Daniel Woolfson
Daniel is The Grocer’s food and drink editor and is responsible for our product coverage across all categories.
Daniel has written about food and drink for the majority of his career: prior to joining The Grocer in 2017, Daniel covered food and drink news on pub industry title The Morning Advertiser, and wrote features for VICE magazine.
Follow Daniel on Twitter: @WoolfsonDrinks
Contact info
- Tel:
- 01293 610442
- Email:
- daniel.woolfson@thegrocer.co.uk
Analysis & FeaturesAs Fever-Tree’s shares fall, is the City over-reacting?
The mixer maker has spooked investors with news that its revenue growth will be lower than expected
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Enterprise Brands to bring Pvre long-life ready meals to the UK
The brand is manufactured by Belgian supplier Tops Foods, which uses globally patented microwave technology to pasteurise the meals
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Diageo’s Distill Ventures hires Gareth Bath as Europe MD
Bath, who stepped down from the helm of Curious Drinks in late December, will be based at Distill’s London office
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Halewood takes stake in craft vodka brand Vestal
Vestal, founded in 2011, is a traditional-style vodka made in Poland
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Sugar tax should cover pre-mixed alcoholic drinks, claims Action on Sugar
The campaign group said today it believed the category was ‘unnecessarily high in hidden sugar and calories’
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Non-alcoholic craft brewer Big Drop to seek £1m in crowdfunding
The brand claimed its turnover was ‘edging towards £1m in 2019’
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Tesco and Waitrose hike pesto prices as supply crisis deepens
Both supermarkets attributed the rises to price-matching activity, but other retailers haven’t hiked prices
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Australian brewer Lion creates UK craft beer division Little World Beverages
The move will see Lion’s Fourpure Brewing Co and Magic Rock managed by new division boss Gordon Treanor…
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Candy Kittens mulls legal move against ‘copycat’ Aldi
The sweets – which have not yet launched into Aldi – were discovered in the warehouse of one of Candy Kittens’ contract packers
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Pesto crisis: is the UK's recall system fit for purpose?
How did it take up to a month from the first warning signs of peanut contamination for products to be recalled?
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Haymans launches Symposium spirits distribution division
It will target “those who are no longer content to settle for ‘big-name’ brands”
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Yo Sushi lands deal with Sainsbury’s to stock pre-packed lines
The push has been enabled by Yo’s acquisition of Waitrose sushi supplier Taiko Food in 2018
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Kellogg’s launches no added sugar WK Kellogg range for children
The brand says it is ”targeting parents who can’t find what they are looking for in the cereal aisle”
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Saclà allergy fears raised 12 days prior to recall, tweets show
In a tweet to Saclà on 8 December, a shopper said his wife, who has a peanut allergy, had reacted twice to its pesto
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Pukka Pies cuts plastic and revamps recipes
The brand has ditched plastic windows from its pie boxes
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Sainsbury’s recalls own-label pestos amid peanut contamination fears
Supermarket pesto stocks have already been battered by market leader Saclá’s recall in December
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Carlsberg adds new alcohol-free Carlsberg Nordic lager
The 0.0% beer will roll out into Tesco in 300ml cans this week
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Sushi Daily ditches black plastic in packaging overhaul
They will initially roll out to the brand’s 90 Waitrose counters across the UK, with the rest of its counters across Europe to follow
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Magnum unveils ruby chocolate ice cream
Brand owner Uniliver plans to splash £5.5m on a marketing push for the launch.
