Retail
Sainsbury’s ditches plastic in own-label mushroom punnets
2024-01-08 11:00
Sainsbury’s is switching its own-brand mushroom punnets from plastic to cardboard.
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Meetings with the buyers of large-scale retailers in Bergamo
2024-01-08 00:00
Over ten fruit and vegetables buyers from retailers from a dozen European countries will come to Bergamo to meet face to face with producers during the event organised by Fresh Food Leader on the 25th of January: "International Business meetings with buyers of large-scale Retailers".
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Poland: Grupa Muszkieterów appoints Krzysztof Łagowski as director for alliances and strategic partnerships
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Banana prices are going up in India
2024-01-08 00:00
Due to falling cultivation and the spread of disease in major producing areas, banana prices have gone wild in India. Banana inflation increased to 16.5% in November from 2.2% four months ago, according to consumer inflation data released last month. Retail prices have been hovering around ₹30
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Asda opens new front in price war against Aldi and Lidl
2024-01-05 10:00
Asda has stepped up the price war against the discounters by claiming to be the first supermarket to price match both Aldi and Lidl across a broad range of popular everyday products, including fresh produce.
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Sainsbury’s makes its greatest standalone plastics removal through mushroom punnets
2024-01-05 00:00
Sainsbury’s is switching its own-brand mushroom punnets from plastic to cardboard in a move which will save over 775 tonnes of plastic, equivalent to over 52 million pieces of plastic a year. This is the retailer’s biggest ever single plastics removal in its history – equivalent to the
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Italian datterino tomatoes also in Greece and Dubai
2024-01-05 00:00
"We have just shipped loads to Greece and Dubai, to major retail chains. We are also represented in some Italian retail chains. We are satisfied with the feedback we have received so far", says Camilla Bulgarelli, Sipo sales manager, taking stock of the innovative line of colored Datterino
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Man who weighed prime beef cuts as bananas appears before court
2024-01-05 00:00
Stephen Brennan, 31, appeared before Longford District Court for stealing beef from a supermarket by misrepresenting it as bananas at the self-service till. Charged with theft of a fillet and a round roast of beef from Davis SuperValu on two separate occasions, Brennan employed a tactic where he
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Coop Switzerland: Sales growth of 1.4% in FY 2023
2024-01-05 00:00
Greece: Supermarkets eye expansion
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OFC report explores how ‘broken’ food supply chains can be fixed
2024-01-04 14:00
A report launched at the 2024 Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) firmly states that the practice of farmers subsidising consumers’ appetite for cheap food cannot continue.
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Supermarket sales reached pre-Covid levels in December
2024-01-04 11:00
Supermarket sales reached pre-pandemic levels in the run up to Christmas, new figures show.
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Fruit and veg play key role in Asda’s new Health Menu range
2024-01-04 10:00
Asda has launched a major new healthy eating range, with fruit and veg as key ingredients in a wide range of dishes.
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The new Limoré lemon season in Italy began just before Christmas. Volumes were initially low due to slight temperature fluctuations that delayed the coloration of the fruit and ongoing drought conditions that hindered the growth of the fruit.
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Aldi donates 1.5 million meals over Christmas and New Year
2024-01-03 16:00
Aldi said it donated around 1.5 million meals to those in need over the festive period.
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In December, a new Fairtrade initiative was proposed with the aim of helping UK grocery retailers to collaborate on sustainability in supply chains.
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Fresh produce features in £15m Morrisons price drive
2024-01-03 10:00
Fresh produce is front and centre in a new Morrisons price-cutting drive.
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Climbing salad prices could lead to renewed supermarket shortages
2024-01-03 00:00
Britain might be heading for a new salad crisis; costs for the healthy veg option have soared 50 per cent in the past month and some experts are now warning the public to expect shortages in supermarkets. It comes as countries supplying out-of-season veg have been hit hard by freak weather
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The year 2024 opened with an important new partnership in Italian modern distribution: as of 1 January, Apulia Distribuzione, a 30-year-old company with roots in Apulia, Calabria, Basilicata, Campania and Sicily, with a 2023 turnover of 930 million euros, became part of
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'With and without bees', the Whole Foods provocation
2024-01-03 00:00
Whole Foods Market has always defended the health of pollinators through its commitment to organic farming that avoids the use of synthetic pesticides, but now the US chain has announced a new policy on fresh fruit and vegetables and florals to protect pollinators.
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Currently, delays to global trade are caused by hundreds of ships diverting around Africa to avoid attacks in the Red Sea. These delays are set to inflict months of disruption and imminent price rises on supplies of household items and foodstuffs.
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