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Golden Acre Foods brings South Asian Suhana spice mixes to Sainsbury’s
The partnership with Sainsbury’s was ‘just the start’ of Golden Acre’s strategy of importing a portfolio of famous South Asian brands into the UK, it said
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Only half of apple packs in major UK supermarkets are British, new data reveals
The data found that only one supermarket – Iceland – was selling 100% British packs in October and early November
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Lidl and Aldi go head to head with price matched Christmas dinner deals for six for £16.32
Both discounters have cut Christmas veg to 19p to hit the low price
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Rail strikes: ‘heavily disrupted’ Christmas to hit foodservice sales
One major foodservice wholesaler told The Grocer it expected to see a 10% decline in sales on strike days
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Crumbs Brewing brings in crowd cash to fight food waste
Sustainable beer maker Crumbs Brewing has hit a £150k crowdfunding target to back its growth plans and fight food waste with new product launches.
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Self-checkout supervisors overwhelmed and abused, report finds
As a result, close to two-thirds felt overwhelmed by the number of machines assigned, and said they could only cope when stores weren’t busy
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Dawn Meats to invest £90m in net zero climate commitment
The plan will cover the entire supply chain across Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and align with the UN Sustainable Development goals
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Mondelez makes low-calorie HFSS breakthrough on Cadbury favourites
Reduced sugar versions of Cadbury Crunchie, Double Decker, Fudge and Fry’s Turkish Delight could soon hit supermarket shelves
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City snapshot: Naked Wines turnaround takes shape despite fall into the red
Naked Wines has slipped to a loss in the first half but pointed to an improvement in underlying profitability as it embarks on a new strategy to turn the group’s performance around.
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Media Bites 7 Dec: Grocery market share, Asda, Farming/food shortages
The crisis engulfing Morrisons deepened as another slump in sales saw it lose ground to rivals such as Aldi and Lidl
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CapVest’s Second Nature Brands acquires Brownie Brittle
The international snacking group is looking to scale up in its domestic US market
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UK retailers claim COP27 soy deforestation roadmap is ‘inadequate’
The industry roadmap, launched during COP27 in Egypt last month, set out milestones to stop deforestation in soy supply chains by 2025
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Duppy Share Rum raises £2m to push UK growth
The business is forecasting 10% growth in the UK in the 2023 financial year and is aiming to gain a total of eight SKU listings across all the major mults by 2025.
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Iceland put 81 million more pieces of own-label plastic packaging on market in 2021
The frozen food retailer made a high-profile commitment in 2018 to eliminate plastic packaging from own-label ranges by the end of 2023
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Asda planning huge recruitment drive to staff new Express stores
Asda is looking to bring the Express concept and its value-led goods to more customers in convenient neighbourhood and residential settings
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Good Guys Bakehouse makes retail debut with savoury biscuit duo in Sainsbury’s
Weighing in at just five calories per ‘melt’, they are claimed to contain 50% less fat than regular savoury biscuits
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M&S calls for more government support for egg producers
More support is needed for farmers to manage cost pressures and avian flu from the industry and the government, according to the retailer
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Greggs opens 30th Outlet shop selling discounted day-old food
Greggs’ Outlet shops, which first launched in 1972, aim to help those on tight budgets, in socially deprived areas, while also reducing food waste
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Capreolus Fine Foods merges with Deli Farm Charcuterie
Production of the Deli Farm range will move to Capreolus’s site in West Dorset, where the team will continue to make products using Cornish meat
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British exports to EU recover to near pre-Covid levels in third quarter
UK food and drink exports increased 23.2% overall in the quarter from last year, with exports to the EU up 17.8%