All Supply Chain articles
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Promotional FeaturesRisk vs reward: how brands and retailers can grow without the gamble in 2025
As the food and drink industry moves into 2025, brands and retailers continue to weigh up the opportunities afforded by innovation alongside maintaining a positive sales performance – and it’s a tricky balance to achieve. Discover why careful deliberation and the use of data and technology are vital to ensure sustainable growth.
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InterviewsHow Nicola Robinson’s food sourcing alliance is taking shape
Alliance Food Sourcing wants to revolutionise surplus food collection. So what’s the plan?
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Comment & OpinionWhy farms are the next big frontier for food waste
Greater intervention is needed to tackle the levels of edible food surplus that go to waste on our farms, says Kris Gibbon-Walsh, CEO at FareShare
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NewsMost egg shoppers would leave a shop to buy cage-free option
The study found that 61% of adults would either go elsewhere or refuse to buy eggs altogether if eggs from cage-free hens were not available
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NewsSainsbury’s to power 30 HGVs using food waste in new ‘circular’ biofuel trial
The supermarket has partnered with RenEco for the circular trial, which will convert food waste into biofuel
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NewsSupermarkets see red over Defra’s new traffic light recycling system
The Grocer understands Defra has told businesses it will now produce a new version of the RAM, which it hopes to have ready by the spring
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NewsUK retailers named and shamed as agri-food sector dubbed worst for migrant worker abuse
Companies including M&S, Waitrose, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo were all involved in labour exploitation incidents, according to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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NewsCivil unrest in 2024 affected one in four businesses
Retailers and shop owners are still reeling from a series of protests and riots that took place across the UK last year
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Analysis & FeaturesFuture-proofed food: commodities battle climate change and crop disease
As climate change and disease make crops less predictable, scientists are making contingency plans: cultivating new varietals, battling bugs and pioneering new growing techniques
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NewsFoie gras import ban may be at risk, animal campaigners warn
Charities have warned there could be negative impacts for animals under the Labour Party’s promised veterinary agreement with the EU
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NewsRSPCA welcomes new UK government procurement policy as a ‘good start’
The organisation said it hoped it would pave the way for improvements to UK Government Buying Standards to ensure food provided in hospitals and schools was produced to higher animal welfare standards
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NewsCocoa-free chocolate brand ChoViva makes UK debut with Aldi tie-up
The NPD has hit shelves under the discounter’s private label Dairyfine
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NewsSeasonal workers seeking help rose by 72% in 2024, new report finds
The charity launched its annual report today, which revealed it had supported 697 people in 2024 in relation to seasonal agricultural work
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NewsFruit & veg set to become pricier due to new border fees
Post-Brexit checks on EU goods has resulted in increased inspections for the government’s Animal & Plant Health Agency
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NewsSelect & Save switches supply from Bestway to Booker in new five-year deal
The symbol group entered into a five-year agreement with the wholesale giant last month
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Comment & OpinionWill the National Food Strategy’s ‘experts’ succeed in creating economic growth?
Within the next two years, the government expects this group to tackle issues such as the obesity crisis, the race to net zero, food security and turbocharging growth in the food sector
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NewsEgg prices up by almost 20% since start of year with more rises to come
Of the 174 shell egg lines in the traditional big four, the discounters and Waitrose, some 40 have increased in price since w/e 5 January
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NewsWales holding firm on refusal to be part of UK-wide DRS
Supermarket bosses claim Wales’ decision will cause cross-border chaos and have called for the UK DRS rollout to be delayed as a result
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NewsScottish salmon exports hit record high with significant growth in Asia
These export numbers show an increase of 45% compared to previous years with the previous record set in 2019 at £618m
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NewsScottish salmon farming industry employs greenwashing tactics, new report finds
None of the companies involved are operating in a way which adequately protects both fish welfare and the environment, the report said