in India as part...

Launching a new #CloudBlending hub in  Dubai: A global solution for food powders  

At the beginning of March, I had the pleasure to present our next #CloudBlending hub to serve the GCC countries, to a selected group of agri-food stakeholders, including independent professionals...

Another year draws to an end… It’s a timefor plans, adventure and wishes…

We took our ‘first step’ years ago, when we chose to be OPEN OPEN to collaboration, OPEN to diversity, OPEN to new ideas, OPEN to different ways of working, OPEN to new challenges… We hope your...

CEO of Blendhub collects the ‘Cinco Días’ Business Innovation Award

> Henrik Stamm Kristensen thanked the team and his family for the award and stressed the importance of finding solutions to the hunger challenge, when about one billion people are still...

Blendhub, Cinco Días Entrepreneurial Innovation Prize

The jury has recognized the progress in fighting hunger made thanks the portable and modular factory designed by the company for blending food ingredients. The financial newspaper Cinco Días has...

Get introduced to a novel agrifood ecosystem where “out-sourcing” is becoming key to satisfy individual consumer demands ANYWHERE

In a complex and fast-changing world where branded food companies are facing an increasing need to access local markets and respond to very specific consumer demands with new products, the area...

Premium Ingredients presents new corporative video on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.

Transparency, collaboration and innovation are the main concepts of the new corporate video that Premium Ingredients has just launched on the occasion of its  20th anniversary....

Congratulations Ravi Menon. You have shown the way for taking food production from static to portable and create local value in India

Ravi Menon, Director of Blendhub Corp’s company Premium Ingredients Food Services India, started employment with us 1.10.2011 and from a greenfield project without even the building...

Premium Ingredients Awarded the Innovative SME Seal by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness

The General Administration of Innovation and Competitiveness of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness has granted the seal of Innovative SME to Premium Ingredients, part of Blendhub....

Kirit Patel, a freelance agri-food professional connecting with new challenges through the Blendhub ecosystem

More and more freelancers being active in the agri-food industry are coming from positions in large corporations, where they were hired and trained to deliver specific results for years until at...

BPN Network Days: Opening up new opportunities for food formulators, entrepreneurs and other agrifood industry stakeholders in India and the world

After many trips to India over the last years, one of the things I am most amazed of is the spirit of collaboration between Indian professionals and the drive towards exploring new possibilities...

Premium Ingredients presents its renewed Center of Excellence Formulation

Offering customers new opportunities for collaboration and use of its facilities....

Premium Ingredients Mexico transfers its portable production plant from the Federal District to Lerma

The company shows the flexibility to optimize the supply chain, improve production costs and achieve more agile lead times of the factory   Premium Ingredients Mexico, a Blendhub company,...

Are you a visionary agrifood professional? The BPN network day in Mumbai is a “must” in your calendar

Today the digital world offers new possibilities of connectivity and networking, opening up new corporate business relationships and partnerships. Transparent and value aligned interactions with...

Food Networking Consulting Mexico: A modern agrifood SME offering a brand new “formulation”

Agri-food technology development is a fast changing sector and during the last few years, lots of new start-ups with true potential to disrupt the actual value chain are emerging. These dynamic...

Blendhub Professional Network holds a new international event in Mumbai

The company will host the meeting with agri-food industry professionals and companies with interests in entering the growing Indian market on Tuesday, the 28th of June, at the Lalit Hotel. The...

Blendhub presents a project that shows how the improvement of a specific raw material can generate large volumes of added value formulation

For years, the dairy by-product permeate has had difficulties in finding its way into industrial and consumer food products due to its low/no functionality, bad taste issues and important...

Premium Ingredients, Trust and Transparency

The Customer Relationship Mangement Service is the backbone of Premium Ingredients and a clear aim for mataining an excellent relationship with our customers, based on trust on transparency....

Frank Lichtmess – A food formulator who has changed his “formula”

The global Food and Beverage industry counts on an enormous amount of talented food formulators. Specialists, who develop and apply their knowledge and deliver specific formulas and application...

Administration and Business Management students of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena visit Blendhub

The event, scheduled for students of a Human Resources Management class, is part of a call for assistance from the center for conducting scientific­educational activities On Friday April 15th,...

Democratizing the agrifood industry: A successful networking event for international food professionals

By Peter Olsen, Corporate Host of Blendhub...

COFIDES supports Premium Ingredients to implement its second portable factory in India

The Spanish Company for Development Funding grants two joint investment loans at the FONPYME expense and for a total amount of 900,000 euros...

