Buying & Supplying news – Page 9
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Food and drink exports fall nearly 10% in pandemic
Most of the top 10 food and drink products exported by the UK were negatively affected by Covid-19 and restrictions of movement
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Code issues plummet in Adjudicator supplier survey despite ‘brutal’ Covid delists
The proportion of suppliers experiencing issues at any stage has fallen to an all-time low
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Sainsbury’s signs up to GCA commitment to limit forensic auditing of suppliers
Sainsbury’s commitment will be effective from March 2022
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No-alcohol Gordon’s racks up £1m sales in one month on the market
The 0% drink, which hit retail in late December ahead of ‘Dry January’, had added a cool £910k by the time the month drew to a close
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MPs renew calls for creation of minister for food security role
Efra committee also urged government to extend financial aid to hospitality suppliers including foodservice wholesalers
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Tetra Pak to convert 20 billion cartons to tethered caps in anti-litter move
The company expects to deploy them across more than 1,000 packaging lines that it supplies to customers in Europe
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Mars Food launches recyclable microwave rice pouches
They are made from mono-polypropylene, which is not suitable for standard at-home recycling but can be recycled through flexible plastic collection schemes
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Nestlé to add recyclable bio-based lids and scoops to baby products
The new lids and scoops will be made from sugar cane and its byproduct
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Unilever drops ‘normal’ from beauty brands in inclusivity move
Unilever has set our a string of progressive commitments as part of a new push for ‘Positive Beauty’
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FEI Foods beats Mars to launch recyclable microwaveable pouch
FEI Foods and JM Packaging are claiming a global first for the industry
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Tetra Pak hails sustainability breakthrough with recycled polymers
Tetra Pak has become the first food and beverage packaging company to be awarded the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials Advanced Products certification
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Dettol and CleanedUp link to offer small businesses hygiene support
It’s the latest in a series of moves from Dettol in response to the coronavirus pandemic
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Frozen ready meals see £5m fall in 2020
Frozen ready meals were the only category of frozen food not to grow in 2020.
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New Morocco-UK shipping route launched to bypass Brexit border woes
The service promises to cut journey times from more than six days by road to less than three.
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Dettol teams up with the FA to provide football hygiene guidance
The hygiene brand will work with the FA to provide hygiene guidance that can be implemented at every level
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Lifebuoy to install 11,000 sanitising stations at Tesco stores
The brand has also unveiled a new sanitiser it claims “harnesses a new formulation that is rich in vitamin B3”
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Coca-Cola revamps recipe and pack design for ‘evolved’ Zero Sugar SKU
It’s the latest in a number of moves by Coca-Cola to reduce sugar
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Fmcg giants unite on plan for flexible packaging waste
They have dubbed themseves ’the Flexible Packaging Consortium’ and enlisted recycling specialists Suez
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Onion and leek sales soar in latest Covid-19 lockdown
Volume sales increases were primarily attributed to the lockdown-related trend of scratch-cooking
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Gok Wan to star in first Itsu TV advert as sales prosper
Itsu’s first TV advert follows ‘record’ growth in supermarkets last year