Long reads – Page 41
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Analysis & Features
The plastic tax is failing just three months after launch. How can it be revived?
A world-leading counter to plastic pollution or a ‘shambolic’ policy with burdensome red tape? It only launched in April, but already the plastics tax is under fire
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Analysis & Features
Why is Kellogg’s splitting in three and will it work?
Kellogg’s announced a shock split of its business last week, spinning out North American cereals to focus on its higher-growth snacking brands
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Analysis & Features
UK food inflation vs the rest of the world: how Britain compares
UK food inflation has hit 8.6% – but closer to Russia it is over 20%
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Analysis & Features
Podback pioneers a new way to recycle
It’s an expensive exercise, but with all businesses soon to bear the cost of recycling, will it catch on?
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Analysis & Features
Innovations in strawberries & cream, plus more products celebrating Wimbledon
Britvic’s Robinsons has ditched its sponsorship of the Wimbledon Open after 86 years, but new products are popping up left and right to celebrate the return of the iconic summer tournament
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Analysis & Features
How The Cheese Lady’s shop dazzled customers and awards judges alike
The Scottish specialist cheese shop that became a Farm Shop & Deli Show Retail Award winner
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Analysis & Features
New York Fancy Food Show 2022: top 10 emerging food trends
From mushroom crisps to collagen bars, The Brand Nursery director Chris Blythe rounds up the key points of interest
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Analysis & Features
Premier’s ‘Latest Thinking’ in convenience: inside Mandeep Singh’s store in Sheffield
A week after Premier’s Grocer Gold win for Symbol Retailer of the Year, we take a look inside the flagship store
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Analysis & Features
Who, what, why and when? 10 charts that explain UK attitudes to RTD coffee
Sales of RTD coffee declined during lockdowns, but as it recovers, what type of shopper is most likely to buy it, where – and at what frequency? How important is price? And how have preferences for plant-based products and eco-friendly packaging made an impact?
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Analysis & Features
Which food commodity prices are still rising and how high can they go?
Costs of production could hinge on energy supplies as concerns grow about winter gas rationing in Europe
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Analysis & Features
Why Mars vegan chocolate is disappearing from the major mults
Mars insists its chocolates should be ranged in the free-from aisle, despite being unable to label its chocolate ‘100% dairy-free’
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Analysis & Features
Can government’s new strategy help boost UK food production?
Government wants to up UK output – but workers remain lacking
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Analysis & Features
What does government’s NFS response mean for future food policy?
It’s not so much a white paper as simply ‘a list of policies’. But the government response to Henry Dimbleby’s work sets out a direction of travel
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Analysis & Features
Grocer Gold Awards 2022: the winners
We run down all the winners and finalists from last night’s Grocer Gold Awards ceremony
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Analysis & Features
What it meant to become the first female Grocer Gold Store Manager of the Year
Joanne Bennett-McNally has been with Morrisons since, joining as a store manager after 13 years with Tesco
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Analysis & Features
NI Protocol changes: how has the industry reacted to government’s Brexit u-turn?
While not ideal, the Northern Ireland Protocol is preferable to a trade war, most say
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Analysis & Features
The journey that led to winning Grocer Gold Factory Manager of the Year
It all started in 1984 when Brian Jones found a job with United Biscuis after leaving school with no qualifications
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Analysis & Features
The Mad Men inside supermarkets
Supermarkets are no longer just about food. With some of the best customer data at their fingertips, they want to sell you advertising too
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Analysis & Features
Is the UK moving too fast in introducing gene editing tech?
A new bill is designed to make GE innovation easier, but some campaign groups are concerned the government hasn’t considered all the cons
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Interviews
Tim Smith on the UK’s Trade and Agriculture Commission, intervention and food standards
As chair of the Commission, Tim Smith advised on food’s role in Britain’s future trade deals. Did anyone listen? It remains to be seen