Prue Leith news and analysis
Prue Leith is a restaurateur and TV personality as well as a campaigner for food education in schools.
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Analysis & FeaturesInside Pasta Evangelists: A fresh pasta factory made for dark kitchens
Meal kit service Pasta Evangelists has unveiled its new 47,000 sq ft production facility on the premises of Bestway’s first warehouse in Acton, London
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Category ReportCan Tucci perk up pasta?
With Stanley Tucci waxing lyrical and low prices luring shoppers, some believe the pasta category has an opportunity to get fancier
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Category ReportHow tighter budgets are reshaping home baking
Brits are abandoning their mixing bowls as surging ingredient prices make home baking costly. How is grocery responding?
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Comment & OpinionDimbleby’s report could signal beginning of long-term change in food and drink
Not all of Dimbleby’s food strategy is practical, but it will change the way government thinks
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InterviewsBig Interview: How Piccolo’s Cat Gazzoli is blazing a trail in cooking for babies
Piccolo founder Cat Gazzoli is taking on the babyfood giants with a cooking range, organic formula and eco-friendly packs. And she has big plans for the future
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NewsBarilla snaps up DTC Pasta Evangelists
Italian food giant Barilla has snapped up direct-to-consumer business Pasta Evangelists to tap into booming e-commerce demand in the UK during the coronavirus pandemic.
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NewsMedia Bites 14 January: Brexit, Lidl, Just Eat, Unilever
The UK government is proposing to fast-track empty supermarket food lorries returning to Europe to restock, as concerns mount in Whitehall that post-Brexit port disruption threatened supermarket supply shortages.
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NewsAldi takes over as sponsor for new series of The Great British Bake Off
The discounter hopes to underpin its quality credentials as sponsor of the 11th series of the show
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Category ReportBaffled bakers: bread & bakery products category report 2020
Higher – and erratic – demand for fresh bread products is the new normal for Britain’s bakers. How are they rising to the challenge?
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NewsPasta Evangelists raises £3.5m to ramp up omnichannel efforts
The four-year-old brand raised the cash from funds including Pembroke VCT and Guinness Asset Management
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NewsMedia Bites 3 Feb: John Lewis, Unilever, Pasta Evangelists
John Lewis will turn over a new leaf this week when its new boss, Dame Sharon White, formally takes the throne at the troubled retail group
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NewsMedia Bites 23 Sep: Ocado/TDS, Sainsbury’s, M&S
Some of the biggest names in retail have become embroiled in an extraordinary legal row involving allegations of corporate espionage and conspiracy in a legal battle between Ocado and Today Development Partners.
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NewsMedia Bites 23 Aug: Ocado, Morrisons, Jamie Oliver
Ocado’s customer orders have been disrupted by another warehouse fire six months after a blaze destroyed its robot-controlled depot in Hampshire
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NewsDirect-to-consumer start up Pasta Evangelists seals £1.7m cash boost
The pasta supplier, backed by Prue Leith and Giles Goren, secured the investment in an equity fundraise led by Guinness Asset Management
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Feature SynopsisFocus on Cakes and Biscuits: 13 October
Cake is getting posh. When today’s shoppers indulge, they want their want their treat to be – in the words of Bake Off judge Prue Leith – worth the calories.
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Comment & OpinionThe Great British Bake Off is back... and it's still fresh
Eager not to become stale, GBBO is taking on millennial trends with Vegan Week still to come
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Category ReportInstantly Instagrammable: home baking category report 2018
Consumers are paying more attention to the photogenic capabilities – and trend potential – of their bakes than ever before
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Comment & OpinionUnrisen bakes and floppy biscuits in The Celebrity Bake Off
‘It looks like something that a drunk person would bake after watching the Great British Bake Off’…
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Analysis & FeaturesSeismic deals, almighty spats and triumphant change: review of the year 2017
Whether it’s the ongoing fallout over Brexit, or shock brand culls in the mults – it’s been a year packed with events of epic proportions…
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NewsPiccolo babyfood secures DSG £500k to fuel Far East growth
DSG Consumer Partners has invested £500,000 to support Piccolo’s growth ambitions in the UK and expansion outside Europe