Event Reports

  • Not loving it

    LACK OF progress on the government’s high-profile public health partnership with many high-street brands means ministers may need to take a harder line.                   It’s easy to see why the Public Health…

  • Where next for the Responsibility Deal?

    LEADING FOODSERVICE figures met on the second birthday of the governments wide-ranging health deal to discuss whether it’s been a success and what challenges lie ahead. The government’s Public Health Responsibility Deal is reaching a critical stage. Last month the…

  • Footprint Forum Report: Holding out for a hero

    IN EUROPE, genetically modified crops have remained in labs while the rest of the world plants more and more. Does the technology need a champion?  It seemed apt that the Footprint Forum to discuss the sensitive issue of genetically modified (GM) crops took…

  • Footprint Forum: GM – Contemptible or Inevitable

    On the 28th of February, members and guests of Footprint Forum gathered at the U.S. Embassy in London to debate GM – Contemptible or Inevitable. The objective of this session was to remove polarised subjectivity from the debate and frame…

  • Full Report – Footprint Forum: Sustainability Reporting

    HAVE YOU ever been midway through the company’s annual sustainability report and thought: who on earth is going to read this? Well, perhaps you should. “I think we need to think harder about who our audiences are, and who we…

  • Footprint Forum: Sustainability Reporting

    ON WEDNESDAY grandees of the foodservice industry gathered for the last Footprint Forum of 2012 at the Butchers Hall, sponsored by CH&Co, for a frank and open discussion about Sustainability Reporting in our sector.           Tom…

  • FootprintChannel: Waste – What Next? On Demand

    FootprintChannel: Waste – What Next? was the first in an ongoing programme of FREE-to-attend virtual events, powered by new interactive video streaming technology. It allows key insight, intelligence and thought-leadership to be distributed to time and geographically-challenged businesses in the foodservice…

  • Thought Leaders & Innovators Conference & Partnering Event Report

    THE BRITISH food industry must boost innovation in order to improve productivity, but sustainably. This was one of the key points made by Lord Carter of Coles in his talk “Innovation in Agriculture and Food”. He was speaking at the first…

  • In the mood for change? Footprint Forum: Mood Food online report

    The March Footprint Forum in association with Partners In Purchasing tackled the role of food in staff performance and wellbeing. And while the idea of ‘mood food’ is far from mainstream, more and more big businesses are looking at the…

  • Why Footprint Awards isn’t just another awards!

    FOOTPRINT AWARDS 2012: The inaugural Footprint Awards in 2011 were proof of concept; to minimise the impact of an awards scheme and remain true to the mantra of being the antithesis of the typical industry awards. Our objective was to create…