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Norway, Oslo: TotalCtrl today announced a new partnership with Eggify, a Spain-based matching marketplace for the hospitality industry that lets businesses and suppliers connect in a fast and simple way. In a changing and uncertain environment, it is essential to adapt the business model and streamline tasks.

“Eggify’s purpose is to give visibility to companies that differ in their commitment and rebalance the chances of being successful in a digital context. We are honored to be able to connect professionals in the sector, who share the same commitment and seriousness. It’s a pleasure having TotalCtrl as a partner, especially because we care about the environment and companies like TotalCtrl should be more visible in the market”, says Alessandro Vivoda, Manager at Eggify.

The benefits of this new partnership will help restaurants increase profits and at the same time reach the climate goals. 

• SDG 2: One-third of food is wasted despite billions going hungry.
• SDG 12: By 2030, most of the world has committed to halve global food waste.
• SDG 13: Each year, we waste edible food and this releases 3.3 gigatons of CO2 equivalent.

About TotalCtrl: TotalCtrl, a Norwegian software company, leverages its unmatched food waste prevention technology to unlock immense possibilities in the food industry, driving sustainable and measurable results to create a future without food waste. TotalCtrl is a kitchen inventory management tool that helps mid-market hotel and restaurant chains to optimize their planning, purchase and use of food inventory by providing data-driven insights that enables quick decision-making. For more information, visit https://totalctrl.com/

About Eggify: Eggify, is a marketplace for the hospitality sector. Our platform is designed for operators, suppliers and producers of goods and services to easily find the right partner, manage their business more efficiently and drive real change in their business. Our solution allows an effective and centralized management thanks to real data that offer a more efficient management of resources. And faster decision making, minimizing risks, and improving results.

Norway, Oslo: TotalCtrl today announced the start of the first rollout phase of food waste technology for institutions in Halden municipality. Halden municipality aims to be the best at food waste management and has managed, under difficult conditions, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, to implement and test the TotalCtrl Inventory solution in nursing homes and kindergartens showing a 35.4% food waste reduction after only one month in use. 

TotalCtrl will now roll out the solution to 20 units within the municipality before scaling it to all public institutions after a 3-month validation phase. 

The benefits of this partnership will help public institutions cut cost, save time and at the same time reach climate goals. 

• SDG 2: One-third of food is wasted despite billions going hungry.
• SDG 12: By 2030, most of the world has committed to halve global food waste.
• SDG 13: Each year, we waste edible food and this releases 3.3 gigatons of CO2 equivalent.

Background: 

In the summer of 2019, Halden municipality was granted NOK 1 million by Klimasats to become “The world’s best municipality on digital food waste management” in collaboration with TotalCtrl. The project has included mapping of food handling at 4 units in nursing homes, 2 kindergartens and 1 after-school program. From September 2020 to May 2021, the units have carried out tests with the digital solution developed with TotalCtrl and have completed a pilot period with the solution in full use for 4 weeks in February 2021.

Food waste measurements were carried out at the start and end of the project to see whether the use of the solution had led to a reduction in food waste. 

The results – After one month in use:

	Nursing homes	Kindergartens
Food waste reduction	-16,4%	-35,4%

About TotalCtrl: TotalCtrl, a Norwegian software company, leverages its unmatched food waste prevention technology to unlock immense possibilities in the food industry, driving sustainable and measurable results to create a future without food waste, where all people have food to eat. TotalCtrl is a kitchen inventory management tool that helps food services businesses optimize their planning, purchase and use of food inventory by providing data-driven insights that enables quick decision-making. For more information, visit https://totalctrl.com/.

About Halden kommune: Halden is a town and municipality in the province of Østfold in Viken county in eastern Norway with 31,373 inhabitants (2020). The large municipality of Halden borders Rakkestad in the north, Aremark in the east, and Sarpsborg in the northwest, as well as the municipalities of Strömstad, Tanum and Dals-Ed in Sweden in the southwest, south and southeast, respectively. Halden aims to be the most innovative municipality in Norway as well as the world’s best municipality on digital food waste management. For more information, visit https://www.halden.kommune.no/.

Norway, Oslo: TotalCtrl today announced that Charlotte Aschim, CEO and Founder of TotalCtrl, will be a keynote speaker at the World Expo taking place in Dubai in October. Charlotte will provide light on women’s entrepreneurship and innovative start-ups helping to realize the UN Sustainable Development Goals, present good examples, provide policy recommendations and build new EU-GCC alliances for the next few years. 

