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Emma Weinbren

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Managing Editor at The Grocer

Managing editor at The Grocer. Never knowingly undercaffeinated. Writes about all things retail and food & drink. Send me your stories [email protected]

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  • 2 weeks ago | pharmaceutical-journal.com | Emma Weinbren

    Georgie Aldous, who lives with an eating disorder, was five months into taking Mounjaro (tirzepatide; Eli Lilly and Co) when things started to go wrong. “At first, it was great. It did what it was supposed to do, and I started to lose weight,” he told ITV’s Good Morning Britain in January 2025. Soon, though, he started to feel weak and unwell. One night, his heart rate began to soar to as high as 150 beats per minute. The palpitations ended with an A&E visit at 04:00.

  • 2 weeks ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Emma Weinbren

    B Corp companies will now have to meet seven key standards on people and planet, in a long-awaited revamp of the ethical accreditation scheme. B Lab, the company behind the B Corp movement. announced a move away from its cumulative points approach today (8 April), in “the most significant evolution in the non-profit’s 19-year history”.

  • 3 weeks ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Emma Weinbren

    Zoe’s new risk scale underlines that not all processed food is bad for us. But as it prepares to spread the word, some question its usefulnessNot all processed foods are bad for you. That was the key message of nutrition specialist Zoe’s new Processed Food Risk Scale, unveiled at the House of Lords last week. “This scaremongering around ‘everything on our shelves is going to kill us’ is wrong,” Zoe chief scientist Sarah Berry told The Grocer at the time.

  • 1 month ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Emma Weinbren

    Nutrition app Zoe has devised a tool that highlights healthier processed foods to counter the “scaremongering” around UPFs. The new Processed Food Risk Scale, which will be presented at the House of Lords today (28 March), seeks to hammer home “not all UPFs are equally detrimental to health”. The scale splits out processed foods into four different categories: no risk, low risk, moderate risk and high risk.

  • 1 month ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Emma Weinbren

    Ocado has gone cold on DE&I, found a report by The Telegraph this weekend. The company has watered down ethnic minority targets as it faces difficulty retaining staff, it writes. The news comes shortly after The Grocer’s report on the challenges facing the DE&I agenda in the Trump era. Also this weekend, The Times explored how martinis are shaking up London’s cocktail scene.

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Emma Weinbren
Emma Weinbren @EmmaWeinbren
20 Mar 24

Lovely to be here at the @Foodanddrinkfed dinner. Not for EU labelling has already got a not-so-honourable mention from CEO Karen Betts https://t.co/AlHDt8Sd7O

Emma Weinbren
Emma Weinbren @EmmaWeinbren
17 Oct 23

Can’t wait to complete the #asdatastematch. So far the Asda scones and jam have really impressed. Now on to cake (all in the name of science) @asdaprteam https://t.co/shw4alqekO

Emma Weinbren
Emma Weinbren @EmmaWeinbren
18 Jul 23

Great evening for @DietCokeGB with Kate Moss, Fat Tony and most importantly @Starlet3000 To launch an ad that could rival the nineties windows cleaner 😍 https://t.co/TcATTkCweD