01 Dec 2005
The United Nations' World Food Programme is using a TV campaign to expose the fact that more than 850m people go hungry in the world, even though we produce more than we can eat. Leagas Delaney has produced three commercials. The first, entitled "no food diet", features a woman collecting stones that she ...
14 Dec 2005
A leading policy group has slammed food manufacturers for putting commercial gain ahead of public...The Food Ethics Council has criticised manufacturers for introducing
'healthy' junk food ranges rather than altering the fat and sugar
content of their core lines. Food giants including Heinz ...
urges the government to introduce more stringent
regulatory measures to force food companies to raise ...
14 Dec 2005
For most people Christmas ends with the last turkey sandwich, but for Robbie James, a seasonal buyer at Waitrose, it is just the beginning, as she starts buying for the next festive season.
02 Dec 2005
BBC Magazines is launching Good Food in Romania. It will be its first international version...The magazine will be published in conjunction with Media Sport Group,
which launched Top Gear in Romania earlier in the year. Good Food will
have 132 pages, with a third of the content originating from ...
opportunity for a
mid-market food title such as Good Food." ...
01 Dec 2005
| by by Jennifer Whitehead
LONDON - A new survey into the four biggest fast food chains in the UK says that their popularity...The survey comes amid moves by fast food giants to deflect claims that they contribute ...
. It accused them all of still offering foods high in fat and salt and also found that they carried inaccurate ...
and Health, which campaigns for health warnings on food. Published in July, it found that one in five ready ...
30 Nov 2005
The World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations' food aid organisation, is to use a TV campaign
25 Nov 2005
| by by Jennifer Whitehead
on issues about the nutritional value of its food and the quality of jobs it provides, in a corporate....
It will be the first corporate social responsibility report that the fast food chain has published with a particular ...
products to children.
McDonald's has been at the forefront of a trend for fast food restaurants ...
the majority of its menu, McDonald's has been working to up the amount of fresh, low-fat food on its menu ...
23 Nov 2005
| by by Nicola Clark
LONDON - The Food Standards Agency has slammed manufacturers for confusing consumers by using...-of-pack labelling last week, said consumers were confused by food packaging. It is calling on manufacturers to adopt ...
Amount models performed best.
CGDA labelling is popular with the food industry, as it is similar to the packaging already used by many brands.
However, the Food and Drink Federation has warned against using ...
23 Nov 2005
| by by Julia Pearlman
LONDON - Pearlfisher has created the packaging for Waitrose's party food 2005 with a simple....
The new range, branded Waitrose Entertaining, features 30 party foods including meat, fish, vegetarian and sweet options.
The party foods will launch on November 30, in time for the Christmas season. The packaging has been designed with a minimal approach, focusing on the food photography and reflecting ...
23 Nov 2005
WINNER: GLAXOSMITHKLINE, WILLIAMS MURRAY HAMM
COMMENDED: SAINSBURY'S, WILLIAMS MURRAY HAMM
Launched in 1873, Horlicks is one of the UK's best-known brands. But by 2004 it was viewed as outdated and associated with an older
generation and cold, dark nights. Owner GlaxoSmithKline wanted to shift
the...