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UK TV ban for large unhealthy food brands
Only SME producers of unhealthy food will be allowed to advertise before 9pm on TV in the UK from the...
Private equity on an $8 billion supermarket sweep
Bloomberg reports that US buyout group Clayton, Dubilier & Rice LLC has chosen a soft target in approaching Wm Morrison...
UK food and drink exports to EU fall by almost half
UK exports of food and drink to the EU dropped by almost half in the first three months of 2021...
Big chocolate wins child case in US Supreme Court
Fortune reports that US Supreme Court justices have ruled, eight to one, that Nestlé USA and Cargill could not be...
UK develops anti-greenwashing investment framework
As the appetite for sustainable investment grows, the UK has set out to create a common framework, setting the bar...
UK’s Morrisons faces investor heat over unhealthy food
Reuters reports that Morrisons is the latest British supermarket group to be targeted by activist shareholders over the amount of unhealthy...
Informed choice: the startup using food labels to save the planet
A handful of graduates have delivered a solution which eluded business and policy for decades – a consumer-facing carbon label...
Cyberattack on food supply followed years of warnings
Politico says security analysts from the University of Minnesota warned the US Agriculture Department in late May about a cyber...
The rise of food tech
Mark Lynch, partner at Oghma Partners, writes in Private Equity Wire that the current food revolution may be as far...
Food companies cannot have it both ways
A Financial Times editorial article says it should come as no surprise that many product lines of a company that...
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