Features, reports and analysis
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Analysis & FeaturesTop Products Survey 2020: How Food Came Home
We teamed up with Nielsen to review the performance of the leading brands, and own label, in 108 categories, from alcoholic drinks to tobacco, via condoms, bleach, ready meals and, of course, toilet paper
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Analysis & Features
How Too Good to Go is fighting food waste on the front line
The food waste app hopes to triple the amount of meals it saves in the UK this year. So what is it doing to make that happen?
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Analysis & Features
The 30 biggest wholesalers in the UK 2021: the good, the bad and the ugly
It’s been a bloody battlefield for the wholesale sector in the pandemic. What’s happened and what’s the outlook?
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Analysis & Features
Why are supermarkets scrapping their dark stores?
Online demand is soaring, and in-store picking costs more per order. What’s going on?
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Analysis & Features
Will Biffa’s Company Shop buyout cut down on food waste?
Biffa says the deal will help create a circular economy, but there are tensions between commercial and charity redistributors
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My Food & Drink Job
My food & drink job: Ben Andrews, apprentice butcher, Farmison & Co
Ben joined Farmison & Co during the pandemic to help cope with ‘skyrocketing demand’
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Analysis & Features
Budget 2021: the industry reacts
As chancellor Rishi Sunak announces this year’s Budget, industry figures from retail, wholesale, hospitality and finance share their reactions
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Reports
Superloaf: 10 facts about Modern Baker’s new ‘smart bread’
Rolling out this month, the high-tech bread supports normal immune function
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Reports
Five fmcg brands that have used their influence to speak up for a cause
An increasing number of food and drink brands are taking a stand on political and social issues, here are five brands that are getting stuck in to the debate
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Analysis & Features
Can Wrap’s new household food waste campaign work?
Wrap is hoping Nadiya Hussain will have the ‘Attenborough effect’ for food waste in homes
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The Big Interview
Sebastian Munden interview: the Unilever ‘mini CEO’
Sebastian Munden talks vegan Baconnaise, smelly teens and green ads – and how all this work is connected by purpose
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Analysis & Features
How GroceryAid is helping workers get through the coronavirus crisis
Demand for support from GroceryAid has rocketed since the pandemic started – just as fundraising was hit. But it’s adapted, and risen to the challenge
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Analysis & Features
What Uber’s gig economy driver ruling means for online food delivery
A group of Uber drivers have won the right to be classed as workers. What are the implications?
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Reports
What the supermarkets are doing to tackle food poverty
During the first six months of the pandemic, 1.2 million food parcels distributed were distributed to vulnerable people in the UK and over 470k of them went to children
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Analysis & Features
How and why fmcg brands got political
With social media affording more space than ever before for food and drink brands to have a ‘voice’, an increasing number are speaking out on political issues. So what are the benefits – and how can it backfire?
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Analysis & Features
How the food industry is fighting childhood hunger
It took a Manchester United footballer to force the government to extend free school meals during the pandemic. The food industry has been just as eager to help – but how much can it change by itself?
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Range Preview
Supermarket Easter ranges 2021
Easter is on the way, here are all the latest Easter eggs, chocolate treats and hot cross buns launching into the supermarkets this year
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Range Preview
Range preview: Sainsbury’s Easter 2021
Spring is on the way and so are all the supermarket Easter goodies. Here’s what’s new to Sainsbury’s for this year
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My Food & Drink Job
My food & drink job: Alex Rodda, brand project manager, Rodda’s
Sixth-generation Rodda family member Alex has progressed through four roles in his three years at the company
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Analysis & Features
Five key takeaways from the NFU conference
The annual food producer’s conference took place on Tuesday (23 February)
