Food & drink industry
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Riders for group’s food delivery service follow Deliveroo couriers in expressing discontent with gig economy pay structure
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Strategy has become national scandal given PM’s pledge to look after poor and socially deprived, campaigners argue
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The UK breeding herd has halved in 30 years, with a volatile global market squeezing pig farmers. Can they survive in the face of European upheaval and China’s bid to expand pork production?
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The leisure group’s audacious three-way merger plan with William Hill and 888 never looked seriously likely to succeed. But now what?
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Michael Birch, Bebo’s co-founder, has bought Woolsery’s pub and the chippie. And villagers are more than happy
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Battle against ‘pester power’ has been undermined, says Royal Society for Public Health leader Shirley Cramer
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Britain’s award-winning sparkling wines are no longer seen as a novelty and exporters have now set their sights on conquering America
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As the nation watches another 12 bakers battle it out on TV, retailers must anticipate which ingredients shoppers will be clamouring for
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Editorial: Theresa May sees the value of an interventionist industrial strategy. She should take the same tack in social policy
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The new prime minister has bowed to the junk food industry over public health. We’re finding out what she really stands for
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British Retail Consortium criticises proposal for voluntary action by manufacturers in government’s much-derided strategy
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Letters: Expecting the food industry to police itself with regard to junk food is like waiting for the oil industry to tell people not to drive their cars
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Fat is a class issue. Most of the seriously obese are poor. Offer a diet of self-esteem, good jobs and social status, and the pounds will fall away
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Plan to rely on voluntary action by food industry is dismissed as embarrassing by public health experts who condemn failure to restrict advertising aimed at children
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The fast food giant was hoping Step It! Activity Band would be a means of getting kids active but has now voluntarily removed the device from restaurants
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Yes, zero hours work can be banned: New Zealand has just done it
Aditya ChakraborttyWant to end the practices of Sports Direct, Hermes, Deliveroo and others? In New Zealand, workers took on big business and won
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Levy on soft drinks will do nothing to tackle obesity in UK, while putting jobs at risk and raising prices, claims campaign
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Organic farming creates more profit and yields healthier produce. It’s time it played the role it deserves in feeding a rapidly growing world population
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Company ordered to pay couriers statutory rate unless court rules they are self-employed, as row over wage deal continues
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As couriers stage third day of protests, shadow business secretary says they are right to demand ‘proper pay and conditions’
UberEats drivers vow to take pay protest to London restaurants