Out of Home News Analysis

  • 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

  • THE FRIDAY DIGEST: A good week for fake meats; and a bad week for fake farms

    THE FRIDAY DIGEST: A good week for fake meats; and a bad week for fake farms

    “[T]here has never been such a new product on a product as iconic as the nugget,” said McDonald’s France chief marketing officer,” Jean-Guillaume Bertola this week as he announced the arrival of vegan nuggets to the menu at more than 1,500 outlets in… Read More

  • Dodgy hygiene rating displays raise regulatory questions

    Dodgy hygiene rating displays raise regulatory questions

    Businesses both small and large have been caught inflating their food safety scores, leading to renewed calls for a mandatory scheme and well-resourced regulation. By David Burrows. Food businesses have been displaying inaccurate food hygiene ratings, according to an undercover… Read More

  • Can the food system go full circle to regenerative?

    Can the food system go full circle to regenerative?

    Small-scale producers are proving there is demand for food produced in harmony with nature, but scaling regenerative approaches requires a break with business as usual. By Nick Hughes. It was on an all-too-rare baking hot day in July this summer… Read More

  • The Friday Digest: Don’t go soft on transparency

    The Friday Digest: Don’t go soft on transparency

    Transparency has been the watchword for the food industry this week after groups of businesses called respectively for mandatory publication of food waste data and reporting of the proportion of sales generated from unhealthy products (see separate news story). Campaigners… Read More