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The Grocer understands chair Chris Tyas’ contract with Defra has come to an end
The government’s decision to shut down its coronavirus crisis ‘war room’ has been labelled “short-sighted” and “premature” by some of its food industry members.
The Food Resilience Industry Forum (FRIF), chaired by former Nestlé head of supply chain Chris Tyas, will hold its final meeting on 15 April. It was set up at the height of the panic-buying surge that saw supermarket shelves stripped bare across the UK last March. Over the subsequent time it has conducted more than 100 meetings between senior retail, wholesale and supply chain figures and government officials, primarily from Defra.
A lorry driver views the queue of lorries on the M20 as lorries wait to enter the Eurotunnel site in Folkestone, Kent, due to heavy freight traffic. Credit: PA
The UK’s largest supermarkets have told the government that they don’t believe its Trader Support Service will be working in time for the end of transition and have urged it to find another way to ensure they can supply their shops in Northern Ireland in the new year.
Every week Asda, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, The Co-op and Iceland send tens of thousands of product lines across the Irish Sea from the British mainland.
By Ian Quinn2020-12-11T14:51:00+00:00
How has the Nestlé veteran kept things running smoothly, especially as Brexit also looms large?
The newspaper headlines of mid-March are permanently imprinted on the mind of Chris Tyas, the Nestlé veteran who has led the industry’s ‘war room’ since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
In those “dark days”, he recalls respected professors warning the public would be issued with ration books within two weeks. Predictions of riots and the breakdown of supply chains hit the front pages.
At that time, he was approached by two supermarket CEOs with a daunting proposal: to chair the Food Resilience Industry Forum, in a new role as Defra’s director of food supply. It had one mission only, which was to keep the wheels turning and the nation fed.
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