Out of Home sector news
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Knorr marches towards meeting bold sustainable sourcing commitments
TO MARK its 175th anniversary, Unilever’s biggest food brand Knorr announced great progress on its commitment to sustainably sourcing its agricultural ingredients and revealed the results of a new global consumer survey looking at shopping attitudes and purchase behaviour. The… Read More
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Tesco publishes food waste figures
TESCO HAS become the first major UK retailer to publish a complete report of its food waste. The supermarket giant tracked 25 of its bestselling products, from farm to fork, to assess where in the supply chain waste was… Read More
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Seafish seek seafood businesses to trial energy ‘hotspots’ profiling tool
THE DEVELOPERS of an intelligent tool that could be used to profile greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the seafood product supply chain are seeking businesses to take part in user trials. Seafish, with partners SINTEF and Dalhousie University, have… Read More
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The foodservice sector is NO poor relation when it comes to Health & Vitality initiatives
“THE FOODSERVICE sector isn’t the poor relation of grocery retail when it comes to health and vitality initiatives”! This was the overwhelming message delivered by industry experts from across the hospitality industry who gathered at the Department of Health… Read More
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Seven famous chefs to cook seven exquisite courses for FoodCycle charity Mardi Gras feast
SEVEN CHEFS including Giorgio Locatelli, Claude Bosi and Anna Hansen are to take on the challenge of each cooking a course out of surplus ingredients for FoodCycle’s Mardi Gras fundraising dinner at The Grand Hall, Battersea Arts Centre on February… Read More
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New project sets out positive uses for discards
A DISCARDS research project “Utilisation of discards in bait”, funded by Seafish and Defra, has identified new uses for species commonly discarded due to weak or absent markets. The Defra initiative… Read More
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Collaboration could deliver 30% savings in food waste processing across hospitality sector
A NEW report commissioned by the Hospitality Carbon Reduction Forum (HCRF), whose members include Whitbread, J D Wetherspoons, Mitchells and Butlers, Nandos and Hammerson shows that food waste management costs could be reduced by 30% and much less food be… Read More
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Good hospital food needn’t cost more
FIGURES RELEASED from the Health and Social Care Information Centre yesterday reveal that spending on patient food varies widely between hospitals – with the cost of patient food per day ranging from as little as £2.55 up to £31.00. … Read More
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Call for better food systems to fight hunger and malnutrition
BETTER FOOD systems are required in order to defeat hunger and malnutrition around the globe was the key message coming from the observance of World Food Day at FAO headquarters. World… Read More