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Will ‘Plant-Based’ be the end of the traditional meat market?
Topics: Plant based Proteins, Events
Three packaging trends driving change across the food sector
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.
Topics: Events
What impact could Cyclone Fani have on agricultural production in Orissa?
Last Friday Cyclone Fani made landfall causing significant damage as it moved north towards Kolkata.
Topics: Events
UK Retail sector issues the highest number of profit warnings since global financial crisis
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.
Topics: Events
Brexit uncertainty is raising concerns over likely price increases for packaging.
Topics: Events
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.
Topics: Events
Trade tensions lead to a decline in official Chinese data
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.
Topics: Events