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Chair of Action on Salt slams government for lack of action on obesity
Action on Salt last week responded to a call for evidence from the National Food Strategy
Asda blames Brexit nerves as Q3 sales fall 0.5% year on year
CEO Roger Burnley said the figures showed there was “no respite” from the impact of the political crisis on the grocery market
David McKnight made MD at Co-op’s Federal Retail and Trading Services group
Most recently, McKnight was strategy and trading director at Tesco
Deliveroo hires BBC political reporter Eleanor Garnier as policy advisor
Appointment comes as the Competition & Markets Authority investigates whether an Amazon investment in Deliveroo could harm…
Upfield to bring back Blue Band margarine after 15-year gap
The Dutch spread disappeared from British shelves during the 2000s
Little Freddie and Sainsbury’s launch recycling scheme for all babyfood pouches
Shoppers can buy recycling bags for 99p, which they can post free of charge to Enval
Plenish kicks off trial of robot delivery ‘milk round’ in Milton Keynes
Consumers can order litre bottles of the milk via robot courier company Starship’s app
McDonald’s launches ‘Big Toy Take Back’ plastic recycling trial
McDonald’s said it would use the trial to gauge customers’ reactions to toy recycling
GroceryAid’s Sporting Lunch raises record amount to support industry colleagues
More than 1,200 colleagues from across 200 companies in grocery and fmcg attended the lunch
RH Amar appoints Justin Burbage as sales director
Role will include developing new sales opportunities
Tomlinsons collapse leads to shortage of Welsh milk in Wales
Supermarkets have been forced to stock milk labelled with the English and union flags
Reality star Spencer Matthews launches ultra-low abv CleanGin
The fledgling brand is currently in the final stages of “raising a seven-figure sum from a fund in the United States”, according to the star
Tabasco brings ‘rich and thick’ take on sriracha sauce to UK
Tabasco Sriracha is billed as a ‘full of flavour’ take on the much-loved Thai sauce
Health campaigners call for fast food takeaway clampdown
Sustain said companies including McDonald’s and KFC were allocating millions of pounds to expansion plans
Co-op calls on government for better shopworker protections against abuse
Co-op has invested more than £70m in colleague safety, including the installation of remote-monitored CCTV
Health & beauty deals on the increase but savings get shallower
Asda, Co-op, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Tesco all increased featured promotional space
Off the hook: how the EU is failing to police illegal fishing
While the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy is coming down hard on some countries, it’s letting others off the hook, including its own member states
Chistmas ads 2019: Who’s nailed it and who’s failed it this year?
Our experts decide which ads have succeeded and which have flopped this festive season
Advent calendars for Christmas 2019: part two
As December draws nearer, we take a look at a second wave of food & drink advent calendars hitting UK stores
Can blockchain join the dots at last in grocery?
Could blockchain technology enable the food industry to keep track of food in the supply chain and thereby champion its provenance?
The Grocer’s Best of Own-Label Awards: the winners
Our new awards aim to recognise excellence in the dynamic UK own label sector, here are all the winners
