All Supply Chain articles – Page 49
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Category ReportThe big tomato fight: trends in canned & ambient foods 2025
Brands’ ambient tomato products are battering own label as they cash in on scratch cooking, provenance and the fallout from a BBC exposé
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NewsCo-op switches to 100% British strawberries ahead of Easter
Co-op’s launch date for the strawberries has moved four days earlier than last year and in time for the Easter bank holiday
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NewsLamb volumes decline as prices soar by up to 76% year on year
AHDB has revealed that lamb saw a 16.9% decrease in volume sales
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KVI TrackerHot cross buns up 44% this year amid tight sultana and butter supplies
Twenty-two hot cross bun lines are pricier this year than last
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NewsChina’s biggest retailer JD.com test-launches UK grocery site Joybuy
JD.com has commenced a major recruitment drive for ‘category superstars’ ahead of a full launch later this year
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NewsUsdaw appoints Joanne Thomas as its new general secretary
A ‘lifelong trade unionist’, Thomas makes history as the retail trade union’s first-ever female head
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NewsFareshare appoints Kris Gibbon-Walsh as permanent CEO
Kris Gibbon-Walsh will be supported by Dominic Blakemore, who has been appointed as FareShare’s chairman to succeed John Bason
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Comment & OpinionHow to capture retailer imagination with category visions
Everyone wants category growth but much category work is too flat, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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NewsVertical farming giant Jones Food Company appoints administrators
The Lydney, Gloucestershire-based business closed its doors on Monday 7 April with 61 staff made redundant
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NewsGlobal Tuna Alliance calls for improved labour standards to support fisher welfare
The campaign has urged members of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission to develop comprehensive labour standards drawing from the international ILO188 convention
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NewsMCS advises businesses to avoid sourcing northeast Atlantic mackerel
In the latest update to its Good Fish Guide, it reveals that Northeast Atlantic mackerel has been overfished by an average of 23% over the last four years
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NewsIvy Farm Technologies appoints new commercial VP to accelerate cultivated meat integration
Gail Francis brings more than three decades of experience in the global food industry, and has worked in markets around the world
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NewsMedia Bites 9 April: Aldi overtakes Asda and Trump tariffs fallout
The news continues to be dominated with the fallout from Trump’s trade tariffs, while Aldi has overtaken Asda on food and drink sales for the first time
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NewsAldi claims UK supermarket first with own label aluminium wine bottle
The 75cl aluminium bottle for Aldi’s £5.99 Costellore Pinot Grigio is stronger and almost 75% lighter than a glass one, according to Aldi
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Analysis & FeaturesHow the role of the supermarket buyer is changing
As soaring costs and climate change make production more volatile, buyer-supplier relations are changing to be more collaborative and proactive
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NewsUK booze suppliers warn over US tariff impact
Suppliers have warned they could now lose out to US produced beers, wines and spirits.
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Comment & OpinionSimpler Recycling opens the door for food redistribution
If businesses are forced to separate food waste, they may think twice about where edible surplus goes, says Richard Smith, head of food supply at The Felix Project
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NewsEx-Teapigs founders launch Spill with mission to ‘shake up everyday tea’
After a limited DTC launch last summer, packs have landed in select Waitrose stores and on Ocado
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NewsStowaways detected at UK border controls ‘fallen substantially’ but threat still high
Clandestine entrant numbers have decreased since their 2016 peaks, but the trafficking threat is still high, according to the UK borders watchdog
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NewsWhistleblowers warn UK food industry heading for climate disaster
Inside Track x Food claims the UK food industry has ‘reached a moment of threat to food security like none other we have seen’