Editor’s Picks: EPR, Co-op chaos and Valentine’s Day

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They say breaking up is hard to do, and it seems that love is in the air over at Kraft Heinz as well, as the fmcg giant made the decision to call off its break-up in a pre-Valentine’s Day update.

It’s been another busy week on The Grocer!

The ongoing EPR fiasco has run and run, but it stepped up a level this week. On Monday, red-faced government packaging tax bosses warned food and drink companies may have to reissue new (higher) bills to fill a ’catastrophic’ shortfall to the tune of tens of millions. As chief reporter Ian Quinn so elegantly put it disasters don’t come much bigger than PackUK’s £1.4bn surprise.

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