All Labour crisis articles – Page 11
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News
Müller seeking more than 150 new production and distribution staff in recruitment drive
Vacancies span range from production and distribution operative roles to HGV drivers, driver trainers and driver apprentices
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Pig sector calls for urgent government summit as backlog tops 170,000
More than 35,000 animals are now known to have been culled due to the effects of butcher shortages on the sector
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Avara Foods sees turnover fall but profitability improve in ‘solid’ results
However, the poultry giant has warned its latest accounting period could prove more challenging
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Festive turkey sales down but indies and DTC sellers benefit
Sales of turkey through butchers and DTC channels boomed over Christmas 2021 as shoppers looked to buy early
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Analysis and Features
Britain’s food & drink labour shortage: in numbers
The UK’s food and drink sector is battling a serious labour crisis. But which sectors are hardest hit by shortages and an ageing workforce? To find out, we analysed exclusive data from ONS
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Analysis and Features
Where have the food industry’s workers gone?
In the past two years the food and drink industry’s labour market has been upended. What’s behind the struggle to find staff?
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Pig private storage scheme extended to tackle animal backlog
Defra this week said it would extend the private storage aid scheme until 31 March
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FareShare ramps up frozen food operations to tackle supply crisis
FareShare is aiming to have about 300 frozen pallet spaces in its UK-wide network by the spring
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Comment and Opinion
How Brexit has affected the Scottish seafood industry… and what’s yet to come
We’re still only seeing the start of the changes Brexit will bring to the seafood industry, says Donna Fordyce, CEO of Seafood Scotland
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Iceland MD calls for Covid isolation period to be cut to tackle soaring absence rates
Iceland absences have risen more than 70% in a week, from 1,000 to over 1,700, MD Richard Walker said
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Analysis and Features
What’s the outlook for key food commodities in 2022?
How will climate, labour and fuel pressures affect prices of the likes of coffee, sugar, meat, rice and dairy?
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Analysis and Features
Five unmissable long reads on food and drink in 2021
It’s been a big year for the food and drink sector. Omicron aside, 2021 has brought ongoing Brexit challenges, new technology, rapidly evolving shopping habits and the arrival of new power players.
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Analysis and Features
16 of the biggest moments in grocery in 2021
Serial shortages, Amazon’s arrival and Aldi’s efforts to #FreeCuthbert – 2021 was never dull.
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Comment and Opinion
Christmas supply has been saved, but without support many businesses won’t be so lucky
Despite warnings to the contrary over the past couple of months, it looks like we won’t run out of food in the supermarkets this Christmas after all. Food (and turkeys in particular) may well be significantly more expensive than last Christmas, while there is also less choice, as The Grocer ...
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Comment and Opinion
That grocery innovated so impressively throughout such a tough year is astounding
It’s a huge credit to the sector that it’s by and large kept delivering the goods this year
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Christmas ranges smaller and fewer discounts for second year running as supermarkets trim their sails
Research by The Grocer using Assosia data shows that since Christmas 2019 Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons and Waitrose have collectively cut over 8,500 products
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Comment and Opinion
Low take-up of visas shows the food industry must do more to attract workers
The government line on immigration is unlikely to change. So businesses will need to devise a new recruitment strategy
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Veg growers cutting back on plantings over labour and cost worries
Some growers have reudced their planting area by more than a third for 2022, according to the British Growers Association
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Tesco adds new refrigerated rail freight service to tackle HGV crisis this Christmas
The new low-CO2 rail service train will transport chilled goods from Tilbury to Coatbridge and run twice a day, seven days a week
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Road Haulage Association CEO Richard Burnett to step down
Burnett has held the position of CEO since September 2014