The latest grocery market share figures from Kantar show total year-on-year sales increased by 2.0% during the 12 weeks to 21 April 2019. Bolstered by a…
Month: April 2019
Organic certifier OF&G (Organic Farmers and Growers) has joined forces with global accreditor Control Union UK (CUUK) to open and expand markets for UK organic food…
The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) has today a €1 billion loans package targeting specifically young farmers. In 2017, 27% of the loan…
According to several media reports, Sainsbury’s has decided it will no longer sell barn eggs from 2020, a decision the retailer has refused to comment on.…
2 Sisters is introducing a new three-year finance graduate training scheme starting in September 2019. Spearheaded by Dan Slater, group financial controller, and Siobhan Baird, group…
The CMA has blocked the Sainsbury’s-Asda merger after finding it would lead to increased prices in stores, online and at many petrol stations across the UK.…
NFU President Minette Batters and NFU Vice President Stuart Roberts are this weekend donning their running gear for the London Marathon, in aid of the Farm…
Yorkshire-based poultry processor Soanes Poultry has appointed a new managing director and restructured its board in a move is said would better align the business with…
By Charles Bourns, poultry farmer and chair of Copa Cogeca working group on poultry and eggs What a funny world we live in, if it wasn’t…
Bernard Matthews has been given the go-ahead to build a chicken processing factory in Suffolk, extending its current factory in Holton on to adjacent land. The poultry…