The FMT Blog
Opinion, analysis and musings from the FMT editorial team and expert guest writers about the food processing and manufacturing sector.
Women In Meat Awards dinner and ceremony approaching
The countdown has begun to the inaugural Women In Meat Industry Awards ceremony and black tie dinner taking place at the five star Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington on Friday 16th November. The Women In Meat Industry Awards are being organised by the team behind the...
Aldi welcomes one million new customers
Aldi has announced ‘record’ results for its last financial year, with 1.1 million British shoppers reportedly swapping to the discount retailer. Sales in the UK and Ireland rose 16.4% to £10.2bn in the year to 31st December 2017 – a higher growth rate than the...
Sainsbury’s/Asda consultation enters second phase
The merger of Sainsbury's and Asda could damage supermarket competition in 463 areas, the competition watchdog has warned. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) believes there could be a ‘substantial lessening of competition’ if they were ‘insufficiently...
Chilled fish sees 180,000 more shoppers
Chilled fish is up, with 1.2 million more shopping baskets containing fish and 180,000 more consumers buying it year on year, according to the latest meat, fish and poultry market (MFP) update. The latest release from Kantar Worldpanel covering the 12 weeks to 9th...
No-deal Brexit could cost food industry £9.3 billion
Failing to reach a Brexit deal could cost food retailers and the supply chain £9.3 billion, according to a new Barclays Corporate Banking report. The new Barclays report, Scale, Disruption and Brexit – a new dawn for UK food supply chains? shows that in a no-deal...
UK food industry pledges to halve waste
Many of the UK’s largest food retailers, producers, manufacturers and foodservice companies have committed to milestones laid out in a new industry Food Waste Reduction Roadmap. This has been developed with Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) and Waste &...
Co-op bans single-use plastics
Co-op has announced an end to single-use plastic, seeing around 60 million plastic carrier bags removed in a phased rollout and replaced with an ‘environmentally-friendly’ alternative. The move is part of a new ethical strategy to be launched by the retailer, which...
No-deal Brexit plans updated by Government
An updated no-deal Brexit scenario list has been released, which includes information about food imports, food exports and producing and labelling. In the newly released ‘No-Deal’ Technical Notices, The Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has...
Food fraud an ongoing cost for sector
Reports show that food fraud could cost the food and drink industry up to £12 billion annually, with 72% of consumers believing there is an issue with fraud nationwide. The NFU Mutual Food Fraud Report holds responses from over 2,000 British consumers, and results...
Food and Drink Federation appoints chief operating officer
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has announced the appointment of Tim Rycroft to the role of chief operating officer (COO). Rycroft joined FDF in September 2015 as director of corporate affairs. In this new role, Rycroft will provide direct support to FDF chief...