Supplier News – Page 8
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NewsGreene King warns over New Year inflation
CEO Nick Mackenzie says customers will pay more for food and drink in hospitality over the coming months
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NewsSupply chain: no return to normal until next Autumn
A focus on menu, ingredients and stock could help mitigate against current supply problems, Prestige Purchasing’s David Read told MCA’s Restaurant Conference.
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NewsMcDonald’s experiences further supply issues
The fast food chain has been forced to remove the Chicken Legends burger from its delivery menu after experiencing disruption to its supply chain.
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NewsSupply chain crisis set to continue until 2023
Ian Wright, chief executive of the Food and Drink Federation told the House of Commons BEIS Committee that inflation in the food and hospitality sector was running at a “terrifying” 14% to 18%.
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NewsChips down as fry bag shortage hits Burger King
Latest sign of supply chain issues sees fast food restaurants run out of packaging
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NewsCO2 deal risks price hike
Food industry leaders have suggested a possible fivefold spike in the cost of CO2, which is essential in the production of pork, turkey and chicken.
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NewsCovid or Brexit: What’s to blame for Britain’s shortages?
The Sunday Times asked economists at an independent think tank to explore five of the major squeezes Britain is facing
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NewsBritain’s winter blues: ‘Christmas shortages are now a certainty’
From petrol, gas and food supplies to hospitals under pressure, the UK could face a series of overlapping crises
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NewsPM insists on pay rise for truckers
Boris Johnson has called on HGV bosses to give drivers a pay rise as the Prime Minister prepares to send them one million morale-boosting letters in the run-up to Christmas.
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NewsBritain has 10 days to save Christmas, warns retail industry amid lorry driver crisis
Significant disruption in the run-up to Christmas is inevitable unless more delivery drivers are found in the next 10 days, the retail industry has warned.
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NewsUK to issue temporary visas for truck drivers and farm workers
Business leaders have warned that the British government’s plan to issue 10,500 temporary visas to lorry drivers and agricultural workers to tackle labour shortages does not go far enough to fix the crisis.
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NewsGovernment strikes CO2 deal to avoid food industry crisis
Production will restart at one of Britain’s biggest carbon dioxide producing plants after a deal was struck with government in order to avoid a food industry crisis.
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NewsFood supply will be ‘severely impacted’
The government has about “10 days” to sort out the CO2 shortage crisis, with one week before poultry stunning starts to stop, Ian Wright, of the Food and Drink Federation has warned.
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NewsGovernment revises border control timetable
The government has revised the timetable for the introduction of full import controls for goods being imported from the EU, in the wake of significant supply chain disruption following Brexit and the impact of the pandemic.
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NewsBrewDog forms JV with Asahi
BrewDog has announced a joint venture with Asahi Breweries which will see it roll out Punk IPA, Hazy Jane and Elvis Juice across Japan from September 2021.
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NewsWetherspoons blames beer shortages on industrial action
JD Wetherspoon (JDW) has said the supply shortages it has been experiencing with several of the beer and lager brands it sells is down to the industrial action proposed by delivery drivers supplying Heineken products, rather than the impact of Brexit.
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NewsSupply shortages impacting drinks and construction
Pubs are the latest hospitality operators to raise concerns over shortages of certain drinks, with Greene King suffering supply issues in Scotland and City Pub Group running dry of Prosecco, it has been reported.
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NewsHospitality facing ‘enormous challenges’ with supply chains
Hospitality businesses across the country are facing “enormous challenges” with their supply chains, Kate Nicholls, chief executive, UKHospitality has warned.
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NewsPrice inflation forecast to rise as supply disruptions hit reopening
Food and drink supply markets have been hit by widespread distribution problems and a spike in demand following the reopening of hospitality, the CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index reveals. Year-on-year food inflation stood at 1.6% in June, having levelled off at a time of year when it typically falls. The remaining months of 2021 are likely to see further increases in the level of food inflation, as sector demand returns towards pre-pandemic normality and extra supply costs and wage inflation feed into price increases.
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NewsNando’s closes restaurants due to supply issues
Nando’s has been forced to close some restaurants and reduce trading hours at others after its chicken deliveries were hit by a nationwide shortage of lorry drivers. The disruption is affecting around 50 out of its 400 restaurants. The company told MCA it would lend 70 staff “to support key suppliers and get things moving again.” Nando’s sites in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which have a unique customs arrangement due to Brexit, have not been affected.