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The Plant Based Seafood Co. makes a big splash with Mind Blown Coconut Crunchy Shrimp 2019-2020 SPIRIT OF INNOVATION AWARD WINNERSEDITOR’S CHOICE / MOST INNOVATIVE-DISRUPTIVEMIND BLOWN COCONUT SHRIMP / THE PLANT BASED SEAFOOD CO. Both personally and professionally, Monica Van Cleve-Talbert has been around seafood all her life. Yet admittedly, it was only recently that she began to “sea” food differently. ATTEND THE CEREMONY Here’s the backstory. Van Cleve-Talbert grew up around seafood as a family member-employee in The Van Cleve Seafood Co. in Spotsylvania, Va. The company dates back to 2001 when her mom, Shelly, opened a small seafood...

  Van Cleve Seafood Launches Plant-based Brand Mind Blown While the meat alternative set is dominated by burgers and sausages, seafood company Van Cleve sees an opportunity to be a big fish in the small pond of plant-based seafood. Last month the company launched The Plant Based Seafood Co., a spinoff from its (also newly launched) clean label seafood brand Wild Skinny Clean. The company sees both brands as a response to the seafood industry’s many issues, including mislabeled products and the use of chemicals and preservatives.   The Plant Based Seafood Co., which eventually hopes to roll out a...

  Plant Based Seafood Company nabs funding to grow brand The Plant Based Seafood Company, a new seafood analog product venture formed by the owners of the Van Cleve Seafood Co., has nabbed significant pre-seed funding and purchased a new production facility to grow distribution of its Mind Blown brand. Spotsylvania, Virginia, U.S.A.- based Van Cleve, a longtime supplier of value-added seafood products, first entered the plant-based seafood analog market last fall with its Wild.Skinny.Clean. line. But Van Cleve spun off all of its plant-based seafood analog products into a new company, Plant Based Seafood Co., owned by Van Cleve-Talbert and Shelly...

  New proteins, processing technologies could open the door for plant-based seafood to gain share   Even though seafood alternatives account for only a small fraction of the current total plant-based protein market, it is primed for fast-paced growth and holds the most promise for capturing market share from its animal-based conventional counterpart, according to the co-founder of the aquaculture technology investment firm Hatch.   As of last year, sales of plant-based seafood alternatives accounted for about $9.5m-or 1% of the total plant-based meat dollar sales, according to SPINS and The Good Food Institute. But, GFI research suggestions, if it...