Blendhub’s Professional Network is celebrating its first international event in Dubai

The company will host the event in connection with Gulfood on Wednesday the 24th of February at the Conrad Hotel in Dubai including a general introduction to the network and the concept of...

Take food production from Static to Portable

It is a fact that the global agriculture and food production industry employed more than one billion people in 2013 being equivalent to the third of the entire global workforce, and yet the...

What is the true value of a food formulation?

Millions of B2B food formulations are today offered to food producers all over the world with one simple message: “My formulation is better or cheaper than yours”. Most of the offered...

Blendhub finances the Jesús Abandonado Foundation Christmas Eve Dinner for the fourth consecutive year

Blendhub finances the Christmas Eve Dinner organized by the Jesús Abandonado Foundation in the soup kitchen that the NGO has in Murcia. This is the fourth consecutive year that the group of...

There is something we all have in common at this time of the year…

There is something we all have in common at this time of the year, wherever you are: the desire to get toghether and have happy festive season. At Blendhu.bwe also want to be with you with our...

Helping new strong local food brands arise

Dairy food producers are turning to markets such as Africa: Growth in established markets is low while, population is increasing in emerging countries, which, and where there is an increasing...

Students of the Computer Science Faculty visit the PPB

Students of the University of Murcia visit Blendhub and the first modular and Portable Powder Blending factory in the world. A group of 11 pupils, students of Computer Science Faculty at the...

“PPB is an eye-opener but Blendhub’s global offering is the most interesting & complete option for food producers”

Kristian Bluff – Blendhub’s Professional Networker...

Premium Ingredients Food Services India sets up a second PPB

The PPB will blend products for the Indian Domestic Market keeping with the Government’s thrust on “Made in India” Premium Ingredients Food Services India, company specialized in the formulation...

Dairy products Anywhere: A new replicable production concept

Through a Linkedin article, I recently learned about a very interesting concept called “Smart dairy – Farming in the box”. A new way of producing milk anywhere, and a concept apparently...

Formulators: What do consumers demand? Transparency and local products

Recent studies about final food consumers’ preferences reiterate an increasing interest in locally produced products and transparency. Going downstream the food value chain, it is clearly...

New Market, New Conventional Plant for Food Powder Blends Set Up – Just Reconsider it!

I have been working in the agri-food sector for nearly thirty years. After some successes and failures, I consider the construction of a state of the art factory for blending food powder one of...

Blendhub collects food on occasion of the World Food Day

The quantity of food collected by the employees of Blendhub will be double by the owners and given to the Murcia Food Bank. On occasion of the World Food Day celebration, on October 16th,...

Modular and Portable Food Production: Produce Local – Offer Global

Arla Foods has recently announced 2 new joint ventures in Nigeria and Senegal with the objective of adding value through selling their dairy powders in Africa. They have announced a strategy...

Blendhub at Food Technology Summit & Expo, Mexico

Blendhub and their group of companies will offer information about how they create value for local and global customers using or producing food powder blends delivered by the world’s first...

Food Powder Blends Anywhere: An Open Door to New Markets

Fueled mainly by population growth and increasing urbanization, many opportunities are emerging in processed food especially, in developing markets, where new local players are arising. On the...

How Will We Produce Food to Reduce Hunger?

In a world where the population is expected to reach nine billion by 2050, where two billion people suffer malnutrition, 30% of produced food goes to waste during production and delivery process,...

Food value chain: Redefining Traditional B2B Business in a Service Economy

I recently read an interesting article focusing on the transition to an industrial economy to a service economy, signed by Dave Gray. As suggested in the article, the car is, perhaps, one the...

Food Production: Balancing People, Planet, and Growth

The food system has a major role in achieving the sustainable development goals. Both in relation to the environmental impact it causes and the need for ensuring a healthy and sustainable way of...

Big data and the need for more affordable and high quality food

Due to a worldwide fragmented food supply chain, food manufacturers have to deal with countless risks that impact the final price of food products. Therefore, attaining more relevant and precise...

Making Food Available to Anybody

Very proud of my team at Blendhub! After Murcia Food Bank’s visit to our company, we all initiated a very successful food collection, bringing together over 300 kilograms of food products- four...

The Water Challenge. Ensuring a Sustainable Food Production

Water scarcity is one of the great threats to the sustainability of the food systems. United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that the food production consumes 70% of the...

