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Long reads
Meet the top 10 women shaking up supply chain
Supply chain is a male-dominated area, with women making up just 7% of workers – and even fewer in senior roles. Meet the resourceful women shaking up the sector
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News
The Sidemen partners New World Foods to launch meat snacking range
The flavours in the range are inspired by the sauces available from The Sidemen’s chain of fried chicken shops
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Tyrrells rolls out 25% recycled plastic crisps packs
Tyrrells owner KP Snacks claims to have removed 1,100 tonnes of plastic packaging across its portfolio over the past decade
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Peperami launches Tapas sticks, inspired by Spanish charcuterie
They will roll into retailers in April
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Tesco and M&S catch heat for failing to disclose cocoa supply chains data
The annual Chocolate Scoreboard ranks cocoa buyers on issues such as child labour, deforestation and supply chain transparency
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Village Bakery set to command £160m price tag as PE owner explores exit
Village Bakery is seeking new owners, with its private equity backer having tasked bankers with running an auction for the premium private-label bread maker
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Free-from brand Crave launches peanut-free take on peanut butter
The spread is made from roasted sunflower seeds
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Shicken wins further multimillion backing from Matthew Glover’s Veg Capital
The brand will use the £4m cash injection to scale up manufacturing capacity and ‘realise the global potential of its restaurant-quality range’
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Hovis turnaround picks up under new management team
Hovis has made big strides in its turnaround as significant price hikes helped boost revenues and profitability
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Little Moons hires Graze boss Joanna Allen as new CEO
Ice cream challenger Little Moons has appointed industry heavyweight Joanna Allen as its new CEO to fill the vacant position left by the surprise exit of Mike Hedges last month, The Grocer can reveal
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Birds Eye adds trio of frozen pasta meals to Steamfresh lineup
The innovations responded to ‘high consumer demand for convenient, easy-to-cook, tasty and nutritious meals’, said Birds Eye
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Range Preview
Key innovation trends from retailers’ Easter 2024 range previews
The retailers always manage to put a new spin on Easter treats from chocolate eggs to hot cross buns – and 2024 is no exception
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Webinar
How can brands and retailers cater to the new empowered consumer?
Join our Grocer Vision webinar with experts from Iceland, General Mills, Rude Health and Mastercard to make sense of the big consumer trends that are set to shape grocery in 2024.
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Unilever to spin off ice cream division in £15bn move
Unilever has unveiled plans to spin out its €7bn (£6bn) global ice cream business in an acceleration of new boss Hein Schumacher’s strategy to turn around the group’s performance
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Bold Bean Co leaves Dragons’ Den with £50k investment
Bold Bean Co has struck a deal with Deborah Meaden during an appearance on Dragons’ Den tonight
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Supermarkets to be hauled before Efra supplier fairness probe
It is investigating how profitability and risk is shared through the food supply chain, following a period of soaring food price inflation and dwindling returns for producers
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GrowUp Farms appoints former Ella’s Kitchen boss Will Howard as UK MD
Howard, who joined in February, will oversee a scaling up as the business grows to sell more than one million bags of salad a week
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Naked Sprout disputes findings its toilet rolls contain just 4% bamboo
Consumer watchdog Which? found bamboo rolls from three out of five brands to contain low levels of the material
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Valeo Foods secures €50m cash injection from Bain as turnaround begins
Valeo Foods has secured a €50m cash injection from private equity owner Bain Capital as a turnaround at the ambient giant gets underway
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City snapshot: Unilever to separate ice cream business as part of growth plans
Unilever has unveiled plans to split off its ice cream business and also separately identified €800m in cost savings in a move that will impact about 7,500 jobs. Plus, Diageo appoints new chairman, interims from Eagle Eye and final results from MP Evans