Aldi has been defeated by drinks company Thatchers in a legal battle over a copycat cloudy lemon cider (Telegraph). In a ruling from the Court of Appeal, Aldi was found to have infringed trademark rights by designing an own label cider that would remind customers of a rival product from Thatchers (BBC). The story was reported first by The Grocer yesterday.
Morrisons has taken out a High Court injunction preventing anyone from protesting at its sites. It comes after dozens of farmers angry at inheritance tax reforms and food prices blocked roads outside the supermarket’s distribution depot in Bridgewater, Somerset, on 10 January (Sky News).
The EC intends to propose a ban on the use of PFAS, or “forever chemicals” that do not break down in the environment, in consumer products such as cosmetics, with exemptions for essential industrial uses (Reuters).
Simon Opher MP, a practicing GP, is demanding tougher restrictions on unhealthy food, calling for a new tax on goods with high salt and sugar to “turn the industry on its head”.
Sterling yesterday enjoyed its biggest one-day gain against the dollar in more than a year, rising as much as 1.1% to $1.23 as new US president Donal Trump’s threat to impose trade tariffs from “day one” was delayed (Times).
The hospitality industry will incur an extra £1bn of costs for 774,000 workers newly eligible for employer national insurance contributions from April, endangering jobs and businesses, industry body UKHospitality has claimed (Guardian).
Electronic shelf labels, returns machines, robot bag packers and yet more self-service tills: just some of the many technologies that UK retailers are embracing as they try to solve the problem of rising labour costs (Guardian).
Work-life balance has soared in importance for workers around the world, becoming their top motivator and pushing pay into second place, according to an annual international survey of thousands of employees (Guardian).
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