All analysis & features articles – Page 47
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Analysis & FeaturesEight household innovations helping Brits slash their environmental impact
As Brits look to reduce their impact on the planet, household brands are stepping up on sustainability. Here’s our pick of some of the best eco-friendly household product launches over the past 12 months
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Analysis & FeaturesIs Jack Monroe right about food inflation hitting the poorest hardest?
Jack Monroe sparked a media storm last week by showing it is budget items facing some of the biggest price hikes. Is she right?
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Analysis & FeaturesWhy is Princes setting its sights on the frozen aisle?
The canned foods giant has launched Street Food chicken kebabs
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat’s behind the rise of armed robberies in convenience stores?
Shop workers are being attacked, threatened, and even killed while on duty in convenience stores. Armed robberies cause untold damage. Yet they’re occurring with worrying regularity
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Analysis & FeaturesBodnant Welsh Food: Meeting the needs of locals and tourists
The Reynolds’ family farm shop was last year the Welsh regional winner in the Farm Shop & Deli Show Retailer Awards
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Analysis & FeaturesHow brands are marketing high-strength gins for Dry January
Intensely flavoured, high-strength gin designed to be served in small measures is an eye-catching trend to emerge from Dry January this year. Could it catch on as a means of more virtuous drinking?
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Analysis & FeaturesEight cereal innovations tapping into hunger for healthy breakfasts
Sales of natural and wholesome cereal and on-the-go cereal products climbed £2.3m last year. Here’s our pick of some of the best innovation to hit shelves over the past 12 months.
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Analysis & FeaturesHow will Defra’s alternative to CAP subsidies work?
George Eustice says three new initiatives will help boost biodiversity. But how will it affect food production and farmers’ bottom lines?
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Analysis & FeaturesBack to the drawing board: what does Unilever do now?
Its £50bn bid for GSK’s consumer healthcare business rejected, can Unilever’s under-pressure management restore City trust?
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Analysis & FeaturesAldi’s new ‘just walk out’ Greenwich store: what’s it like inside?
It’s the first UK discounter store letting customers simply pick up their shopping and leave, before billing them in an app. So what’s it like?
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat do the latest customs rules changes mean for farm shops and delis?
The change has prompted fears of increased costs, disruption and some EU food producers giving up on supplying into Britain
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Analysis & FeaturesNine vegan products launched by up-and-coming brands for Veganuary 2022
Some of these brands are nearing household name status with their ambitious launches
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Analysis & FeaturesBritain’s food & drink labour shortage: in numbers
The UK’s food and drink sector is battling a serious labour crisis. But which sectors are hardest hit by shortages and an ageing workforce? To find out, we analysed exclusive data from ONS
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Analysis & FeaturesWhere have the food industry’s workers gone?
In the past two years the food and drink industry’s labour market has been upended. What’s behind the struggle to find staff?
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Analysis & FeaturesHow did food redistribution charities cope with Christmas of Omicron?
The labour crisis paired with Omicron could have spelled disaster at Christmas. So how well did food redistribution levels hold up?
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Analysis & FeaturesWho were grocery’s big winners and losers of Christmas 2021?
The mults managed to keep spend flat compared with 2020 (though inflation played a part). Who got what they wished for and who’s hungover?
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Analysis & Features14 alcohol-free drinks launching for Dry January 2022
From spirits and cider to sparkling tea, there are plenty of new low & no booze drinks to choose from this Dry January
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Analysis & FeaturesHow traditional supplier commercial teams went stale
The more forward-thinking suppliers are emphasising the need for data literacy, even in the more traditional national account manager roles
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Analysis & FeaturesThe growing chasm between supermarkets and suppliers in grocery’s data race
In a world where data is power, supermarkets continue to strengthen their hand. How can suppliers keep up? And what’s at stake if they don’t?
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Analysis & FeaturesFood & drink in the stock market: who’s up and who’s down?
Covid, Brexit, labour shortages – plcs have had plenty to contend with. So how have stocks fared amid the turmoil?