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NewsSouthern Co-op sets up fund for food banks with £5,000 donation
Sourthern said the grants would enable local groups to purchase essential equipment or cover running costs
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NewsEnglish supermarkets face backlash over non-essential items ban
Retailers were told to shut down mezzanine floors, standalone neighbouring buildings and concessions selling homeware, clothing and electronics
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NewsPlanet Organic launches nationwide fresh deliveries
Orders are picked by staff from the organic chain’s Westbourne Grove store in Notting Hill, with deliveries made by courier DPD
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NewsAldi rolling out click & collect to 200 stores by Christmas
It means customers across the UK will be able to order online from Aldi’s full grocery range and have their shopping brought out to their car
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NewsNestlé buys Mindful Chef to bulk up direct-to-consumer portfolio
Nestlé has acquired a majority stake in recipe kit business for an undisclosed sum to beef up its direct-to-consumer offering in the UK
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NewsCity snapshot: MPM snapped up by 3i Group in £125m deal
Premium pet food manufacturer MPM has been sold by ECI Partners to private equity investor 3i Group as the flurry of deals in the petcare space continues. Plus, Nestlé has acquired a majority stake in recipe kit business Mindful Chef for an undisclosed sum. And the FTSE 100 rallies after news of a victory for President-Elect Joe Biden.
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NewsMedia Bites 9 November: Brexit, Nestlé, Hovis, Tesco, M&S
The papers are fit to burst with news that Joe Biden was declared as the next President of the US after a protracted election. But there was still plenty going on in food and drink over the weekend.
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NewsSt Austell Brewery records £10m first-half loss
St Austell Brewery has plunged to a loss of £10m in the first half of 2020, despite record supermarket sales during the coronavirus pandemic. Total turnover collapsed by 90% when all 178 of its pubs and hotels were forced to close in March as the country went ...
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NewsScotmid Co-op opens butcher’s counter in new partnership
Family butcher S Collins & Son will open the counter in the Uddingston store
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NewsKilo yoghurt pot sales offset decline at Lancashire Farm
The Rochdale-headquartered dairy said retail volumes were up as much as 40% in March and April
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NewsPrice cuts drive Morrisons in to price deflation in latest Grocer Price Index survey
Morrisons’ latest price cuts have helped the supermarket into annual deflation
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NewsBooker under fire again for ‘misleading’ frozen beef labelling
Booker put the labelling down to ‘human error’
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NewsGlanbia shakes up SlimFast’s UK senior management team
The Irish group is integrating the weight-loss brand more fully into its nutrition performance division
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NewsWholesalers predict huge lockdown losses
Suppliers into foodservice are racing to redistribute perishable goods that were intended for restaurants, hotels and pubs.
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NewsReynolds ‘flexi-furloughs’ staff as English lockdown kicks in
Over the next month, more than 500 employees will work on a week on, week off basis across all 10 depots, which will stay open to aid social distancing
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NewsM&S to donate £2m to charity as part of celebrity-led Christmas campaign
The upmarket retailer has kicked off this year’s festive campaign with a minute-long ad voiced by actress Olivia Colman
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NewsSecond lockdown is ‘final nail in the coffin’ for hospitality supply chain
Industry leaders this week said the second lockdown would be the final nail in the coffin for many companies
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NewsTaylors of Harrogate looks to battle ‘coffee confusion’ with Especially For range
The range designed to “combat coffee confusion”
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NewsLockdown forces supermarkets to close standalone non-essential areas
Separate mezzanine floors, standalone neighbouring buildings and concessions selling non-essential items will be forced to shut down
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NewsJim Broadbent plays Santa Claus in Aldi Christmas ad
The ad picks up where Aldi’s Top Gun-style teaser ended, with Kevin the Carrot plummeting to Earth after falling out of a plane