Marlow Foods Limited

Name

Marlow Foods Limited

Legal name

Marlow Foods Ltd

Website

https://quorn.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Marlow Foods Limited is a UK private company that owns the Quorn brand and produces meat-substitute products (ready meals, burgers, nuggets, fillets, mince) made from mycoprotein, sold through grocery retailers across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and North America.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Plant-Based Meat Alternatives

NAICS

Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing (3114)

SIC

Food And Kindred Products (2000), Miscellaneous Food Preparations & Kindred Products (2090)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYAFAKAGAG

Mycoprotein-Based Foods Manufacturing

Agriculture & Food Production/Food Processing & Manufacturing/Plant-Based & Alternative Protein Foods Manufacturing

SECONDARYAFAJAHAE

Mycoprotein & Fungal Proteins (Fusarium/Mycelium-Based)

Agriculture & Food Production/Food Ingredients & Additives/Proteins & Protein Ingredients (Plant/Animal Proteins, Protein Isolates/Concentrates)

SECONDARYAFANAKAO

Finished Meat-Alternative Prepared Foods (Nuggets, Burgers, Sausages, Ready Meals)

Agriculture & Food Production/Meat, Poultry & Seafood Processing/Meat Alternatives (Plant-Based and Cultivated)

SECONDARYCRADAAAH

Plant-Based & Alternative Proteins (Packaged)

Consumer Products & Retail/Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Manufacturing & Brands/Food & Beverage (Packaged)

SECONDARYCRADADAF

Frozen Plant-Based & Vegetarian Meals

Consumer Products & Retail/Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Manufacturing & Brands/Frozen & Prepared Meals

Keywords

• Meat substitute products
• Mycoprotein foods
• Plant-based protein
• Vegetarian ready meals
• Sustainable protein

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Technology or R&D

Core offering

Marlow Foods Ltd manufactures and sells the Quorn brand of meat substitute products made from fungal protein (mycoprotein), marketed as a healthier and more sustainable alternative to conventional meat. The product range includes ready meals, burgers, nuggets, fillets, and mince, distributed across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and North America through country-specific retail and online channels.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Quorn Quorn is a brand of meat substitute products made from fungal protein (mycoprotein), positioned as a healthier and more sustainable alternative to conventional meat. The product range includes ready meals, burgers, nuggets, fillets, and mince, sold to individual consumers through country-specific retail and online channels across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and North America.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Direct peers

• Lightlife: Lightlife (Maple Leaf Foods) produces plant-based burgers, hot dogs, sausages, and tempeh. It overlaps with Quorn across multiple centre-of-plate and snack occasions in North American grocery.
• Beyond Meat: Beyond Meat is a leading plant-based meat brand (burgers, sausages, mince) sold through grocery and foodservice. It directly competes with Quorn for the same retail shelf space and flexitarian consumer, despite using pea protein rather than mycoprotein.
• Morningstar Farms: Morningstar Farms (Kellanova) is a long-standing plant-based meat brand covering burgers, nuggets, and Chik'n. It is one of Quorn's oldest direct competitors on frozen and chilled plant-based shelves globally.
• Meati Foods: Meati Foods produces whole-cut meat alternatives from fungal mycelium — the closest technological analogue to Quorn's mycoprotein. It targets the same center-of-plate occasion with a similarly sustainable, protein-differentiation narrative.
• Gardein: Gardein (owned by Conagra Brands) is a plant-based meat brand spanning nuggets, tenders, burgers, and grounds. It competes with Quorn for the same frozen-aisle flexitarian shopper in North America and parts of Europe.
• Tofurky: Tofurky is a plant-based brand offering deli slices, sausages, tempeh, and roasts. It targets the same vegetarian/flexitarian consumer as Quorn, though with a tofu/tempeh protein base rather than mycoprotein.
• Impossible Foods: Impossible Foods sells plant-based burgers, sausages, and mince into grocery and foodservice channels. It targets the same health- and sustainability-driven meat-replacement consumer as Quorn, with a soy/heme-based protein platform.

Emerging players

• MyForest Foods: MyForest Foods produces mycelium-based meat alternatives (e.g., MyBacon). It uses a directly adjacent fungal-myelium platform to Quorn's mycoprotein, making it a niche technology peer in the alternative-protein space.
• Enough: Enough (formerly 3F BIO) produces ABUNDA mycoprotein — a fermentation-derived fungal protein ingredient for food manufacturers. It targets the same mycoprotein ingredient opportunity as Quorn's underlying technology, but operates as a B2B supplier rather than a finished brand.

Broad incumbents

• Nestlé (Garden Gourmet): Nestlé's Garden Gourmet is a major CPG-owned plant-based range across burgers, schnitzels, and minced products in Europe. As a broad incumbent with global distribution, it competes with Quorn at scale but as part of Nestlé's wider food portfolio.

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Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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