Apr 21, 2020 | Coronavirus, News
With shoppers needing to cater for an additional 500 million meals a week, sales of meat, fish and poultry have been at an all-time high, according to the latest research from Kantar. £10.8 billion of grocery sales were recorded over the last four weeks, surpassing...
Apr 21, 2020 | Coronavirus, News, Retailing
Waitrose has announced a number of support initiatives for its most vulnerable suppliers during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Most notably the supermarket has unlocked £200k from the Waitrose Foundation Global Fund to support its overseas farming communities in...
Apr 20, 2020 | Coronavirus, News
International charity Concordia is looking to put thousands of Britons who have lost their jobs to the Covid-19 pandemic to work on farms across the country, despite workers being flown in from Romania. Sky News reported last week that a chartered flight of 150...
Apr 17, 2020 | Coronavirus, News, Retailing
GMB London and East of England, the union for logistics staff, is calling on the Co-op to extend its cash bonus of £100 to its outsourced logistics staff as well as its regular members of staff. The bonus is awarded to staff for coping with the massive surge in sales...
Apr 16, 2020 | Coronavirus, News
The Food and Drink Federation, along with other organisations within the UK supply chain, has published a letter calling on all Governments to ensure the continuation of critical imports and exports of food and drink during the ongoing pandemic. The statement, led by...
Apr 16, 2020 | Coronavirus, News
The GMB union’s recent call for the Government to meet with supermarkets and the FDF about food worker safety follows the story and video footage published by The Guardian newspaper, which was secretly filmed at a Bakkavor site. Food Management Today has decided...
