All articles by Kevin White – Page 5
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Comment & Opinion
What Yeo Valley buying The Collective means for UK yoghurt
Yoghurt giant Yeo Valley bought rival brand The Collective in a surprise move last week – but why did it happen in the first place?
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News
Media Bites 17 March: recession fears, Sainsbury’s boss on WFH, Reeves to cut red tape
Thinktank The Resolution Foundation warns Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to ’break her own fiscal rules’
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News
Young’s owner Sofina strengthens leadership team with three senior appointments
James Pirie, Helen Watts and Stuart Herd brought with them ‘extensive industry experience and leadership expertise’ Sofina said
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Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses wins permission for new, £10m ‘farmhouse campus’
The Blacksticks cheese owner suffered a devastating fire to its packing site in November 2023
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Asda ends 100% British chicken pledge as it sources from Germany
The move ends the long-running convention where all major UK supermarkets sourced only British fresh chicken
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Farmers outraged as key sustainable farming subsidy closed at short notice
The farming sector has been blindsided by the announcement to close applications to the Sustainable Farming Incentive
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Arla suspends farm after exposé reveals 'routine' animal cruelty
Campaign group Animal Justice Project said cows at one of Arla’s suppliers were violently kicked, punched, and struck with pipes
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Co-op to adopt Müller Direct milk price in £1m boost for dairy farmers
The retailer’s change follows the signing of a new supply deal with the dairy giant
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Tesco, Morrisons, Hilton, Greencore among big hitters to sign up to gender pledge
Industry leaders gathered at the House of Lords yesterday to launch The Food Business Charter
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News
‘Stock exchange for cows’ platform raises £1m in seed funding
The ‘first of its kind’ platform is the brainchild of Murray Roos, former head of capital markets at the London Stock Exchange
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Avara sees losses grow to almost £50m in wake of major restructuring
The business also saw a near 12% fall in turnover, but stressed its restructure now left it with a ’more efficient and productive supply chain’
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Interviews
Farshad Kazemian: the butcher on a sustainable mission
The Ethical Butcher founder Farshad Kazemian wants Brits to eat more meat. He talks scaling up to the mults and why regenerative is the way forward
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KVI Tracker
The Jolly Hog shrugs off sluggish sausage and bacon markets to boost sales
The brand had benefitted from increased supermarket listings and rising consumer demand for meat, said co-founder Olly Kohn
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Analysis & Features
NFU Conference: what could Steve Reed offer angry farmers?
Faced with furious questions and protests, Reed tried in vain to reassure a farming sector left reeling by the much-hated ‘family farm tax’
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News
Defra aims to reset farming sector relations with raft of NFU conference announcements
The NFU’s annual conference will see the union look to reset the farming sector’s relationship with government following the Chancellor’s controversial budget
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Arla proposing Settle factory closure after £90m investment in Lockerbie plant
The investment would see Arla’s Lockerbie site become a UHT milk ‘centre of excellence’
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Bovaer controversy fails to dent sales, but Arla warns of inflation to come
Arla came under fire in November for launching a trial of the feed additive on 30 UK farms
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Sterling Meat Co credits strong growth to £1.5m store revamp and quality
The Manchester-based meat retailer – formed out of the remnants of Crawshaws, which closed in 2018 – grew revenues by 11.9% to 25.3m in 2024
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Media Bites 20 February: Trump tariff backlash, Tesco apologises over online glitch
Minutes US Federal Reserve’s January meeting revealed members of its committee believe Trump’s policies might ’hinder the disinflation process’
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Arla Foods sees revenue and profit grow in ‘strong’ year
The dairy co-op saw revenues climb to €13.8bn at group level, buoyed by positive growth from its key brands