From the category archives:
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 [...]
From www.foodnavigator.com, written by Jess Halliday 11th September 2009
“Whether or not organic food brings nutritional benefits over conventional food has been a matter of considerable inquiry and debate. The issue came to a head last month when a study commissioned by the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) concluded that there is no evidence of nutritional [...]
From www.IGD.com, published 25.08.09
” Despite the tough economic conditions at home, British shoppers are showing increasing concern over the welfare of people producing their food and groceries in developing countries.
Research released today by international food and grocery expert IGD shows that:
More than half (52%) of shoppers feel that the pay and conditions of people producing [...]
Caroline Scott-Thomas, FoodNavigator.com, 21 August 2009
“Market research organization IGD has concluded that the organic food sector needs to do more to build consumer awareness of organics’ wider benefits to avoid losing customers to other ethical issues.
Its new research shows that ten per cent of UK shoppers say they have found other products that are cheaper than [...]