All The Grocer articles in 18 December 2021 – Page 5
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NewsInspired Pet Nutrition acquires Pet Food UK as it kicks off buy-and-build strategy
Inspired Pet Nutrition has snapped up Barking Heads dog food maker Pet Food UK as part of a buy-and-build strategy to create a player of significant scale in the category.
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NewsAlcohol-free brewery Drop Bear achieves B Corp status
The Swansea-based brand achieved a score of 83.9
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NewsMindful Chef claims category first by introducing carbon labels to its recipe kits
The labels would enable customers to select recipes which were in line with the WWF’s target of reducing dietary-related emissions, said Mindful Chef
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NewsAsda offering 10% Christmas discount to NHS and emergency service workers
The supermarket will take 10% off shopping bills over the Christmas period for holders of a ‘Blue Light Card’
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Comment & OpinionWhy we should be optimistic about the future of food
By leveraging science it is possible to create a sustainable future where food security is the benchmark and not the goal, says Abigail Stevenson of the Mars Advanced Research institute
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NewsMedia Bites 7 December: Tesco, Spar, Sainsbury’s, AG Barr, Boots
The risk that Tesco will be severely hit by strike action in the crucial pre-Christmas period has escalated dramatically, after the number of distribution centres facing staff walkouts more than tripled to 13 – more than half the total.
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NewsCity snapshot: Grocery sales fall back despite mounting price inflation
Grocery sales fell by 3.8% in the last 12 week period, according to Kantar, despite inflation rising to its highest level since June 2020.
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Feature SynopsisFocus On Ready Meals and Soups: 8 January
Soup makers are offering more functional benefits, new formats and more plant-based flavours. Is this the next generation of soups?
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NewsTesco facing industrial action at another nine DCs in run-up to Christmas
Usdaw members at the nine DCs are set to join Unite members already planning walkouts at another four
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NewsNuud wins £750k investment in funding round led by Candy Kittens founders
Jamie Laing and Ed Williams said they had been “immediately impressed with the strength of the Nuud brand”
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NewsCarlsberg Marston’s to close London Fields Brewery with view to sale
The move “in no way reflects upon the hard work and dedication” put into building the brand, said CMBC boss Paul Davies
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Feature SynopsisFocus On Jams, Spreads and Honey: 15 January
The lockdown surge in home-baking is over. So how can jams, spreads and honeys reinvent themselves?
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NewsBrothers Drinks brings Babycham back under control of Showering family
Cider producer Brothers Drinks has acquired iconic sparkling perry brand Babycham from current owner Accolade Wines for an undisclosed sum.
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NewsMcCain Foods acquires $55m minority stake in Strong Roots to drive growth and foodservice push
Strong Roots would continue to operate in an independent capacity, but McCain would work with it to ‘provide plant-based, environmentally responsible, positive food choices’, it said
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NewsCity Snapshot: McColl’s warns of continued supply chain disruption as revenues fall by £140m
McColl’s has warned it will continue to be hit by supply chain shortages as the c-store group revealed revenues tumbled 11.2% to £1.1bn in 2021. Plus, SSP sinks to another loss of more than £400m, and Nestle sells 4% of its L’Oreal holding.
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NewsMedia Bites 8 Dec: Strikes, Inflation, Booths
Asda has joined Tesco in facing the prospect of strike action ahead of the key Christmas trading season
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NewsMeatless Farm appoints Dior Decupper as first global CEO
Dior Decupper was formerly Upfield GM for Benelux and France
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NewsCrackd reformulates to make its vegan egg substitute ‘more eggy’
The original was designed with baking in mind, until ‘Instagrammers found out they could scramble it’
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NewsAldi CEO Giles Hurley reassures customers discounter will have plenty of Christmas supplies
It comes in a week of warnings strike action could lead to shortages at some other supermarkets
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NewsHeather Mills sells 25% stake in VBites to Intersnack owner Pfeifer & Langen
The €3bn-plus turnover conglomerate plans to use its might to accelerate growth of the plant-based cheeses and fish-free products part of Mills’ group