The rising cost of household groceries means shoppers are increasingly turning to supermarket’s own-label products at the expense of branded goods, according to Nielsen retail data. Over the past three months, consumer spend on supermarket’s own-label products rose 5.5%¹ year-on-year, nearly five times the growth in spend on branded products (up 1.2% year-on-year). The average […]

Ocado, the world’s largest online-only grocery retailer, has become the first supermarket in the UK to launch an app for the voice-controlled Amazon Alexa. The Ocado app for Amazon Alexa, the voice-controlled personal assistant powering the Amazon Echo smart home speaker, will feature a variety of functions enabling customers to add a product to an […]

Research reveals that 92% of students use canned food, but many fail to grasp its nutritional and recycling attributes. Findings of a new survey which suggests that canned food is top of students’ shopping lists. According to the survey, students average nine food cans in their kitchen cupboards at any given time, showing just how […]

After being launched earlier this year, The FoodTalk Awards are making a return for 2018 and are now open for entries. The awards were inspired by the ‘foodie heroes’ who appear on the FoodTalk radio show every week and have been launched to honor the best of UK food tech innovation. They made their debut […]

A thousand food and drink founders – from fledgling start-ups to Food and Drink’s biggest names – will descend upon the Institute of Directors in Pall Mall on October 6th and 7th. Their mission is to savour Bread & Jam’s ground-breaking agenda of talks, workshops, panels and meet-the- buyer sessions that tackle the five biggest […]

Leading label manufacturer, The Label Makers, has recently invested in a inkjet imaging film solution from the Dantex Group, replacing their traditional imagesetter. The Bradford based firm says that the move will increase its capability in responding to increasing customer demand for advanced embellishment options. The Dantex Star Plate product, which fully integrates with The […]

Narrow web specialist Pulse Roll Label Products will unveil its latest ink and varnish developments and showcase solutions for next generation label printing at Labelexpo Europe 2017. The company will present new products and value-added solutions that enable label printers to become more competitive. Managing Director, Gary Seward, said: “As well as formulating products for […]

M&H Plastics continues to strive for excellence with another site being awarded the AA Grade for the global BRC standard. Through continued improvement and attention to detail, M&H Ellough has improved its BRC grade from an A to an AA grade. M&H Ellough is the latest site within the M&H division to receive or improve […]

Earlier this year the NFU called for the introduction of mandatory origin labelling of meat and milk in processed products. However, Martin Coates, MD of Bristol-based Food Traceability and data management software specialist, Agrantec Ltd, believes that much more can be done by adopting an ‘active labelling’ approach. “While schemes such as the Red Tractor […]