Quorn Foods: The Road to Supply Chain Resilience

Name: Quorn Foods: The Road to Supply Chain Resilience (English version)
SKU: W45249

Mariel Alem Fonseca, Helen Rogers, Naoum Tsolakis, Mukesh Kumar

Product #:W45249

Supplier:Ivey

Discipline:Operations Management, Sustainability

Setting:United Kingdom, 2024

Details:Case (PDF) • 17 pages • 2025-11-14

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In 2025, Quorn Foods faced a pivotal strategic decision as the United Kingdom’s government called for greater national food resilience amid ongoing global disruptions. As a global pioneer in sustainable meat-free mycoprotein produced through fermentation, Quorn Foods possessed the technology and capacity to advance the UK’s self-sufficiency agenda. Yet financial constraints demanded caution. With rising raw material costs, weakening consumer demand, and growing geopolitical uncertainty, the company’s leaders confronted the tension between short-term cost control and long-term investment in innovation. Weighing the opportunities to supply public institutions with homegrown protein, they examined how biotechnology and operational efficiency might together redefine food security and resilience for a nation seeking stability in an increasingly volatile world.

Learning Objectives

This case is suitable for courses in manufacturing engineering, strategic management, and operations and supply chain management at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It is particularly relevant for graduate programs in sustainability, as well as executive education focused on operations and supply chain strategy.

After working through the case and assignment questions, students will be able to do the following:

Analyze the current food business environment and identify key geopolitical, environmental, and socio-economic challenges affecting food security and long-term business viability in the alternative protein sector.
Evaluate the trade-offs between short-term operational efficiency and long-term resilience, and explore how companies can manage these tensions to address vulnerabilities and ensure growth.
Explore supply chain resilience capabilities such as flexibility, redundancy, agility, visibility, and collaboration in the context of a scaling and continuously evolving supply chain.
Examine the potential of alternative protein production methods, particularly fermentation, to increase national food security and reduce reliance on traditional animal agriculture.