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  • Foodservice Footprint FF5-Cover-e1478856300770 Procurement leaders announced Foodservice News and Information Out of Home sector news  Triple Bottom Line TBL prestige Purchasing David Read

    Procurement leaders announced

    As Autumn descends, the judges are excited to announce those organisations and CPO’s in the running for trophies in the 2017 Triple Bottom Line Procurement Awards. These organisations are: Casual Dining Group Derbyshire County Council Harbour & Jones Le Pain… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Unknown-copy-3 Big is beautiful again My Viewpoint  Sodexo prestige Purchasing news-email Harbour & Jones Elior David Read Compass CH&Co BaxterStorey Aramark

    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… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint P4-5 Weak pound keeps foodservice price inflation high at 8.8% in June Numbers you need to know  prestige Purchasing Graeme Loudon Christopher Clare CGS Prestige Foodservice Price Index

    Weak pound keeps foodservice price inflation high at 8.8% in June

    Exchange rate and a sharp increase in the price of fish among the inflationary pressures in the latest edition of the CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index. Wholesale foodservice prices saw inflation of 8.8% in June 2017, according to the new… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint F42-Review-6 Insight: Ignoring the hand that feeds us Foodservice Industry Briefing Out of Home News Analysis  prestige Purchasing news-email David Read

    Insight: Ignoring the hand that feeds us

    This week the Prime Minister formally triggered article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. There are two years of Brexit negotiations ahead but “dangerous levels of naivety” have already left the foodservice sector off the pace, says David Read. I’ve been… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint F43-TBL Three and Easy Industry event reports  Triple Bottom Line Awards prestige Purchasing

    Three and Easy

    The Footprint Triple Bottom Line awards are recognising companies which look to turn a profit from going green. Euromonitor research found that green credentials have become mainstream. They may not be the main determiner, but consumers expect them alongside attributes… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Unknown-26 Triple Bottom Line Award winners announced Foodservice News and Information Out of Home sector news  Triple Bottom Line Procurement Triple Bottom Line TBL prestige Purchasing news-email Brakes

    Triple Bottom Line Award winners announced

    The winners of the 2016 Triple Bottom Line Awards for Excellence in the Supply Chain have been announced at a high profile dinner, attended by the great and good of the industry’s procurement professionals, hosted by corporate sustainability champion Footprint… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint F41-p8-A ‘Marmitegate’ the first skirmish in Brexit price war Out of Home News Analysis  Unilever prestige Purchasing news-email Marmigate David Read

    ‘Marmitegate’ the first skirmish in Brexit price war

    The UK’s decision on Brexit was a huge event, so the recent dispute between Tesco and Unilever, where the supplier attempted to impose a 10% price increase on the retailer, is not being viewed as a surprise by anyone in… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint F41-p8-A Food price and provenance in a post-Brexit world My Viewpoint  prestige Purchasing news-email David Read Brexit

    Food price and provenance in a post-Brexit world

    The long-term picture is uncertain but in the short term food is only set to get dearer. Fans of ITV’s “The Only Way is Essex” will be familiar with its theme song “The Only Way is Up.”  Even more challenging… For… Read More

  • Foodservice to get accurate price index

    FOODSERVICE OPERATORS will be able to access more relevant information on food price trends from December 2015. The Foodservice Price Index (FPI) has been developed as a more accurate and relevant alternative to the government’s Consumer Price Index (CPI). CPI data… Read More

  • 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… Read More