Archive of all news articles – Page 866
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Sales rise at Oscar Mayer but profits hit by escalating costs
UK Ready meals supplier Oscar Mayer grew sales by 5.7% last year to £320m but profits were hit by escalating input costs.
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Sainsbury’s bucks grocery’s inflationary trend with price cuts
Sainsbury’s was the only big four supermarket to cut its prices year on year in January as the overall grocery sector remains in mild inflation, with further inflationary pressures on the horizon.
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Alex Scott joins Diversity and Inclusion in Grocery conference lineup of speakers
Now in its second year, the event, at Wembley Stadium, will host about 800 people from 150 companies
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Tesco shuffles drinks buying team as John Wootton is promoted
John Wootton has been appointed as category buying manager in grocery after three years leading the wine team
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Superdrug and Savers apprenticeship enjoys record-breaking year with 500 candidates
The sister retailers say the completion rate hit 10% above the national average
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Naturelly highlights gut health with Juicy Jelly reformulation
Each 120g pot (rsp: 75p) now contains 3g of inulin, a dietary fibre made from chicory root
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Food companies lash out at ‘impossible’ salt reduction targets
Last week Public Health England revealed proposals that would require companies to slash the amount of salt in products
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Tesco to take more direct role in Booker buying process
The shake-up has been triggered by the retirement of Booker commercial director Andrew Thompson
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Butternut Box secures further £20m investment to accelerate growth
The latest investment takes the total raised by the DTC petfood business to over £40m since launching in 2016
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Reg Smith to join Noble Foods as agriculture director
Smith brings 30 years’ experience having held key roles at Atlantic Poultry and Faccenda Foods
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MSC to tighten rules around shark finning
It will introduce a new fishery certification process with more ‘stringent requirements’ to eliminate the practice
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Little Moons to hike production with new £3.5m London factory
The brand said the Park Royal site would allow it to make roughly 72 million mochi per year
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The Ethical Butcher launches ‘carbon negative’ DTC butchery service
The new website offers a variety of meat products reared using ‘regenerative’ methods of production
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City snapshot: Sainsbury’s prices fall but supermarket inflation persists
Sainsbury’s was the only big four supermarket to cut its prices year on year in January as the overall grocery sector remains in mild inflation.
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Media Bites 14 Feb: Nestlé, CBD regulation, Domino’s UK
The world’s largest food company is looking to to meat-free products to lift sales after missing its organic growth target.
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Deliveroo calls for freedom to pass on funds to address ‘chef shortage’
Source: HIT Training/Deliveroo Deliveroo has called on the government to let companies pass a bigger cut of their Apprenticeship Levy funds “down the supply chain” to tackle what it has called a “national chef shortage”. The food delivery company said it was lobbying government to “urgently ...
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Eustice replaces Villiers at Defra after cabinet reshuffle
The former farming minister’s promotion has been welvomed by food industry bodies
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PepsiCo’s annual sales rise on strong European performance
For 2020 the business expects revenues to rise 4%
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Aldi CEO Giles Hurley heaps pressure on suppliers over plastic
In a frank letter, Hurley warns that future buying decisions will be based on suppliers’ ability to adapt on packaging
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Spanish storms drive rocketing wholesale prices for lettuce
Storm Gloria buffeted coastal areas from Catalonia to Murcia over the weekend of 18-19 January