Meros Consulting

Developing innovative business models and strategies for food and agriculture trade and tech across the value chain, in Asia and the world.

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We are eager to work with the next cohort as mentors and supporters! Just a few more days to apply - a great chance for up and coming #agrifood tech #startups to work with an amazing team and move their business to the next level!

[GROW Accelerator @GROWAccelerator]

📣 This is the LAST DAY to submit your application for Cohort 5 of the AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator! ✍️ APPLY NOW: https://t.co/wSzrE34Ud1. #goGROW #startup #innovation #entrepreneurship #accelerator

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Three major foodtech topics Meros followed this year: the growing interest in circular economy, sustainability and Japan’s emerging cultivated meat sector, were all still front and center at the annual Foodtech Japan EXPO this month.

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A quick look behind the scenes at Meros activities this month - new photo shoots with our amazing photographer Takeuchi san as well as experiments for our YouTube channel on current t trends in ag, food and tech! We’ll keep you updated!

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When our Bulgarian cofounder and team are in Tokyo there is always time for Bulgarian lunch at the office!

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@Team_Meros Tokyo neighborhood is usually bursting with fall colors this week of the year. It was a slow start this year but finally a nice autumn feeling here in Kanda Awajicho!

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A big welcome to our newest full-time fall research assistant, Sachika Onaka Adcock! Sachika is a recent graduate of Monash University in Melbourne and spent her childhood between Australia and Himeji in the western area of Japan. More about her here!
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After long planning, and delayed by a pandemic, we are finally starting our pilot trials in Phu Quoc port Vietnam this week of Japanese ice slurry machines to improve fish freshness and hopefully raise incomes of fishers and reduce seafood loss. #JICA #seafood #vietnam

[Global AgInvesting @globalaginvest]

Thank you @Team_Meros for your support of #globalaginvest! Meros Consulting is a Tokyo-based strategy consulting firm focusing exclusively on global #food, #agriculture and #naturalresource markets.

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One key factor to increase incomes in the Vietnamese fishing industry and reduce waste is to improve the cold chain and insure fresher fish along the supply chain. We are working on a pilot to do just that! https://t.co/tSkEUYmWL0

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We are thrilled to welcome Daijiro Hata to #teammeros as our newest research analyst! He has boundless enthusiasm for food and agriculture and deep experience in int'l business development, including in Indonesia, EU and the Philippines. Read more here!
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We have a new Meros team member for the summer! Kanako Ueno is a student from the Univeristy of Edinburgh and will be researching the complexities around sustainable palm oil and how Japanese companies have been addressing the issue. Welcome welcome! https://t.co/qr1GDeTxXh

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Our co-founder Tina Peneva is off to London today for the @BlueFoodSummit. Looking forward to hearing about amazing Blue Food Innovators and getting updates from some of our colleagues in this space. #blueeconomy #sustainable #oceans

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Our enthusiastic team today at #FABEX World Food and Beverage Expo got in more than 10,000 steps for sure at massive Tokyo Big Sight meeting players in food innovation, premium ingredients, plant based food, halal and other growing food sectors. #food #expo #Japan

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Itoigawa（糸魚川) in Niigata Prefecture is where the Northern Alps meet the Sea of Japan. Famous for red snow crab and local flounder such as “souhachigarei” as well as some of the country’s best rice and Japanese sake.

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Sakura looking lovely near the @Team_Meros office today - just an hour before a downpour probably knocked a lot of the flowers off ! 🌸

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After three years postponed by COVID19, Meros finally kicked off a long-awaited project in Colombia! We're supporting the Japanese agricultural innovator Noshou Navi to transfer knowledge related to Japanese rice planting techniques to farmers in Colombia.https://t.co/YMoZPZQBvS

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As we take our first few hops into the Year of the Rabbit this week, Meros wishes all our partners, clients and friends an excellent year. We can't wait to see what the year brings!

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Alphabet, the parent company of Google, recently publicly launched Mineral, an agtech business it’s been incubating in stealth within its so-called “moonshot factory” X since 2017.
https://t.co/jLwXczbFBR

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Fun crowd at Vectors Capital’s BioInnovation X Climate night in Boston last night!

[Lucia Vancura @luciavancura]

In Boston last night at Vectors Capital’s BioInnovation X Climate night. Great panel insights on scalability, biology/chemistry innovation for food/ag plus pitches from start ups like Capro-X transforming dairy by-products into green chemicals. Big crowd on a cold night!

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From robots to artificial intelligence and blockchain-based marketing, technological innovation is increasingly being harnessed in #Japan to improve farming methods and create a more sustainable industry. https://t.co/kl9Bqu8tFY