DeRosier Chocolate and Coffee 81 Revelstoke Road Southfields London SW18 5NL www.derosierchocolates.com Opened in August 2012, my local coffee shop DeRosier is coming up for its first birthday so it seemed a good time to talk to founders Leona and Andrew. Named after Leona’s maiden-name, DeRosier offers gourmet eats and drinks to the residents of [...]
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Doom and gloom surrounding the UK organic market partially dispelled… Boom in online sales Organic shoppers are increasingly choosing the convenience and variety offered by home delivery over limited ranges at many supermarkets. A striking success in 2012 was seen by Ocado, increasing organic sales by 6.4%, and overtaking Asda and Morrisons to become the [...]
Written for the 2013 IFE website http://www.ife.co.uk/page.cfm/link=254 Q. With the organic industry facing a challenging time, are consumers more swayed by terms such as natural as purse strings get ever tighter? Do consumers really understand what natural means and how it is communicated on-pack? Is the lack of an industry-wide standard regarding what constitutes “natural” confusing consumers? [...]
This article originally appeared in Fine Food Business magazine, Autumn 2012 A recent report by Reuters challenged the assumption that chocolate is a recession-proof treat that consumers continue to buy despite the grim economic outlook. Analysts said worsening economic conditions in the euro zone had prompted a sharp slowdown in European demand for chocolate. In [...]
The number of local lines sold in Tesco has risen by more than 40% in the past five years as demand for regional produce grows. The retailer carried just under 2,800 local lines in 2007: it now stocks more than 4,000. 54% of Tesco shoppers say they are buying more local products than they [...]
Andrew Burgess, Director of Agriculture at Produce World, cites the purchase frequency of organic carrots as having increased by 4.6% as consumers buy more often, whilst both Sainsbury’s and Waitrose announce increased sales of organic carrots at +3.8% and +12.4% respectively. Organic onions are +15.5% and organic parsnips are +73% The Grocer and www.farminguk.com
A recent report by Reuters challenged the assumption that chocolate is a recession-proof treat that consumers continue to buy despite the grim economic outlook. Analysts said worsening economic conditions in the euro zone had prompted a sharp slowdown in European demand for chocolate. In Switzerland, the world’s top chocolate consumer, domestic chocolate consumption dropped about [...]
You are a small supplier who wants to start dealing with a supermarket. So you need to talk to a buyer. So you ring. And email. And ring. And email. No luck. My record is 15 months trying to get hold of one particular buyer without success (it turned out she’d left the business 3 [...]
Sir Julia Glotz’s article in this weeks edition raises some important issues around how to share risk and reward in the UK dairy industry. The Soil Association have successfully launched an Ethical Trade certification which deals with just this issue ( soilassociation.org/ethicaltrade ). We considered setting a minimum price per commodity along the lines of the Fairtrade [...]
My thanks to Anthony Rickards @ Planet Organic for forwarding this presentation, which was delivered at this year’s Expo West trade show by Bob Anderson and Jessica Poingt of the Organic Trade Association. Key statistics US organic market worth around $32 Billion Organic food sales grew +11% over the preceding 13 weeks (non-organic food sales [...]