Great British Puds hanging bags launched by Swizzels

Great British Puds hanging bags launched by Swizzels

Date: April 22, 2020Leave a comment

Swizzels has launched a new hanging bag product, Great British Puds. The new line includes four varieties of individually-wrapped chew bars in classic British dessert flavours: sticky toffee pudding, lemon […]

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Surplus soft drinks and other products offered by MJ Baker

Surplus soft drinks and other products offered by MJ Baker

Date: April 22, 2020Leave a comment

MJ Baker Foodservice, of Newton Abbot, Devon, is still actively looking for buyers for excess stock it wishes to shift. “This is across ambient, frozen and chilled, and I have […]

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Bestway Wholesale accounts show full extent of ‘underperformance’

Bestway Wholesale accounts show full extent of ‘underperformance’

Date: April 21, 2020Leave a comment

The Bestway Wholesale accounts for the year ending June 2019 have been published and reveal the full extent of the ‘underperformance’ described by group chief executive Lord Zameer Choudrey. The […]

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Tata donates to GroceryAid as demand grows for the charity’s services

Tata donates to GroceryAid as demand grows for the charity’s services

Date: April 20, 2020Leave a comment

Tata Consumer Products has donated £150,000 to GroceryAid, at a time when calls on the charity’s services are growing significantly as the wider impacts of social distancing, reduced economic circumstances […]

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Booker catering business down 60% but sales to retailers up 30%

Booker catering business down 60% but sales to retailers up 30%

Date: April 18, 2020Leave a comment

Booker’s sales to retailers during the Covid-19 crisis are growing at around 30%, while the catering business is nearly 60% down, according to Dave Lewis, chief executive of parent company […]

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Blakemore supplies ‘help from hospital’ bags

Blakemore supplies ‘help from hospital’ bags

Date: April 18, 2020Leave a comment

AF Blakemore has partnered with the Royal Voluntary Service on a number of initiatives to help vulnerable people and NHS workers during the Coronavirus crisis. The company has secured a […]

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Unitas wholesalers deliver thousands of Easter eggs to essential workers

Unitas wholesalers deliver thousands of Easter eggs to essential workers

Date: April 18, 2020Leave a comment

Members of Unitas Wholesale teamed up with Mondelez to donate and distribute more than 78,000 Easter eggs to foodbanks, care homes, hospitals, frontline NHS staff and emergency workers across the […]

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Employers can apply for HMRC furlough payments on Monday 20 April

Employers can apply for HMRC furlough payments on Monday 20 April

Date: April 18, 2020Leave a comment

Monday 20 April is an important day for all employers who have furloughed their workers as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) goes live at 8am with full digital support. […]

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Brakes launches home delivery and call & collect for consumers

Brakes launches home delivery and call & collect for consumers

Date: April 17, 2020Leave a comment

Members of the public can now take advantage of two new services from Brakes. The home delivery and call & collect services, called Food Shop, offer over 6,000 products including […]

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Food and drink donations requested for mental health facility

Food and drink donations requested for mental health facility

Date: April 17, 2020Leave a comment

Charlton Lane Hospital, a mental health facility in Cheltenham, and its sister hospital, Wotton Lawn in Gloucester, is asking food and drink suppliers to donate items for goody bags for […]

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CJ Lang gives 8,000 sandwiches to disadvantaged people in Dundee

CJ Lang gives 8,000 sandwiches to disadvantaged people in Dundee

Date: April 17, 2020Leave a comment

CJ Lang & Son, the wholesaler to SPAR stores in Scotland, has donated 8,000 sandwiches to a number of good causes. CJ Lang & Son contacted local charity Dundee Bairns […]

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Steve Barnett, trading director of Costco UK, dies

Steve Barnett, trading director of Costco UK, dies

Date: April 14, 2020Leave a comment

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Steve Barnett, trading director of Costco UK. One of the original nine-strong Costco UK set-up team, Barnett (pictured) was […]

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