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Asda's market share rose to 17.3% in the 12 weeks ending October 12, said Kantar Worldpanel

Asda wins out as food market enters deflation

By Rod Addy

Asda headed the supermarket pack as the food market officially entered a period of deflation, although consumers were the real winners, according to the latest Kantar Worldpanel figures.

Warren Buffett: 'I made a mistake on Tesco'

Top finance guru dumps Tesco shares

By Michael Stones

The world’s richest investor, Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway, has sold more than 245M shares in supermarket giant Tesco, after describing his investment as “a huge mistake” earlier this month.

Booths claimed Relex has so far delivered major benefits for its business

Software cuts shrinkage and saves Booths cash

By Rod Addy

Booths Supermarkets slashed shrinkage across its business and saved significant amounts of cash by implementing supply chain management software supplied by Relex, according to Andrew Rafferty, the retailer’s IT and e-commerce director.

Amazon fresh and frozen food delivered to your doorstep? The retailer is testing fresh and frozen deliveries in the US, ahead of a possible global launch

Amazon creates 1,000 jobs at UK distribution centres

By Michael Stones

Online retail giant Amazon is to create 1,000 new jobs at UK fulfilment centres, six months after a leading UK wholesale boss predicted the retailer would deliver “a fresh approach” to the UK grocery market.

Sainsbury's results represented a watershed not just for the retailer but the whole grocery market, analysts said

Sainsbury results: the reaction

By Michael Stones

Sainsbury’s third consecutive quarter of falling like-for-like sales represents a watershed, not just for the beleaguered retailer but the whole fast-moving UK grocery sector, agreed most City and retail analysts. Here, we capture their verdict, at a...

Europe's captain Paul McGinley celebrates winning the Ryder Cup, which showcased Scottish food and drink to 45,000 visitors (credit: Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Ryder Cup tees up showcase of Scottish food

By Laurence Gibbons

The Ryder Cup provided a “perfect platform” to showcase Scotland’s food and drink to more than 45,000 visitors from 75 countries on each day of the three-day golf tournament between Europe and the US, claimed the Edinburgh government.

Scottish consumers need to up their consumption of fruit and vegetables

Reaction: Scotland’s NDNS results

Scotland’s diabetes ‘time bomb’

By Nicholas Robinson

Scotland’s ageing and increasingly overweight population is facing a “diabetes time bomb”, which must be a focus of the Scottish government.

Food and drink industry people on the move

Food and drink industry people on the move – in pictures

By Laurence Gibbons

Alan Stewart started his role as chief financial officer of Tesco three months earlier than planned, this week, after the retailer launched an investigation into the board overstating its half-year profits by as much as £250M.

Morrisons is working hard to close the price gap between traditional supermarkets and discounters

Supermarkets target fresh food to fight discounters

By Rod Addy

Fresh food is the first battleground as traditional supermarkets such as Tesco and Sainsbury fight against stiff competition from discounters Aldi and Lidl, according to a leading food analyst.

Authorities are cracking down on modern-day slavery and worker exploitation

Police charge eight in gangmaster crackdown

By Rod Addy

Eight people have been charged from Plymouth and Cornwall as part of a major investigation into forced labour, human trafficking and illegal gangmaster activity in the UK food chain.

Omega Ingredients has recently secured a supply of Spanish orange oil

Omega Ingredients’ investment creates 16 new jobs

By Nicholas Robinson

Omega Ingredients (OI) has doubled the size of its manufacturing facility and secured 16 new jobs by pumping £300,000 into its UK operations, ceo and founder Steve Pearce has said.

Left to right: Gudmundsson, Gates, Greenslade and (background) the latest AMS candidates

Bakkavor trains up food industry personnel

By Rod Addy

Bakkavor has waved 220 young people through its Accelerated Management Scheme (AMS) since 1999 and is offering 135 training opportunities in September through IGD’s Feeding Britain’s Future’s Skills for Work Month.

Experts call for one set of regulations for the global food industry

Experts call for global collaboration on food fraud

By Nicholas Robinson

Global food businesses must work to one security standard for all food types if the threat of fraud and foodborne diseases is to be reduced, according to a major new report.

Morrisons is speeding up fresh produce processing and distribution and improving chilling

Morrisons pumps £19M into fresh produce supply

By Rod Addy

Morrisons is investing £19M to speed up the supply of fresh produce and keep it cooler for longer in a bid to keep ahead of competition from discounters Aldi and Lidl.

Consumers are concerned about the quality and safety of food ingredients and seek more reassurance, such as the British Lion Egg mark

Consumers worried about food quality and safety

By Laurence Gibbons

More than 40% of consumers are worried about the quality and safety of ingredients in prepared food from supermarkets, according to independent research firm RPA.

