Spread reaches lettuce milestone
Spread has surpassed 100m sales of its indoor leaf lettuce brand Vegetus while adding new products to its range in the process.
Vegetus was originally launched in 2008 at the dawn of the large-scale vertical farming industry in Japan.
Spread’s founder and chief executive Shinji Inada entered the vertical farming industry on the back of his strong concern about Japanese

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