People in Retail, FMCG and Grocery

Hiring & Firing

Deacon will join the shopping app business on 1 February

CEO Ken Murphy said the UK’s biggest retailer currently had around 30,000 staff absent because of Covid

Booths said it has started a consultation with impacted employees to explore their options

Malhotra joined Harvey Nichols in 1998 as an internal audit office

The pilot scheme allows migrant labour to enter the UK to work for a six-month period

The Efra Committee suggested the UK could see food prices go up unless more was done to resolve questions around labour

Clifton will join the Partnership in February 2021, replacing Keith Williams who stepped down in April after six years

Two fifths of wholesalers are at risk of insolvency in the next three months

The meat industry was singled out as one sector facing potential recruitment issues

The Innovation Hub will be charged with coming up with innovative ideas across packaging, nutrition and business development

Keith will join the luxury retailer in February 2021, replacing Simon Forste

Retailer has warned that 3,500 roles could be impacted by the changes

JLP’s executive director, finance Patrick Lewis will also step down at the end of the year

With Brexit just 43 working days away, the food and drink industry is still largely in the dark about what’s going to happen

The new employees will be working across its stores and two London fulfilment centres in Coulsdon and Enfield

Data from industry bodies showed the UK-resident workforce is not big or reliable enough to fulfil growers’ labour needs

The supermarket said it was set to make around 10 redundancies at its head office-based team in Bradford

He succeeds the retailer’s former boss Tony Buffin, who stepped down earlier this month

BPC CEO Richard Griffiths said the UK turkey sector ‘cannot survive without access to non-UK labour’

The news comes at the end of a three-month consultation process