All The Grocer articles in 15 June 2024 – Page 4
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News
Common Drinks raises six-figure funding to launch functional drinks range
Functional drinks startup Common has bagged a six-figure investment from a clutch of fmcg heavyweights as consumer demand for health-focused beverages continues to grow
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Comment & Opinion
What Waitrose’s posh meal kits say about its core target customer
Waitrose’s acquisition of posh meal kit delivery brand Dishpatch is the latest of its strategy to redefine its core customer base
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Comment & Opinion
Labour’s National Food Strategy aim is laudable, but will drive inflation
Henry Dimbleby’s recommendations should be broken down, prioritised and phased in over time, says David Sables of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Range Preview
Co-op summer 2024 range: global flavours and British BBQ
Co-op is taking the impulse shopper on a taste tour around the world
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Comment & Opinion
The UPF debate is giving mixed messages to industry and consumers
UPFs make it difficult to offer clear and easy-to-follow advice, says FDF CEO Karen Betts
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News
Guinness becomes official beer of the Premier League
The deal will run for four years from the 2024/25 season
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Heinz discontinues Vegan Salad Cream to meet ‘changing tastes’
The condiments giant used X to confirm the product had been pulled
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Booker offers retailers extra profit on tobacco lines in new scheme
Shop Locally Tobacco Club, retailers who sign up can access an additional 1% profit on return, equivalent to £1,000 a year
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RSPCA Assured insists welfare breaches are rare as it comes under fire
New footage from over 40 UK farms published by campaign group Animal Rising were described as ‘beyond barbaric’
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Category Report
Energy drinks trends 2024: Can Red Bull outrun Monster?
Energy drinks brands are racing ahead, with flavour innovation, festival appearances and keen pricing broadening their appeal
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News
BrewDog founder and former CEO James Watt backs Living Things soda
Watt would help scale the business and open export opportunities, Living Things said
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News
Adam Holmes appointed chief operating officer of The Range and Wilko
Holmes has joined The Range and Wilko from The Original Factory Shop, where he spent a year as retail director
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News
JLP to lodge appeal over delay to Waitrose buy to let property plans
The partnership will lodge a non-determination over delays to a planning application to build homes above a Waitrose in west Ealing
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News
Media Bites 12 June: supermarket bread, Diageo, BHS
Four major UK supermarkets accused of misleading ‘freshly baked’ bread claim
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News
Jonny Wilkinson’s drinks brand to relaunch under One Living name
It is the second-largest kombucha brand in UK retail
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News
City snapshot: Euro 2024 to net retailers a sales boost
Retailers are set to score a spending boost as Euro 2024 kicks off on Friday with Scotland taking on host nation Germany. Plus, losses widen at spirits group Distil
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News
Campaigners hail Labour plans to ban energy drinks to under 16s
Sales of drinks containing more than 150mg of caffeine per litre would be restricted under Labour’s proposals
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News
Tesco’s marketplace boosts SKU count by more than a third
The supermarket’s total online SKU count has risen from 28,018 to 38,070: an increase of 36%
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Comment & Opinion
As exports decline, what’s going wrong in the UK food trade?
Post-Brexit, why are we buying from some countries but not selling to them?
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News
FWD urges electoral candidates to reform apprenticeship levy ahead of election
The FWD is lobbying to change the scheme into a wider skills levy ahead of the general election