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 &...
