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Charlotte Wright – The Good Food Bill: an update, and what hospitality needs to do now
Charlotte Wright is Director of CSR and Food Strategy at Elior UK, leading the company’s sustainability, responsible sourcing, nutrition and food strategy agenda.
Footprint Awards 2026 shortlist
In an unprecedented year of a record amount of entries, we are delighted to announce the shortlist for Footprint Awards 2026, revealing the foodservice and hospitality sector’s leading responsible business initiatives. Footprint Awards remains the only initiative to honour the achievements of…
Big is beautiful again
Huge diverse conglomerates fell out of fashion in the 90s, but the foodservice industry has put mergers back on the business agenda. By David Read. In the 1970s and 1980s (when I was in my formative business years) the world…
Animal welfare standards continue to improve across foodservice
Foodservice companies collected 13 awards for their approach to farm animal welfare standards as cages for poultry become “consigned to the history books”. In the past 12 months there has been a wave of commitments to source cage-free shell and…
Elior taps natural trend with Elements
Elior has launched a new healthy eating offer that puts fresh, natural foods front and centre. Launched in April, the Elements concept uses chemical symbols from the periodic table to label food groups in the range, such as br (breakfast),…
Triple Bottom Line 15 Shortlist announced
THE FIFTEEN organisations represented in this year’s Triple Bottom Line 15 Awards for Excellence in the Supply Chain in association with Prestige Purchasing have been announced. In alphabetical order, these are as follows: Aramark BaxterStorey The Casual Dining Company…
Report reveals what millennials really expect from caterers
NEW INSIGHT into the relationship between millennials and food is revealed in a report commissioned by Elior. From convenience to technology, The Millennial Eater aims to understand what makes the…
Global benchmark on animal welfare rankings disappointingly low
MARKS & Spencer, Waitrose and Coop Group (Switzerland) have been given top marks in a global annual farm animal welfare Business Benchmark report, with Burger King, Mars and Müller among 21 companies languishing at the bottom of the league table.…
Soy sourcing scandal
IT’S CALLED ‘the Brazilian miracle’ but rocketing demand in turning soy into an environmental disaster while foodservice firms stand by and do nothing. David Burrows reports. Foodservice companies have come under fire…
