Kevin White

Wales

Fresh Foods Editor at The Grocer

Journalist/newyddiadurwr - fresh foods editor @TheGrocer. I write about how your food makes it into the supermarket/archfarchnad - Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Articles

Ban on personal imports of EU meat and dairy needs more publicity: suppliers

1 week ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Kevin White

More needs to be done to educate British travellers of a new ban on personal meat and dairy imports from the EU, introduced last weekend in a bid to tackle the growing threat of foot and mouth disease, suppliers have warned.
Ornua sees profits surge but warns of Trump tariffs impact

1 week ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Kevin White

Kerrygold owner Ornua saw profits jump by more than 10% last year, on the back of a “solid” trading performance for its products globally. The Irish dairy giant saw operating profit – before bonuses to its member co-operatives amounting to an ‘Ornua Value Payment’ of €72.8m – climb by 11.8% to €130.5m for the 2024 calendar year, according to its annual accounts.
Hormone-treated beef explained: is it a problem or a solution?

2 weeks ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Kevin White

The world continues to reel from Donald Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ tariffs announcement, with his 2 April ‘Liberation Day’ plunging the stock market into freefall. And even with a 90-day pause announced this week on the slew of higher tariffs dished out by the US president, fears of an all-out global trade war and recession are still very much alive.
Trump tariffs could raise UK cheese price by 25% in US

2 weeks ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Kevin White

Source: Somerdale International UK cheese could become up to 25% more expensive in US stores due to president Trump’s imposition of 10% tariffs on British imports, leading dairy exporter Somerdale International has warned. The business, alongside owner Barbers, is the UK’s largest exporter of cheese to the US, selling product under the Barbers 1833, Westminster and Somerdale brands to retailers including Kroger and Whole Foods Market.
Trump tariffs could raise UK cheese price 25% in US

2 weeks ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Kevin White

UK cheese could become up to 25% more expensive in US stores due to president Trump’s imposition of 10% tariffs on British imports, exporter Somerdale International has warned. The business, alongside owner Barbers, is the UK’s largest exporter of cheese to the US, selling product under the Barbers 1833, Westminster and Somerdale brands to retailers including Kroger and Whole Foods Market.
BMPA slams 'broken planning system' after rejection of Cranswick 'megafarm'

2 weeks ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Kevin White

The rejection of Cranswick’s multimillion-pound pig and poultry farm plan is a sign of the UK’s “failing planning system” and is “hindering investment by British businesses”, the British Meat Processors Association has claimed.
Meat business and four men convicted of ‘serious’ fraud

2 weeks ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Kevin White

Source: National Food Crime Unit Four men and a meat business have been convicted over their involvement in “serious food crimes”, according to the FSA’s National Food Crime Unit. Anthony Fear, sole director of a business known as Fears Animal Byproducts, was last week found unanimously guilty of the offence of conspiracy to defraud by placing unfit food on the market. Three other men: Mark Hooper, Azar Irshad and Ali Afzal – who had earlier pleaded guilty to the crime – were also prosecuted.
Illegal meat business convicted as 'unfit' animal by-product entered human food chain

2 weeks ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Kevin White

Source: National Food Crime Unit Four men and a meat business have been convicted over their involvement in “serious food crimes”, according to the FSA’s National Food Crime Unit. Anthony Fear, sole director of a business known as Fears Animal Byproducts, was last week found unanimously guilty of the offence of conspiracy to defraud by placing unfit food on the market. Three other men: Mark Hooper, Azar Irshad and Ali Afzal – who had earlier pleaded guilty to the crime – were also prosecuted.
Saputo to end much-vaunted dairy ingredient production, with potential loss of 80 jobs

2 weeks ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Kevin White

Saputo Dairy UK has announced plans to stop manufacturing the dairy ingredients galacto-oligosaccharides and demineralised whey, in a move that could lead to 80 job losses. The supplier and Cathedral City owner is instead planning a return to sweet whey powder at its Davidstow plant in Cornwall. It said the production of demineralised whey and GOS for the infant formula market – long touted as a big money-spinner for the business – was no longer financially viable.
Arla and German dairy giant DMK announce plans to merge

2 weeks ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Kevin White

Arla Foods and German dairy supplier DMK Group have announced plans to merge – creating Europe’s largest dairy co-operative. The move, which is subject to approval from the boards of representatives of the two dairy giants, plus competition regulators, would create a joint co-operative with combined revenues of €19bn, sourcing milk from more than 12,000 farmer owners across Europe. DMK, short for Deutsches Milchkontor, is Germany’s largest dairy co-op, with revenues of €5.1bn last year.