Grocery sector news updates

  • Seafish premiere’s ‘The Business of Processing’ film

    SEAFISH PREMIERED its new film exploring the multi-billion pound seafood processing industry to an invited audience from the industry this week.                     The showing of ‘The Business of Processing’ at The…

  • Sainsbury’s launches special Halloween recycling scheme

    SAINSBURY’S HAS launched a special recycling scheme to help get customers composting this Halloween.                     The supermarket giant expects to sell just over one million pumpkins this week, but once carved,…

  • Record-breaking British strawberry season

    BRITISH STRAWBERRY farmers have enjoyed a bumper crop this year due to the warm autumn weather which has helped them to harvest fruit late into the season.                 So far this year 60,170…

  • Financial pressures reduce food waste

    THE FOOD Standards Agency (FSA) has found that the British public are scaling down on food waste by changing their eating habits due to financial pressures to save money.                     According…

  • Business should prepare for winter blackout’s

    BRITAIN’S NATIONAL Grid has warned that generator closures and breakdowns have reduced its capacity to supply electricity to a seven year low.                             Its 2014/15 Winter Outlook…

  • Waste and resource management sector backs circular economy

    NEW RESEARCH commissioned by the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) has found that the resource management sector is embracing the circular economy and the potential financial and environment opportunities it offers.                …

  • Volunteers descend on Buxton in ‘Community Day of Action’

    OVER 130 local Nestlé Waters employees, Derbyshire Wildlife Trust supporters, local schoolchildren and members of the community descended on Buxton’s iconic Pavilion Gardens on Thursday last week to take part in Nestlé Waters first ever ‘Get Better with Nature’ Community…

  • UK only has 100 seasons left in its soil due to intensive over-farming scientists claim

    INTENSIVE OVER-FARMING in the UK has depleted the soil of the nutrients needed to grow crops meaning that we only have 100 harvests left unless dramatic action is taken, scientists at the University of Sheffield have revealed. At the same…

  • Government must ‘take the lead’ in increasing recycling, says new report

    A NEW REPORT from a Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) committee has called for the government to take the lead in increasing the rate of recycling in the UK.                …

  • Subsidies to solar farms to be cut

    ENVIRONMENT SECRETARY Liz Truss has called solar farms “a blight on the landscape” and revealed plans to cut subsidies under new plans to ensure more land is dedicated to food production.                  …