Good & Gather Plant Based: U.S. Retailer Target Unveils New Vegan Product Line
In a recent announcement, the eighth-largest U.S. retailer Target has unveiled a plant-based line under its largest owned brand Good & Gather private label food and beverage brand offering products…
Thrive Market: Online Organic Pioneer Wants To Become ‘World’s First Climate Positive Grocery Store’ By 2025
Thrive Market, the American membership-based online retailer for natural and organic products, has set its sights on becoming the “world’s first climate positive grocery store” by 2025. In addition to…
Lidl Germany Expands Vegan ‘Vemondo’ Range With Over 450 Carbon-Neutral Products
Supermarket giant Lidl has expanded its vegan offerings in Germany to more than 450 products, sold under its own-label Vemondo. The discount retailer says that all its plant-based food products…
French Supermarkets To Phase Out Plastic Packaging With Refill Stations
French grocery chains will have to begin switching to food refill stations as part of a new environmental bill. The law, which has been passed by the French parliament, will…
Shareholder pressure pushes Tesco towards health targets
‘Rising investor concerns’ over the health impacts of companies such as Tesco had led the supermarket giant to announce aims to increase its proportion of sales from healthier products to…
Kroger Sets Aside US$2.5M To Back Upcycled Food Waste Startups
American retail giant Kroger has pledged to support innovative startups developing upcycled food products and solutions. Through its charity arm Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation, the supermarket will invest US$2.5…
#NotInMySupermarket, declares the Co-op
Responding to a joint letter organized by Beyond GM and Slow Food in the UK, the Co-op has become the first supermarket to declare it has ‘no current plans’ to…
A ‘vote of confidence’ for Fairtrade
As the Fairtrade Foundation marks its annual Fairtrade Fortnight campaign (22 February to 7 March) the charity reveals that a boom in consumer demand for Fairtrade products in 2020 is…
Brits are creating the highest demand for fruit and vegetables this century
Healthy-minded Brits are creating the biggest demand for fruit and vegetables this century, latest sales data can reveal. Since the first lockdown started last year, stay-at-home Brits with more time…
Brits make it the biggest Veganuary yet and demand for low & no alcohol also soars
Brits have made this Veganuary the biggest ever with demand for plant-based foods up by more than a third on the previous year’s event, Tesco can reveal. And despite the…