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  • The Friday Digest: Business feels Budget blues

    The Friday Digest: Business feels Budget blues

    Budgets by their nature divide opinion. For every group that sees a financial benefit from the government’s annual book balancing exercise another must pick up the tab. Rarely has the divide been as starkly exposed as during Wednesday’s Budget –… Read More

  • PLASTICS PACKAGE: Paper and plastic continue to throw punches

    PLASTICS PACKAGE: Paper and plastic continue to throw punches

    This month we consider a rebrand as the first details of the new Plastic (and all other single-use materials) Pact 2026 emerge. By David Burrows. “More than half of UK grocery products packaged in unnecessary plastic, research claims.” The headline… Read More

  • Banging business heads together on biodiversity

    Banging business heads together on biodiversity

    The latest WWF living planet report ‘will break your heart’, but many companies have yet to understand how risky their relationship with ecosystem services is. By David Burrows. This week the 16th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the UN Convention… Read More

  • Can I have that in writing please?

    Can I have that in writing please?

    New guidance places the onus on businesses to provide written allergen information to people when eating outside of the home. Nick Hughes considers the implications. Allergen information in pubs, restaurants, cafés and other out of home settings should ideally be… Read More

  • FRIDAY DIGEST: Warm words won’t delay a Silent Spring

    FRIDAY DIGEST: Warm words won’t delay a Silent Spring

    The Digest usually pulls no punches in its regular coverage of food industry news, views and policy-making. But this week’s effort is punchy in another way, because we focus on the fight to save nature. This week the 16th meeting of the Conference… Read More

  • Could naked fruit and veg cut food waste?

    Could naked fruit and veg cut food waste?

    Plastic packaging used on a variety of fresh produce faces the chop as Wrap pushes for new regulations. Nick Hughes reports. The era of packaged fruit and veg could be over then? That’s the goal of some campaigners. Wrap, the waste… Read More

  • Soft plastics scandal makes cup takeback harder

    Soft plastics scandal makes cup takeback harder

    Could the unsavoury stories of supermarket plastic collections make consumers cautious about a mandatory takeback scheme for single-use cups? By David Burrows.  An investigation has found soft plastic packaging collected by Sainsbury’s and Tesco is not being recycled. Instead, 70% of the packaging… Read More

  • The Friday Digest: Glitz and jitters in the heart of the City

    The Friday Digest: Glitz and jitters in the heart of the City

    It’s fair to say Labour has not enjoyed the smoothest first 100 days in office since winning a massive majority in July’s general election – something we explored at length in this week’s Footprint Premium. That made Monday’s business investment summit in… Read More

  • Birds, berms and beverages

    Birds, berms and beverages

    The Biohub at Ings Farm is showcasing what a regenerative and circular farm looks like … but it won’t happen overnight. David Burrows reports. Some food and hospitality sector businesses are looking to get closer to the farm to understand… Read More

  • Political Print: Labour needs a food vision fit for the future

    Political Print: Labour needs a food vision fit for the future

    The new government has shown an early willingness to intervene in the market but lacks a cross-cutting strategy to deal with food system challenges. By Nick Hughes. In sprinting parlance, the first hundred days of a new government are an… Read More