Food Powder Blends Anywhere at Expo Milano 2015

The Food Powder Blends ANYWHERE initiative by the company Blendhub has been selected as one of the best practices in agricultural innovation in the contest “Challenges on Best Practices in...

Blendhub collaborates with Murcia Food Bank

Blendhub, Murcia-based group of companies becoming a reference of innovation and technology in the Agri-food sector, has conducted a food collection campaign to collaborate with Murcia’s Food...

Agri-food Value Chain: Better Alignment, Less Risk

In the book The Risk-Driven. Four Questions That Will Define Your Company Business Model, Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine argue that when designing business models, key choices can either...

From a ‘Me’ to a ‘We’ Economy

Some weeks ago, I enjoyed a fantastic “WE Day” in London with my family and thousands of true everyday heroes. The goal of these events are “to empower a generation to shift the world from...

New PPB high viscosity liquids injection system

Allowing the injection of products with viscosities above 15,000 cPs at room temperatures preserving their properties and obtaining a perfectly homogeneous powder end product....

ELIS students visit Blendhub

Students of El Limonar International School (ELIS) with which Blendhub has an agreement of collaboration within its talent development program, participated in a workshop on career guidance,...

Blendhub receives a mention in the Laurel Awards

Recognizing the support for the inclusion of workers with intellectual disabilities Last Thursday, February 26th, Blendhub recieved a special mention in recognition of its support for the...

Sustainability and risk mitigation

The fast-changing and complex world in which we live makes crucial for companies the creation of sustainable businesses. They must be able to better understand their supply chains to optimize...

Premium Ingredients opens new processing plant in Mexico City

The factory will produce dairy and meat blends. The company completes the commitment to the American market after the opening of a laboratory and various pilot plants for testing cheese analogues...

President and CEO of Blendhub collects the Most Innovative Company Award from ‘Actualidad Económica’

Henrik Stamm Kristensen, president and CEO of Blendhub, received on behalf of Blendhub the Most Innovative Company in the Region of Murcia Award last Thursday, Feb. 19. This award is given out...

Blendhub with “Montoro Alemán” Chair

The company incorporates its first scholarship from the “Capacitas Program” to its offices Blendhub, through the company Premium Ingredients S.L., has joined the “Capacitas...

The benefits of transparency: Engaging consumers, mitigating risks, discovering new opportunities

Transparency is closely interconnected with trust; It allows companies to further strengthen their relations with partners along their supply chains and consumers. Transparency opens up new...

Blendhub awarded for its commitment to innovation

Blendhub, awarded by the magazine Actualidad Económica with its Prize for the Murcia Region in the category of Innovation Blendhub has been recognized by the magazine Actualidad Económica with...

Blendhub hosts a workshop on ‘The Business Model Canvas’

Jasper Bouwsma, international consultant and expert in The Business Model Canvas, has visited Blendhub to give a workshop about this tool. The Business Model Canvas was developed in 2004 by the...

Three Crucial Elements for Collaborative Innovation

After writing over 50 books, some of them with such powerful ideas like in Raving Fans! Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service, Ken Blanchard is  not only able to talk about management, but...

Blendhub launches its first Equality Plan

Ensuring equal treatment on the grounds of gender, race, religion, and equitable conditions and working environment. Blendhub has implemented its first Equality Plan that ensures equal conditions...

Corporate Social Responsibility: Much More Than Just a Tick off on the Checklist

Corporations with higher standards of transparency, purpose, and accountability are becoming more common, especially since the financial crisis, and so is the increasing number of companies who...

Blendhub finances the Jesús Abandonado Foundation Christmas Eve Dinner

The company, based in Murcia, Spain, supports other local social initiative, organizing a campaign to collect food, toys and clothing. Blendhub finances the Christmas Eve dinner that, like every...

Open Enterprise: Trust and Co-creation of Value

In the book The Naked Corporation, which I mentioned in a previous post, Don Tapscott and David Ticoll refer to an emergent type of firm: The open enterprise; quite an interesting concept that...

The Value of Transparency in Food Supply Chain

Interest in sustainability and business transparency continues to grow in the management of the enterprises environment, as, for instance, evidenced by recent surveys. Both issues are...

Blendhub gathers in an IT Excellence Center its expertise in controlling food production plants

 Specialized in developing MES and SCADA software As part of its global offering for companies that require or operate with food powder blends, Blendhub has recently launched its IT Excellence...

Driver for Innovation and Trust: The “Why” of a Company

Start with the Why by Simon Sinek is one of the books that I read very carefully as of late, as I referred in previous posts ‘Environment of Trust for Open Innovation’ and ‘What makes us...

