The high street has performed better than out-of-town retail destinations in the face of drops in footfall according to figures by Experian.
Hot on the heels of Tesco's decision to challenge to the Competition Commmission's proposal to introduce a “competition assessment” into the UK planning system, industry bodies are hitting back.
Worried about who's going to take over your business when you retire? A new TV show called Keep it in the Family aims to highlight the need to continue the legacy
As Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall takes Tesco to task about chickens at the company’s AGM, the RSPCA is presenting him with an award for his efforts to improve chicken welfare across the UK.
Small business owners say that the Government is making it more difficult for them to handle rapidly rising costs, a survey by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has revealed.
Last week's announcement by the National Office of Statistics that sales rose by 3.5% in May apparently did little to bring confidence to the high street.
Waitrose has just launched a national in-store campaign to raise the profile of specialist British food producers.
Gonalston Farm Shop in Nottinghamshire will be hosting a Strawberry Festival on 28th and 29th June; just one of the events featured in the 2008 Month of Taste (14th June-20th July), coordinated by the National Farmers' Retail & Markets Association (FARMA) as a celebration of the summer foods direct from farmers at Certified farmers' markets, farm shops and pick-your-own farms all over the UK.
In print and online, the survey will run for a number of months, offering respondents the chance to win a fantastic knife set from Richardson Sheffield worth £67! The first 100 entries will also receive a free copy of Great British Food magazine!
Now in its 9th year, the prestigious BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards returns to celebrate the best of British food in what Jamie Oliver describes as the “Oscars of the food world”.
No good deli would be complete without a loose olive counter.
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