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| Nov 4, 2026 | Burnham urges Poundland owner to work with government to save jobs | Andy Burnham has said Poundland’s owners must work with the government on a “practical solution” to secure the future of its workers and shops.
The Prime Minister criticised Gordon Brothers, the US investment firm which owns the retailer, f... |
| Nov 4, 2026 | Poundland owner ‘commits to protecting jobs’ after pressure from business secretary | Poundland’s owner has pledged to protect jobs at the embattled retailer after pressure from the business secretary and mounting political backlash over its handling of a sale process, a source told City AM.
Gordon Brothers, the US investmen... |
| Nov 3, 2026 | Jenrick lends support to Poundland suitors | Reform UK’s economic spokesman Robert Jenrick has revealed he is supporting potential bidders for discount retailer Poundland as he criticised the group’s “greedy” owner Gordon Brothers for pushing the business towards insolvency.
Over the ... |
| Nov 3, 2026 | Poundland owner ‘not acting in best interests’ of workers, says No10 | Poundland owner Gordon Brothers is “not acting in the best interests” of the discount retailer’s staff and stores as it hurtles towards collapse, Downing Street has said.
The Boston-based investment firm, which has faced intense criticism o... |
| Oct 29, 2026 | Poundland on brink of collapse as it files notice to appoint administrators | Poundland is teetering on the edge of collapse after its directors filed a notice of intent to appoint administrators, in a move that puts the future of its thousands of workers in doubt.
The company made the filing to the High Court on Thu... |
| Oct 28, 2026 | Jobs on the line as Poundland poised to appoint administrators | Poundland’s directors are poised to appoint administrators as the beleaguered discount retailer staggers towards collapse.
The company is preparing to make a filing to the High Court, which could come as soon as Wednesday evening, which wou... |
| Oct 28, 2026 | Iceland boss: Budget must show Labour is listening to business, not just managing decline | The upcoming Budget must reject managed decline and instead foster a productivity revolution through investment incentives, skills support, and lower employment costs to help British business drive economic growth, says Lord Richard Walker
... |
| Oct 27, 2026 | Poundland owners push retailer towards insolvency | Poundland’s owners are resisting a takeover bid from an Irish property firm and instead pushing the discount retailer close to collapse.
The leading bidder to take over the struggling discount retailer, Martin Property Group (MPG), has fail... |
| Oct 22, 2026 | Supermarket giants welcome crackdown on Aldi and Lidl | Supermarket giants, including Waitrose and Morrisons, have welcomed the competition watchdog’s decision to crack down on Aldi and Lidl.
Lidl and Aldi are currently excluded from a law which bans the UK’s biggest supermarket chains from enga... |
| Oct 21, 2026 | TG Jones owner Modella pulls out of race to buy Poundland | TG Jones owner Modella Capital has pulled out of the race to buy Poundland but will still look to pick up some of its stores if a sale process collapses, City AM can reveal.
The private equity firm, which also owns Flying Tiger, had express... |
| Oct 21, 2026 | Ex-cost of living adviser Richard Walker demands ‘aggressive’ tax reform | Lord Richard Walker, the Iceland boss who advised the Sir Keir Starmer government on the cost of living, has called on Andy Burnham and John Healey to unleash “aggressive” tax reform to encourage firms to invest and hire more young people.
... |
| Oct 21, 2026 | Why One Planet Pizza Took A Leap Into the Lagging Frozen Plant-Based Meal Category | 6 Mins Read British startup One Planet Pizza is expanding into the “underperforming” frozen meal space with high-protein plant-based comfort food classics, on the back of a 70% surge in revenue this year.
It was in 2016 that Mike and Joe Hi... |
| Oct 20, 2026 | Iceland eyes Poundland stores as buyers circle budget retailer | Iceland is interested in buying a limited number of Poundland stores in the event the troubled retailer’s owners cannot find a single buyer, City AM can reveal.
The discount supermarket will be on the lookout for a small number of shops if ... |
| Oct 12, 2026 | Frozen Vegetable Market Size to Reach USD 102.3 Billion by 2035, Growing at a CAGR of 6% | FMI Research Report | NEWARK, Del. — The global frozen vegetable market is valued at USD 57 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 102.3 billion by 2035, expanding at a CAGR of 6% from 2025 to 2035, according to Future Market Insights (FMI). The market ou... |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Iceland boss Richard Walker vows to set up shop on Falkland Islands | The boss of Iceland has waded into the fresh row over the Falkland Islands, vowing to open a supermarket in the British territory.
