Latest Headlines – Page 981
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NewsHain Celestial under investor pressure for more sell-offs
There’s still been no confirmation of a Sky News report last week linking US food player Hain Celestial with a sale of its UK arm
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NewsGlobal food industry M&A deal activity drops in August
The total value of M&A deals in the global food industry has fallen in August, according to new research
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NewsM&S announces string of senior new hires to boost food business
The new recruits will report to food commercial director George Wright
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NewsCalum Melville faces probe into Bargain World links
Scotland’s insolvency service is investigating whether Melville breached the terms of an undischarged bankruptcy
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NewsLidl’s UK online launch will not be copy of current e-commerce models, says digital chief
The supermarket is expected to launch its first UK e-commerce operation next year
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NewsFruit & veg crops left to rot as seasonal labour shortages take effect
Growers suggested they had picked as little as half their crop
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NewsEntries now open for Chefs’ Choice Awards 2020
The deadline for entering the Chefs’ Choice Awards is Monday 11 November
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NewsP&H collapse and supply issues led to £17m loss for Costcutter
However CEO Darcy Willson-Rymer said he was ‘optimistic about 2020’
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NewsNew Zealand’s Cardrona Distillery debuts spirits into Waitrose
The brand takes its name from Mount Cardrona on New Zealand’s south island
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NewsCity snapshot: Valeo enters exclusive talks for Jacob’s UK business
The Grocer understainds that Valeo Foods has entered exclusive talks to acquire Jacob’s UK business
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NewsMedia Bites 11 Oct: Obesity, Recession Fears, Pound
The levels of severe obesity among children have risen to an all-time high, official figures have shown, with 4.4% of year six pupils in England needing medical help for their weight. The news comes just as the outgoing Chief Medical Officer, called for severe action to tackle ...
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NewsCoffee startup Minor Figures lands £7.5m to push into US market
London-based coffee products supplier Minor Figures has secured a £7.5m investment to underpin a push into the US market and widen UK retail distribution.
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NewsCarlsberg unveils duo of prototype paper beer bottles
The Danish brewing giant has created the bottles using sustainably sourced wood fibre
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NewsThornton’s Budgens launches 250 packaging-free lines
The new range will be unveiled at the Belsize Park Budgens store in North London on 23 October
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NewsPiccolo rolls out UK’s first bio-based babyfood pouches
Each pouch contains up to 80% of bio-sourced raw materials from renewable sources such as sugar beet and cane
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NewsSavile Row teams up with model David Gandy for gin launch
It is billed as a celebration of “Britain’s proud tailoring heritage”
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NewsWalkers Shortbread boss warns of challenges from US tariffs and Brexit
Brexit and the potential imposition of US tariffs on British goods were making business ‘very challenging’, said Jim Walker
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NewsJohn West sales down but profit hike reflects margin improvements
The decline was partly driven by a drop in the total canned fish market
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NewsBacardi adds Gran Reserva Diez golden rum to premium sipping lineup
It is the latest in a series of barrel-aged rums from the brand
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NewsSupermarkets sourcing tea from ‘inhumane’ Assam plantations, finds Oxfam
Interviews with workers on 50 tea plantations in Assam, India, found most had no access to clean drinking water