Welcome to the October issue of Wholesale Manager. Plan for Profit, the award winning retail initiative, has launched a brand new product check tool to help independent retailers prepare for the new High Fat Sugar & Salt (HFSS) legislation coming into effect from October 2022.
Retailers can access this vital resource via the Plan for Profit website or by visiting www.hfssproductcheck.co.uk. This dedicated website offers retailers support and advice on what stores are affected, what HFSS really means, and most importantly which product lines are affected.
Welsh wholesaler Castell Howell Foods has been supporting a local authority programme, packing more than 16,000 food care packs and supporting local authority catering teams to ensure children weren’t going hungry during the long summer holidays. The family-run wholesaler has supported school holiday nutrition since 2015 with the local authority ‘Food and Fun’ initiative. This award- winning programme was instigated by Cardiff Council and is managed by the Local Government Association, and Castell Howell has delivered quality ingredients, locally grown vegetables and freshly made meals to children who would go without meals, alongside sports education and enrichment activities as well as teaching skills around nutrition.
Wholesale experts TWC, in partnership with food-to-go and out-of-home tracking programme MealTrak, reports the latest food- to-go market performance to 12 w/e 8 August 2022. Commenting on the results, Tom Fender, Development Director at TWC, said: “Spend on out of home consumption reached almost £5 billion in the 12 weeks ending 8 August 2022, representing growth of +12% vs the same period in 2021. Value growth is significantly outstripping growth in terms of the number of occasions as inflation takes hold.”
As the cost of living crisis continues to bite and supply chains come under ever greater pressure wholesalers are bearing the brunt of the economic headwinds that are facing almost every industry – and are set to worsen. In particular, pricing, an essential part of any business, is becoming more of a challenge, writes Chris Dieringer, Chief Customer Officer, Flintfox in a special report.
The days of wandering in and seeing full shelves of produce now seem long gone. Basic food products and over the counter pharmaceuticals seem in low supply, writes Debbie Bowen-Heaton, Partner at Oliver Wight EAME – Business Transformation Specialists in a Supply Chain Issues special.
Employers across the food sector are starting to establish whistleblowing channels to help their employees report concerns about discrimination, fraud and other abuses. Problems exist across the food industry, where several food production scandals – for instance the horsemeat scandal of the last decade – have brought wrongdoing in the food supply chain into sharp focus writes Chancelle Blakey, business development manager, Safecall in a Whistleblowing Special.
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