Brewing A Bright Future: AB Mauri North America Acquires Omega Yeast Labs LLC

Chicago-based craft beer liquid yeast innovator joins with global yeast and ingredients company in the consumer alcohol beverage space

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- AB Mauri North America has completed the acquisition of Omega Yeast Labs LLC, effective Aug. 14, 2024. Omega Yeast – a complementary business to AB Mauri's business division, AB Biotek – is a leader in the craft brewing liquid yeast market in the United States, with locations in the Midwest and an employee count of nearly 50. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Omega Yeast's research, development and production headquarters are situated within a state-of-the-art, 14,000-square-foot facility in Chicago. The company is widely touted in the domestic craft brewing segment for its robust innovation capabilities and novel, transformational yeast strains.

"The acquisition of Omega Yeast will further strengthen and accelerate our North American specialty yeast business for craft beer," said Brent Fenton, president, AB Mauri North America. "This represents a unique opportunity to combine the global technology strength of AB Biotek together with a leading, high-quality liquid yeast producer here in the U.S."

Omega Yeast Labs has an extensive portfolio of yeast strains across a wide variety of craft brewing styles, from traditional lagers and ales to West Coast IPAs, hard seltzers, and beyond.

"Omega Yeast has supplied professional and home craft brewers across the country with leading liquid yeast solutions for more than the past decade since Lance Shaner and I founded the business in 2013," said Mark Schwarz, co-founder, Omega Yeast. "We look forward to even greater days ahead under the AB Mauri and AB Biotek umbrella as we expect to grow our footprint in both liquid and dry solutions and build an even more robust portfolio of solutions to meet the needs of craft brewers today and tomorrow."

The Omega Yeast brand joins AB Mauri's iconic Fleischmann's Yeast for baking and AB Biotek's Pinnacle portfolio for beer, wine and distilled spirits as part of a boosted product lineup. The acquisition – along with AB Mauri's recent investments in a specialty dry yeast plant in Hull, U.K., and a beverage applications center in Etten-Leur, The Netherlands – underscores a commitment to expanding and enhancing AB Biotek's offerings in the beer and wider alcohol beverage market globally.

About AB Mauri

AB Mauri North America is a baking technology company passionate about baking and driven to help customers achieve superior quality. Industrial and artisan bakers look to us for iconic Fleischmann's Yeast, premium bakery ingredient solutions, exceptional process optimization and customized technical service & support. For more information, please visit us at www.abmna.com (North America) or www.abmauri.com (Global).

About AB Biotek

AB Biotek contributes to the success of our customers through the delivery of superior technical service and fermentation expertise combined with quality yeast and technology solutions.  We have commercial scale yeast production capabilities – as well as research and development laboratories providing yeast and fermentation diagnostics – in locations all around the world.  AB Biotek develops specialty yeast solutions for a range of industries including consumer alcohol beverages – such as beer, wine, distilled spirits, seltzer and cider – bioethanol, and animal nutrition. For more information, please visit www.abbiotek.com.

About Omega Yeast Labs LLC

We believe the best yeast is the freshest yeast. That's why our Probrew pitches are always custom made-to-order, and delivered the date you need them. And Homebrewers can find a selection of our vigorously healthy yeast at a local homebrew shop near you. We believe experimentation, innovation and questioning the status quo, which is why we produce over 75 strains, including common workhorse varieties and several unique ones that you can't find anywhere else. Our proprietary propagation method generates metabolically strong yeast cells, with consistent fermentation and optimized cell counts. As much as we love our yeast, we're just as proud of our people and service. We promise to make it easy for you to focus on brewing because we're always here for you. We're here to help. For more information, please visit www.omegayeast.com.

For further information, contact:
Patrick Barry, (314) 540-3865
patrick@byrnepr.net

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Brewing A Bright Future: AB Mauri North America Acquires Omega Yeast Labs LLC

SINGAPORE, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Between now and December, Singapore's calendar fills up fast. Dinner and dance season, year-end galas, product launches, and a final run of conferences and trade shows all take place before the year closes, and many of them give out door gifts to attendees.

One Good Card, a Singapore-based digital name card platform, says demand for its NFC Card Live Printing for Events service typically doubles in Q4, as companies look for a door gift that guests keep using after the event ends.

"Businesses spend a significant budget on events, and it should go towards making the experience memorable for attendees," said Choong Chao Dong, Founder of One Good Card. "Personalised NFC cards give guests something they can use to network during the event and keep using long after it."

Printed and activated in seconds

At a live printing kiosk, guests enter their name and receive a personalised NFC name card, printed and activated on the spot in about 10 seconds. Each card works immediately as a networking tool, letting guests share contact details, portfolios, and social profiles. Guests share their digital name card by tapping the card on a phone or scanning its QR code. They can update their contact details at any time, and each tap of the card shares the latest version.

Organisers can customise each station with event-specific card designs and colour schemes to match the occasion. Card designs can include the event name, date and organiser's logo alongside the guest's preferred name. One Good Card now also offers wood and metal NFC cards, which can be laser engraved live at the event.

Event formats

The service has been used at school graduations, corporate dinner and dance events, product launches, conferences, trade shows, and gala dinners. Each station is staffed and set up on-site by the One Good Card team, so organisers only need to decide where to place it. A single station prints around 200 cards per hour, and larger events can book multiple stations. Common placements include registration counters and foyers, depending on the event format and venue layout. At conferences and trade shows, exhibitors place the station at their booth to give attendees a reason to stop and speak with their team.

About One Good Card

One Good Card is a Singapore-based digital business card and sales platform that helps teams share their details, capture leads, and manage what happens next. Beyond NFC business cards, QR codes, and custom profile links, the platform includes an OCR business card scanner, contact management, deal pipeline tracking, invoicing, and integrations with industry sales tools. Companies across the region use One Good Card to keep branding consistent, assign NFC cards centrally, and track leads from in-person networking through to closed deals. Learn more at onegoodcard.com.

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One Good Card reports higher Q4 demand for live NFC card printing at events