Lord Richard Walker, executive chairman of the retailer, wrote on LinkedIn: “We’ve been supporting the Great ... |
| Aug 30, 2026 | Lord Walker calls for Healey to cut business taxes | Iceland boss Lord Richard Walker has urged Andy Burnham and John Healey to cut taxes for businesses and to stop focusing on the cost of living.
Walker, who backed Labour at the last election, said Healey should ease costs for employers.
The... |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Budget supermarket Iceland’s sneaky jab at Big Four management consultants | Supermarket chain Iceland has shared a subtle dig at management consultants on its website. There is a tongue and cheek reference to a £16m spend on external consultancy firms which include Big Four giant PwC, during a turbulent era for the... |
| Aug 13, 2026 | Could a ‘land blocking’ rule change spell danger for Aldi and Lidl? | German discounters Aldi and Lidl have rapidly taken control of the UK’s budget grocery market in recent years. But could new curbs on ‘land blocking’ slow their insurgency?
Only a few decades ago, Lidl and Aldi were oddities. By 2008, the G... |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Where are Andy Burnham’s economic advisers? | Andy Burnham’s allies boasted that highly-regarded economists had been lured as advisers. Mauricio Alencar and Ali Lyon report on the non-appointments of some of Britain’s best economists – and what the Prime Minister and Chancellor’s new t... |
| Jun 26, 2026 | Miliband would be ‘disaster’ as Chancellor, says Labour cost of living chief | Keir Starmer’s cost of living champion has warned that Ed Miliband would be a “disaster” as Andy Burnham’s Chancellor.
Lord Richard Walker, who is also executive chairman of budget supermarket Iceland, told BBC Newsnight that the current en... |
| Jun 12, 2026 | ‘Unsustainable’ – Iceland boss and Labour peer calls for end of triple lock pension | Lord Walker, the influential Iceland boss who was made a Labour peer, has called for the triple lock pension to be scrapped as the mechanism was “profoundly unfair”.
In a debate on welfare reform in the House of Lords, Walker added to a gro... |
| Jun 12, 2026 | Nearly half of retail workers considering quitting over mental health | Nearly half of the UK’s millions of retail workers are considering quitting the sector over concerns for their mental health, as the majority report facing abuse at work.
Retail is the sector in which the most workers (52 per cent) have fac... |
| May 14, 2026 | China’s EcoFlow to sell solar panels in British supermarkets soon | EcoFlow, a Chinese provider of power and energy storage solutions, is expecting to sell its plug-in products in British supermarkets within months, hoping to raise brand awareness as it aims to reach commercial clients, the company’s Europe... |
| May 13, 2026 | Tech firm behind in-store ads at Currys and Iceland goes bust | The firm that provides high street giants Currys and Iceland with in-store digital advertising has declared insolvency, City AM can reveal.
Software company Stratacache announced its winding-up of its UK operations and appointed liquidators... |
| May 6, 2026 | Supermarkets round on Aldi and Lidl over ‘rigged’ system | A host of leading British supermarkets have rounded on German discounters Aldi and Lidl over fears competition is being “distorted” by a “rigged” system.
Sainsbury’s, Morrisons and Iceland are ramping up pressure on the competition watchdog... |
| Apr 12, 2026 | Retail Crime Crisis: Workers on the Front Lines | A UK supermarket worker's dismissal sparked a national conversation. He intervened in a shoplifting attempt. This singular incident quickly became a symbol. It highlighted a severe and escalating retail crime crisis across the United K... |
| Apr 9, 2026 | John Lewis boss takes 20 per cent pay rise as retailer cuts jobs | The new chairman of John Lewis took a pay rise and bonus despite the retailer cutting thousands of jobs.
Jason Tarry saw his basic pay rate increase by 21 per cent and took a two per cent bonus, despite his firm slashing more than 3,000 job... |
| Apr 7, 2026 | Iceland boss offers job to Waitrose worker who tackled shoplifter | The boss of Iceland has offered a job to a man who was sacked by Waitrose after he prevented a shoplifter from attempting to steal luxury Easter eggs.
