Cake giant Finsbury Food has little cause for celebration as revenue drops sharply February 22, 2021 One of the UK’s biggest cake makers has seen group revenue fall by more than four per cent to £152.9m in the six months leading up to Christmas, the group announced this morning. Finsbury Food Group’s profit before tax also dropped 16.1 per cent to £7.4m as the company felt the effects of coronavirus lockdowns. [...]
‘Appalling’ sized children food parcels were in line with government advice January 13, 2021 Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has revealed that the miserly free school meals handed out to children this week by a private company were in fact in line with government advice. Starmer hit out at Boris Johnson for distancing himself from the fiasco as the size of the meals had been dictated by Department of [...]
Exclusive: Deliveroo’s Thea Rogers leaves exec spot to focus on new baby and ‘new chapter’ March 22, 2022 Senior Deliveroo executive Thea Rogers has announced she will be leaving the food delivery firm after five years to focus on her family.
Shop price inflation slows but political tensions ‘pose a threat’ to stability April 30, 2024 The rate at which shop prices rise has slowed to its lowest level in close to three years but geopolitical tensions and the knock-on impact on commodity prices, like oil, pose a threat to future price stability.
Healthy kitchen gadgets to make cooking nutritious meals easier June 14, 2024 The last thing you want to be doing is coming home and cooking a long-winded meal to try and stay on top of healthy eating.
Tate & Lyle blames inflation for slip in revenue February 21, 2024 The update comes just days after the 100 year old brand revealed it would remove the dead lion from its plastic golden syrup and dessert bottles. A lion's head with a bee will replace the iconic logo.
UK retail sales pick up as summer finally heats up August 6, 2024 Retail sales returned to growth in July after the long-awaited summer boost for retail finally arrived along with the warmer weather. Total retail sales increased by 0.5 per cent year on year in July, up from the three-month average growth rate of 0.3 per cent, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC)-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor [...]
Bin firm Biffa snaps up surplus food collectors Company Shop for £80m February 25, 2021 Waste disposal firm Biffa today said that it has bought surplus food group Company Shop for £82.5m. Company Shop, which describes itself as the country’s biggest surplus food firm, collects waste items and then redistributes them to its member organisations. Surplus produce can include production overruns, trial products, or produce that has been incorrectly labelled [...]
AgriDex selects L3COS and tokenisation for $9 trillion global food and agriculture marketplace March 10, 2021 Global food and agriculture industry supply chain platform AgriDex has selected L3COS to create its blockchain-based transparent marketplace.
Businesses could ‘struggle to afford’ increase in living wage, experts warn November 27, 2023 Last week, the government announced that the National Living Wage will rise by almost 10 per cent next year, from £10.42 to £11.44 an hour.