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Ocado’s New Ingredient Aisle Puts Food Manufacturers Under Pressure to Be More Transparent
Shoppers want to know what is in their food, and retailers are responding Food manufacturers have spent years competing on price, brand recognition, convenience and taste. Now another question is becoming harder to ignore:...
Electronic Shelf Labels Move Beyond Pricing as Retailers Increase Technology Spending
Electronic shelf labels are taking on a bigger role in supermarket operations, but the technology is also facing growing scrutiny over pricing, employment and the way retailers use digital information. Once regarded mainly as...
Princes Invests in Napolina as Demand for Italian Food Products Grows
Princes is investing a six-figure sum in a new marketing campaign for Napolina, its Italian food brand, as it looks to build on recent growth and strengthen its position in the UK grocery market....
Food Ingredients Group IRCA Attracts New Investor as Revenue Reaches €1.5 Billion
The company supplying ingredients to bakeries, chocolate manufacturers and ice-cream producers is attracting the attention of another major investor. CVC Capital Partners has agreed to acquire IRCA from Advent International, marking a new stage...
EU Food Safety Proposals Could Have Important Consequences for Food Importers
Proposed changes to European Union food and feed safety requirements could have implications for food manufacturers, importers and supermarket buyers, particularly businesses managing complex international supply chains. The Council of the European Union announced...
Walmart’s Warehouse Automation Shows Why Grocery Logistics Is Harder Than It Looks
Automation has become a major investment priority for supermarket groups looking to improve distribution efficiency, reduce repetitive work and move products through their supply chains more quickly. But the experience of Walmart illustrates why...
Tesco’s New Rules on Food Additives Put Pressure on Suppliers to Reformulate
Tesco’s decision to restrict or remove 114 additives from its own-brand products puts the spotlight on a challenge facing food manufacturers: how to respond when a major retailer changes its expectations of what should...
Lidl Plans More Than 50 New UK Stores as Discount Competition Intensifies
Lidl GB plans to open more than 50 stores during its current financial year as part of a £600 million investment programme, continuing its expansion in a British supermarket market where discount retailers have...
Tesco Raises Profit Forecast as Sales Growth Continues to Lag Behind Earnings
Tesco has raised the lower end of its annual profit forecast after reporting higher profits for the first half of its financial year, underlining the supermarket group’s ability to improve its financial performance in...
Brexit Ten Years On: Britain Took Back Control. But Where Did It Take Britain?
By R Beladi, ISN Editor There was a time when Britain was at the centre of the European project that is true, and without ever quite feeling that it belonged to it. London use...