Richard Walker, boss of the budget supermarket chain, posted on LinkedIn telling Walker S... |
| Apr 3, 2026 | UK Food Prices Soar: Supermarkets Demand Action Amid Inflation Crisis | UK supermarket executives convened with Chancellor Reeves. High food inflation threatens household budgets. Middle East geopolitical tensions disrupt global supply chains. This drives up core costs for grocers. Retailers also cite significa... |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Supermarket bosses meet Rachel Reeves amid dire food inflation warning | The bosses of some of the UK’s biggest supermarkets met Chancellor Rachel Reeves in emergency cost of living talks on Wednesday, amid warnings that food inflation could rise to double digits this year.
Leading supermarkets including Tesco, ... |
| Mar 28, 2026 | Reeves’ energy bill crackdown prompts industry backlash | Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ push to crack down on “profiteering” among retailers has led to backlash across industry as suppliers are warning of shortages on the horizon.
Reeves has been warned by industry bosses that the focus on profiteerin... |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Starmer vows to use ‘every lever’ to protect Brits from damage to UK economy | Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to use “every lever” to prevent households from being hit by higher energy prices amid growing fears the Iran war is wreaking havoc on the UK economy.
On Monday morning, the Prime Minister suggested an emergency C... |
| Mar 22, 2026 | Iceland boss calls for profit cap on energy firms as prices surge | Richard Walker has urged the government to consider imposing a temporary cap on energy company profits, warning that households risk bearing the brunt of another price shock linked to the Middle East conflict.
The Iceland boss, recently app... |
| Mar 4, 2026 | Iceland versus Iceland: Trademark feud put on ice | The decades-long trademark dispute between UK retailer Iceland and its Nordic namesake looks to be thawing as the supermarket’s boss offered discounts for shoppers in Reykjavik.
Executive chair Richard Walker has signalled an end to the fro... |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Myprotein seals new licencing partnership with Greencore | Leading online sports nutrition brand Myprotein has entered a new partnership with convenience food producer Greencore to introduce a new food on-the-go range.
The collaboration will expand Myprotein’s presence in offline retail channels, t... |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Asda: Will 2026 be the year supermarket giant bounces back? | This time last year, analysts warned that Asda needed to “dig down into its soul” if it was to turn around its fortunes.
After a rollercoaster 2024 in which it struggled with debt, strikes and falling sales, the Leeds-headquartered supermar... |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Supermarkets call on Chancellor to ‘bring inflation to heel’ | Britain’s largest supermarkets have called on Rachel Reeves to exclude all shops from upcoming changes to to business rates, warning that any hikes to their input costs would further stoke food inflation that is already at over double the B... |
| Sep 30, 2025 | Farmfoods: Iceland rival battles rising costs | Budget supermarket chain Farmfoods has said rising costs weighed on its profit as it battled to keep prices down for its customers.
The business, which is headquartered in North Lanarkshire in Scotland, has posted a pre-tax profit of £33.1m... |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Amazon Fresh to close all UK stores | Amazon is set to close all 19 of its Amazon Fresh stores in the UK, just four years after launching its first supermarket outlet in London.
It has been revealed that the tech giant plans to convert up to five of these locations into Whole F... |
| Aug 27, 2025 | Plant-Based Brand Like to Launch in Major UK Supermarkets Starting with Tesco | Plant-based protein brand Like will debut in major UK retailers next month, starting with Tesco on September 8th. The launch will feature three products: Like Hot Dogs, Like Chicken Burgers, and Like Popcorn Chicken, all designed to offer p... |
| Aug 8, 2025 | Iceland in the red as Rachel Reeves’ tax raid forces prices higher | Iceland has warned it is being forced to increases prices because of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ tax raids as the supermarket chain fell into the red.
The Flintshire-headquartered said that while it is “doing our utmost” to offset increasing ... |
| Jul 23, 2025 | Iceland Foods Fails Again To Claw Back It’s ‘Iceland’ EU Trademark | This saga of dumb began nearly a decade ago, in 2016, when a grocer named “Iceland Foods,” that was somehow granted an EU trademark for “Iceland,” began bullying other EU businesses using that word over supposed trademark infringement. Icel... |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Sunny spring boosts grocers as Brits buy 2,400 packs of strawberries every minute | The UK’s unusual burst of sun boosted purchases of fruit and ice lollies this spring, although food inflation continued to soar at the UK’s grocers.
