Waitrose has been handed the title of the UK’s best supermarket at the 2014 Which? Awards for its quality and service, while Apple and Samsung were...
Supermarket giant Asda has acknowledged the risks that climate change will present to its business, and in particular its fresh produce, in a new report. The...
German photographer Michael Schmidt has won the 2014 Prix Pictet – the prestigious global competition around photography and sustainability that this year focused on consumption. Schmidt...
Reports suggest that the governance structure at the Co-operative Bank will be blamed for its troubles over the last year in a publication looking at the...
Consumers could face a hunt for Easter eggs this year, with heavy discounting leading to some brands being in short supply. The news follows falls in...
There are several communities around the world whose prosperity depends on bananas. Despite one in three bananas sold in the UK being certified Fairtrade – meaning...
Around 37,000 people have pledged to recycle in a joint initiative from Tesco and Coca-Cola Enterprises. The campaign aimed to provide engaging information for the supermarket’s...
Britain’s first “social supermarket” opened its doors on Monday hoping to tackle food poverty, just days after a food poverty charity announced it has helped more...
HSBC has labelled Tesco’s profit margins as “unsustainable”, with competition from discount food retailers continuing to increase as they gain market share. The bank changed Tesco...
Retail giant Sainsbury’s has opened its first two ‘triple zero’ stores – branches that have zero carbon emissions and are water neutral, from which zero waste...
Retailers can refuse edible products because these don’t satisfy shape or blemish standards criteria, a new report has found. Up to 40% of perfectly eatable food...
A group of online retailers have reacted angrily to proposals to introduce an online sales tax, arguing it would “kill off” entrepreneurial spirit and disadvantage promising...
Sales of Fairtrade-certified goods grew by 19% to £1.57 billion in 2012, according to statistics released as part of Fairtrade Fortnight, which begins today. The figure...
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has secured over 30,000 signatures in a petition for supermarket chain Waitrose to drop its affiliation with oil giant Shell. Waitrose announced...