Jun 13, 2018 | News, Retailing
Tesco has announced it wants to prevent a potential lemon shortage by putting a greener version of the fruit on its supermarket shelves. A lemon shortage in the UK has allegedly been caused by a significantly reduced end of season volume in Spain, which is where the...
Jun 12, 2018 | News, Retailing
Media reports over recent days are suggesting that food processing company Heinz is considering changing the name of its long-established Salad Cream product to a new brand name ‘Sandwich Cream’. Some years ago, the company was believed to be considering stopping...
Jun 11, 2018 | Ingredients, News, Retailing
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has begun an investigation after claims that traces of meat were found in food classified as vegan or vegetarian at two major supermarkets. The information comes after The Daily Telegraph claimed to have tested ten vegan and vegetarian...
Jun 11, 2018 | News, Retailing
The UK food and grocery market is forecast to grow by 15% between now and 2022, according to grocery research organisation IGD. IGD is predicting growth across all the major grocery channels, and forecasting that by 2020, one in every £7 will be spent at a discounter,...
Jun 8, 2018 | News, Retailing
Quorn has announced they will eliminate more than 297 tonnes of black plastic packaging from its supply chain by the end of June 2018. In a statement the company says this moves it one step closer to achieving 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by...
Jun 6, 2018 | News, Poultry Processing, Retailing
2 Sisters is opening its doors to the public to promote the poultry industry whilst recieving The Food Standards Agencys (FSA) six month review. This comes following the news in September 2017, where workers at 2 Sisters had allegedly tampered with slaughter dates to...
