• Foodservice News Analysis , Health and Vitality

  CMO’s report on obesity: initial reaction

  The chief medical officer Professor Dame Sally Davies has published her analysis of how the government can best tackle childhood obesity.  Within the first page or so it was obvious...

• Foodservice News Analysis , Numbers you need to know

  Footprint Five: the September stories and statistics you might have missed

  From farmers fighting back to the plummeting price of eggs, here’s David Burrows’ round-up of the news that may have escaped your attention last month Don’t diss dairy. The health...

• Grocery industry sector news updates

  Supermarkets ‘complicit’ in stripping oceans of wild fish

  Campaigners are calling for an end to the practice of feeding farmed fish with wild-caught fish after an investigation found links between seafood sold by UK supermarket chains and unsustainable...

• Grocery industry sector news updates

  Farmers accuse Tesco of ‘demonising meat’

  The National Farmers Union (NFU) has reacted angrily to a new Tesco advert which promotes the supermarket’s Plant Chef range. The farming group has raised its objection to a TV...

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• Foodservice News Analysis , Next Green Thing

  The Next Green Thing: Seaweed

  Did you know that feeding seaweed to cattle and sheep can significantly cut the emissions of the greenhouse gas methane – a by-product of the animals’ burping? Nick Hughes explains…...

• Foodservice News Analysis , Green Scene , Green Scene

  Analysis: Mind the emissions gap – why now is the time to act

  The latest UN report shows that climate action is lagging well behind what’s needed. Countries must get serious, say experts at the World Resources Institute. The UN’s annual Emissions Gap...

• Foodservice News Analysis , Numbers you need to know

  Footprint Five: the September stories and statistics you might have missed

  From farmers fighting back to the plummeting price of eggs, here’s David Burrows’ round-up of the news that may have escaped your attention last month Don’t diss dairy. The health...

• Political Print

  Plastic tax gets green light

  The government has reiterated plans to charge for single-use plastic items as part of package of measures to tackle waste set out in the Queen’s Speech. Plans to extend producer...

• Behind the Headlines , Foodservice News Analysis

  Unpacking the problem with life cycle analyses

  Companies are desperate to understand which packaging materials have the lowest environmental impact, but are life cycle analyses being manipulated and misused to present skewed results? By David Burrows Huhtamaki’s...

• Foodservice Industry Briefing , Foodservice News Analysis

  Eating Better targets 50% chop in meat consumption

  The ambitious goal, to be achieved by 2030, would represent the most radical shift in diets since the Second World War, writes Nick Hughes From cutting sugar to ditching plastics,...

• Foodservice News Analysis , Waste Watch

  Plastics Package: No time for toying around

  This month’s package is committed to reduction (and is doing it for the kids) Schools have all shut up shop for the summer holidays, leaving many parents facing a rollercoaster...

• Foodservice News Analysis , Health and Vitality

  CMO’s report on obesity: initial reaction

  The chief medical officer Professor Dame Sally Davies has published her analysis of how the government can best tackle childhood obesity.  Within the first page or so it was obvious...

• My Viewpoint

  Eating up the planet – how our food system needs urgent change to protect the environment

  David Read, Chairman and Founder of Prestige Purchasing thinks we all have a critical role in building a better food system. In the middle of what is perhaps the biggest...

• Comment

  A measure of progress

  Introducing metrics for assessing the food industry as it moves towards delivering sustainable and healthy diets would be in investors’ interests, writes Will Nicholson, project lead at Plating up Progress....

• Comment , Health and Vitality

  Promoting plant-based meals? Don’t forget the 80%

  The two most impactful ways of reducing the footprint of our food are: reducing food waste along the whole food production and consumption chain; and consuming fewer animal products, writes...

• Food service industry event reports , Foodservice industry news , Foodservice News and Information

  Footprint, Sodexo & PHE host roundtable event to discuss the government’s approach to childhood obesity

  Footprint, Sodexo & Public Health England (PHE) hosted a roundtable event and  to discuss the reduction and reformulation agenda for food suppliers in the UK. PHE presented the government’s plans to...

• Food service industry event reports

  Key learnings from Health & Vitality 2019

  Nudges, nutrition, and the need for urgent action: key learnings from the 2019 Health and Vitality Honours. Amy Fetzer reports You could feel it in the air: the change in...

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  How many glasses of English sparkling wine can you see on the tray. Email answers to competitions@footprint.digital Competition ends 31st January. See Terms & Conditions here...

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• Intelligence , Research

  Intelligence , Research

  Footprint intelligence

  Market research exists to guide your brand by giving you insight to your competitors, your markets, your own products and its perceptions, the effectiveness of your marketing, your costumers, trends...

• Reports

  Reports

  The future of foodservice packaging

  It gives us great pleasure to introduce The future of foodservice packaging report. The sustainability of packaging is one of the most pressing issues faced by the foodservice and hospitality...

• Analysis , Foodservice News Analysis

  How Facebook’s big data could be harnessed for good

  The Cambridge Analytica scandal shouldn’t blind us to the possibility of using the platform to promote healthy living. By David Burrows. A friend messaged me last week. “Feeling rather smug...

• Best Practice

  Sodexo: first global food services company to connect its financing to action to prevent food waste

  Sodexo has renewed its €1.3 billion revolving credit facility (RCF) which now incorporates a pricing adjustment based on Sodexo’s performance towards its goal to prevent 50% of the food waste...

• Best Practice

  Breakthrough technology takes plastic from the ocean and uses it in a Coca-Cola bottle

  Coca-Cola has unveiled its first ever sample bottle made using recovered and recycled marine plastics, demonstrating that one day, even ocean debris could be used in recycled packaging for food...

• Green Movers , People

  Sodexo appoints Social Impact Director

  Sodexo has appointed Angela Halliday as Director of Social Impact with responsibility for driving Sodexo’s social value strategy for the UK & Ireland. As a ‘green rated’ strategic supplier to...