The French start-up which launched the plant revolution of the egg achieves a good performance, ecological as well as commercial, in 2023.
Created in 2019 by Anne Vincent and Rodolphe Landemaine, Founding baker-pastry chef of Landema's house bakeries and Land vegetable bakeries & Monkeys, Yumgo is responsible for bringing professionals to replace eggs and accelerating the creation of sweet and savory vegetable recipes. By offering the first complete plant range to replace the eggs, Yumgo has paved the way for professionals to accelerate the development of plant recipes. These plant ingredients replace the entire egg, egg white and egg yolk for catering professionals and food manufacturers. Yumgo products are 100 % vegetable, Made from vegetable proteins of European origin and are distinguished by a short list of ingredients, transparent and without major allergens. Supporting the transition to a sustainable and environmentally friendly diet, The start-up wanted to know its true environmental impact, resulting from its CO2 savings, in water and its contribution to animal welfare. Result : thanks to the use of Yumgo products, About 301 tonnes of CO2 and 29,000 m3 of water were saved and 5,7 million eggs and 14,000 hens were saved. Calculations carried out on the basis of product sales from March 2020 to December 2023, taking into account the average impact by quantity of product.
The reasons for a success
The actors of this corporate success story are also Anne Vincent, Co -founder and expert recognized at the international level in terms of marketing and digital advice and transformation, Meat Karim Hassan, sales director, having acquired solid experience with the biggest names in the food industry. Since their launch, Yumgo products have attracted many distributors, both in France and internationally. After its successful start in France with distributors delight & Creation, Vegetable food or episaveurs, It developed in Belgium, Then in the United Kingdom, in Scandinavia, in Germany, but also in Japan and the United States by creating a market leader in the plant market. otherwise, Yumgo has received many distinctions for his innovations : European Plant-based Protein Awards for startups 2019, Agropolis 2020 national competition, 2021 vegetable food trophy, Sial Innovation Award 2022 et 2023, etc. Proof that the intuition of Rodolphe Landemaine and Anne Vincent on the need to replace the egg with plant substitutes was founded, The French start-up achieved a good business performance in 2023 with a cumulative turnover of more than a million euros.
