Consumer trends are shaping the food sector on several fronts. These trends are not only limited to where food ingredients are sourced, their cost or factors linked to health. How the food is packaged is just as important.

Last Friday Cyclone Fani made landfall causing significant damage as it moved north towards Kolkata.

According to EY, the UK has had the worst start to the year than since the global financial crisis a decade ago. The latest EY Profits Warning Report recorded 89 profit warnings - up by 22% from 73 - in the same period of 2018. With general retail representing the sector with the highest number of companies.

Is a deal drawing closer?

What’s happening to food packaging pricing?

The future of the UK’s agricultural trading sector is uncertain in light of the possible scenarios surrounding the UK’s exit from the European Union. 

By the end of March, the UK government will have either settled on the terms of a withdrawal agreement with the EU or be left with “no deal”. In either circumstance, the landscape of the UK agricultural industry will inevitably change. This is certainly the case for the UK dairy industry.

Due to trade tensions between US and China, the Chinese government has decided to obfuscate national economic data and make their supply chain less transparent and has therefore, stopped publishing various official data sets. As a result, the trade war has been affecting many data sources, including Mintec.