Nomad Foods
Open Innovation Portal
About Nomad Foods
Nomad Foods is Europe's leading frozen foods company, with more than 8000 employees across 22 countries and manufacturing operations in 18 of our markets. Its portfolio of iconic brands, which includes Birds Eye, Findus, iglo, Aunt Bessie's and Goodfella's have been a part of consumers' meals for generations, standing for great tasting food that's convenient, high quality and nutritious. Every day, millions of European households enjoy Nomad Foods' products, centred around fish, poultry and vegetables that are affordable and available everywhere, representing a huge opportunity to help consumers eat more healthily and sustainably.
“Our Open Innovation Portal is a hub for tackling the most pressing challenges in the food industry. We are committed to transforming the future of protein, driving advancements in sustainable packaging, and championing a planetary diet that balances health with environmental sustainability. By fostering collaboration with academics and startups, we aim to forge partnerships that span from the spark of an idea to the creation of impactful products. We invite your ideas to help shape a resilient and sustainable future for food—together.”– Carly Arnold, Chief RDQ Officer, Nomad Foods
Our brands
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Frozen Fish & Seafood
For over 75 years our frozen fish and seafood ranges have made family dinner times more memorable.
We are now seeking ideas and partnerships for solutions and technologies in quality, availability, coating, aquaculture and sustainability.
Frozen Chicken
For delicious, healthy meals that are quick and easy to make, look no further than Birds Eye’s frozen chicken range.
We are now looking for ideas and partnerships for product and manufacturing solutions in sustainability and farming through to ingredients, forming, coating and packaging.
Frozen Vegetables
Our delicious and inspiring range of frozen veggies are packed with nutrients and flavour, so you can taste the love that we put into every product.
We are in quest for solutions & technologies to expand our range further and improve consumer quality while innovating supply security on a changing planet.
Meat-Free Mealtimes
We are continuing to expand our understanding, capability and product range into meat alternatives utilising the power of plants.
We are looking for actionable solutions on a 5-year horizon that can feed tomorrows consumer in a way that continues to engage and excite them and reduces our impact on the planet.
Challenges
- All challenges (4)
- Plant-Based Products (1)
- Fish (3)
- Fish
Seeking Materials &/Or Technologies To Enable Technically Recyclable Vacuum Packaging For Frozen Foods
- Plant-based Products
Seeking Materials &/Or Technologies To Replicate The Functional Properties Of Methyl Cellulose (E461) In Frozen Food Applications
- Fish
Seeking Partners To Develop Innovative Bi-Valve Solutions Along The Whole Supply Chain From Sea To Plate & Beyond
- Fish
Seeking Materials &/Or Technologies To Enable Recyclable Paper-Based Meal Tray/Bowl Packaging For Frozen Foods
Our Innovations
Fishless Fish - Boosting Nutrition
Development of the first vegan fish product in the Green Cuisine range meant close working with flavour houses and plant protein suppliers to co-develop a worthy analogue to one of the brands signature products. External scouting supported us to meet the colour and texture attributes expected of fish. End product in the market met sensory and nutritional needs and is protected by two patents.
Making Recyclable Pea Bags Possible
A major challenge for many of our brands was making our plastic packaging recyclable for our iconic product (e.g. Birdseye peas). Working with our packaging suppliers meant we could make this possible, but also collaborating with our machinery suppliers and combining the experience and expertise of all 3 business meant we have been able to deliver the recyclable packaging we all want, with no impact on our lines or product quality and while being protected with IP. This solution can be utilised for other SKUs across the Nomad business.
Working Together
Open Innovation at Nomad Foods is already underway with partners working collaboratively in many areas of innovation.
We would like to welcome any organisations to join us in these and other innovative projects that will contribute on the journey of Advancing Frozen Food Together.
- Generate new businesses
- Exchange experiences in different areas
- Win-win-partnerships
- Support R&D developments
- Access experts from the value chain
- Test potential solutions
- Co-develop new solutions
Have questions?
Contact us for additional information on the Nomad Foods Open Innovation Portal, our open innovation strategy or general enquiries.