All articles by Richard Ford – Page 49
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NewsTesco unveils new book to help boost fruit sales
Tesco is hoping to nudge people to eat more fruit and boost its own fresh produce sales with a new book featuring recipes and buying tips. All You Want To Know About Fruit launches into Tesco superstores and Extra stores next week,...
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NewsMackerel sales boom as Hugh effect kicks in
Mackerel sales at the mults have soared 14% in the five months since Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall launched Mission Mackerel to get consumers eating more of the fish, The Grocer can exclusively reveal. The figures come as retailers and…
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NewsNew JN Dairies strategy turns around its fortunes
JN Dairies is back in the black thanks to a new strategy that saw it bounce back from a loss of more than £500,000. The company, a major dairy wholesaler supplying the middle-ground market in the Midlands, reported a loss of £584,569...
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NewsNew Lurpak variant gets olive oil infusion
Arla is extending Lurpak – it's biggest UK brand – into the spreadable olive oil market.
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Analysis & FeaturesThe Common Fisheries Policy: 10 answers to key questions
Discards may have dominated the debate on Common Fisheries Policy reform, but there’s far more at stake for retailers and suppliers. Richard Ford reports
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Mixed reactions in UK to EU fisheries reform
The UK fishing industry is split over the EU's blueprint for its future fisheries policy, after long-awaited proposals on the Common Fisheries Policy were unveiled earlier this week. A central tenet of the proposed reforms is the EC's...
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ProfilesRiverford MD Slatter hands over reins to ops director Haward
Rob Haward has been appointed Riverford Organic's new MD and will take over from Jack Slatter in the autumn, The Grocer can reveal. Hayward is currently operations director and has already started taking on some of Slatter's...
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NewsThe new snack cheese aimed purely at adults
Regional cheese supplier Bridgehead Food Partners is to take on the likes of Cathedral City and Babybel with the launch of a new range of on-the-go adult snacking cheeses. The Chunky Cheese Co. snacks come in four variants: Tangy Mature…
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NewsWorld Flowers closure followed a £4.4m loss
Retailer price pressure, cold weather in Kenya and disruption caused by last year’s ash cloud culminated in World Flowers posting a £4.4m loss before it ceased trading on 2 May 2011, The Grocer can reveal. World Flowers was a major…
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Kerry to buy Cargill flavours business
Kerry Group is in exclusive talks to acquire the global flavours business of Cargill.
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NewsMedina takes Watsons brand into new arenas
Competition in the fiercely fought-over dairy middle ground is set to intensify as Medina Dairy extends its Watsons brand to cheese and butter and ramps up its non-dairy offering. Last year, sales of Watsons branded products soared...
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Fishing commissioner angles for new labels
With the dialogue on wasteful fish discards well underway, Maria Damanaki has set her sights on country of origin labelling of seafood as the new frontier for an improved seafood supply chain. At present, there is no requirement to...
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Sweet Sensation pears to appear in UK orchards
UK pear growers will soon be in a position to tap into the premium market for Sweet Sensation pears the pear market’s equivalent to Pink Lady apples for the first time.
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British top fruit escapes frost largely unscathed
As vegetable and cereal growers brace themselves for a summer of potentially devastating drought, there is good news for British fruit growers, who have confounded predictions that frosts earlier this year would devastate Britain's orchard fruit...
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Asda scores a first with Pakistani mangoes deal
Asda is to become the first major retailer to offer highly coveted Pakistani mangoes to shoppers.
In a major coup for its direct sourcing arm, IPL, the retailer will be selling the mangoes in 20 to 30 of its best-performing ethnic stores…. -
NewsSeafish seals Supreme Court victory in landmark levy case
The UK’s seafood giants have urged Seafish to reform and re-focus after the body’s future was secured in the Supreme Court. Seafish won a landmark victory in the case – brought by British Seafood subsidiary Bloomsbury International – against it for charging a levy on imported fish under the auspices ...
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NewsArdo urges provenance push for frozen pea lines
East Anglian pea growers dropped by Birds Eye last year are set to fight back this summer with a provenance-based on-pack and social media campaign. Own-label frozen vegetable supplier Ardo, which struck a deal with The Anglian Pea...
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NewsArla megadairy gets first ACRID whiff of opposition
The campaign to stop Arla's proposed £150m Aylesbury dairy has officially kicked off amid rising concerns about the impact it could have on traffic and transport infrastructure. Last week, Aylesbury Chiltern Resistance to Inappropriate...
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‘Super-welfare’ eggs set to make UK debut
A new egg production system from the Netherlands that is claimed to produce eggs to higher animal welfare standards than organic and free-range could soon be coming to the UK. Rondeel eggs come in packs of seven and are produced in a...
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NewsGraham’s launches first spreadable Scots butter
Scotland is to get its first spreadable butter courtesy of Graham's The Family Dairy. Scottish Spreadable Butter will be produced at Graham's new £1.2m butter facility officially opened this week at the company's Airthrey Kerse farm...