All Government policy articles – Page 113
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News
Posh retailers to be hardest hit by the sugar levy
Waitrose and Ocado are set to have the largest proportion of own-label products in the firing line of sugar levy
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Analysis and Features
The EU: the good, the bad and the bendy
What did the EU ever do for us? We assess some of the key pieces of legislation affecting grocery over the last 50 years
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Analysis and Features
Soft drinks left carrying the can with sugar levy
With 54% of soft drink SKUs set to be subject to the sugar levy how will suppliers respond?
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Comment and Opinion
Zero hours contracts: a ban would harm businesses and workers
Banning zero hours contracts would not guarantee a minimum number of hours
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Comment and Opinion
The sugar tax: cleverly crafted all round
It is unthinkable that the soft drinks industry will not continue its journey of innovation and reformulation
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News
Soft drinks industry reels over scale of Osborne's sugar tax
Under the two-tier system proposed by the treasury, the rate would work out at closer to 50% for some products
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Comment and Opinion
Clothier: Brexit has exposed lack of leadership
Food and drink desperately needs a manifesto to protect its interests and minimise risk says Wyke Farms MD Richard Clothier
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News
FDF members dismiss EU stay campaign
The UK’s biggest fmcg suppliers have refused to give a mandate for the Food & Drink Federation to campaign against Brexit
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Analysis and Features
Would Brexit make food fraud better or worse?
Brexit would end the obligation for the free movement of goods. So would the UK be better placed to fight food fraud?
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News
Logistics professionals poll reveals preference to remain in EU
Supply chain experts split 60%-40% in favour of Bremain
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News
Only 2,100 out of 20,000 signed up for AWRS
Its original estimate of 20,000 that needed to register still held true, HMRC added
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News
No new Sunday trading research since 2006, government admits
The last round of research was carried out under the DTI a decade ago
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News
Efra committee calls for GCA powers to be 'urgently' extended
MPs have renewed calls for the powers of the Groceries Code Adjudicator to be widened.
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Analysis and Features
Does PM's EU deal work for the food & drink industry?
David Cameron fired the starting gun on the long-awaited EU referendum last week, and already knives have been unsheathed
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News
FDF seeks member mandate to run Brexit 'no' campaign
A crunch meeting of the UK’s biggest suppliers on Monday will decide if the Food & Drink Federation has a mandate to campaign against Brexit
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News
Keep Sunday Special campaign to mount legal challenge
KSS says it has not entered the prospect of legal action lightly but there were “fundamental flaws” in the process the government had taken
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Analysis and Features
Sugar tax back on the table in PM's Childhood Obesity Strategy
David Cameron’s childhood obesity strategy will include plans for a sugar tax
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News
BRC calls for action on crime as costs to retailers soar
Average value of customer theft hits record high of £325
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News
Liz Truss stays firm on no farming 'plan B' for Brexit
Truss confirmed Defra had still made no assessment of the impact leaving the EU would have on the farming sector
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News
Revised drinking guidelines attacked as 'anti-alcohol' policy
The new guidance puts the UK at odds with the rest of Europe, industry says