Frozen food giant, Iceland, has teamed up with product discovery platform, RangeMe, in order to source new suppliers and products. The partnership enables Iceland and The Food Warehouse to access a huge international community of 200,000-plus suppliers. The RangeMe platform aims to be a one-stop-shop where buyers can source from suppliers worldwide, with more than
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Matt Jones has reported for the Powys County Times that Midway Plants garden centre in Penybont near Llandrindod Wells, Wales, is desperate to reopen and “their situation could get critical if they are not allowed to open their doors again soon”. Owners Gill and Dave Holt argue that Welsh garden centres have been forced onto
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Last year the Dutch floriculture sector exported 2.4 billion Euros in house plants, a new record. However, the total export of flowers and plants combined dropped by four percent, making the export market for flowers and plants just under 6 billion euros, according to Floridata and branch organisation, VGB. The export of flowers dropped by
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Marks & Spencer has bought Jaeger in a deal thought to be worth around £5 million after the British fashion brand fell into administration in November 2020. It is understood that the deal covers Jaeger’s intellectual property only, allowing M&S to sell Jaeger-branded goods on its own website as a third party brand. This means
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Bradford-based supermarket, Morrisons intends to stock more British goods and is calling on specialist food producers to get in touch with their proposals. The retailer, already a long-time champion of British farmers, had a strong Christmas trading period with like-for-like sales rising by 9.3 per cent. The grocer tailors each store to local tastes and
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June’s good weather resulted in a marginal year-on-year improvement in footfall across the nation’s high streets, delivering the second month of consecutive growth since November 2017. However, retail parks and shopping centres have had ‘an altogether more difficult time’. The overall trend of fewer visits to bricks and mortar stores remains, said British Retail Consortium
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