Retailers and manufacturers now have a ‘farm to fork’ view of the supply chain, which they can share with consumers, following the launch of a new cloud-based software system.
Distribution partnerships where retailers and food manufacturers share truck space with competitors will become a growing trend, predicts Roly Taplin, vice president of agrifood at DHL Supply Chain.
The prospect of a supermarket price war – leading to lower supplier prices – makes it even more important to boost food and drink supply chain efficiencies, according to the European Food and Farming Partnerships (EFFP).
The food industry must boost efforts to divert surplus food to needy causes as demand rockets, Fareshare has claimed, as donations it gets represent only a tiny amount of the whole.
Food retailer Iceland is expected later this year to start sharing spare capacity on its trucks with another independent retailer. The move follows the success of a similar ‘backhauling’ arrangement between BP Retail and Nisa and their suppliers facilitated...
Online grocery business Ocado “doesn’t work” when measured by its ability to deliver earnings, City analyst Shore Capital has concluded, after the business delivered its interim business statement for the 12 weeks to February 23.
Britain’s food and drink manufacturers are missing out on potential new revenue streams now available through generating and selling low-carbon energy to retailers, alongside more traditional groceries, according to a leading environmental consultancy.
Britain’s biggest retailer is not doing enough to support UK farming by honouring its pledge to buy more British meat – particularly fresh beef, says the National Farmers Union (NFU).
Tesco’s new Trading Responsibly plan will improve both the way it works with suppliers and customer service, says Paul Wilkinson, chair of Thorntons and a member of the retail giant’s new independent supply chain advisory panel.
Extreme weather poses the biggest threat to securing UK food supplies, experts at an Environment Food & Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee hearing claimed.
David Cameron’s £10M relief fund for flood-struck farmers will help avert the risk of disruption to food supplies, claimed the government, after widespread criticism it was not doing enough to safeguard food supplies.
Steve Adams is a sensation at Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE). A former electrical apprentice, he rose to become CCE group director of supply chain operations for Great Britain in April last year, following a four-year stint as operations director at the...
A food waste crackdown is extending to 10 cities after a successful west London initiative, delegates heard at a Fresher for Longer conference in London held on February 5.
Progress on food waste reduction is flagging and the food and drink industry must “raise its game”, according to Dr Liz Goodwin, ceo of Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
Relying on one large customer could be disastrous for small to medium-sized manufacturers (SMEs), according to Frecco Food and Beverage operations manager Paul Barney.
The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) Christine Tacon aims to crack down on retailers charging suppliers hundreds of thousands of pounds for discrepancies on promotions going back up to six years.
United Biscuits will become the “Cadbury” or “Kellogg” of the snack world, after big investments in production and marketing, pledges the manufacturer’s boss Martin Glenn.
The skills gap in the food and drink manufacturing sector has not shrunk, despite the latest government statistics showing that UK unemployment overall has fallen.
A cheese manufacturer has been fined £8,000 for safety failings after a worker injured his leg and ankle after falling from the forks of a forklift truck.
Karro Food Group has abandoned the voluntary Dead Weight Average Pig Price (DAPP) sample, dealing another major blow to the scheme following Cranswick’s shock withdrawal last week.
Cranswick’s decision to pull out of the Dead Weight Average Pig Price (DAPP) could mean complete “disarray” for pig prices, industry bosses have warned.
McDonald’s has stressed its commitment to sustainable beef supply standards and practices a year after the horsemeat affair began, claiming it aims to strengthen industry farming practices.
There should be a ban on the import and sale of horsemeat from North America into the EU, Humane Society International (HSI) has claimed on the first anniversary of the horsemeat scandal.
A horsemeat scandal is likely to happen again because food manufacturers are complacent about managing their supply chains and don’t have proper records, according to the boss of supply chain consultancy firm Achilles.
Few lessons have been learnt from the horsemeat crisis, claims new research commissioned by supply chain consultancy Achilles, as an influential committee of MPs urged retailers to buy more local food.
Fletchers Group of Bakeries has completed a £1M expansion of its cold storage facilities, doubling capacity and enhancing environmental and technical efficiencies at its dedicated foodservice business unit Kara.
Arla Foods aims to strengthen sustainable supplies by adding 300M litres of owner milk to its supply chain this year and has almost doubled the number of its British farmer owners.
Producing an extra two to four billion litres of UK milk annually will be a “significant challenge”, but will yield great financial benefits for the UK economy.
Top food manufacturing executives will set out the challenges, and some of the solutions, for the year ahead at Food Manufacture’s Business Leaders’ Forum next month, according to its chairman Paul Wilkinson.
Food industry groups have welcomed the recommendations of the Elliott Review – each stressing their own particular field of interest – but all highlighting the vote of confidence expressed by the report’s author.
A stronger Food Standards Agency (FSA) – equipped with responsibility for food compositional labelling – is a key recommendation of the interim Elliott Review, commissioned by the government to investigate the supply chain after the horsemeat crisis.
Unite, the UK’s biggest union, has demanded a parliamentary debate into hunger, as the nation’s food banks prepare to feed 60,000 people this Christmas.
Iglo Foods Group has won the Supply chain initiative of the year award in the industry Oscars – Food Manufacture’s Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards (FMEAs), at the London Park Lane Hilton last month.
Young shoppers aged under 35 – who are more likely to shop ethically and adventurously than their older relatives, while cooking from scratch – offer opportunities to food manufacturers and retailers, according to new research from grocery think-tank...
Tesco is probing its ice cream cornet supply chain, after recalling own-label ice cream cones following the discovery of pain relief tablets in two cornets.
Local food initiatives – which aim to slash the length of supply chains – are blossoming across Europe, but their impact on the environment is not necessarily better than that of mainstream manufacturing, a leading academic has revealed.
Weetabix’s new online sourcing system will help guarantee it secures the best suppliers to drive down costs and deliver international expansion plans, claims the cereal producer.
A lorry operated by Kingsmill owner Associated British Foods (ABF) became unexpectedly reunited with another division of the food and clothing giant, after wedging itself under one of Primark’s shopfront canopies in Cambridge this week.
Foodservice firm 3663 aims to invest millions of pounds in infrastructure, including four planned new depots in Wakefield; Hoddesdon; Bicester and Chepstow.
Clearer food labelling, longer product shelf-life and more work on fish and meat are opportunities for the food industry to drive down domestic food waste further.
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