“As providing a technology that eliminates food waste throughout the value chain to save money, resources, people and the planet and in general solutions supporting the SDG Goals will be key priorities on the agenda, we are deeply honored to have Charlotte speak at the World Expo“, says Eva Fabry, Director, European Centre for Women and Technology – ECWT

About World Expo: The Expo is a major business and cultural event held every five years in cities around the world selected by the Paris-based BIE. For 170 years, World Expos have provided a platform to showcase the greatest innovations that have shaped the world we live in today. Historical innovations that have been showcased on World Expo: Computers (1862), Telephones (1876), the first live TV broadcast (1939), Heinz Ketchup (1876) and so much more. For more information, visit https://www.expo2020dubai.com/ 

About Charlotte Aschim: Charlotte is a Chief engineer, self-taught coder, one of the Top 10 Most Successful Women Entrepreneurs of 2021 and Top 10 Sustainability Leaders in Norway. Holds a master’s within land management and has over 20 years’ experience from the food industry. For more information, visit linkedin.com/in/charlotte-aschim-0278a756 

Norway, Oslo: TotalCtrl today announced a new partnership with Allwin, a Swedish food waste  distributor company. The partnership is a result of industry requests to simplify food donation,  food security and traceability while adapting to regulations and contributing to sustainable  development goals 2, 12 and 13. TotalCtrl and Allwin join forces to offer an end-to-end solution  that helps grocery stores waste less, increase sales, save time, plan better, buy smarter and  ensure safe distribution of food to charities. 

“This partnership gives grocery stores a holistic digital solution for inventory management  and donation to reach 100% reduction of food waste”, says Simon Eisner, CEO at Allwin. 

The benefits of this new partnership will help our customers increase profits and at the same  time reach the climate goals.  

● SDG 2: One-third of food is wasted despite billions going hungry. 

● SDG 12: By 2030, most of the world has committed to halve global food waste.

● SDG 13: Each year, we waste edible food and this releases 3.3 gigatons of CO2  equivalent. 

About TotalCtrl: TotalCtrl, a Norwegian software company, leverages its unmatched food waste  prevention technology to unlock immense possibilities in the food industry, driving sustainable  and measurable results to create a future without food waste, where all people have healthy  food to eat. Founded in December 2017, TotalCtrl helps consumer-facing businesses optimize  their operations, cut costs, and prevent food waste. Their current customers have seen an 85% reduction of food waste after just a week in use. For more information, visit https://totalctrl.com/.

About Allwin: Allwin is today the single largest organization and was the first in Sweden to re-distribute food waste from grocery stores to aid organizations on a large scale. Founded in  2010, Allwin operates today in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Lund, and has distributed 5  million kilo food waste corresponding to 1 million food bags (5 kilos) to people in need since the start. For more information, visit https://www.allwin.nu/.

TotalCtrl Home redefines the way we buy, use and think about food.

Monday 17^th May 2021, United Kingdom: TotalCtrl officially introduces the “TotalCtrl Home” app to the UK, a digital inventory solution created to significantly reduce food waste as well as save time and money in households. “TotalCtrl Home” is a simple and easy to use application for your smartphone. It lets you digitize your food habits, prevent food waste by up to 85% by notifying you prior to food expiring and gives you access to a wide variety of recipes based on what you have available at home.

Features

Easily add products by using the barcode scanner & voice. Search, filter and organize as you please. Swipe to remove product when used or add product to Shopping list. Add an expiry date and get notified before it is too late. Get suggestions for recipes based on what you have in My Kitchen or just browse and choose from thousands of recipes. Heart your favorite recipes, filter by category and get suggestions based on your products expiry date. If you find a recipe you like, but do not have all the ingredients at home – simply add the ingredient to your Shopping list via the recipe.

For more information on TotalCtrl Home, visit https://totalctrl.com/totalctrl-home

About TotalCtrl: TotalCtrl is the world’s first cloud-based food waste prevention system. This company simplifies management of inventory and expiry dates. TotalCtrl helps clients in the food industry save time, money and prevent food waste by providing real-time data on inventory based on expiration dates.

Norway, Oslo: TotalCtrl today announced a new partnership with Norwegian PropTech company Varig Technologies (Varig). This partnership is part of TotalCtrl’s goal of helping its customers get TotalCtrl over their data. As one of the world’s best high-impact companies, TotalCtrl partners with Varig to provide operational data, like waste, water and energy consumption to provide a holistic overview so property owners and food service businesses can take action and reduce the CO2 footprint.

 “This partnership will help both Varig and TotalCtrl bring more value to our customers by both providing data insight and tools to take action”, says Renate Straume, CEO at Varig Technologies.  

The benefits of this new partnership include. 

• Knowledge and expertise
• Customer synergies
• Validation and development of sustainable solutions.

About TotalCtrl: TotalCtrl prevent food waste by controlling inventory based on expiration data helping food service businesses optimize operation, save time and money. Together with Varig, TotalCtrl will help the world reduce CO2 emission faster. 

About Varig: Varig is a sustainability software that focuses on a transparent and holistic approach to sustainability in the real estate industry. The solution is designed to make it easier for the owner, manager and tenant to work together to set goals, report, and based on this; take action and focus on good, sustainable choices. Through smart technology and automated reporting solutions, Varig will in an engaging way create awareness and behavior change among various actors and users of buildings.

