Rodney Jack
Big on ambition
Data will play a more important role in food production growth but how can those who use it understand how data is handled and how to trust it?
Flexibility matters – matching supply with demand
Supplying more products to offer more choices for consumers is no longer the case, it’s focussing on what customers want.
Active ingredient
Bakery businesses could be a major beneficiary of a networked ingredients marketplace called TraceGains. Rodney Jack hears more from founder Gary Nowacki about the company: what they do; achieving visibility and productivity through collaboration; overcoming today’s supply chain challenges; and bringing people and ingredient data together in new ways to achieve business agility
Problem solved?
Well, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has brokered a UK-EU agreement intended to make trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland flow more easily. The food and drink industry’s representatives have been understandably cautious.
From bar to boardroom: women in the drinks industry
Despite an equal gender distribution across entry level positions, women make up less than 25 per cent of executive roles in the food and drink industry. As a sector leader with over 20 years of MD/CEO experience, Dannie Dannie McDonald, managing director of luxury drinks brand Gunner Cocktails, tells Rodney Jack of her journey from pulling pints to running a global drinks brand
Never too plate
Animal-source foods will continue to play an important role globally in ensuring healthy and sustainable diets.
Will 2023 be the year of cultivated meat?
Cultivated meat has the investment behind it so can 2023 be the year it breaks through?
Food Ingredients Europe returns with a buzz
FIE is certainly grabbing visitors’ attention for the right reasons.
The ABC of CBD
The FSA published its list of food products containing cannabidiol (CBD) that enables these to be retailed as novel food. Is this the difference-maker industry needs?
Deep inflation
Inflation has increased sharply in recent months in many countries around the world compounded by supply chain problems and the rising price of energy.
Use it or lose it
What a waste. The average Brit throws away £303 worth of food a year on average due to it being past its best before date.
Active choice
Sustainability considerations now influence the majority of the world’s grocery shoppers when buying packaged foods.
All you can sweet
ISM kicked off last weekend with the leading trade fair presenting the latest trends and new products for the sweets and snack sector. As you would expect, a full spectrum of categories – from plant-based to immune-boosting and full of energy products – was on show.
Perfect harmony?
Coca Cola’s new packaging across the entire range of drinks, along with a brand new flavour, Mocha, is causing a bit of debate online.