Market Insight

Ritam Gandhi, Founder and Director of Studio Graphene, explains why startups in the food, drink and retail sector need to partner with large corporates as a way of achieving sustainable and long-term growth. A cursory glance at the UK’s food and [read more…]

Growers deal with a lot in providing the freshest and safest products for customers. From increasingly frequent headlines about cross-contamination to concerns about hygiene, quality control, operational efficiency, environmental impact and cost reduction, the challenge [read more…]

Almost nine in 10 industry professionals believe that 3PLs could be delivering more for their customers, according to research taken before the 16th SCALA Annual Supply Chain Debate. Over 150 professionals attended Coombe Abbey in [read more…]

As a growing number of consumers turn their backs on traditional nights out, in favour of evenings at home, Marston’s PLC has unveiled its latest Off Trade Beer Report to help retailers grow their beer sales [read more…]

A collective of more than 30 organisations from across the UK’s food and drink supply chain have today (Wednesday 19th June) published A Recipe for Growth, Prosperity and Sustainability: the UK Food and Drink Industry’s Plan [read more…]

Peter Tetlow, Client Solutions Director at Ventrica, asks whether the FMCG industry really understands what the customer experience is and offers ways on how to improve it. A starting point is to look at what experts [read more…]

Philip Simpson, commercial director at the UK’s leading food waste recycler, ReFood, welcomes the idea of issuing fines for food waste and outlines his views on the issue. There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that [read more…]

FMCG suppliers and retailers need to improve the shopper’s online path to purchase in order to maximise the benefit of online as a grocery shopping channel, after figures showed that growth in the channel is [read more…]