Buying and supplying insight and analysis – Page 6
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Analysis and Features
Ethical labelling schemes: what's behind the label?
Will increased collaboration or competition help fix the problem of consumer confusion and trust issues?
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Analysis and Features
Two disruptive direct to consumer dairy brands we wish existed
We challenged two creative agencies to come up with new concepts that skip the supermarkets and disrupt the way people buy dairy in the UK
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Analysis and Features
Wageningen's white stuff: FrieslandCampina supplier profile
FrieslandCampina dominates UK dairy drinks with its Yazoo brand. Now it plans to use its innovation centre to expand into new categories
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Analysis and Features
Who needs cows? Why bio-engineered milk could be on sale soon
Somewhere in a lab in San Francisco, scientists at Perfect Day are making ‘real’ milk proteins from yeast, not cows
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Analysis and Features
Whey to go, guys: 10 innovations from the dairy industry this year
Dairy companies are using their insight and technological knowhow to tackle problems unique to their industry – and beyond.
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Comment and Opinion
Dairy UK's Judith Bryans on hopes and fears for the future
With Brexit, butter shortages and the boom in plant-based, it’s been a tough year for dairy, but Judith Bryans is optimist
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Analysis and Features
Booming EU supply set to deflate the price of sugar
EU sugar output will reach 19.5 million tonnes in the 2017/18 season
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Analysis and Features
Meal replacements: is this the future of food?
A cult movie about ‘plankton’-based wafers provided the name for what many have dubbed the future of food
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Comment and Opinion
Unhealthy food: time to get drastic on reformulation
Governments around the world are waking up to the time-bomb of obesity
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Comment and Opinion
Food industry faces mammoth reformulation task – but calorie focus represents a win
Already thoughts will be turning to just how companies can react to such a sweeping call for calorie reduction, even though the specific sector targets won’t be set until the middle of next year
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Analysis and Features
How many fmcg giants will join the B Corp bandwagon?
New research shows companies receive multiple benefits from signing up to B Corp. So why aren’t more businesses doing so?
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Analysis and Features
Instability in producer countries hikes price of crude oil
Crude oil prices rose to almost a three-year high in January, driven by instability in a number of producing countries
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Comment and Opinion
A blue tick for the MSC as it mends a hole in its net
Even the NGO’s own technical advisory board was said to have raised concerns over the bad PR created by the row
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Comment and Opinion
More Change4Life junk
Could there can be a sadder case of terminally atrophied eating advice than Change4Life’s children’s snacks campaign?
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Comment and Opinion
Can Dave Lewis really get suppliers to cut the price of healthier food?
Lewis accused suppliers in some cases of failing to do enough to tackle obesity by keeping their prices artificially high
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Analysis and Features
The Grocer Friday pub quiz - Top Products edition
With our annual Top Products survey just weeks away, The Grocer’s Friday pub quizzes test how much you know (or think you know) about the industry.
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Analysis and Features
Philadelphia Flip & Dip - Mexican Salsa: acid test
The chilled dips category is buoyant – worth £246m, having added 6.1% in value sales year on year
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Comment and Opinion
Image-conscious men are hunting out personal care brands they can show off
Male consumers are increasingly searching for personal care products that portray an image they can identify with
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Comment and Opinion
Supermarkets have the data to help shoppers eat healthily – but will they listen?
Many experts believe some public health measures are doomed to fail unless supermarkets start favouring products that are less calorific
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Analysis and Features
The WTO quota row: what it means for trade and Brexit
The UK-EU “breakthrough” on splitting TRQs has run into global trade heavyweight opposition…