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NewsWaitrose 2021/2022 Food & Drink report: top trends, facts and findings
This year’s Food & Drink report provides a glimpse into how consumer habits shifted as we emerged from the pandemic
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NewsCity snapshot: Reckitt raises sales expectations as cold and flu sales rebound
Reckitt Benckiser has raised its full year revenue forecast after a stronger third quarter than expected as sales volumes and pricing both increased in the period. Plus, THG strenghtens board as third quarter growth slows.
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NewsMedia Bites 26 October: Just Eat Takeaway, HGV crisis, living wage, Tesco
A top investor of Just Eat Takeaway has launched another attack, urging the food delivery company to sell its recently acquired Grubhub to improve the group’s share price.
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NewsRustlers boosts plant-based range with ‘Meatless Maverick’ burger
The NPD is billed as mimicking the brand’s biggest-selling Quarter Pounder SKU
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NewsAllplants to use ‘record-breaking’ funding to scale up
Frozen vegan meals brand Allplants has announced plans to scale up further after securing a third record-breaking funding round
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NewsTetley to splash £2.5m on new marketing campaign
The campaign ‘celebrates the love we have for tea, and all the different ways that we enjoy it’, said Tetley
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NewsTesco commits to closing living wage gaps in its UK banana supply chain
Though half of its banana suppliers already paid a living wage to workers, the remainder had gaps ranging between 2% and 18%, Tesco said
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NewsHealthier doughnut brand Urban Legend closes first multimillion-pound fundraising
Urban Legend is the first brand to be launched by former Graze CEO Anthony Fletcher’s Believe in Science
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NewsFormer Sainsbury’s boss David Tyler joins retail tech startup Imagr
Imagr, which was founded four years ago, is a privately funded autonomous checkout startup
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NewsYeo Valley looks to tap desserts nostalgia with new ‘no fuss’ custard
The product goes on sale in Tesco this week and is made using just seven ingredients
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NewsReport criticises ‘health halo effect’ used to market HFSS products to teens
Campaign group Bite Back 2030 slammed ‘marketing tactics being employed by the food and drink industry to encourage teens to eat unhealthy products’
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NewsMedia Bites 25 October: Tesco, Beyond Meat, Sainsbury’s
Tesco has been hit by hackers, leaving thousands of frustrated shoppers unable to buy groceries online at Britain’s biggest supermarket
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NewsCity Snapshot: Tesco website back online after weekend cyber attack
Tesco has fixed the issues plaguing its website and app over the weekend, with the online service back up and running again today.
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NewsNestlé leads the pack of consumer giants growing despite inflation
Global fmcg players proved this week mounting inflation is not necessarily a barrier to growth, but warned that consumers will have to get used to higher prices
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NewsKanes Foods reports £12m pandemic hit but says sales have bounced back
Salad bowl and prepared veg supplier Kanes Foods suffered a £12m drop as the pandemic ravaged the food-to-go sector, but is now trading above pre-Covid levels
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NewsSimplyFresh pauses search for partner to replace Sainsbury’s
COO Michael O’Loughlin is to step down from the role later this year
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NewsCo-op joins carbon reduction campaign in run-up to COP26
Co-op has already pledged to become a net zero business by 2040
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NewsTesco partners with Faerch to launch PET recycling initiative
PET shelf-ready packaging is typically used once and downcycled into other non-food applications.
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NewsMorrisons, NFU and McDonald’s partner with Harper Adams for new sustainable farming school
The partnership has been described as a UK first and is designed to equip the food sector workforce with new skills to produce food more sustainably
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NewsIceland 100 drivers short as it heads into Christmas
Iceland recently revealed it had ordered 20% more frozen turkeys than usual after a spike in online