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2020 Meat Awards on schedule following product judging

Apr 22, 2020

The annual Meat Management Industry Awards, have reassured participants about organisational intentions for the dinner and ceremony this year. Judging was fully completed on time over a full week of activity at the Regional Food Academy within Harper Adams University...

Convenient food sales up as shoppers stock up on staples

Apr 21, 2020

One of Britain’s biggest food companies, Premier Foods, has revealed that sales for convenient products such as Super Noodles and Smash instant mash potato have increased as consumers stock up on cupboard items for lockdown. Premier Foods owns some of the largest food...

Record month for meat, fish and poultry as Covid-19 forces consumers to eat at home

Apr 21, 2020

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...

Waitrose outlines initiatives to support suppliers during pandemic

Apr 21, 2020

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...

Specialist cheese makers take action to survive

Apr 20, 2020

Britain's specialist cheesemakers and retailers have joined forces to urge the public to 'support small cheesemakers' as the coronavirus crisis threatens to wipe out the previously thriving industry. Revealing plans for the first ever British Cheese Weekender, the...

Dairy industry unites behind calls for urgent Government action to save sector

Apr 20, 2020

Appeals for urgent Government action to save the dairy industry have been backed by the entire supply chain, including UK farming unions, RABDF, Dairy UK and the Provision Trade Federation. The group has written to the Defra Secretary of State George Eustice to...

Feed the Nation campaign aims to put British workers on farms

Apr 20, 2020

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...