All Sourcing articles – Page 47
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NewsAHDB to bring back ‘We Eat Balanced’ red meat & dairy push for Christmas
Adverts featuring nine-year-old Nancy and her grandfather are set to reach over 32 million adults
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Analysis & FeaturesEggs shortages: can dairy-style contracts mend the broken system?
The egg industry is calling for contract reform, to prevent suppliers being locked into loss-making positions and provide stability for the sector
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NewsOlive oil shortages likely in 2023 as bad harvest gets worse
The harvest in Spain – the world’s largest olive oil producer – is ’looking very bad’ and looks set to push up prices
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NewsFresh Christmas turkeys cost up to 45% more in wake of bird flu crisis
Assosia data shows there are also significantly fewer fresh turkey SKUs available this year, after half the festive flock was lost to avian flu
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NewsMeadow Foods reports strong growth with sales and profits up
Meadow attributed its growth to rising milk and dairy ingredient prices, alongside “some volume growth” of ingredients, while exports performed solidly
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NewsCoffey plays down calls for food sector crisis intervention
Coffey told MPs she didn’t ‘think we are at the stage of market interventions directly when it comes to pricing’
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News‘Worst to come’ from food sector’s myriad crises, says 2 Sisters boss Ronald Kers
The sector was facing an ’existential threat to its future if we have another year like this’, warned CEO Ronald Kers
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NewsFresh Del Monte Produce announces launch of carbon neutral pineapples
It is a new product line extension from the Del Monte Gold, HoneyGlow and Del Monte ‘The Original’ pineapple varieties, grown in Costa Rica
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NewsOnly half of apple packs in major UK supermarkets are British, new data reveals
The data found that only one supermarket – Iceland – was selling 100% British packs in October and early November
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NewsDawn Meats to invest £90m in net zero climate commitment
The plan will cover the entire supply chain across Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and align with the UN Sustainable Development goals
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NewsSome farmers and producers making less than 1% in profit, new research claims
A study by food and farming charity Sustain reveals often ‘negligible’ profit in supplying the mults
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Comment & OpinionAmid food supply chaos, self-sufficiency seems a forlorn hope
Suppliers of eggs and fruit & veg have all seen profits hit or wiped out
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NewsFreshways to lower farmgate milk price amid ‘negative’ market sentiment
The processor had been paying a market-leading price to its dairy farmers since late summer
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NewsFruit & veg in ‘crisis’ amid ‘endemic’ low returns to growers
Many apple growers were facing cuts in payments by retailers, despite massive input cost inflation, said British Apples & Pears
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NewsFrieslandCampina replaces plastic with cardboard packaging on Yazoo Kids range
The move is part of the supplier’s bid to to transition to 100% recyclable or reusable packaging by 2025
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NewsFuture of UK free-range turkey production at risk, MPs hear
Some 600,000 birds – representing about half of those earmarked for this year’s Christmas season – have now been lost to bird flu, the Efra committee heard
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NewsRSPCA Assured appoints ex-World Animal Protection boss Mike Baker as new CEO
Baker, who had served as interim CEO since March, succeeds Clive Brazier
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NewsMüller to entirely phase out coloured milk bottle caps by next summer
Following succesful trials, the supplier said the move would increase the rHDPE’s availability on the market by 1,560 tonnes a year
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NewsAldi announces £12.5m support package for egg suppliers as shortages mount up
Aldi is one of many retailers to have seen shortages of eggs in recent weeks after hard-up producers halted or reduced supply
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NewsWales to introduce bird flu housing order later this week
The move followed heightened concerns of a westward spread of the disease, said the Welsh government