Feb 26, 2020 | News, Retailing
Weetabix has restructured its manufacturing leadership team, introducing two new roles following the departure of Patrick Rigby as group operations director. John Petre, previously head of technical, has been promoted to the new position of supply chain and technical...
Feb 14, 2020 | News, Retailing
In the company’s annual report for 2019, Nestlé recorded its fastest organic growth since 2015 and posted its highest net profit in almost a decade. The world’s largest food manufacturer saw organic growth of 3.5%, supported by worldwide sales of Purina PetCare and...
Feb 14, 2020 | News, Retailing
A report by GlobalData suggests that the food and grocery market in the UK will be worth £174.5bn by 2024, with the ‘big four’ supermarkets set to lose out on a further £1.9bn of the total market. The company’s latest report, ‘UK: Food & Grocery 2019-2024’,...
Feb 13, 2020 | News, Retailing
Kepak’s Rustlers is partnering with Asda and other major food suppliers in a charity initiative which the company expects to result in over one million products being donated to FareShare, the nationwide food redistribution charity. The ‘You Buy One We Give One’...
Feb 12, 2020 | News, Retailing
Former Greencore director, Eoin Tonge, will be joining the board of Marks and Spencer as chief financial officer in June. Tonge replaces Humphrey Singer, who left M&S last September after the company was demoted from the FTSE 100. Formerly the chief strategy...
Feb 12, 2020 | News, Retailing
PizzaExpress has added to its UK and Irish leadership team by announcing Christian Haas as its new retail and product director. Leading a newly formed team, the pizzeria says Haas’ role has been created to bring additional cross-departmental synergies across product...