Foodservice Footprint
Nestlés palm oil turnaround
NESTLE HAS come a long way since that viral in 2010 the one with the bored office worker who bites off a finger of a Kit Kat that turns out to be a bloody orang-utan finger. Campaigners at Greenpeace… Read More
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… Read More
Sustainable Diets
ENCOURAGING CONSUMERS to adopt sustainable diets is important for health, environmental and social reasons. But there is difficulty in defining what such a diet is and how to communicate this to the consumer in a way they can engage with… Read More
Information, Information, Information
AS The Nation gets chubbier, more and more companies are pledging to provide facts about how (un)healthy their food is. But do diners need or want them? Albert Einstein once said that the devil has put a penalty on… Read More
Food security increasingly difficult
UN report concludes that environmental issues must be at forefront of food security goals THE AIM of achieving food security across the globe will become increasingly elusive unless countries factor the planet’s nature-based services into agricultural and related planning, a… Read More
Grocers on track with waste targets
THE GROCERY sector has delivered on its commitments to cut waste up and down the supply chain. New figures released by WRAP show that supply chain… Read More
Pork profits from Olympics
PORK AND pork products have been boosted thanks to the London 2012 Olympics. Figures from Kantar Worldpanel, produced for BPEX, show sales were up 8% in value and 9% in volume during the Games period. This was… Read More
Fair pricing in foodservice
CH&Cos Caroline Fry explains why she supports the idea of a fair price for dairy farmers, but its not always easy. When the recent media interest in the price paid to dairy farmers threw an unflattering spotlight on the… Read More
FootprintComment: Tracey Rogers of UFS talks about food waste
ONE YEAR on, Tracey Rogers, managing director of Unilever Food Solutions comments exclusively to FoodserviceFootprint.com about the impact of United Against Waste. A year ago we called upon the industry… Read More
‘The Obesity Games’
JUNK FOOD brands should be excluded from sponsoring sporting events, according to the Childrens Food Campaign. London 2012 sponsors attacked in new report In a hard-hitting new report, the campaigning group claims that the power of corporate… Read More