All Pay and jobs articles – Page 8
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Comment & Opinion
Budget is playing a dangerous game with food price inflation
You don’t need to be an economist to realise that this budget will perpetuate food price inflation and it might not even help
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Comment & Opinion
Employment Rights Bill: what do supermarkets need to know?
Changes around unfair dismissal, zero-hours contracts and trade union rights are most relevant for supermarket employers, says Liz Cotton, employment partner at law firm TLT
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Comment & Opinion
The budget has set the stage for a tough business environment
Many businesses will be counting the cost of the triple-whammy of higher National Insurance contributions, lower thresholds, and a whopping increase in the national living wage, says Ian Wright, co-chair of the Food & Drink Export Council
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News
‘Shafted’ farmers dismayed by budget tax hikes warn of price increases
Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first budget has been slammed by the farming sector for its ‘betrayal’ over tax hikes
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News
Ocado Group appoints tech veteran as new chair
Adam Warby was a founding member of the IT consulting and services Avanade Corporation and served as its CEO for 11 years
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News
Manilife invests £1m in new factory as a platform for growth
The new 13,500 sq ft site in Derbyshire – set to start production in the first quarter of 2025 – has capacity to store up to six billion peanuts, equating to 15 million jars of peanut butter
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Comment & Opinion
The budget proves food manufacturing has no government backing
We see no investment agenda from government on a bigger scale, says Andrew Keeble, co-founder at Heck
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News
Health app and gut shot brand Zoe staff facing further redundancies
The company confirmed to The Grocer it was “restructuring our teams at Zoe to continue on our ambitious mission of transforming the health of millions”
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News
Amazon grocery lead Tony Hoggett steps down
Hoggett said his time at Amazon had been “incredible” but “it’s time for the next step in my career”
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Profiles
My food & drink job: Francesca Harrison, marketing manager, Oato
‘Having a proactive and go-getting attitude is key, especially if you’re keen to go for challenger brands’
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News
Stuart Machin urges Chancellor not to raise taxes on business
The M&S chief said he hoped recent ‘rumours’ that Rachel Reeves planned to raise National Insurance were untrue
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News
JLM Global Foods seeks rescue deal as administration looms
The Grocer understands a pre-pack deal is potentially close to being secured
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Profiles
Dell’ Ugo CEO Sophia Cooke on musicals, Bangkok and Comic Sans
For National Pasta Day tomorrow, Sophie takes us on her journey from graduate fmcg buyer to watch buyer to fresh pasta brand CEO
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Profiles
My food & drink job: Freya Weston, senior assistant brand manager, Babybel
’Instead of a normal cover letter, I put my key achievements on to The Laughing Cow packaging as the header’
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Comment & Opinion
New Labour government losing goodwill gloss already
There are very few sacred cows Rachel Reeves is reportedly unwilling to slay in what she warned this week would be a “difficult” budget
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Analysis & Features
What’s in new workers’ rights bill and who should be worried?
It’s been hailed as the best news for workers in years, but it’s set to ban a number of industry practices and heap challenges on HR teams
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Interviews
How Steve Murrells is making Hilton ‘a great British success story’
Despite turnover of £4bn, Hilton Food Group has a low profile – and is primarily seen as a meat packer. Steve Murrells is on a mission to change all that
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News
Harlech Foodservice halfway to its five-year workforce expansion goal
The wholesaler has been able to offer new jobs thanks to contracts won across Wales and the Midlands
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Profiles
Saputo’s Christopher Owen on Sheese, kisses and compulsory pilates
The plant-based head of marketing for brands like Sheese and Cathedral City shares how he dreams of a Taylor Swift endorsement
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News
IGD veteran Nick Downing joins YF as business development head
Downing spent the past 23 years at IGD, where he was instrumental in expanding the organisation’s commercial arm as part of the executive team