All articles by Ian Quinn – Page 61
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Analysis and Features
Is a ban on in-store HFSS promotions now inevitable?
An eight-week consultation is underway. So can we expect a ban and is it time industry accepted one?
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News
Kate Halliwell becomes new chief scientific officer at FDF
Halliwell joined the FDF 10 years ago, serving as nutrition manager and then head of UK diet and health policy
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News
Food and drink industry more than doubles donations to FareShare over Christmas
Between 14 December and 3 January, the charity said it had seen a 125% increase in food volumes
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News
Food and drink workforce crisis looms as Covid absence rates treble
Some areas of the country, including London and the south east, are aleady seeing levels above 20%
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News
Asda warns against panic buying as it expands online deliveries
Asda CEO Roger Burnley said it was “doing all it could” to keep stores well stocked but urged customers to “do their bit”
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Comment and Opinion
Canny Morrisons CEO David Potts deserves credit for his thoughtful and speedy leadership
There is much more to Morrisons’ success than simply a Covid windfall
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News
Morrisons to use car parks for Covid vaccination programme
CEO David Potts said today portable buildings would be operating from three store car parks from 11 January, with another 47 on standby
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News
Union calls for retail staff to be prioritised for Covid vaccine
In a letter to health secretary Matt Hancock and business secretary Alok Sharma, Usdaw urged the government to intervene to protect staff
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News
Tesco confirms billion-piece plastic reduction target hit in 2020
Packaging removed during the year included plastic shrink wrap in branded and own-label tinned multipacks
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News
24 trade groups demand government compensation over border chaos
In a letter to Defra Secretary George Eustice, the head of groups including the FDF, Scotland Food & Drink and the Provision Trade Federation described the situation as a ‘catastrophe’
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News
Border reopening ‘too late’ to stop food shortages
The FDF said there would be ‘significant disruption’ on the shelf starting next week
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News
Tesco looks to head off panic buying as it extends product restrictions
Tesco brought back a raft of restrictions in September and yesterday announced the list of products had been expanded
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News
Food leaders demand compensation from ‘bungling’ government over Dover chaos
‘You didn’t have to be Mystic Meg to know what was coming,’ FDF CEO Ian Wright tells BEIS committee
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News
24 hours to prevent food shortages, warn supermarket leaders
Ministers have been told empty lorries stuck in the UK would mean products such as fresh fuit and salad vegetables would soon begin to disappear from shelves
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Analysis and Features
Ready meals: Top Products 2020
The increase in scratch cooking during lockdown has pushed ready meals into decline
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Analysis and Features
Soup: Top Products 2020
Having been in the doldrums last year, the category is in value growth again
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Analysis and Features
Sauces: cooking: Top Products 2020
The change in power dynamic comes after an extra £158.8m poured into cooking sauces
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News
Ocado says suppliers need to ‘mitigate’ Brexit costs
The online supermarket has written to suppliers refusing to enter negotiations over price rises
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News
Asda extends Accessorize and Decathlon partnerships
Accessorize has launched an exclusive partnership at Asda Minworth, selling jewellery, bags and seasonal items in a ‘store within a store’
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Comment and Opinion
Brexit deal or not, food prices are going up. But by how much?
Much will depend on whether supermarkets or suppliers end up shouldering the burden of Brexit-related costs such as tariffs