The Managing Director of the Chasm Institute visits us

Mark Cavender offers a workshop on marketing for innovative products at Blendhub. The Spanish company has been working with experts from Silicon Valley to introduce new solutions in the food...

Transparency as an Unavoidable Obligation

Transparency has an enormous potential as a strategic tool for business. Apart from a very useful instrument to engage partners to create services and products, and build solid relationships...

Lucta Group and Blendhub sign a strategic collaboration agreement in Mexico

Lucta has decided to host a Blendhub’s complete processed cheese pilot plant in its installation in Vallejo Lucta Group, a leading Spanish and international flavour, fragrance and feed...

Blendhub finances and advises startup projects in functional ingredients

The corporation creates its Finance Excellence Center Makes its experience in attracting funding and launching R&D projects available to other companies to produce and market food powder...

Digital nomads & companies challenges

Recently, a few articles about digital nomads caught my attention since some of the projects I lead are based on the same idea of ‘work anywhere’ and even ‘produce anywhere’. A funny one is ...

The Quality Excellence Center of Blendhub opens its NIR library

It has one of the world’s largest collections of food additives with references to over 300 ingredients It performs qualitative and quantitative analysis everywhere for companies in the...

Creating Open Platforms of Solutions

In this post, I’ll share with you an interesting talk by Henry Chesbrough, the “father” of Open Innovation, at ESADE. After three books on the subject, he discusses the importance for companies...

Closed models vs open models

The world is becoming more open and transparent. Business relations are also changing. People ask companies for more information and them to their suppliers. In a context of openness, old closed...

Blendhub opens its facilities for other food companies to develop their own products

The Formulation Excellence Center expands its services by offering its customers the opportunity to use their pilot plants in India and Spain and their laboratories as if they were their own....

Mental Models and Innovation

Lots of innovative products fail in their way into the market. Mental models are difficult to change and are one of the biggest barriers for innovation since they determine the level of...

A Story About Sharing Value

Startups are always a great source of inspiration. Here’s an interesting case within the food industry. A social enterprise from which some lessons about transparency, sustainability, and...

The Supply Chain in the Digital Era

Here’s a great and short 13 minute talk by Geoffrey Moore. In January of this year, a revised edition of his 1990 classic book, Crossing the Chasm, has been released. It includes new...

Portable Powder Blending, new company marketing the portable factory from Blendhub

New Blendhub: Created to foster a change in the Food Powder Blends supply chain

The company gives a corporate framework to the brands Premium Ingredients, PPB, and Allfoodexperts. Through a collaborative model, it will lead a new economic category in the food industry: SMART...

Innovation in Food: Modular Factories

Global competition and food industry challenges demand new models of food production. Recently, Nestlé has presented its modular factories that the company expects to start operating first in...

Behaviors of Innovative Companies

Which are the values and common behaviors of innovative companies? The question has been successfully answered in numerous articles and books. Summarizing, here are some of the insights from...

Young Talent

Attracting talent is a major challenge today for companies and also one of its most valuable assets, especially for those who concentrate their efforts on innovating, improving and finding...

Innovation is in Finding Right Balances

Innovation is difficult to master and to define, with a lot of products simply being upgraded claiming to be innovative. Research shows that only one out of seven official innovation projects...

Open knowledge for innovation

There has been a lot of in the past few weeks around the decision of the electric car company Tesla of opening its license’s patents. I find it really encouraging for innovation, and the debate...

Innovation: culture, people & process

Innovation is becoming increasingly important for...

Open structures for innovation

Processes and structures for innovation are changing. The digital revolution has democratized the access of innovators to equipments, manufacturing systems, as well as knowledge. Innovation has...

Innovation for a fairer society

This week I was participating in a forum for Corporate Social Responsibility, organized by the Spanish NGO “Acción contra el hambre”(Action Against Hunger) and focused on the role of...

Blendhub supports the development of young people´s talent

The Murcian company hosts two groups of college students to complete their training through the Santander CRUE– Cepyme Internship Program A total of seven college students have joined the team of...

Open innovation to connect talent everywhere

The rate of innovation increases everyday while disruption can come from anywhere. Around 40% of today’s largest Fortune 500 companies are expected to no longer exist within a decade. In...

Open innovation to connect talent everywhere

The rate of innovation increases everyday while disruption can come from anywhere. Around 40% of today’s largest Fortune 500 companies are expected to no longer exist within a decade. In...

