City Food Lecture 2022 date is announced
The City Food Lecture celebrates its 21st anniversary as it returns to an in-person event on Thursday 17th February 2022.
City Food Lecture: “Grocery technology will become a driving force in customer loyalty”
The rapid adoption of technology will allow supermarkets to reduce food waste and drive ever greater customer loyalty, according to Mel Smith CBE, Ocado CEO and speaker at the 2021 City Food Lecture.
Ocado Retail CEO to be City Food lecturer for 2021
Organisers of the City Food Lecture have announced that the 2021 lecture will be given by Mel Smith, chief executive of Ocado Retail. Formed in August 2019, Ocado Retail is a 50-50 joint venture between M&S and Ocado Group which serves 350,000 households every...
Giving up meat won’t save the planet: City Food Lecture 2020
Professor Louise Fresco, the keynote speaker of this year’s City Food Lecture, claimed that giving up meat is not the answer to the climate change crisis, before calling for more to be done on tackling global food waste. As part of her lecture entitled ‘Fish nor...
