All Palm oil articles
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Events & Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Pip Murray is Entrepreneur of the Year
Leading the fastest-growing brand in UK nut butters, having amassed more than 45,000 stocking points
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Analysis & Features
The deforestation regulation clock is ticking for food and drink
The EU and UK are gearing up for unprecedented regulation to prevent deforestation – but many questions remain, leaving businesses ill-prepared
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News
UK grocers lead the way in WWF’s sustainable palm oil ranking
Sainsbury’s and M&S jumped to the top spots alongside Waitrose and Co-op
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Interviews
Tony’s supply chain guru on changing chocolate sourcing for good
To fight child exploitation, Tony’s Chocolonely open chain lead Joke Aerts wants to apply its five sourcing principles at scale. How is she going about the task?
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News
Yeast-made palm oil biotech company secures £2.5m funding boost
Its go-to-market product is an equivalent to high oleic palm oil, with an equivalent nutritional and fatty acid composition
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Analysis & Features
Oils 2023: Brands ride out massive price rises
The Ukraine war has taken its toll on cooking oils this year
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Analysis & Features
Will 2024 bring an end to key commodity turbulence?
Buyers will be hoping for the ‘semblance of normality’ experts predict – but El Niño and other costs mean it won’t be simple
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News
Lab grown fat business partners with Roberts Bakery on ‘circular ecosystem’
The initial focus of the partnership will involve utilising surplus bread as feedstock for yeast fermentation
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News
KTC launches new sustainable palm oil range
The range will initially include Planet Palm Oil as well as three specialist bakery products
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Profiles
My Alternative CV: The Flower Farm’s Marcel van Wing on palm oil and family
‘I lived in Indonesia and saw with my own eyes the damage to the rainforest for palm oil’
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News
City snapshot: Profits plunge at palm oil producer MP Evans as prices stabilise
Profits have plummeted by 62% at London-listed palm oil producer MP Evans as record high prices in the wake of the Ukraine war returned to more normal levels.
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Interviews
How Napoleon inspired Mighty Earth founder Glenn Hurowitz to tackle Big Meat
Growing up, Glenn Hurowitz believed he could save the planet. Now, the founder of climate action group Mighty Earth is taking on Big Meat, which he feels does more environmental harm than any industry
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Analysis & Features
Could a new palm oil alternative help save the planet?
Clean Food Group says its alternative is ‘sustainable and scalable’
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News
Palm oil alternative maker Clean Food Group secures major backer
Clean Food Group will use the cash to “scale up its technology platform whilst advancing critical regulatory and commercial pathways” it said
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News
City snapshot: Dekel Agri-Vision profits fall despite record palm oil prices
Profits at Dekel Agri-Vision have fallen despite the company benefitting from record palm oil prices as a poor harvest hit production at the agribusiness group.
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Comment & Opinion
Joining the CPTPP is a gateway to lower food standards
The removal of the 12% tariff on palm oil from Malaysia is a major cause for concern, says Pip Murray, founder of Pip & Nut
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Comment & Opinion
Businesses must prepare for new EU deforestation regulations
Upcoming EU laws will require importers to demonstrate no deforestation has occurred in their supply chains, says Warren Ackerman, head of European consumer staples research at Barclays
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News
Malaysian palm oil tariffs relaxation comes under fire
Palm oil production has been linked to illegal deforestation and biodiversity loss in countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia
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News
Cake manufacturers face heavy palm oil disruption over EU deforestation laws
New due diligence legislation will require businesses trading in or with the EU to prove their supply chains are deforestation-free
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News
Palm oil-free spread The Flower Farm secures Sainsbury’s listing
The Dutch-owned brand has expanded its presence in the UK with its first major retail listing