A collaborative way-to-market

Here’s the video of the “Impossible” campaign launched by Blendhub Corp to attract evangelists to the new category SMART Powder Blends, and to drive forward a new collaborative...

Openness to Disrupt Business

Openness, collaboration and transparency are trends with the potential to disrupt any business and to align talent to address major challenges and to innovate in a more sustainable way....

Collaboration for World Changing Ideas

Quirky is one of the most popular platforms for crowdsourcing. Their model is about executing ideas through a collaborative decision making platform, as its founder and CEO, Ben Kaufman,...

Collaboration for Social Value Creation

Sustainability is one of the major challenges that needs to be addressed by companies and their innovation efforts when talking about growth and developing new ideas. In the Ted Talk below,...

OI to Build Win-Win Strategies

In a scenario where marketplaces have become global, technology moves faster than ever and the growth of the individuals’ power is leading to a time of increasing transparency, cooperation has...

Business Model Innovation

Last week I was a guest speaker at the University of Barcelona, Spain. I spoke about innovation for food science and technology students. I explained them Premium Blendhub’s innovation in its...

Transparency, Social Good & Innovation

The claim for more transparency is disrupting companies: In the Digital Era, corporations can no longer dodge this demand, also an opportunity for growth, and innovate in a sustainable way. As...

Innovators Show Up in Early Markets

In high-tech industry, innovators, also known as technology enthusiasts or techies, are the initial costumers of new technologies and innovation in so-called early markets. They start the fire...

Imaginatik’s Innovation Event

Next week on March 11th, I will be attending the event “Innovation in Changing Times: Defining the Blueprints for the Future”, organized by Imaginatik, Goodyear and Cargill. According to the...

Open Collaboration to Product Innovation

Open collaboration can lead to successful product innovations especially in the case of SMEs when companies are able to share knowledge and create value together in an open way. But as a mindset,...

Environment of Trust for Open Innovation

It is still common to find companies that feel reluctant about sharing their technological advances. However, the world is experiencing a major change that affects all systems. The changes...

Innovation: Perseverance and Expertise

I recently had opportunity to read the story of Suja Juice in Forbes. I think it is a good example of how perseverance can take the simplest products to become a commercial success. Regarding...

Collaboration in a Disruptive Age

Geoffrey Moore has just released the third edition of his classic book Crossing the Chasm. For this reason, he has published two interesting posts on Linkedin. In the first, “Crossing the...

Innovative businesses are social

Social Business is a term used to refer to cause-driven businesses able to generate social impact. Additionally, It is also referred to those businesses that adopt a social model, namely social...

Sustainability for Innovation

Sustainability can be an interesting enabler of innovation; creating interesting challenges and demands for companies to meet. Many of the greatest disruptive innovations, capable of generating a...

Leadership for Open Innovation

The Not- Invented- Here (NIH) syndrome is one of the barriers to open innovation within companies that are referenced more often. It is defined as a corporate mindset or culture that favors...

The Top Ten Most-read Articles of 2013

Just over a year ago, I started writing this blog based largely on stories related to open innovation. I would like to thank all of you for your interest. These are the most read blog posts in...

The “Why” of Innovative Companies

Within the food industry, the yogurt company Chobani is a truly inspiring case in terms of innovation and the enterprise culture. Its innovative approach has enabled them to connect with...

Pushing The Limits Daily

Passion and love for what you do are the key elements of innovation. You need to know what would be capable of impassioning you to see where and how you can generate a greater impact, hence...

The Challenge Of Sustainability

I recently attended the seminar “The Governance of The Leader Enterprises That Endure” in which top management members of the food industry had the opportunity to chat with Peter...

Innovation that matters

Much of the value of innovation is the ability to solve significant challenges for society. In recent years, a large part of disruptive innovation has occurred in the digital environment,...

Alignment of values for innovation

A constant in the leading companies in innovation is the commitment in this area for all members of the organization and the ability to create a true culture of innovation. The values alignment...

Social Responsibilities of Businesses

In addition to the commitment to constant innovation, the responsibility to give back to society what they have provided to the business is another value that should be in the list of challenges...

Blendhub at CSR Night

The company participates in the book: Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives in the Murcia Region Raúl Fernandez, VP Corporate Organization and Ángeles Ruiz Communication and Marketing...

A True Challenge To The Status Quo

“We have got to think differently”, says Oakland Athletics general manager, played by Brad Pitt, to the scouts of the team in the movie MoneyBall (2011). I saw the movie recently and I found it...

