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UK convenience channel to be worth £48.2 billion by 2024
New forecasts from IGD reveal that the UK convenience market is set to grow by £6.9bn in the next five years, to reach £48.2bn by 2024. The channel will benefit from lots of new store openings over the period, helping to fuel a compound annual growth rate of 3.1%....
Seafood fraud putting consumers safety at risk
In the wake of a five-year-long bait-and-switch scheme in which a Virginia-based seafood company intentionally mislabelled crabmeat, Lloyd’s Register is calling for the seafood industry to do more to confront rogue behaviour. Casey’s Seafood imported 183 tons of...
A third of teachers lost on sources of food and farming info
A third (33%) of teachers do not know where to go for information on food, farming and healthy eating practices, according to YouGov research commissioned by AHDB. Teachers said that they were most likely to turn to organisations, which are not specialist in the area,...
New UK president of European Federation of Catering Equipment Manufacturers
The managing director of one of the UK’s leading food service and retail equipment suppliers, Victor Manufacturing, has been appointed as the new president of the European Federation of Catering Equipment Manufacturers (EFCEM) for the next two years. Phil Williams has...
Campaign reignites love of dairy
Eleven per cent more young parents are certain to buy dairy products according to research carried out after the second year of AHDB and Dairy UK’s marketing campaign. The study also showed an 8% fall in the number of people cutting their dairy consumption now or in...
Aldi trials new cardboard steak packaging to cut 240 tonnes of plastic each year
Aldi is trialling new cardboard steak packaging in a move that could see it cut more than 240 tonnes of plastic each year. From early September, the supermarket will sell its Specially Selected steaks in a cardboard tray, instead of plastic, across more than 380 UK...
Government must commit to keep Britain’s food self-sufficiency above 61%
The NFU is calling on government to make a strong commitment to British farming to ensure a secure supply of home-grown food for shoppers after new figures put the UK’s self-sufficiency at 61%. The call comes on the day the country would notionally have run out of...
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