Long reads – Page 3
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Analysis & FeaturesWill the food industry get behind Labour’s new National Food Strategy?
Can the new strategy achieve the great shift Reed has called for, or is the process doomed to failure from the start?
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Analysis & FeaturesFood, drink and fmcg’s best new launches of 2024
Each of the categories covered in our Top Products report features a Top Launch – the product most significant to its respective category in 2024
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InterviewsThe Wholesale Group MD Tom Gittins on becoming ‘the home of the independent wholesaler’
Confex and Fairway Foodservice have announced they will merge into The Wholesale Group in January 2025, in a move that has ‘shaken up’ the industry
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Analysis & FeaturesTop campaigns 2024: Who killed the traditional TV ad?
Research shows Brits are turning away from TV ads. Are smartphones or retail media responsible? Or is the victim not quite as dead as we thought?
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Analysis & FeaturesThe Big Book of Grocery: Top Products Survey 2024
It’s our most comprehensive report ever, measuring a record 127 categories and including grocery sales data from discounters Aldi and Lidl and online giant Amazon for the first time
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat challenges will farm shops and delis face in 2025?
Leading retailers, wholesalers and producers reveal the biggest challenges for independent food and drink in the coming year
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Analysis & FeaturesWhy the UK seasonal labour worker scheme still isn’t working
The Seasonal Worker scheme offers the UK’s growers access to 43,000 six-month visas. But the scheme is mired in controversy on every side
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InterviewsFrom puppy love to toilet talk: changing the Andrex conversation
Kimberly-Clark’s UK MD wants consumers to get comfortable with ‘intimate health’. He’s driving sustainability and innovation too
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Analysis & FeaturesNice idea: how sustainable rice farming can catch on
New techniques can lower ‘plane crazy’ CO2 emissions from rice
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Analysis & FeaturesWill the FSA really pass food safety responsibility on to supermarkets?
Underfunded local authorities are struggling to maintain food inspections. But plans to give responsibility to businesses face huge pushback
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Analysis & FeaturesHow new shelving solutions can prevent sweep theft
Retailers are investing record amounts in security measures to protect their business and staff from rising levels of theft
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Analysis & FeaturesThe battle for the best Christmas ad 2024: which ones impress our expert panel?
From a star-laden ‘crime scene’ to Kevin Carrot making boob jokes, this year’s ads are a varied bunch
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Analysis & FeaturesHow sustainability efforts in food are going up in flames
The clock is ticking on myriad climate targets, but progress appears to be stalling. As a swathe of senior sustainability leaders leave the industry, what can be done to reverse the damage?
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Analysis & FeaturesOatly, Asda and RSPCA hypocrisy: The Grocer’s unofficial review of 2024
The Grocer takes a look back over what hit the headlines this year – the highs, the lows and the downright ridiculous, in our 100% unofficial review of 2024
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InterviewsBelvoir Farm’s Pev Manners on Labour’s ‘thugs’
Farmer protests and the government’s EPR scheme are riling Belvoir Farm’s boss. But that hasn’t stopped him investing in his cordial empire
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Analysis & FeaturesCan Plastics Pact II do any better without legislation?
A broader ‘mark II’ is here – but some argue regulation is required
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Analysis & FeaturesHow to unlock the next generation of food workers
Younger generations don’t view food and drink as a desirable industry to work in. With an ageing workforce, and post-Brexit red tape pushing away foreign staff, how can it become attractive once more?
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InterviewsAlex Troughton: the ‘grocery addict’ driving Uber Eats
Uber Eats’ ‘bet’ to introduce grocery to its offering has paid off handsomely. Now it’s expanding its reach and experimenting with new picking models
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Analysis & FeaturesBack to earth with a bump, why did Little Moons factory fail?
In an ‘unusual situation’, the mochi maker has u-turned on plans to switch all its production to a new factory in Kettering, leaving staff angry
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Analysis & FeaturesAs Wales backs out, is there any hope left for a UK DRS?
Hopes DRS would be simpler under Labour have been shattered, as Wales’ withdrawal leaves drinks industry players ‘speechless’