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Five minutes with The Good Kind Grocery

Matt Chittock meets The Good Kind Grocery and finds out why opening…

Matt Chittock

Small Giants innovates in savoury snacks

Small Giants has launched a range of crisps made with cricket flour…

Jane Wolfe

New loyalty initiative from Better Food encourages customers to put planet first

Bristol-based Better Food has introduced a new loyalty scheme which rewards customers…

Jane Wolfe

Back to better: January opening for HISBE’s COVID-delayed second store

Brighton-based ‘rebel supermarket’ HISBE says it will now open its second store…

Jim Manson

Ad campaign captures essence of independent Irish health stores

Health Stores Ireland is running a TV and radio campaign with the…

Jane Wolfe

Climate Assembly calls for ‘strong and clear leadership’ to achieve UK net zero target

The UK citizens’ assembly on climate change published its report today on…

Jane Wolfe

Organic exports face ‘outright ban’ if equivalence not agreed

Organic food and drink organizations have written to the chief Brexit negotiator…

Jim Manson

‘One small swap’ for Organic Beauty & Wellbeing Week

After a 23% growth in sales in 2019 the market for organic…

Rosie Greenaway

Oatly faces boycotts after ‘Trump-linked’ Blackstone takes stake in business

Oatly is facing boycotts after selling a stake to a consortium led…

Jim Manson

Treat hand gels as last resort, or risk superbug ‘armageddon’

Prolonged use of hand gels during the pandemic could lead to a…

Jim Manson

OTB kicks off Organic September with new slogan and experiential retail pop-up

The OTB, which for three years ran a targeted consumer campaign called…

Rosie Greenaway

60% of schools not tackling period poverty, says charity

A scheme launched by the DfE which makes period products free to…

Rosie Greenaway

News in brief

East London start-up Minor Figures launches its vegan Oat and Organic Oat…

Jane Wolfe

Honey better for coughs and colds than antibiotics, study finds

Researchers say that honey is more effective than antibiotics and most over-the-counter…

Jim Manson

Intensive animal farming ‘single most risky human behaviour’ for pandemics

A report by ProVeg International highlights ‘a fundamental and often-overlooked’ link between…

Jane Wolfe

Farmers launch Happerley England to ‘reverse retail demise’

On 29 August farmers will take over a former retail site to…

Rosie Greenaway

Planet Organic shuts two ANI stores

After its buyout of the organic and natural food chain As Nature…

Jane Wolfe

Here comes trouble …

African sauce brand Dr Trouble has launched in the UK, with two…

Jane Wolfe

New plant-based store for meat-lovers opens in London

A new vegan store, The Good Kind Grocery, has opened in Enfield,…

Jane Wolfe

Thirst for soya drinks harming the planet, warns SFT

People who buy milk substitutes made from soya are inadvertently harming the…

Jim Manson