Day: November 11, 2024
Dekel Agri-Vision expects boost from higher palm oil prices as it enters high season
Palm oil production levels at Dekel Agri-Vision have fallen as the low season for the commodity lingered longer than normal
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Media Bites 11 November: Tesco, Asda and M&S
Tesco’s £1bn NI bill, hospitality fights back against the budget and more Asda job cuts in the pipeline.
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CMBC adds Shipyard ‘session’ pale in latest lower abv push
The launch comes with Shipyard sales having slid 18.0% to £9.6m
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Trade body warns government of safety and animal welfare risks of EU vet deal
Experts’ recommendations come amid delays to the Brexit trade strategy
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Miso Tasty launches Japanese-inspired home cooking range into Waitrose
The range responds to shoppers’ ‘increasing interest in miso as a trending ingredient’, says Miso Tasty
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Asda brings in former Tesco home grocery boss Barney Burgess
The supermarket said Burgess would take up the role on an interim basis until the arrival of David Devany, who is due to join the business next year from Iceland
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Just Eat enters electronics retail with Richer Sounds partnership
The product selection available on the Richer Sounds store on the aggregator app includes ‘emergency’ purchases such as phone chargers and charging cables
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Avara Foods reduces carbon emissions ahead of sustainability targets
Its 2024 Our Planet report revealed that since its 2019 baseline, the company had reduced Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 31% and Scope 3 by 34%
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Meatly completes feeding trials for lab-grown petfood
The brand is hoping to bring its petfood to market during the first quarter of 2025
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Blow for Asda as Andrew Staniland changes course and heads for Morrisons
News in July that Staniland was being brought in to work under Asda chief commercial officer Kris Comerford was seen as a major coup for the supermarket
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Iceland Foods launches new Channel Island franchise partnership with Alliance Stores
Iceland will end its existing agreement with SandpiperCL, following the latter’s acquistion by Morrisons
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Taco Bell launches festive burrito to ‘break out’ of the Christmas sandwich tradition
The chain said it wanted to innovate the category by offering a British classic with a twist
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Fairway and Confex leaders create new Wholesale Group to ‘shake up sector’
Led by four stalwarts in wholesale, the new group wants to support and champion independent wholesalers
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Organic Farmers & Growers appoints new CEO
Bill Young will take up the role at OF&G on 2 December 2024
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Pact Coffee to roll V60 brewing kit into Waitrose stores
It marks the first time Waitrose has stocked speciality coffee brewing equipment
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Boots features Adjoa Andoh’s Mrs Claus in Christmas ad 2024
The ad sparked a wave of racist, misogynistic and transphobic comments calling Boots ‘woke’
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Boparan feed mill acquisition could hamper competition and drive inflation: CMA
The competition watchdog said the deal could lead to a ’substantial lessening of competition in the supply of poultry feed to independent customers’
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Central Co-op to sell 19 ‘unsustainable’ stores, including three to B&M
The other 16 stores will be sold to independent convenience chain Samy Limited
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Aldi seeing early signs of high Christmas demand
Sales of its Mulled Wine and Flavour Mulled Wine are up 17% year on year, according to the discounter
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Del Monte unveils fruit snacking range
The range includes Lemon Apple Sticks, Strawberry Apple Sticks and Naked Apple Crisps
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