Innovation coming at the edges

It is increasingly common that innovation occurs at the edges or from the bottom to top, and not only in the heart of major companies or important R&D Centers. The lowering of the high...

Start With Open Innovation

Over the last years, a series of events have favored a drift toward more open innovation approaches in many companies. That is what we did in Blendhub.  There were facts impacting favorably in...

Disrupting industries through OI

In this TEDx Talk titled “How Disruptors Are Designing For The Future”, Tom Hulme, Design Director at IDEO, lists some of the changes which allow a glimpse into the future and also how new...

Critical Internal Obstacles to OI

The redefinition of corporate culture to implement a mindset of open innovation (OI) can be a difficult process for a company especially because of the change of values and the so-called “Not...

OI: A Growth-Oriented Process That Works!

After reading the blog post by Ralph-Christian Ohr titled “Innovation and Growth”, I have been taking a look at the survey he refers in it and I have found some interesting data about open...

Innovation? Break Down Assumptions

Assumptions are one of the reasons why many ideas are left out and never become real innovative products or services. Avoiding risk and pragmatism are very common answers to new ideas, preventing...

OI: How to Manage What to Get?

There are many formal and informal practices and corporate activities which are included within the paradigm of open innovation. Companies have to constantly explore their environment to find new...

Challenges Companies Face Engaging In OI

When introducing a culture of Open Innovation, companies find difficulties, especially in aligning internal resources. According to the report “Managing Open Innovation in Large Firms”, the main...

Our Experience With Open Innovation

Since I founded Premium Ingredients, a company specialized in functional food ingredient blends, constant innovation became one of our priorities, and this has been possible thanks to our...

Open Innovation is more than just going outside

Open Innovation is more than just ‘out the old and in with the new’, going outside or outsourcing. In fact, internal collaboration and support is an essential part of an Open...

Three elements to accelerate innovation

Crowdsourcing and co-creation are resources used by companies to look for external ideas. They try to develop new products by asking the crowd. There is a lot of potential for innovation in...

Innovation difficulties. Three things that make Open Innovation work better

In the video below (from TEDx Brainport), Harmke De Groot, Program Director at Holst Centre, highlights the value of Open Innovation to speed up innovation. Innovation is hard work and Open...

A Suitable Governance to Capitalize Open Innovation

Open Innovation requires processes to ensure internal and external collaboration, and good governance is essential to achieve it. In relation to this topic, I found the article linked (from...

Open Innovation in the connected economy

Some key points when talking about Open Innovation have to do with networking and connecting knowledge in, both outside and inside companies. In the video below, Seth Godin speaks of the...

Open Innovation In Emerging Markets

Navi Radjou, co-author of the book Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth, defines Frugal Innovation as a business paradigm that enables companies to do more...

New models of relationships. Open Innovation ecosystems

This article discusses interesting points in the linked video in which the professor of ESADE Esteve Almirall talks about the Open Cities and also about Open Innovation Ecosystems. He provides a...

Connecting talent. Open Innovation in a Knowledge Flow Context

When talking about innovation, one of the challenges for companies is to pick up and connect the talent, ideas and knowledge. They are flowing everywhere. John Hagel, co-author of The Power of...

Technology Scouting in Open Innovation Strategies

Technology Scouting is an element that can bring much value within the Open Innovation strategy. Identify future trends and technologies outside a company can help it find new partners. Also, it...

Fostering Open Innovation inside companies

From the point of view of companies, successful implementation of Open Innovation requires balancing many aspects such as the internal resistance and the objectives to be achieved. In a previous...

Three Open Innovation experiences

When talking about Open Innovation, companies with specific programs and different practitioners normally focus on issues such as: Fastest return on investment Risks Minimization New talent and...

Open Innovation to fix broken innovation programs

In the article I have linked here,  Rita Gunther McGrath, author of The End of Competitive Advantage and professor at Columbia Business School,  lists six signs to detect a broken innovation...

Breaking the cycle of Not possible

The professor of MIT Sloan School of Management Peter Senge has defined interesting concepts related to  innovation processes. His “Breaking the Cycle of Fatalism” and “Tacking Complex Issues”...

Open Innovation facilitators inside companies

I found this interesting publication on Open Innovation, written by Michael Flynn. Flynn is director of Technology and Innovation Platform Organization at SAP Labs and the title of his work is “A...

Blendhub supports the continuing education of its employees

On Wednesday, November 13, eight members of the team of Blendhub received diplomas for their successful completion of Management School. This is a training activity that began in May 2013 which...