All articles by Harry Holmes
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NewsTunisian olive oil producers target UK as market stabilises
Tunisian olive exports to the UK have more than quadrupled since October
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NewsWaitrose sees spike in French charcuterie sales
Waitrose suggested it was led by shoppers watching the Tour de France
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NewsGroove Armada launches regeneratively grown beer into Waitrose
Signature Brew creates beers ‘inspired by and brewed with our musical heroes’
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NewsBritish Sugar factory closure fuels fears over imports
Under new proposals, British Sugar will concentrate processing at its three other sites
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NewsGlobal food price crisis could now be looming, think tank warns
UN figures show 8% of the world’s population faced hunger in 2025
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Comment & OpinionWill Andy Burnham be the radical change our food system needs?
As we begin to hear who will be filling many of the top posts in this new government, we should quickly get a clearer picture of how the Burnham administration plans to tackle the many challenges currently facing the British food system
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NewsTrump’s tariffs cap tough year for Walker’s Shortbread
A 10% tariff on imports into the US from Scotland, combined with skyrocketing butter prices, deterred many American shoppers from indulging in the Scottish shortbread
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NewsHeinz volumes fall as shoppers ditch big brands
Heinz’s UK sales slumped last year as the food giant felt the squeeze on everything from inflation to GLP-1s
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Comment & OpinionDubai chocolate, murky supply chains and the trouble with going viral
There’s arguably never been a viral food trend like Dubai chocolate. But in the race to fill their boots, could some chocolatiers have made an almost fatal mistake?
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NewsDanone’s €1bn takeover of Huel to face competition probe
Danone announced the deal in March as part of a company strategy to expand into functional nutrition
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NewsUK-Switzerland trade deal welcomed by British farmers
The new trade deal was welcomed by the NFU, which called it ‘a great example of a balanced deal’
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NewsNew platform promises to tackle ‘huge inefficiencies of the transport market’
The equivalent of more than 600 football pitches of warehouse space are empty in the UK, while on the roads, lorries travel a quarter of their distance only partially full, according to UK government figures
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NewsNew French border rules threaten meat exports to EU, hauliers warn
Lorries could start getting rejected from August under the new rules
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NewsButlers’ fire pushes cheesemaker to first loss since 2012
Butlers lost a warehouse and hundreds of tonnes of cheese in a blaze in November 2023
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Comment & OpinionWhy climate finance failures are fuelling the UK’s future food crisis
With funding a ’signficant barrier’ to climate adoption, farmers must be given the tools and money they need to adapt
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NewsNorthern Irish farmers offered grants up to £25k to boost farm efficiency
Farmers investing in on-farm equipment and technology worth between £3,000 and £62,500 can apply for a grant
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NewsVolatile milk prices drive heavy losses at dairy processor Ehrmann
British milk prices hit their highest mark since 2022 last year and caused Ehrmann’s losses to double to £3.6m in the year to 31 December
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NewsGlobal livestock farming piling more pressure on living world, study finds
The number of animals farmed worldwide has grown by half in the past two decades while the amount of cropland used to feed them is up by around a quarter
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Comment & Opinion‘Made in Britain’ labels are no substitute for farming policy
In a return to the old political battleground of food labels, more than 40 MPs have called for the government to require clearer country-of-origin labelling on a wider range of meat products
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NewsHalf of British farmers now farming regeneratively, Barclays says
The bank’s survey of 223 farmers found 56% had already moved to regenerative practices, while a further 24% plan to do so