All articles by Ian Quinn – Page 4
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Comment & OpinionCan the UK Packaging Pact survive without its power players?
The issue lies not in the big names yet to have signed up, but in the reasons behind those absences
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NewsSupermarket food safety shake-up given shock go-ahead
Food safety campaigners and local authorities have raised concerns about supermarkets being allowed to ‘police themselves’
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NewsPlastics Pact successor faces battle to convince major food firms to sign on dotted line
A series of major companies that helped spearhead the previous pact have all so far declined to sign up
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Comment & OpinionBudget 2025: How has food, drink and retail reacted to the news?
The budget was delivered in a manner that ‘falls short of standards that the House expects’, Rachel Reeves was told before she’d even started today
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NewsMajor soft drinks brands duck sugar levy extension in compromise deal
Under the compromise proposals, plans to toughen the threshold of the tax to include drinks with more than 4g of sugar per 100ml have been amended to 4.5g
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NewsPlastic tax overhaul would generate £100m tax windfall, Chancellor told
A Biffa-commissioned report by Hybrid Economists urges Rachel Reeves to overhaul the tax while phasing out the export of unprocessed plastic packaging waste to other countries
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NewsCircular economy giant Reconomy announces tag partnership with Polytag
The move will see Polytag’s UV tag detection and trace technology installed at Reconcomy brand Casepak’s materials recycling facility in Leicester
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NewsDeposit return scheme management body brings in outside experts
Juliet Sotnick and Lynda Heywood would add strength to its board, said the UK DMO
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NewsScottish ministers accused of sinking their own flagship Good Food Nation strategy
Environmental and health groups are up in arms at the changes to the strategy
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Comment & OpinionReeves’ plastic plans are a taxing issue for food and drink
It looks nailed on that further increases in plastic packaging costs are heading the industry’s way
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NewsNew plastic tax raid plotted as Reeves looks to plug budget black hole
Sources say that they expect the UK’s plastic packaging tax to be one of those in the Chancellor’s crosshairs come next week’s budget
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NewsDefra promises food bosses growth policies to revive crashed confidence
Environment secretary Emma Reynolds will stress today that the government will back its words with action, with moves to slash red tape and industry costs
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NewsKing’s Coronation Food Project initiative delivers 5,000 tonnes of food
The King will meet chief executives and leaders from the food industry and food rescue charities today to recognise their achievements
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NewsCalls to extend junk food crackdown as review finds billboard ban ‘effective’
A report conducted by the Scottish government assessed the ban’s effectiveness by looking at the existing evidence on policy implementation in the UK
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NewsEPR fraud scam alert as food companies targeted by fake invoices
Companies have been approached with scam invoices for huge sums, purporting to be from the extended producer responsibility scheme’s administrator, Pack UK
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NewsFood strategy’s sole farming voice steps down
Sam Godfrey is a pig farming veteran whose family sold its business to Cranswick in 2023
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NewsWaitrose becomes first supermarket to roll out invisible milk tags in recycling drive
Waitrose has added the tags to the majority of its own-label milk range
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NewsFDF: food sector confidence plummets to lowest levels since Covid ahead of Reeves’ budget
Business confidence among food and drink manufacturers has plummeted to its lowest level since the Covid pandemic
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Comment & OpinionCan mandatory health reporting succeed with ‘two-tier approach’?
Yesterday The Grocer revealed Nesta was urging ministers to push ahead with mandatory reporting and targets, beginning with the top 11 supermarkets with a phased approach for the OOH sector
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NewsWales reuse plans to ‘dwarf’ cost of EPR, suppliers warn
Retail bosses and drinks manufacturers warned ministers in Cardiff their proposals would lead to soaring prices and cross-border supply chain chaos