food and drink

The UK will be getting its first national centre dedicated to improving transparency in the food and drink supply chain. Farmer-led food provenance group, Happerley England, has today (12 July) announced the plan to deliver increased transparency from farm-to-fork by publicising plans to build...

Dragon’s Den-style competition launches for food and drink businesses in Gloucestershire This is a great opportunity not to be missed...... Applications are now open for a new Dragons’ Den-style competition that will give people from Gloucestershire the chance to see their food and drink...

Consumers tucking into sun-dried tomatoes at a picnic during the summer’s heatwave probably gave little thought as to how that food went from farm to fork. But those in the food industry know only too well that processors, manufacturers and wholesalers supplying supermarkets and restaurants are...

Eight out of 10 food and drink products at new discount chain Jack’s will be grown, reared or made in Britain. Tesco has launched its new Jack's stores which are set to rival the offering of existing discount supermarkets, Aldi and Lidl. The food retailer opened the first two Jack’s stores in...

Plans to open 130 Aldi stores over the next two years will see the discount supermarket source more British produce. The announcement comes as Aldi revealed that sales grew 16.4% across the UK and Ireland to a record £10.2 billion in 2017. Full-year operating profit rose 26% to £265.9 million...

A ‘no-deal’ Brexit could see food retailers and their suppliers facing a £9.3 billion blow. A new report from Barclays Corporate Banking has revealed that a failure to reach any Brexit deal will create an average tariff of 27% on products imported from the EU for food and drink supply chains...