Next Month’s News: our podcast preview

Hogging the headlines over the next month is likely to be the continuing fallout from the UK’s historic decision to quit the EU.

Prime Minister Theresa May – who is chairing a cabinet meeting at Chequers today (August 31) to plan the UK’s negotiating stance on quitting the EU – has insisted that “Brexit will mean Brexit”. ​

But what will that mean for food and drink manufacturers who depend on access to the EU’s 500M consumers? Then, there is the future of the 100,000-plus EU nationals working in the UK food and drink sector to consider.

100,000-plus EU nationals ​

Other topics likely to dominate our headlines include: likely rises in production costs and the first moves of the new Retail Grocery Advisory Board​ to tackle the retail crisis.

The new board includes food and drink manufacturers Unilever, Nestlé and Coca-Cola.

Unilever, Nestlé and Coca-Cola​

Food safety topics to be addressed at our annual one-day conference on Thursday October 13 were also predicted to feature.

Meanwhile, the top three most popular stories with FoodManufacture.co.uk’s 108,000-plus independently-audited, unique monthly visitors were two food and drink sector entrepreneurs who featured on the hit BBC TV​ show Dragons’ Den​ and criticism of the government’s “flawed”​ obesity strategy.

The next most popular article was our report of an advert for Dr Oetker pizza, which was banned by the Advertising Standards Authority following a complaint from 2 Sisters Food Group.