Brand News

  • Starbucks introduces reusable cups in US

    EVER GOT to the supermarket and forgotten to bring the 63 plastic bags you have at home? It’s not easy being green, but Starbucks is relying on its customers to help it cut waste.   The coffee chain is rolling… Read More

  • Smoothie brand gets new year boost

    INNOCENT HAS launched a new campaign for their on-the-go smoothie range.   The £1.1 million multi- media campaign is being used to promote the message that each smoothie contains two of people’s five-a-day.   Following a tough couple of years… Read More

  • Nestlé coffee award

    NESTLE’S WORK to help cocoa and coffee farmers adapt to environmental challenges has been recognised as an example of best practice by the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).   The company is helping farmers preserve crops vulnerable… Read More

  • Nestlé’s palm oil turnaround

    NESTLE HAS come a long way since that viral in 2010 – the one with the bored office worker who bites off a finger of a Kit Kat that turns out to be a bloody orang-utan finger. Campaigners at Greenpeace… Read More

  • Starbucks to pay more tax

    THE ONLY things certain in life are death and taxes. Unless you are Google, Amazon or Starbucks, of course.   But in an “unprecedented” move, the latter has now decided to pay corporation tax in the UK “above what is… Read More

  • Whitbread among best for carbon reporting

    WHEN IT COMES to carbon reporting, it’s the supermarkets that remain the top students. Hospitality businesses, meanwhile, still have a lot to do.   That’s according to new research published today by Carbon Clear. The carbon management company has analysed… Read More

  • KFC packs go green

    KFC UK/IRELAND has officially ditched suppliers actively involved in rainforest clearance.   The UK arm of KFC, part of the Kentucky-based Yum! Brands, has updated its policy statement on packaging sourcing yesterday after a Greenpeace investigation found KFC using packaging… Read More

  • Unilever offers new nutrition training

    UNILEVER FOOD Solutions (UFS) has launched an “industry-first” health and nutrition training programme to help lecturers raise awareness and improve catering students’ knowledge of nutrition in the workplace.   The interactive programme – called “Understanding Nutrition in Commercial Kitchens” –… Read More

  • FootprintComment: Tracey Rogers of UFS talks about food waste

    ONE YEAR on, Tracey Rogers, managing director of Unilever Food Solutions comments exclusively to FoodserviceFootprint.com about the impact of United Against Waste.                      “A year ago we called upon the industry… Read More

  • Airline upcycles 4 million plastic bottles

    AFTER SIX months of research and design, Virgin Atlantic has today revealed amenity kits made of 100% recycled material.   The kits have been designed with sustainability in mind. They’re made from recycled PET (rPET) material which smashes, melts, polymerizes… Read More