CONSUMERS ARE being warned of the hidden sugar in some everyday products marketed as being healthier. Ready meals, soups, sauces and yoghurts have all been found to contain high levels of sugar. Manufacturers keen to market products as “low in fat” or [...]
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THE COMPANY best-known for making the Comic Relief Red Noses and the plastic ruler has come up with another first. After years of research, Invicta Plastics has created the world’s first rigid and durable products made solely from regular plastic drinking bottles, lids and [...]
AS NEW YORK bans giant servings amid growing pressure to confront obesity, Footprint asks if the UK’s soft drinks face hard regulation. Last month Coca-Cola unveiled a new advert, but it’s not just any advert. Instead of relating its drinks to happiness the [...]
HAVE YOU ever been to a Tesco café? The coffee might as well be instant, the food all tastes of beige and don’t even consider using the toilets. Morrisons isn’t much better. TripAdvisor had a review recently for Morrisons café in Wisbech which about sums it up: “Prices acceptable and food and drink OK. Certainly [...]
HAVE YOU ever been midway through the company’s annual sustainability report and thought: who on earth is going to read this? Well, perhaps you should. “I think we need to think harder about who our audiences are, and who we want them to be,” says Lucinda Hensman, associate director for corporate responsibility and sustainability communications [...]
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 peoples five-a-day. Following a tough couple of years at the start of the credit crunch, [...]
THE SUSTAINABILITY report is dead. Long live the sustainability factsheet, or interactive website or anything but a dull 40-page document that very few people will read. Sustainability reporting has come on leaps and bounds in the past 10 to 20 years, with some of the [...]
VENDING MACHINES in America will soon carry information about the calories in the drinks on offer. The new Calories Count Vending Program will be launched in municipal buildings in the cities of Chicago and San Antonio next year before being made available to vending customers nationwide. Building upon previous industry initiatives that removed [...]
WITH MASSIVE sponsorship from fast food companies and a veil of secrecy covering alternative catering, London 2012 was quickly titled the junk food Olympics. But was that an accurate moniker, and could it actually have a positive outcome? Long billed as the largest peacetime catering [...]
THE FOOD and drink industry has been praised by Lord Smith, Chairman of the Environment Agency, for cutting the environmental costs of feeding Britain. Speaking during a visit to Coca-Colas factory in Wakefield, Lord Smith praised efforts by food and drink manufacturers to cut their [...]