Claims that organic crops are more nutritious than non-organic crops is not supported by evidence

Organic health claims 'worryingly overstated'

By Nicholas Robinson

A report claiming that organic crops are more nutritious than non-organic crops is not supported by the evidence, according to leading experts in the field.

Alan Lacey believes GM foods have a role to play

GM isn’t scary, says SOFHT chairman

By Nicholas Robinson

Genetically modified (GM) foods should not be scary and a balanced debate about the science must take place for the food industry to provide consumers with more choice.

The GLA was established to ensure migrant workers are treated fairly

Channel 4 turns spotlight on food production

By Rod Addy

Channel 4 highlighted a food industry under pressure in its Dispatches documentary, broadcast on August 4, claiming suppliers were forced to cut corners as supermarkets refused to pass on more of their profits.

CASH is targeting salt levels in salads. Picture courtesy of iStock-anthonyjhall

Salty food accusations: food industry responds

By Rod Addy

Restaurants and retailers have hit back at Consensus Action on Salt & Health’s (CASH’s) name and shame campaign attacking the salt content of salads, targeting firms including Morrisons and Nando’s.

Register your vote for food manufacturing personality of the year now!

Food manufacturing excellence awards

Don’t miss out on voting for your personality of the year

By Laurence Gibbons

Voting for the Food Manufacture Group’s Personality of the year will close shortly, so make sure you register your vote for the individual who you believe has done most over the past year to raise the profile of food and drink manufacturing.

 A HSE investigation found Littleport Mushroom Farm guilty of safety failings

Mushroom firm fined £14k after worker is crushed

By Laurence Gibbons

Littleport Mushroom Farm has been fined £12,000 and ordered to pay £2,700 in costs for safety failings after a worker suffered crush injuries when his arm was caught in unguarded machinery at its site in Ely, Cambridgeshire.

Cameron pledges better British sourcing

New £400M opportunity for British producers

By Nicholas Robinson

British food and drink manufacturers would be up to £400M better off, after the government renewed its pledges to buy more home produced products.

Up to 50 new jobs will eventually be created at the depot

Morrisons announces 50 jobs at new facility

By Nicholas Robinson

Morrisons has announced it will invest a “sizeable” amount of money to open a new 8,825m² distribution centre alongside its existing Bridgwater manufacturing site.

More than 2,000 people were expected to be made redundant originally

Asda announces 1,360 redundancies

By Nicholas Robinson

Asda’s 1,360 redundancies will help it adapt to the intense changes faced by UK retailers, ceo Andy Clarke claims, and follows a similar announcement made by Morrisons last month to cut 2,600 jobs.

Register your vote to decide who will crowned Food manufacturing Personality of the Year

Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards

FMEA Personality of the Year - the nominees

By Rick Pendrous

The six candidates below have been shortlisted by the Food Manufacture Group editorial team for the Personality of the Year Award. Now it’s up to you. Who do you think has done most over the past year, either to raise the profile of the food and drink...

Consumers need further education on date labels, says WRAP

‘Display until labels’ face increased criticism

By Rod Addy

The food industry must continue to remove ‘display until’ food and drink labels, as they are confusing shoppers and fuelling needless waste, the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) claims.

Netto is to return to the UK later this year, after agreeing a joint venture with Sainsbury

Sainsbury and Netto join forces to take on discounters

By Nicholas Robinson

Early discounter Netto will be returning to Britain next year in a £25M joint venture with Sainsbury, to take on Aldi and Lidl, whose cut price offers have revolutionised the UK grocery market.

The Edinburgh government plans to establish a Scottish Food Commission to improve the nation's food culture

Scotland plans Scottish Food Commission

By Michael Stones

The creation of a Scottish Food Commission is the centre piece of Scotland’s latest discussion document – Becoming a Good Food Nation – unveiled this week, as part of the country’s plans to develop a food and drink policy.

What came first the quail or the egg? In this case, it was the egg

Quail hatches from Waitrose egg

By Laurence Gibbons

One Waitrose shopper got an unexpected surprise when a live quail reportedly hatched from a box of eggs she bought from the retailer.

Sir Ken Morrison tells Morrisons' boss: “I have something like 1,000 bullocks and, having listened to your presentation, Dalton, you’ve got a lot more bullshit than me.”

Sir Ken Morrison in ‘bullshit’ attack on supermarket boss

By Michael Stones

Sir Ken Morrison, the outspoken former chairman of Morrisons, has launched a stinging attack on the retailer’s boss Dalton Philips, describing his strategy for the recovery of the troubled business as “bullshit”.

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