Welltodo Today: Gymshark Hits £500m Valuation, Samsung Invests In Healthy Food, Wellness For Dogs Gains Momentum,

Today’s key global wellness news articles from around the world, impacting the industry and influencing the business of wellness.

Butternut Box raises £15 million to fuel expansion

Butternut Box, a London start-up that makes and delivers home-cooked dog food to people’s doors, has raised £15 million in fresh funding to diversify into snacks, toys and wellness products and expand on the Continent.

Best Nutrition Innovation 2019

Whether it’s due to all the brainwashing from Netflix documentaries, or just down to better access to information, consumers are way more informed when it comes to health, especially in terms of nutrition. And as you’d expect, businesses – be it big time brands or small, independents or startups – have caught on.

Rhone wants to change the men’s activewear market

The men’s clothing market is on fire. One of the companies trying to capitalize on the boom in men spending more for their clothes is Rhone, which started with workout gear and is now expanding into dress shirts with a little bit more stretch.

Sportswear brand Gymshark hits £500m valuation

One of Britain’s fastest growing firms – sportswear brand Gymshark – is poised to announce a funding round that will value it in excess of £500million. But the company has shunned major blue chip investors including private equity giants Bain Capital and KKR. Instead, it is speaking to smaller investment funds.

Editor’s Picks: The best fitness tech 2019 | Well+Good

Here at Well+Good HQ, nerding out on fitness tech is kind of our thing. Whenever something new comes across one of our desks, the entire team crowds around to take a peek and give it a try (similar to what happens when Kells McPhillips’ dad sends cookies).

Have Tracy Anderson and Mirror Ushered in Peak Prestige Wellness?

Earlier this week, inside the Mirror showroom in Manhattan, Tracy Anderson was doing her best to stir my inner Gwyneth Paltrow. (It’s in there somewhere, like a set of keys at the bottom of an overcrowded bag.) Dressed in a muted two-tone unitard by Goop’s activewear label, G.

[Going Green 2] How Samsung is Helping to Take Healthy Food from Farm to Table

As awareness of environmental issues grows, the impacts of the agricultural industry and our own personal food consumption are of increasing public concern. The use of pesticides, herbicides and other resources are falling out of favor and more efficient methods of food production are being explored as we strive to cultivate healthier food.