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Jun
26

Only 4% of UK adults hit their daily fibre target — and staple foods are the biggest lever to fix it

 A BNF report points manufacturers toward "health-by-stealth" reformulation of bread, cereals and snacks rather than specialist products most consumers never buy.
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Jun
26

Daabon buys Agropalma to become the Americas' largest sustainable palm oil producer

 The Colombian family business enters Brazil with 39,000 hectares of planted palm, six extraction plants, and 5,000 new employees — all EUDR-compliant.
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Jun
26

Lactalis takes Nutri-Score to the EU's top court over dairy downgrade

 The dairy giant argues the scheme's 2023 algorithm changes unfairly penalise dairy products and breach EU food information law — a ruling could take two years..
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Jun
26

Nestlé merges communications and sustainability under one chief

 Antonia Wanner steps up as the company looks to rebuild credibility — bringing ESG accountability and public narrative under the same roof.
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Jun
26

Musgrave posts €5.5bn turnover as profit reaches €132.9m in FY2025

 The Irish grocery group grew revenue 5.4% year on year, underscoring the resilience of its retail model despite ongoing cost pressures across the sector..
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Jun
26

UK retailers throw their weight behind EUDR-aligned deforestation rules

 With Defra promising to further decouple British consumption from global forest loss, the industry is signalling it can live with tougher due diligence requirements.
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Jun
26

The GLP-1 rebound: why food manufacturers need to think beyond weight loss

 When appetite returns after stopping medication, consumers face unfamiliar hunger cues and portion anxiety — creating a new brief for product developers around "structured satisfaction."
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Jun
25

Hershey bets on PepsiCo veteran to reignite US growth

 Heather Hoytink takes the helm as US president, bringing major CPG firepower to Hershey's next growth chapter.
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Jun
25

GLP-1 drugs are changing how people snack — confectionery is adapting, not retreating

 Appetite-suppressant drugs are reshaping consumer behaviour, but sweet sales remain resilient and savvy manufacturers are already spotting the opportunity.
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Jun
25

Ten years on: what Brexit really did to food and drink

 A decade after the UK voted to leave the EU, the impacts on food and beverage have been wide-ranging — and the verdict is far from clear-cut.
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Jun
25

KitKat goes regenerative — and the rest of confectionery may have to follow

 Nestlé's switch to regenerative wheat in one of its biggest global brands puts mainstream muscle behind a sourcing shift that could reset industry standards.
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Jun
25

Fermentation is giving snack formulators a new answer to flavour, heat and clean label — all at once

 As consumers push for bolder taste and shorter ingredient decks, fermentation is emerging as one of the most versatile tools in the snack developer's arsenal.
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Jun
25

UK deforestation rules put supply chain traceability firmly in the spotlight

 Incoming mandatory due diligence legislation will require ingredient suppliers to prove their forest-risk commodities aren't linked to illegal deforestation.
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Jun
25

Asda hands Amazon the keys to its retail media operation

 The supermarket becomes the first UK retailer to deploy Amazon's Retail Ad Service.
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Jun
24

UK government set to introduce its own anti-deforestation legislation, mirroring the approach of the EU's EUDR

 The move would create a British equivalent of the EU regulation, placing new due diligence obligations on businesses that source commodities linked to forest clearance
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Jun
24

UK supermarket sales jump 4.6% as the year's second heatwave sends shoppers stocking up on summer staples

 Till data for the four weeks to 13 June shows the hot spell in the final two weeks of May was the primary driver of the latest uplift in grocery spending
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Jun
24

Poppi's UK debut helps push the pre and probiotic soda category to nearly 350% year-on-year growth

 The US brand's arrival has added £8.5m in retail sales value to a category that was already expanding rapidly before its launch
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Jun
24

Deteriorating soil health is making UK food price shocks worse and more frequent, new analysis warns

 NGO Save Soil says degraded agricultural land is amplifying the impact of supply disruptions, adding further upward pressure on household grocery bills that are already strained by wider inflationary forces
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Jun
24

Tesco completes its cage-free egg transition across all own-brand shell and ingredient products in the UK and Ireland

 The milestone fulfils a commitment made a decade ago in 2016 and puts Tesco alongside Asda and Lidl, which made similar announcements earlier this year
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Jun
24

Mars is struggling to remove artificial dyes from its products as reformulation proves harder than anticipated

 The confectionery giant's pledge to go artificial-dye-free is running into significant technical obstacles, with maintaining colour consistency and taste parity emerging as major challenges across its portfolio
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