Long reads – Page 150
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Analysis & Features
Four technologies that could change the face of grocery
The most promising innovations on show at Shoptalk Europe
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Analysis & Features
Is workfare fair, or slave labour?
Four years after jobseekers on the DWP’s workfare scheme successfully sued should businesses steer well clear?
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Analysis & Features
The WTO quota row: what it means for trade and Brexit
The UK-EU “breakthrough” on splitting TRQs has run into global trade heavyweight opposition…
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Apple juice squeezed by poor Polish crop
Fruit juice manufacturers are facing surging prices for apple juice concentrate due to a shortage of apples in Poland
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Analysis & Features
Polystyrene driven up by rising input costs
Polystyrene prices have risen due to tightening supplies of feedstock styrene after factory outages hit production
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Analysis & Features
Highlights from the first week of Tesco fraud trial
Rogberg, Bush and Scouler plead not guilty as the trial starts
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Analysis & Features
As Nisa readies for date with destiny Nick Read's job is done
But while the CEO turned Nisa around and helped secure Co-op offer, his tenure was marred by a fractious relationship with…
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Analysis & Features
Price inflation at mults hits highest level for five years
The Grocer Price Index jumped from 2.4% to 2.9% in the month to 1 October
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Analysis & Features
Tesco first half results: What the analysts say
Tesco has declared its turnaround “firmly on track” after posting a 27.3% jump in group operating profit before exceptional items and its seventh consecutive quarter of sales growth
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Analysis & Features
Revealed: Why Brits are falling back in love with the cuppa
Forget bogstandard tea, Brits are looking for ’qualitea’ as coffee shop culture spreads to the nation’s national brew
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FSA reveals its hands-off tactics with campylobacter
Self-regulation for the mults has stirred up food safety fears
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Analysis & Features
Wonky veg up but are supermarkets digging deep enough?
Shoppers continue to lap up wonky fruit & veg ranges, as the supermarkets introduce new lines and lower specifications
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Analysis & Features
How much appetite will the City have for Bakkavor?
Will the ascending reputation of own label and the performance of its peers mean a warm welcome on the Stock Exchange?
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Analysis & Features
Waste Not Want Not: are we winning the war?
What are the breakthroughs? Who are the frontrunners? And where has progress ground to a halt?…
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Interviews
Marcus Gover: the man who's got waste wrapped up
Wrap’s CEO knows it takes a lot more than facts and figures to convince both business and shoppers to change
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Analysis & Features
Join our fight against food waste
As you’ve seen our campaign has achieved a lot already – but there’s still so much to do…
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Analysis & Features
Sunflower oil prices fall as production rises
Global production looks poised to exceed the five and 10-year average
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End of sugar quotas 'risks health goals'
Britain could be facing a “new era” of low sugar prices with the removal of the quota, claims analyst Investec
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Analysis & Features
Wholesale prices: Sardine prices up due to Cadiz Gulf ban
Sardine prices have surged thanks to a ban imposed on the major sardine fishery in the Gulf of Cadiz…
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Analysis & Features
Master chefs: behind the scenes in the supermarkets' kitchens
Why are more chefs swapping reductions at recherché restaurants to bubble up béchamel in factories instead?