Archive of all news articles – Page 418
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Bestway launches Galacticos recruitment strategy pushing high-profile retailers
The Grocer understands more of the industry’s leading lights have also agreed to switch over
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AF Blakemore planning rollout of Eat Some food-to-go concept
Group marketing director Sarah Ellis said shoppers were responding positively to the launch
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Asda DC staff express strong backing for industrial action
The GMB union said 95% of those who voted had said they were willing to take industrial action over what it called real terms pay cut
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Asda targets Home Bargains with new price match campaign
The Home Bargain Price Match includes more than 100 products, most of them non-food, including branded items such as Sure deodoran
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Waitrose drops threat of legal action against Asda over Just Essentials range
Waitrose has now decided not to pursue any further legal action after seeing Asda’s new range design
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Kinder Easter sales plunge after salmonella scare
Sales of Kinder’s Easter chocolates were down 58.9% over the four weeks to 16 April, compared with the respective Easter period last year
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Waitrose adds £16m to support package for its pig farmers
The retailer said the pledge would cover the full cost of rearing and producing pigs across its 250 supplying farms – including labour, feed, and fuel
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Bleiker’s Smokehouse under investigation for food fraud as it enters administration
The North Yorkshire-based smokehouse was previously a supplier of fish products to major UK supermarkets but it is now under investigation by the National Food Crime Unit
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Kabuto Noodles rebrands and gives core noodle pots non-HFSS reformulation
The brand said it planned ‘to change perceptions of the instant noodle category’ with its new-look range
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Huel appoints Emma Woods as independent non-executive director
Woods’ appointment was ‘another step in building a business with the experience and capabilities to support Huel in reaching its potential’, said Huel
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Turbulence hits edible oils markets after Indonesia’s latest palm oil u-turn
The South-East Asian archipelago supplies over half the world’s exports of palm oil
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City snapshot: AB InBev posts volume growth despite price hikes
The world’s largest brewer AB InBev has posted first quarter growth of 11.1% driven by price increases and volume recovery
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Media Bites 5 May: Just Eat Takeaway.com, Cost of living, Ocado
Shares in Just Eat Takeaway.com fell 7% on Wednesday after the company revealed it was investigating a complaint against one of its top executives and that its chair was stepping down
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FareShare opens new south west centre to help meet surplus food demand
The warehouse has been operating in trial mode since November 2021
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DRS will throw online deliveries into chaos, finds report
The decision to include online will mean supermarkets who have online services as well as stores will also have to take back empty containers
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Southern Co-op prepares new layouts for franchisees for upcoming HFSS laws
The society has so far supplied all those affected with copies of their store layouts for them to review
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Ocado executive pay policy survives investor revolt at AGM
Ocado today saw almost 30% of shareholders vote against an executive pay policy which could reward CEO Tim Steiner with £100m over the next five years
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Fisherman’s Friend owner pins hopes on NPD after sliding to £5.1m loss
The business said it was “fully committed to the future”
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Beavertown makes gluten-free beer debut with launch of Critical Mass
The 4.7% brew, called Critical Mass, is a dry-hopped IPA
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John Lewis Partnership to relaunch Rewards credit card programme
The financial service rewards customers with 1.25% back on every pound spent at John Lewis and Waitrose