All articles by Michael Barker – Page 13
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On-pack footprints ‘would be damaging’
Carbon labels and traffic lights are a “meaningless” and even damaging way of communicating carbon footprinting information to consumers, the lead researcher of a major new carbon project has astonishingly claimed. “If you start putting individual...
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School Milk Scheme to include more products
The EU has extended the Continent-wide School Milk Scheme to include a wider range of dairy products and a wider age group. Cheese and yoghurt will now be part of the scheme, as will buttermilk and other fermented milk products. Previously only milk...
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UK chicken industry set for merger wave
So it’s finally started. For years, experts have been predicting a wave of consolidation in the meat processing industry. And now, two of the biggest poultry producers have fallen into foreign hands. First, there was Grampian Country…
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Dairy intolerants boost goats milk sales 16.5%
Sales of goats milk continue to soar as lactose-intolerant consumers start to wise up to its health and flavour benefits - sometimes at the expense of soya. Fresh goats milk sales have shot up 16.5% in the past year, with the retail...
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Florette scores TV first with groundbreaking thermal ad
Florette has launched what is believed to be the first TV advertising campaign to run only when the weather is warm enough. In a move set to revolutionise food marketing, the prepared salad specialist is using 'thermal...
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Rodda's appeals to what women want
Cornish clotted cream specialist Rodda's has launched its first-ever TV advertising campaign this week. The adverts, which will be aired in the ITV Central region over a five-week period, will feature the tagline Too Good for Words and...
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After the 2p sausage, it's Asda's 50p mince
Asda's mission to ignore pressure from the meat industry and continue to offer the British public cheap food has continued with the launch of a 50p pack of mince. The supermarket this week announced a two-week promotion slashing the price...
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Turkey boosts performance of athletes
Turkey can improve an individual's athletic performance by up to 20%, new research has claimed. In a study conducted by the University of Chichester's School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, athletes eating 145g of turkey breast a...
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Sainsbury's helps save bumblebees
Sainsbury's has launched a free seed promotion to help shoppers create an attractive environment for bumblebees - and reverse the depletion of bumblebee populations. The supermarket is offering customers at selected stores a free pack of...
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Marks calls on industry to drive Fairtrade sales
Fairtrade sales are being hampered by a lack of consumer understanding of the concept, according to Peter Marks, chief executive of The Co-operative Group. Speaking at an AgroFair seminar last week, he said customers would be much more...
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Tesco doubles size of exotic offering
Tesco has announced this week that it will be doubling its range of world food produce to 50 items. TV chefs and exotic holidays had been key drivers of demand, said Tesco, adding that it planned to use 'box talkers' to provide...
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NFU gets fresh with its fruit and veg message
Provenance and healthy eating will be paired together for the first time in a saucy new campaign aimed at getting the public to eat '5-a-day the British Way'. Next week, the NFU will be sending information on Britain's seasonal fresh...
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Waitrose to source 100% British bacon
Waitrose will source all of its bacon from British farmers by the end of the year, it announced this week. The retailer already sources 100% of its fresh pork and 90% of bacon from UK suppliers, but has now pledged to stop selling...
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Young's claims aquaculture can meet surge in demand
The only way to meet surging global demand for fish is to increase the use of responsible aquaculture, Young's has claimed. The fish manufacturer has formulated a new strategy document outlining why it believes aquaculture is the only...
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Wake up to a healthy breakfast partnership
They have always been the cornerstone of British breakfasts , but despite being the apparently perfect match, milk and cereal have tended to promote themselves as separate entities. That all changes next week with the launch of the first...
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Co-op's 'Grown By Us' broccoli on sale
The Co-operative Group will begin selling broccoli grown on its own farm for the first time this summer. The broccoli, grown in Cambridgeshire, will be added to the group's "Grown By Us" range in its East Anglian stores from mid-June to...
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Cauliflower producers moving to other crops
Cauliflower growers are threatening to leave the industry unless farmgate prices rise dramatically. Since February, the price of a whole cauliflower has risen almost 30%, according to The Grocer Price Index. However, the cost of...
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Strikes cause shortages
Shortages of Spanish fruit and veg have been reported in the UK as a result of strikes by Spanish hauliers. Spanish truck drivers have been striking over the past week in protest over high fuel prices, causing severe delays to exports of...
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Tilapia touted as the next big opportunity
Livestock farmers are being encouraged to convert their barns and chicken sheds for tilapia production to help grow the market for the fish in the UK. Kent-based Weardale Fish Farms has called for farmers in the south east to install...