Food & drink industry
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Suppliers say Ambrosia custard maker requested hefty payments in order to continue doing business with them
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Airport workers were expected to join thousands of workers from fast-food, home-care and federal industries in support of $15 minimum wage campaign
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Upmarket shoe company and baker Greggs among five companies joining mid cap index
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Plunging oil prices contributes to first food price deflation since British Retail Consortium began compiling records in 2006
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Cost of Italian extra virgin olive oil soared 25% month-on-month in November as the state of the poor harvest became clear, writes Sarah Butler
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Letters: Food waste is a problem, but does the food production and retail industry really expect to solve this through creating a secondary food market for the poor?
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Pepper the android is set to rival George Clooney as the face of coffee in 1,000 Japanese stores, thanks to SoftBank
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Shadow health minister also says party would look at making referrals for physical activity available through GPs
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Bumper catches in Canada, helped by warming seas, have put lobsters on the frontline of competition between supermarkets
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Food watchdog warns that Asda has worst rate of contamination but all other supermarket chains failing to meet national targets
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Supermarket says it working hard to finding a solution after 78% of its chickens tested by FSA had deadly food-posioning bug
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Featuring naked pin-up girls cavorting in milk, these ads are just another example of the sexualisation of women for commercial gain, writes Laura Bates
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Brewer of Banks’s bitter aims for ‘sweet spot in the pubs market’ by shifting focus to women and families dining out on a budget
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Advertising Standards Authority rules that video paid for by Oreos brand that featured YouTube stars broke advertising code
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Leaked papers reveal options include using ‘non-vets’ to look for TB in cattle and getting farmers to check for salmonella
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Fairlife will cost twice as much as regular milk, contain 30% less sugar, and ‘make it rain money’ for the soft drinks firm
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Patrick Coveney says the company won’t repeat communication mistakes made after it was revealed that it was recruiting in Hungary for sandwich makers
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Insolvencies rising among wholesale bakeries, pasta makers, fish processors and ready meal manufacturers amid industry-wide squeeze on profit margins
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Almost 500 who became ill after drinking soy milk to share settlement in Australia’s biggest food safety class action
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Taylor Farms, the world’s largest supplier of ‘healthy, wholesome’ cut vegetables and salad, denies claims it threatened to call immigration officials to keep workers on ‘temporary’ status, exposing them to dangerous working conditions
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Business agenda: Despite recent controversies, the sandwich maker’s chief executive – and its latest results – are the toast of the City
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Ed Helmore: As pay protests spread across the US, strikers are bringing their struggle to Europe. Alvin Major ($7.25 an hour at KFC) saysthis is just the start …
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London Pride maker takes £162m in six months to 27 September as London’s economy is set to outstrip rest of UK
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Signed deal is set to leverage the Primo Group’s growing export operations across Asia, including China
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Abbott government backbencher George Christensen says it’s ‘outrageous’ his grocery dollars are going towards a ‘religious tax’
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Warning of pub closures and job losses after go-ahead given to amendment allowing tenants to buy beer on the open market
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To go into business, Somerset Grist Mill’s founders combined an old-fashioned mill with new forms of investment. The results are breathing new life into Maine’s once-faded grain economy
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UK hearing ruled to be more appropriate for Karim Pabani who was sacked after making claims of corruption in Kazakhstan subsidiary
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American fast-food giant says deal with Kairat Boranbayev – who is related by marriage to the country’s authoritarian president – will help to build brand. EurasiaNet.org reports
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The company denies taking a position in a battle over GM food labelling
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Californian city known for its liberal causes defeated powerful opposition over its campaign
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News that Greencore was in Hungary to hire staff sparked howls of protest in a town where nearly 8,000 people are out of work
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European commission’s investigation focuses on the coffee chain’s roasting facility in Amsterdam and its relationship with other parts of the business
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With John Lewis, M&S and others unveiling their 2014 holiday ads, we asked a panel of ad experts to pick their favourite festive commercial
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