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KITE HILL RAISES $10 MILLION TO GROW VEGAN BUSINESS

Kite Hill公司融资1000万美元发展纯素食品业务

The vegan brand—known for its almond milk-based cream cheese, yogurt, and ravioli—has secured $75.5 million in capital to date.

这家纯素品牌公司──用杏仁奶（扁桃仁奶）制作奶油奶酪、酸奶和意式方饺（ravioli）产品，在业界声誉卓著──迄今已获得7550万美元资本投入。

by ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA

作者：ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

2019年9月13日

California-based vegan brand Kite Hill recently secured $10 million in equity from a single investor, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission by its parent company Lyrical Foods.

Kite Hill（“风筝山”）是一家总部位于加利福尼亚的纯素食品公司。根据其母公司Lyrical Foods最近向美国证券交易委员会（SEC）提交备案的信息，Kite Hill最近取得了单一投资者提供的1000万美元股权融资。

The brand aims to use the new capital to explore innovative formulations and grow its personnel and infrastructure, along with expanding its marketing efforts.

该公司打算将新取得资本用于探索创新配方、发展人力资源和基础设施、并加大营销力度。

“The mainstream consumer is really navigating the plant-based category now and it seems like every day we get a call from another customer requesting a meeting and/or taking distribution,” Kite Hill CEO Rob Leibowitz told Foodnavigator-USA. 

Kite Hill首席执行官（CEO）罗伯·莱博维茨（Rob Leibowitz）告诉美国Foodnavigator网站：“主流消费者现在真正是引领植物性产品市场；似乎每天我们都接到不同客户的电话，请求会面和/或分销产品。”

Kite Hill—founded in 2013 by a team that includes chef Tal Ronnen and Impossible Foods founder Patrick O. Brown—previously focused on producing almond milk-based products such as vegan cheese and yogurt but with the new cash injection, Leibowitz says the company could explore other formulations. 

Kite Hill──由包含著名大厨塔尔·罗恩（Tal Ronnen）和不可能食品公司（Impossible Food）创始人帕特里克·布朗（Patrick O. Brown）的团队于2013年创立──以前专注于生产用杏仁奶（扁桃仁奶）制作的产品，例如纯素的奶酪和酸奶等；但随着新资金的注入，莱博维茨表示Kite Hill公司也可能会探索其他产品配方。

“Everything we do here is about making great tasting foods, and where it makes sense, we’ll definitely be exploring plant bases that go well beyond almond,” he said. “We’ve got a three-year pipeline that crosses multiple plant bases and multiple product platforms.” 

“我们在这里所做的一切都是为了创造极其美味的食品。只要有实用价值，我们肯定会探索扁桃仁之外的大量植物材料，”他说道。“我们拥有包含多种植物材料和多个产品平台的三年产品管线（pipeline）。”

The company—which has raised $75.5 million in capital since 2014—recently debuted two new cream cheese flavors (Everything and Strawberry) along with two dips (French Onion and Ranch) and a raspberry flavor of its almond milk-based European-style yogurt.

该公司──自2014年以来已筹得7550万美元资本──最近首次推出了两种口味的新奶油奶酪（“全味”与“草莓”）和两种蘸酱（“法式洋葱”与“牧场”），以及用杏仁奶（扁桃仁奶）制作的覆盆子口味的欧式酸奶。