Long reads – Page 135
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Analysis & FeaturesRetail consolidation is about to hit UK dairy hard. Which suppliers are most exposed?
Wherever you look the number of dairy industry customers is shrinking – and the prospect of supply consolidation looms large
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Analysis & FeaturesPackaging: can dairy really go plastic-free?
‘I can be honest, our biggest challenge on packaging to move out of plastics is milk bottles,’ Iceland MD Richard Walker told The Grocer in May
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Analysis & FeaturesSupermarket buyers: as the role changes, what next?
With creativity now well and truly superseded by data, what does a buyer look like in 2018?
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Analysis & FeaturesCan M&S's new celebrities win over young families?
Social focus and celebs like Amanda Holden and Rochelle Humes mark a shift in M&S’s marketing
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Analysis & FeaturesStreet food: the new trends shaping foodie culture
From Indian puchkas to Lebanese pastries, street food markets are changing the way the nation eats. Here’s our rundown of the top trends
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Analysis & Features10 robotic farmers working around the globe
New technology is tackling yield, productivity and labour shortages from every angle
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Analysis & FeaturesFive trends from the Speciality & Fine Food Fair 2018
Legs of serrano ham, cheese wheels and Lord Alan Sugar (not an eponymous new food but the man himself) were joined by innovative and on-trend new products at this year’s Speciality & Fine Food Fair at London’s Olympia
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InterviewsHotel Chocolat boss on starting out, 'Slabgate' and making up with Waitrose
The Hotel Chocolat founder has built a ‘long-term’ brand – and he’s not letting the supermarkets get their hands on it
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Analysis & FeaturesCan UK business capitalise on advances in lab-grown meat?
The Adam Smith Institute has urged UK businesses to invest to become world leaders
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Analysis & FeaturesDeskfast reinvented: The new wave of speed eaters
Time-pressed consumers have been eating their breakfast at work for years. But they’re now becoming pickier about how they start their day
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Analysis & FeaturesEurope faces tight wheat supply thanks to heatwave
Weetabix has confirmed it will be able to source all the wheat used in its products from local British farms…
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InterviewsRupert Thomas: innovating with Waitrose's development kitchen
Waitrose’s brand new development kitchen is double the size of its predecessor, and the retailer has big NPD plans
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Analysis & FeaturesFive reasons why Coca-Cola has bought Costa Coffee
Coke is to buy Costa Coffee from Whitbread for $5.1bn
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Analysis & FeaturesChocolate maker Elizabeth Shaw to make TV ad debut
The commercial will air on ITV1’s Meridian and East Anglia regions
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Analysis & FeaturesCan Brexit still deliver a fair deal for food & drink?
The government insists a ‘no deal’ is unlikely. But what happens to UK food and drink if it can’t deliver?
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Analysis & FeaturesWhitewashed: the race gap in food and drink, and how to close it
Why are some of the biggest names in fmcg continuing to drag their feet when it comes to race?
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Analysis & FeaturesLe Joli Sparkling Mexican Lime & Mint: acid test
Supermarket shoppers took home an extra 33.5 million litres of flavoured water last year
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InterviewsMeet the man that transformed Lidl's booze and he’s only just 30
Barely 30 years old and already heading up international wine & spirits for Lidl with a catalogue of big wins behind him. How has TNT alumni Ben Hulme done it?
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Analysis & FeaturesButter and cream prices on the rise following heatwave
The weather has led to poor grass growth with forage already in short supply
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Analysis & FeaturesHow will SodaStream deal add extra fizz to PepsiCo?
The $3.2bn takeover ticks key boxes on health and sustainability