With 2,229 restaurants across 44 brands in 27 countries, Minor Food Group is now the largest Asia-based restaurant group to go cage-free globally, covering everything from The Coffee Club and The Pizza Company to Dairy Queen and Burger King franchises.

After years of pressure, Costco is finally going cage-free across its entire global supply chain including Asia, making it the largest retailer in the world to make such a commitment and already triggering supplier changes in mainland China.

Lever Foundation's first-of-its-kind cage-free supplier directories now cover 50 countries and over 1,600 suppliers across Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, removing one of the biggest barriers stopping food companies from ditching caged eggs globally.

In just two years, Lever Foundation turned a single cage-free retail commitment in Asia into 21, winning historic firsts in mainland China, Japan, India, Malaysia and beyond, with commitments expected to spare over six million hens from cages every single day.

Lever Foundation pushed METRO Group, the world's second-largest cash and carry chain, to make a landmark pledge to go 100% cage-free across all 23 countries it operates in, marking the first such retail commitment in Japan, India, Pakistan and Kazakhstan.

Costa Coffee, China's third largest cafe chain with nearly 500 locations and growing, is extending its cage-free commitment to all 31 countries it operates in by 2025, joining Caffè Nero, illy and Peet's in a global coffee industry cage-free shift.

Lever Foundation secured a historic double first for Southeast Asia, convincing Tesco to become the first retailer in both Malaysia and Thailand to commit to cage-free eggs, covering over 2,000 Lotus stores across both countries by 2028.