All Salad articles
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Profiles and Q&As
My Alternative CV: The Salad Project’s James Dare on mirrors, Football Manager and Macklemore
’I don’t believe in interviewing as a process. I’d rather show them what I can do than tell them’
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News
Florette launches £1m summer marketing campaign
The campaign includes a sponsorship of Food Network and a TV advertising campaign
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Analysis & Features
City BBQs, vegan appetites and budget constraints: 10 charts on barbecues
As summer approaches, what are Brits putting on the barbie? And how do habits differ between age, location and gender?
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News
Media Bites 1 March: Ocado, Sainsbury’s/Argos, grocery inflation
Annual losses at Ocado have skyrocketed as shoppers cut back on online grocery purchases and costs were driven up by inflation and technology spending
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News
Defra meeting with supermarkets over fruit & veg shortages ‘achieves little’
Retail bosses are understood to have been irritated by headlines at the weekend saying they were being ‘hauled in front’ of ministers to explain fruit & veg shortages
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News
Florette and Higgidy announce partnership to give shoppers better value
The partnership will include recipe inspiration and promotions to support consumers
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News
Media Bites 28 February: Fruit & veg shortages, John Lewis, M&S, Primark, Morrisons
Ongoing fruit & veg shortages continue to make headlines, with the papers also reporting on Pippa Wicks parting ways with John Lewis and the latest ABF results
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News
Lidl becomes latest retailer to ration fresh produce amid shortages
It follows similar moves by Tesco, Aldi, Asda and Morrisons, which issued buying restrictions on some lines last week in light of empty shelves
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Comment & Opinion
With the King invested in food poverty, it’s time to subsidise redistribution
Surely human consumption is a better social, economic and environmental outcome than anaerobic digestion?
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News
Fruit & veg crisis: farmers slam Thérèse Coffey’s response
Criticism of the Defra secretary comes amid myriad crises across British food production
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News
Media Bites 24 February: Fruit & veg shortages, ice cream, consumer confidence
The papers are still dominated by the fruit & veg shortages on supermarket shelves.
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Long reads
Why fruit & veg shortages are only a tiny bit about Brexit
The British Retail Consortium cited “difficult weather conditions in the south of Europe and northern Africa”, which had disrupted harvests for products such as tomatoes and peppers. But critics have pointed to plentiful produce elsewhere in Europe
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News
Growers buoyed by living wage change for seasonal staff
Farming minister Mark Spencer this week delivered a welcome boost to growers, who will no longer be expected to pay the premium of previous years
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News
GrowUp Farms rolls vertically grown salad bags into Iceland
The launch was described as an ‘industry first’ by the business
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News
Media Bites 23 February: Fruit & veg shortages, inflation, Danone
Environment secretary Therese Coffey was booed by farmers after saying UK egg shortages had not been caused by “market failure”, as the country’s biggest supermarket became the latest to ration purchases of some fruit and vegetables.
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News
UK salad production to hit lowest levels since records began
NFU president Minette Batters said British farming was in peril as the worst is yet to come from an increasingly alarming slump in production
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News
Media Bites 21 February: NFU, fruit & veg, Aldi, Tesco
“Volatility, uncertainty and instability” are endangering UK farm businesses, according to the National Farmers’ Union, which is urging the government to support British food producers so they can keep supplying squeezed UK households and a growing global population.
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News
Morrisons launches third wave of price cuts this year
The move follows cuts across more than 800 products last month
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Analysis & Features
The big food & drink greenwashing crackdown
Now sustainability is a big priority for shoppers, eco-claims are everywhere. Yet so too are accusations of greenwashing. So the crackdown is on, with everyone from watchdogs to financial investors placing the claims of food companies in their crosshairs
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News
Barratt unveils confectionery NPD pipeline to lure in younger consumers
The confectionery brand has NPD planned for autumn, which will further expand its offering of softer, gummy sweets