With less than two months to go until Foodex, the food and drink processing trade show, Food Manufacture looks at some of the highlights of this year’s event.
Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Strategy
So welcome, everybody. And thank you for joining us today. We re all based in London, well most of us are. And by that, I mean, myself, you know me. So, you ll see a bit later on in the presentation. Damian is obviously here, CEO; Nik Jhangiani, our CFO; and later on you ll get to meet Peter West for the first time from our API, new business unit.
So, a quick reminder of our forward-looking statements and cautionary statements as you see here, I ll leave you to read those later. And then, just by way of agenda, four areas to cover as you see here; a couple of breaks along the way, so I ll break it up for you. So it s not too much PowerPoints in one go. And asking questions, there s two ways of doing that. We do have some live stream later on during the Q&A session. Those individuals know who they are. But any of you, if you want to ask a question on the chat function that was linked to the original registration, we ll cover as
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Covid-19 has brought more than its fair share of woes. Not least has been its deleterious effect on the environment. How? Well, it’s sent consumption of fizzy drinks from single-use cans and plastic bottles through the roof. And it’s derailed plans for the UK’s biggest-ever initiative to ensure drinks packaging is recycled, the deposit return scheme.
In short, it’s been a disaster for the Earth’s oceans – where the amount of plastic waste is expected to triple in the next 20 years, according to a paper published last July in the journal Science.
In 2020, shoppers took home 561.7 million more single-use cans of cola, lemonade, fruit carbonates and mixers than they did in 2019, bringing total sales to 2.9 billion cans. More than 710.4 million plastic pop bottles were taken home, a rise of 102.6 million [Kantar 52 w/e 27 December 2020].
Last year the supermarket’s 70 biggest suppliers reported a 12% reduction in manufacturing emissions but, like other companies in the sector, it has faced a tougher task with smaller businesses in its chain.
Tesco denies it is turning the screw on suppliers, but its head of environment, Anna Turrell, told a roundtable organised by Coca-Cola European Partners this week that reliable data from across the supply chain was vital. “The key focus for us is around collaboration and transparency,” she said. “There is no bigger issue we are facing than climate change and setting common goals and having clear science-based targets and robust credible data is key.”
Euro 2020: Fever pitch
7th May 2021
Major sporting events are a proven business-generator for convenience retailers, because they drive a surge in social occasions centred around shared TV viewing and consumption of food and drink.
This summer’s mega event is football’s Uefa European Championships, which are taking place a year late because of the pandemic and are being staged in several cities across Europe including London’s Wembley Stadium from 11 June to 11 July.
The month-long sporting extravaganza is serving up a three-fold sales opportunity for convenience operators because England, Scotland and Wales are all involved. The big game for the home nations is undoubtedly England against Scotland on 18 June, which will spark a sales surge in convenience outlets on both sides of the border. The sales impact will be amplified if key games coincide with periods of hot weather.