Watch again: Natural Products Meets independent retailers
In a continuation of Natural Products Meets, Carol Dunning hosted a panel of store owners on 19 March to discuss retailing during and beyond the pandemic. Speaking on the panel…
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…
Watsons Hong Kong Launches Citywide ‘Plastic Reborn’ Container Recycling Program With P&G
Watsons Hong Kong, the health, beauty and pharmacy chain, has rolled out a new territory-wide plastic container recycling campaign. Partnering with multinational CPG industry giant P&G, Watsons will provide convenient…
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…
Navigating Natural & Organic: Lindsay Carroll, National Retail Association
The natural and organic industry is continuously growing and shifting, with new trends, regulations, products and practices being introduced into market everyday. How does one keep on top of it…
#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…
Time to ‘demonstrate leadership’ on GMOs, supermarkets told
Supermarket CEOs have been told it’s time to ‘demonstrate leadership’ by a group of experts campaigning for retailers to stop stocking foods produced from ‘unregulated and unlabelled gene-edited crops and…
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…
Tesco faces shareholder vote to increase healthy food sales in bid to tackle obesity
10 Feb 2021 --- Tesco is set to become the first FTSE100 company to be hit with a shareholder resolution on health grounds. The resolution – co-filed by seven institutional…