The Free From sector appears to be following in the footsteps of organic and Fairtrade and moving out of the ghetto and into the mainstream. Clear evidence of this move was the fact that this year for the first time the coveted Gold Q at the Quality Food Awards was given to a Free From [...]
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Monthly Briefings
Having worked in the international food industry now for over thirty years I have been able to observe it’s cyclical nature. When confronted with a challenge to the status quo the classic progression goes: ignore (hope it goes away), ridicule (why would you want to eat that?), assimilate (hmm…maybe there’s money to be made here), [...]
February 8th 2010
From www.foodnavigator.com
The European Commission has today announced the winner of its contest to design a new logo to appear on all organic food and beverage products in the European Union: a leaf-shaped design from Germany that attracted 63 per cent of the votes.
The Commission turned to design students to come up with the [...]
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Organic has taken a bit of a battering this year . UK sales seem to be down in many sectors: TNS reckon -14% year-on-year. The recession caused many light-green consumers to question the benefits they got from organic purchases and the FSA’s badly designed attack on nutritional benefits did not help. Envious eyes have [...]
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From FoodNavigator.com
“The European Commission yesterday unveiled the three finalists in its contest for design students to come up with the new logo that will be mandatory on all organic food and beverage products, under the 2007 EU regulation on organic foods (834/2007).
A spokesperson for the Commission told FoodNavigator.com that after public vote, which is open [...]
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To the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park hotel for the launch of Fair, “the worlds first Fairtrade Certified Vodka”. And jolly nice it is too. My first martini (ginger and lemon) was a little uneventful but the Chocolate Martini (made with Divine chocolate) and the Fairspresso Martini (using Cafédirect coffee) were both sensational. The founders of [...]
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A recent report by Consumer Focus (formerly known as the National Consumer Council) has rated the main UK supermarket groups on their ability to help their customers shop more sustainably. The report is entitled “Green to the core? How supermarkets can help make greener shopping easier” It can be downloaded from www.consumerfocus.org.uk
This is the third [...]
The May Fair Hotel, London, October 10-11 2009
This show was held to promote and coincide with National Chocolate Week.
The format was a large single room with simple tasting tables plus an additional room for lectures.
Companies exhibited included:
Hotel Chocolat – Angus Thirlwewll was one of the speakers (www.hotelchocolat.co.uk)
Galler (www.galler.com) – interesting range based on the four [...]
Report from Jim Manson at www.naturalproductsonline.co.uk
“Everyone knows the organic sector needs to do a better job at explaining its benefits, but how to go about it?
That was the straightforward but simultaneously tricky question under debate at a one-day conference in London on October 8th 2009.
‘Selling organic: What’s the story?’ — hosted by Organic Farmers & [...]
Mark Price, Managing Director, Waitrose
What constitutes real value? Correct price, quality and fairness of sourcing. Fairness will become a key feature of the business landscape.
Over the next twenty years importing some staples looks difficult… power will [...]