Eat Just Inc. announced that its GOOD Meat division has entered into a joint development agreement with ADM, an international leader in nutrition that powers many of the world's top food, beverage, health and wellness brands. This is ADM's first strategic partnership of its kind in the cultivated meat sector, which analysts predict could become a $25 billion global industry by 2030. GOOD Meat created the world's first real, high-quality meat made directly from animal cells that has been approved for commercial sale, and the company is accelerating research and development and increasing production capacity to meet customer demand in Singapore and future markets.

ADM's unparalleled capabilities across every part of the global food chain, including human and animal nutrition, establishes an important pathway to large-scale commercialization of GOOD Meat's products. As part of the agreement, ADM will build upon GOOD Meat's foundational work to optimize the nutrients needed to enable the growth of the cells. In the same way a chicken or a cow absorbs amino acids, vitamins, and fat through consuming soy and corn, GOOD Meat's cells require an optimal growth medium for quality, cost and volume.

It's a 21st-century extension of what ADM has done for decades in conventional animal agriculture by supplying the industry with superior livestock feed, supplements, and other ingredients for health and wellbeing. The companies will also collaborate on product development projects for GOOD Meat's pioneering cultivated meat products, starting with chicken. ADM's breadth, depth, and insights in food formulation will be leveraged to advance the flavor, texture and other attributes of GOOD Meat's pipeline of cultivated meat products.

GOOD Meat's partnership with ADM ushers in an exciting growth period as the company builds upon its recent regulatory approval in Singapore to sell new types of cultivated chicken and curates new opportunities for consumers to enjoy those products in a variety of settings. The company continues to hire top scientific, engineering and manufacturing talent in the United States and Singapore as it works with its partners to design and manufacture the infrastructure necessary to enable significant increases in cultivated meat production capacity. Guggenheim Securities served as the financial advisor to GOOD Meat for the ADM transaction.