All Coronavirus articles – Page 46
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Analysis & FeaturesShare prices: who were food and drink’s winners and losers of 2020?
Coronavirus has caused some food and drink share prices to soar but it’s not been as simple as adding extra sales
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NewsFurloughed Foodies to deliver 4,000 meals to vulnerable families
The volunteer-led organisation will distribute festive food parcels to vulnerable families, children on free school meals, homeless people and more
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NewsCorona defies coronavirus link with extra £68m sales
Fears that sales would be impacted by link to coronavirus proved unfounded
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NewsNisa restores availability back to pre-coronavirus levels
Last week Nisa’s overall availability level was 97.7%
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NewsGrants for Scottish wholesalers thought to be oversubscribed
The Scottish government is set to pay out thousands of pounds in grants to struggling wholesalers
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NewsCook defers decision to repay business rates
The upmarket frozen food retailer is still assessing the impact of the pandemic on the business
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VideosWatch: how lockdown is shaping the soft drinks category
Lockdown has got soft drink sales fizzing nicely, as Brits filled their trolleys with fizzy drinks to use as mixers at home while pubs and restaurants were off-limits
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NewsArsenal helps charity score 500,000 pandemic meals milestone
Charity His Church has been working with the club to deliver food and essentials to needy families
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NewsCo-op hits five million meal milestone in FareShare tie-up
Co-op first began working with FareShare to divert surplus food to frontline charities across the country in 2015
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NewsShoppers eating more fruit and veg under lockdown, finds IGD
Over half of shoppers claimed to be eating more fruit and veg
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NewsScrap online delivery charges for older people this Christmas, charity urges supermarkets
Independent Age is calling for retailers to scrap delivery fees for those unable to visit shops this Christmas
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NewsBAT to begin human trials of Covid vaccine
Vaccine has been reproduced in fast-growing tobacco plants
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NewsFarmers and supermarkets get public trust boost after Covid response
According to University of Reading research, farmers and food retailers are ‘the most trusted actors in the UK food supply chain’
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NewsJohn Lewis Partnership expands reserved shopping slot scheme
The expansion follows a four-week pilot at six Waitrose stores and three John Lewis branches in August
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NewsAsda ramps up store Covid security ahead of Christmas peak
The supermarket said it would be deploying extra security on the doors of all its 421 large superstores between 19-24 December
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NewsWholesaler prepared to go to prison after refusing to pay thousands in business rates
Darren Labbett, MD of Woods Foodservice, has written to Boris Johnson complaining of the ‘injustice’ of the sector not being included in rates relief
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NewsFreixenet Copestick buys wine merchant Jascots from administration
The on-trade wine supplier called in the administrators at the end of November after months struggling to keep afloat
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NewsMorrisons to deliver 30,000 ‘acts of kindness’ in local communities
The initiative will include delivering free mince pies to local care homes, donating carrots to local nurseries and giving ‘Covid-19 heroes’ festive hampers
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NewsHeart of England Co-op half-year update records soaring food sales
The society’s newest stores, including Rotherham Road in Coventry and Sketchley Brook in Hinckley, all recorded ‘significant’ increases
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VideosOn The Frontline with Meatless Farm founder Morten Toft Bech
Our Food & Drink Editor Daniel Woolfson sits down with Meatless Farm founder Morten Toft Bech to discuss how coronavirus has influenced the booming plant-based category