All The Grocer articles in 25 January 2025 – Page 6
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News
Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat urged to explain ‘black box’ algorithms
Privacy International, Independent Workers Union of Great Britian, Amnesty International and Trade Unions Congress are among 12 organisations pushing for ’positive steps right now’
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Category Report
Cereal gets a spruce-up: cereals category report 2025
Britain’s biggest cereal brands have seen volume sales crumble in the face of soaring prices. How are they renovating their ranges?
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Noble Foods spends £2.3m on ‘most ambitious’ ad push
The ad push aims to ’set the bar for welfare in the free-range egg category’, Noble Foods said
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Trump tariffs: food businesses avoid ‘day one’ fees but uncertainty remains
US president Donald Trump has delayed imposing tariffs on imported goods
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David Lepley returns to Asda in chief supply chain officer role as Leighton rebuild continues
Prior to joining Morrisons he spent 11 years at Asda, where he began stacking shelves at its Grantham store before rising to the position of VP online operations
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Lidl claims a UK supermarket first with fibre food sales target
It aims to increase the tonnage of fibre it sells by 20% by 2026
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Comment & Opinion
AI in food innovation will lead to stupid, boring products
AI is increasingly being positioned as a tool to remove human creativity from the innovation process, says Anthony Warner, freelance development chef and author of The Angry Chef
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City snapshot: Premier Foods and Cranswick boosted by premium desire
Premier Foods raised its profit guidance after a strong Christmas quarter for its branded products, while Cranswick said its premium lines did ‘extremely well’.
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Cranswick celebrates record Christmas as shoppers go premium
The meat processor said its premium value-added products performed ‘extremely well’ in the 13 weeks to 28 December
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Media Bites 21 January: cider copyright ruling, Morrisons vs protesters, ‘forever chemicals’
Aldi has been defeated by Thatchers in a legal battle over a copycat cloudy lemon cider
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Premier Foods lifts profit guidance after merry Christmas quarter
Premier said there was a notable increase in premium sales
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Aldi beats rivals to offer the UK’s highest hourly pay rate for supermarket workers
From 1 March, the hourly rate for Aldi store workers will rise from £13.65 to £14 within the M25 and from £12.40 to £12.71 elsewhere in the UK
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Review calls for radical revamp of farm assurance framework
The independent UK Farm Assurance Review called for the reduction and simplification of on-farm audits and for them to be delivered more consistently
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Shoppers don’t trust unlabelled international food ingredients such as eggs, research reveals
UK egg producers are calling for greater transparency regarding the labelling of imported eggs used as an ingredient
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B2B.store upgrades WhatsApp comms platform for wholesalers
Existing wholesalers using the WhatsApp channel include Bestway, Time Wholsale and Rayburn Trading, as well as buying group Sugro
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Comment & Opinion
MPs must win retailer support for ‘seemingly cursed’ DRS
MPs must make clearer where they stand on the DRS – and try and win back Welsh government support
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Berry sector hangs in the balance amid soaring costs and falling returns
Revenue returns were not keeping pace with operating cost increases for 85% of growers, research by British Berry Growers found
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Doughboys Pizza offers 10% slice to Peter Jones on Dragons’ Den
Doughboys Pizza is ready to expand its supermarket presence after walking out of Dragons’ Den with the backing of Peter Jones
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Caffè Nero records highest day of sales in ‘record’ Christmas
The chain recorded positive Christmas results, with sales up from the same period last year
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Asda boss Allan Leighton to launch massive new Rollback price war
A major advertising campaign is being lined up by Asda to back the launch