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Waitrose launches new Good Health label

Jan 5, 2018

Waitrose has launched a new label which will be featured on hundreds of food products to make it easier for customers to identify nutritious food. The Good Health label shows on many of the supermarket’s own-brand products, from fresh produce, to store cupboard...

Colman’s site to close in Norwich after 160 years of operation

Jan 4, 2018

Unilever has announced that it is closing its Colman’s mustard facility in Norwich next year. The company has decided to move its mustard production to Burton on Trent, and some to Germany, with a new facility opening in Norwich for milling mustard seeds, co-run with...

Gove outlines post-Brexit farming funding and food policy

Jan 4, 2018

Environment Secretary Michael Gove has set out plans for the way farming subsidies will be funded and the food policy that Defra will be focusing to deliver after Brexit. Speaking at this year’s Oxford Farming Conference, Gove announced that the Government would...

Food industry deals that shaped 2017

Jan 4, 2018

Some of last year’s ‘most significant’ deals in the food industry have been identified by Catalyst Corporate Finance - the UK business of global investment banking firm Alantra. According to Catalyst’s data, mergers and acquisitions’ (M&A) volumes in the food and...

Compass Group pays tribute to CEO who died in plane crash

Jan 3, 2018

Richard Cousins, the chief executive of FTSE 100 foodservice firm Compass Group, and four members of his close family have died in a plane accident in Australia on 31st December. Cousins and his fiancée, magazine editor Emma Bowden, her 11-year-old daughter Heather,...

Fish volume and value still hit by inflation

Jan 3, 2018

Chilled fish continues to see the effects of inflation, with volume down 6.5% overall and value declining 1.3%, as shoppers made 5.3 million fewer trips to the category in the 12 weeks to the 3rd December, compared to 2016. According to the latest data from Kantar...

Food industry figures among New Year’s Honours recipients

Jan 3, 2018

Red Tractor Assurance’s founder and first ever chief executive, David Clarke, has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year’s Honours list 2018. Clarke, a founding member of Red Tractor Assurance and now retired, has been honoured...