All OC&C150 Suppliers articles
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Analysis & Features
The Top 150 UK Food & Drink Supplier Rankings & Report 2024
Almost half the UK’s 150 biggest food and drink manufacturers increased sales by 10% or more in 2023 – but margins are still being squeezed. What next for the ‘recovery phase’?
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News
City snapshot: Branded growth outpaces cheaper own label - OC&C 150
Sales at the biggest 25 branded players in UK fmcg increased by almost a fifth in 2023 as new analysis by OC&C revealed that Britain’s largest food brands held back competition from cheaper own-label alternatives
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News
Top 150 food and drink brands fight off own-label challenge
Revenues at the UK’s top 25 branded companies grew 19% in 2023, ahead of a grocery average of 9.3%, O&C analysis of the top 150 UK food & drink suppliers found
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Comment & Opinion
Food and drink supplier profit margins below 4%? Now that’s unsustainable
The Grocer OC&C 150 charts an alarming decline in food and drink profit margins
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Analysis & Features
How Britain’s 150 biggest food and drink suppliers are faring
Big or small, own-label or branded, the UK’s food and drink suppliers are struggling to balance cost inflation recovery with volume and share, finds the OC&C 150 report
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Reports
OC&C 150 supplier rankings 2022: How to get M&A deals flowing again
The post-Covid recovery in dealflows in 2021 saw Top 150 M&A volumes jump to 24 from just 13 in the previous year
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Rankings
OC&C 150 supplier rankings 2022: Opportunities remain in exports
Despite the strong growth in post-Covid domestic sales, the Top 150’s international sales outstripped UK growth
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Reports
Five top performers in the OC&C 150 supplier rankings
The world’s largest food group grew its UK business last year
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Analysis & Features
The Big Squeeze: OC&C 150 supplier rankings 2022
Britain’s biggest suppliers are already squeezed by soaring inflation. Now with tax rises and a recession on the way, it’s unlikely to get any easier
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Analysis & Features
OC&C 150 rankings: how the UK’s Top 150 food & drink suppliers fared in the pandemic
Some thrived, some lagged behind, but there’s more hurdles to come for the UK’s Top 150 food & drink suppliers
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Analysis & Features
The true cost of upheaval: the OC&C Top 150 Supplier Index 2020 report
Suppliers are counting their costs as coronavirus, recession and Brexit are offset against one another
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News
Top 150 UK suppliers see sales top £70bn
The OC&C Top 150 report of the UK’s biggest food and drink producers found total aggregate revenues rose by 1.9% in 2019 to a collective £70.3bn
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News
OC&C Top 150 reveals fall in food and drink growth and profits
Sales growth and profit margins declined across the UK’s largest 150 food and drink suppliers as the industry readies itself for a no-deal Brexit.
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News
OC&C Top 150 reveals fall in food and drink growth and profits
Profit margins have declined across the UK as the industry prepares for Brexit
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Analysis & Features
OC&C: How the UK’s Top 150 Food & Drink Suppliers are faring in the fog of Brexit
We analyse OC&C’s Top 150 Index of Food and Drink Suppliers in a special report
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Analysis & Features
OC&C Top 150 2018: On the edge
No sooner has the industry’s growth engine finally spluttered into life, than suppliers find themselves hurtling towards a potential no-deal Brexit
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News
OC&C report reveals highest supplier growth since 2009
Profit margins among the Top 150 are suffering amid escalating input and labour costs
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Analysis & Features
The looming labour crisis: OC&C top 150 index 2017
Growth of the Top 150 UK food producers, already at a 15-year low, has been in short supply
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Analysis & Features
The Grocer/OC&C Top 150 2016: a fertile landscape post Brexit?
It had become a “picture of attrition” for The Grocer/OC&C Top 150 suppliers before the Brexit vote
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News
Raging deflation leads to OC&C 150 sales slump
The supermarket price war and the slump in commodity prices have resulted in sales falling