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Analysis & Features
Why the Windsor Framework isn’t delivering for GB-NI trade
A year in, the Windsor Framework’s green and red lanes aren’t cutting red tape for GB-NI trade as intended, say experts. And it’s about to get worse
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News
Food Strategy exclusive: we must turn Dimbleby’s junk food cycle into growth, says minister
Chairing the first meeting of the new Food Strategy Advisory Board (FSAB) yesterday, food security minister Daniel Zeichner vowed Labour would provide the cross-government backing needed to make the new strategy succeed
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News
Row erupts over report claiming supermarkets ‘dump’ food waste on charities
Several food redistribution organisations vehemently dispute some of the report’s findings
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Comment & Opinion
Spring statement 2025: no crumbs of comfort for food businesses
Today’s statement was never going to be a game-changer – but as inflation begins to fall, can the food industry and retail find a silver lining?
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News
Morrisons chief Rami Baitiéh to find £300m extra savings despite Q1 sales rise
The supermarket today revealed group like-for-like sales were up 2.4 % to £4bn in the first quarter, covering the 13-week period ending 26 January
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Comment & Opinion
Scotch must diversify to dodge Trump tariff threat
Scotch whisky producers must move now to protect their US market, says William Wemyss, founder and chairman, Wemyss Family Spirits
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News
Supermarkets accused of dumping inedible food waste on charities
New research claims supermarkets are offloading food waste onto charities, who are being deluged with rotten food and left to foot the bill for disposal
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News
National Food Strategy panel of expert members revealed
The group is being billed as instrumental in building a ‘coalition’ between the food industry and ministers aimed at tackling the obesity crisis, increasing the nation’s food security and putting growth at the heart of government food policies
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News
SFI closure ‘crushes all trust’ in Defra, farmers warn
The post-CAP subsidy scheme was closed at short-notice by the government last week
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Junk food ad ban facing ‘multiple’ legal challenges as ministers refuse law rewrite
Karen Betts told The Grocer this week that the industry was still in the dark about key details of what ads faced being outlawed
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Comment & Opinion
Labour must double down and make reusable packaging mainstream
Labour promised a zero-waste economy - reuse and refill is a sure-fire way of cutting plastic pollution at source, says City to Sea CEO Jane Martin
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News
Shoppers back ban on supermarket fruit & veg packaging
Plans to ban supermarkets from using plastic packaging across a large swathe of fruit & veg products have overwhelming support from the public
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News
Media Bites 17 March: recession fears, Sainsbury’s boss on WFH, Reeves to cut red tape
Thinktank The Resolution Foundation warns Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to ’break her own fiscal rules’
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News
Farming confidence falls to all-time low, NFU survey finds
Farmer short-term confidence decreased by 10 points to –35 compared to –25 last year, and mid-term confidence has fallen even further from –22 to –38
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News
Packaging: hotline set up to report EPR ‘freeriders’
The Environment Agency told The Grocer it had already taken action against more than 1,000 companies in the last five months to bring them into compliance
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News
Food and drink companies face massive fines under new greenwashing probe
The sector is on a state of high alert after the CMA this week announced it would put consumer rights and prosecution of unfair activities ‘front and centre’ in the new Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act
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News
UK ‘won’t hesitate to respond’ to Trump tariffs as EU hits back at US bourbon
The EU is launching a tough retaliatory tariffs package on US goods, while the UK is keeping a ‘pragmatic’ stance
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News
Farmers outraged as key sustainable farming subsidy closed at short notice
The farming sector has been blindsided by the announcement to close applications to the Sustainable Farming Incentive
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Analysis & Features
Is diversity, equity & inclusion dead?
Donald Trump’s anti-DEI drive is making waves in business, with several US companies rolling back on progressive policies. How much is the impact being felt over here? Will the movement be derailed?
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News
China and Canada target US agrifoods as Trump unleashes tariffs
Booze, orange juice and soy are among the American food products suffering from retaliatory tariffs