Sustainability news
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NewsQuorn turnaround begins to take shape but losses continue
Revenues at parent group Marlow Foods slipped 1.2% to £184.5m on lower volumes in 2025 – compared with a 9% fall in 2024 – with sales in supermarkets down 2.7% and out-of-home by 3.7%, newly filed accounts revealed
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News‘The right thing to do’: Glebe Farm backs sustainable packaging
Part-funded by Huntingdonshire District Council and already operational, Glebe Farm said it would enable the producer to use more sustainable packing options across its retail product range
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NewsAsahi UK to support large-scale regenerative agriculture initiative
The initiative had been developed with the aim to lower greenhouse gas emissions from barley, Asahi UK said
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NewsProgramme to drive regenerative farming at scale clears pilot phase
Swiss non-profit food and drink industry membership network SAI Platform said the development paved the way for its Regenerating Together Programme to roll out in full by the end of 2026
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NewsRice shortages loom amid Iran conflict challenges
Rice producers in key growing regions are warning the impact of the war on fuel and fertiliser could lead to supply shortages
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NewsOcado launches sustainability focused ‘Future of Food’ aisle
Each product in the aisle – developed in partnership with not-for-profit platform Future of Food – has been assessed against three criteria, and verified by Ocado Retail and Provenance
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NewsMost farmed prawns mislabelled on origin, study finds
Research by non-profit World Forest ID found just 16% of farmed prawns at western supermarkets were from the country labelled on packs
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NewsGreggs saves six million meals from waste with Too Good To Go
The food-to-go chain first partnered with Too Good To Go in 2021
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NewsSmol invests for growth at expense of rising losses
Smol, which was founded by former Unilever directors Paula Quazi and Nick Green in 2018, continued to invest in direct marketing to win customers for its subscription service
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NewsHarrogate Spring Water bottling plant plans rejected by local council
The plan would have resulted in the felling of between 500 and 1,000 trees
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NewsLidl GB joins the United Nations Global Compact
The discounter follows in the footsteps of Tesco, which signed up to the UNGC in 2015
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NewsDanone accused of hypocrisy over plans ‘to destroy local UK woodland’
The bottled water and dairy giant is planning to remove approximately 500 trees from Rotary Wood and the Pinewoods area in Harrogate, North Yorkshire
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NewsGreggs partners with Nesta to measure healthiness of food sales
The collaboration will see Greggs set a target to deliver improvement by the end of 2030
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NewsMore than half of fisheries catches set outside scientific advice
Concerns have been raised over the ‘disappointing’ data from the Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science about the effectiveness of UK fisheries management
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NewsFirst Milk CEO Shelagh Hancock to retire next year
Hancock will leave the organisation after 10 years of leading the dairy co-operative
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News£80m raise makes Eka UK’s largest early-stage VC for health
The firm’s oversubscribed second fund will invest in up to 30 UK startups in the seed and pre-seed stages
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NewsClean Food Group secures £4.5m to scale sustainable oils factory
It follows the purchase of the factory and 12-acre site in Knowsley in September, which gave the company a fermentation capacity of one million litres
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NewsMCS accused of ignoring government, fishers and scientists
Seafood industry stakeholders said the guide did not accurately reflect International Council for the Exploration of the Seas’ advice, nor considered efforts to ease fishing pressure on stocks including cod, langoustine and mackerel
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NewsIndependent brewers hesitant to embrace cans despite EPR hit on glass
The proportion of beer packaged into cans by SIBA members has fallen from 13% in 2021 to 11% last year
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News‘Transformational’ Tesco animal feed site marks ‘step change’ in war against food waste
The opening of the animal feed production facility in Chelveston marks a page turner for Tesco, following a major scandal that derailed its food waste reduction targets