2022.08.02 Largest FoodTech Deal in Japan: Vertical Farming Startup Spread Raises $30 Million to Accelerate its Business

2021.09.27 Eurofruit. "Spread lands vertical farming prize"

2021.09.27 Spread wins Vertical Farming World Award for the Outstanding Performance of its Next Generation Food Production System, Techno Farm

2021.07.15 Asiafruit. "Spread's partner J Leaf opens vertical farm"

2021.07.14 Spread’s Large-Scale Vertical Farming Partnership with ENEOS Group’s J Leaf Starts Operations near Tokyo

2021.06.11 Perishable News. "Spread, Chubu Electric Power and ES-CON JAPAN Enter an Investor Agreement, Plan to Construct Techno Farm Fukuroi, World’s Largest Vertical Farm to Produce 10 Tons Daily"

2021.06.10 TASPO. "Pestizidfreier Erdbeeranbau in vertikalen Farmen geplant" (German)

2021.05.25 Spread, Chubu Electric Power and ES-CON JAPAN Enter an Investor Agreement, Plan to Construct Techno Farm Fukuroi, World’s Largest Vertical Farm to Produce 10 Tons Daily

2021.05.21 The Spoon. "CEA Grower Spread Says Its Vertical Farming Tech Is Ready for‘Mass Production’of Strawberries"

2021.05.20 Vertical Farm Daily. "Introducing hygiene measures and certification for vertical farm produce"

2021.05.18 Spread Develops Technology for Mass Production of Pesticide-free Strawberry in Vertical Farms

2021.05.07 Nikkei Asia. "Train station lettuce: Japan railroad grows veggies indoors"

2021.04.07 TASPO. "30.000 Salatköpfe am Tag aus automatisierter Vertikalfarm" (German)

2021.04.07 Spread Acquires JAS 0012 – World’s First Certification for Vertical Farms. Responding to the Global Demand for Food Safety

2021.01.12 World’s Leading Vertical Farmer Spread Reaches 99% Operating Rate at Techno Farm Keihanna, with Stable Production of 30,000 Lettuce heads/3 tons/day

2020.11.28 Deutsche Welle. "When food becomes scarce – high-tech farms of the future"

2020.11.28 Deutsche Welle. "When food becomes scarce – high-tech farms of the future" (Arabic)

2020.11.24 Spread, the Leading Company in Sustainable Agriculture, has Acquired GLOBALG.A.P. Certification at its Kameoka Plant and Techno Farm Keihanna to Provide Safe, Clean and Healthy Lettuce in the COVID-19 Era

2020.04.15 COVID-19: Update on Spread’s Hygiene Controls & Processes

2020.01.23 Financial Times."Vertical farming finally grows up in Japan"

2020.01.14 The Gov't of Japan's official Facebook, introduction of Spread

2019.12.31 AFP. "Grown from necessity: vertical farming takes off in ageing Japan"

2019.11.24 ZDF. "Wenn die Nahrung knapp wird"

2019.06.24 Spread’s Partner and a Member of JXTG Group J Leaf Starts Construction of “Techno Farm Narita,” One of Japan’s Largest Automated Vertical Farms

2018.11.01 “Techno Farm Keihanna”, the Largest Automated Vertical Farm in the World, to Start Shipping its Products

2017.12.20 Launched Techno Farm™ website