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NewsCabrito turns to crowd to fund efforts to bring goat meat to supermarket shelves
Cabrito Goat Meat sources young goats from British dairy farms, rears them for meat and then supplies it to restaurants, butchers and catering firms, as well as the public on a DTC site.
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NewsMCS Good Fish Guide ‘too harsh’, claim fishing bodies
Seafish claimed the guide ignored progress being made to improve UK fisheries
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NewsGorillas taps first year of UK sales data for major advertising campaign
The ‘Whatever London Wants’ campaign encompasses out-of-home billboards, TV and radio ads, posters, projections and murals
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NewsRobot grocery delivery company Starship investigating toddler ‘hit and push’ incident
Starship told The Grocer that “we take an incident like this seriously and we’re investigating”
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NewsGetir partners with surplus food platform Neighbourly
The initial launch will be across 50 stores over the next 30 days, with the aim to be UK-wide by the end of the year
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NewsBart Ingredients opens £15m factory in Bristol to boost growth
Bart Ingredients CEO David Collard said the new factory opening was a ‘major milestone’ for the business
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NewsJempson’s sales dip 1.2% but ‘holds on’ to majority of growth gained in pandemic
During the year to June 2021 the company made two bonus payments to all employee
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NewsCofresh expands frozen range with Indian snacks and vegetables
The innovations were launched in response to ‘growing consumer demand for innovative quick and easy, street-inspired food’, said Cofresh
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NewsHome Bargains sales soar 20% to £3.3bn, boosted by store openings
The estate grew by 27 stores during the period
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NewsCity snapshot: Deliveroo posts double-digit first quarter growth against 2021 lockdowns
Deliveroo posted double-digit growth in its first quarter despite benefitting from Covid lockdowns last year, although spend per order fell. Plus retail growth slows in March, Parsley Box targets recovery from “tough” year and all the rest of the latest news from the City.
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NewsMedia Bites 12 April: Waitrose, Morrisons, Pret a Manger, M&S
Waitrose has been left £4m out of pocket through its brief tie-up with an insolvent venture set up by one of Ocado’s founders.
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NewsIceland slashes online price of fresh and frozen veg to 1p for Easter
All frozen and fresh veg that would normally cost £1 or under, such as a kilo of onions, will instead be 1p from 11 April until midnight on 14 April
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NewsAsda partners with Netflix for fashion and lifestyle merchandise collection
12 stores will offer the full range of clothing and general merchandise products, and a further 38 will stock Netflix clothing and accessories
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NewsIRCA ingredients firm sold by Carlye to Advent International
The group suppliers a range of customers such as patisseries, gelato parlours, hotels, restaurants and confectionery manufacturers with specialty ingredients for artisanal pastries, cakes and ice cream.
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NewsEmissions from livestock ‘could be reduced by 23% with widescale mitigations’
Methods to meet the industry’s net zero by 2050 goal should start with focusing on production efficiency, says report
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NewsUkrainian charity vodka named after Volodymyr Zelenskyy launches in UK
The drink is intended to ’provide immediate assistance to those in Ukraine’, with the brand committing to donate 100% of its profits until 2026 to NGOs
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NewsKellogg’s slashes Special K salt content by nearly a fifth
The cereal giant has cut salt across its seven-strong range by 19.8% on average, ahead of HFSS clampdown
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NewsBerry Gardens and JFC partner in trials of vertically grown strawberries
If successful, the initiative would extend the British strawberry season to all year round, the businesses say
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NewsGVMS operational again – but Dover delays forecast to increase ahead of Easter
Prioritisation system to help perishable goods get through long queues not a realistic option, says environment secretary
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NewsM&S Food invests in Remarksable value range amid soaring living costs
The retailer first launched Remarksable 2019, and ‘now is the right time to go further’, says COO and Food MD Stuart Machin