Norway, Oslo: TotalCtrl today announced the kickoff of a project with Mission Zero Foodprint (MZF) in Finland. Over the next six months TotalCtrl will help the restaurant industry in Finland reduce CO2, cut costs, digitize, and prevent food waste.

There are over 10,000 restaurants and food service companies in Finland and the Finns eat almost 900 million meals outside their home every year (Natural Resources Institute Finland LUKE 2015 statistics). According to LUKE, about one-fifth of edible food in the restaurant and catering sector in Finland ends up in bio-waste. To help reduce CO2 MZF has hired TotalCtrl.

The benefits of this project:

● The long-term goal of the project is to scale up the operating model built in the project to dozens of companies, also outside the project area, to change the processes of the restaurant and food service companies into more carbon neutral, as well as to achieve measured energy savings.

TotalCtrl will be working closely together with the industry:

To start with TotalCtrl will help the Kesko headquarter restaurant at K-kampus. K-Kampus will be Finland’s first office building to go carbon neutral in its waste management. This restaurant is therefore the perfect fit for TotalCtrl’s Restaurant solution.

About TotalCtrl: TotalCtrl prevents food waste by controlling inventory based on expiration data helping clients optimize operation, save time and money. Together with MZF TotalCtrl will help the world prevent food waste faster.

Mission Zero Foodprint (MZF): The main goal of Mission Zero Foodprint is to develop and renew the business and products of small restaurants and food service companies to become more resources and carbon neutral, and to strengthen cooperation and environment friendly image of the companies.

Norway, Oslo: TotalCtrl today made their solutions available for FREE to help restaurants in need. As the world faces the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, the restaurant industry finds itself particularly hard hit. New mandates allowing take-out and delivery only, leave businesses with inventory on hand, but not enough demand. Controlling inventory, the most perishable of all your assets, and minimizing food waste is crucially important, but right now it’s even more so. This environment demands more diligence.

Learn more here: https://totalctrl.com/help-out-covid-19

The benefits of using the solution in and after a crisis:

• Get TotalCtrl over food inventory
• Save money
• Prevent food waste

The app will give you the advantage of knowing exactly what you have on hand and how long it will last. This will ensure that you use items in order of expiration date and if that’s not possible, know when to donate it before it spoils.Once downloaded, you will also have access to TotalCtrl’sfood waste community which we’re working with to further ensure thatyou preserve your inventory investment and waste less food.

About TotalCtrl: TotalCtrl prevents food waste by controlling inventory based on expiration datahelping clients optimize operation, save time and money. Their goal is to prevent food waste throughout the entire value chain, and over the 2 years they have been in operation, they have onboarded retailers, restaurants, food banks, municipalities and consumers. During this time of crisis, TotalCtrl is making theireasy to use Food Waste Prevention Software available absolutely Free.

Norway, Oslo: TotalCtrl today announced a new partnership with Halla. This partnership will help the food industry become more sustainable. As one of the world’s best high-impact companies, TotalCtrl partners with Halla to prevent food waste, increase sales for retailers and help consumers make better choices. 

“This is a super symbiotic partnership where both our companies are leading players within quickly-growing markets. This partnership is spot-on, and we look forward to exploring the opportunities”, says Spencer Price. 

The benefits of this new partnership include:

• Knowledge and expertise 
• Potential customer synergies 
• Validation and testing of sustainable solutions. 

About TotalCtrl: TotalCtrl prevents food waste by controlling inventory based on expiration data helping clients optimize operation, save time and money. Their goal is to prevent food waste throughout the entire value chain, and they are currently working with retailers, restaurants, food banks, municipalities, and consumers. Together with Halla TotalCtrl will help the world prevent food waste faster and create a more sustainable value chain. 

About Halla: Los Angeles based company Halla is combining food, data and A.I. to change the way we dine. Halla is an AI company focused on personalized recommendations for online grocers. Halla is the only software company that dynamically profiles human taste to help people make better food decisions.

Norway, Oslo: TotalCtrl, a leading food waste prevention company, today announced that Alexander Salveson Nossum will be joining TotalCtrl as an Advisory Board member.

Alexander will be bringing his experience within digitization and innovation to TotalCtrl to help scale the technology globally.

Additionally, Alexander’s experiences that will benefit TotalCtrl moving forward include:

• Expertise within the municipality segment
• Business Development
• Sales

“I have been following TotalCtrl for a while and it has been exciting to see all that they have accomplished. TotalCtrl has a lot going for them and their technology is highly scalable.” says Alexander Salveson Nossum.

For more information on Alexander Salveson Nossum, visit his profile here.

About TotalCtrl: TotalCtrl is the world’s first cloud-based food waste prevention system. This company simplifies management of inventory and expiry dates. TotalCtrl helps clients in the food industry save time, money and prevent food waste by providing real-time data on inventory based on expiration date. Together with Alexander Salveson Nossum TotalCtrl will help the world prevent food waste faster.