Higher prices for fresh meats, chocolate and butters drove food inflation to 4.7 per cent, ... |
| May 28, 2025 | Supermarkets and Sustainability: A Tale of Promises and Progress | In the world of supermarkets, promises flow like water. Every six days, the UK’s largest retailers make a new environmental commitment. Yet, the ground remains dry. A recent report by Feedback Global and The Food Foundation paints a stark p... |
| May 28, 2025 | The Future of Food: Cultivated Meat and Climate Commitments in Europe | The culinary landscape is shifting. The rise of cultivated meat and plant-based diets is reshaping how we think about food. In Europe, particularly in the Czech Republic, cultivated meat is on the brink of entering the market. Meanwhile, in... |
| May 27, 2025 | Report: UK’s Biggest Supermarkets Failing to Meet Their Own Climate Commitments | A new report by Feedback Global and The Food Foundation has found that the UK’s ten largest supermarkets have, on average, made an environmental commitment every six days over the past decade. Despite this, there is little evidence that the... |
| May 14, 2025 | Can Iceland crack China’s frozen food market? | Header photo source: Iceland.
Even as tariff tensions simmer between global powers, Iceland—the UK’s largest frozen food supermarket—has made a bold return to China, launching its inaugural offline store in the country.
Founded in 1972 and ... |
| Apr 29, 2025 | THG posts rise in beauty sales | THG hailed a strong performance in its beauty division as the e-commerce firm posted its annual results.
The division, which is the largest of the firm’s units and includes the Biossance, ESPA and Lookfantastic brands, posted a 4.6 per cent... |
| Apr 21, 2025 | Pinnacle Food Group Limited Announces Pricing of $7.2 Million Initial Public Offering | Vancouver, BC, April 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pinnacle Food Group Limited (“PFAI” or “the Company”), a seller of smart hydroponic growing systems and technical support services to individual households, community groups, and urban farms... |
| Mar 25, 2025 | ‘Corporate purpose? It went too far’, says man behind Britain’s Davos | John O’Brien founded Anthropy – an annual gathering of corporate and political luminaries dubbed ‘Britain’s Davos’ – to help the UK ‘build back better’ from the pandemic. On the eve of its third instalment in the Eden Project’s greenery, Al... |
| Jan 24, 2025 | UK economy: ‘Consumers see dark days ahead’ | |
| Dec 4, 2024 | Christmas food shop: The pros give their top tips | |
| Nov 19, 2024 | Retail bosses warn of £7bn cost burden after Budget | |
| Oct 23, 2024 | Iceland Foods Is Still Battling To Trademark Its Canceled ‘Iceland’ Trademark In The EU | When it comes to comedy, there is a principle that a physical gag will be funny if done 3 times, but then will stop being funny on any further attempts unless it reaches a much higher number, like 9. To see this in action, you need only loo... |
| Oct 8, 2024 | The ‘battle for value is on’ at UK grocers as supermarkets push discounts | |
| May 31, 2024 | Loyalty app backed by Lloyds and Barclays closes, leading to 46 redundancies | A loyalty app backed by Lloyds and Barclays is closing, leading to 46 redundancies.
Bink, founded in 2015, links existing payment cards to loyalty schemes.
Bink's USP is that it effectively replaces the need for separate individual rew... |
| Apr 22, 2024 | Iceland boss thanks medics who ‘saved his life’ after collapse in London Marathon | The chief executive of discount grocer Iceland has paid tribute to ambulance staff who “saved his life” after he collapsed near the finish line of the London Marathon.
Richard Walker took to Instagram to say he fell unconscious near the con... |
| Apr 11, 2024 | Oculis Announces Completion of Oversubscribed $59 Million Registered Direct Offering and Subsequent Listing on Nasdaq Iceland Main Market | |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Greggs Stores Hit by Payment Glitch, Customers Left Hungry Across UK Cities | John Lopez, Tech Times 20 March 2024, 10:03 am
Greggs, the bakery chain famous for its sausage rolls, faced a major hiccup this week as technical issues disrupted payment processing, leading to temporary closures of stores across several UK... |
| Nov 17, 2022 | Iceland's ECA collects $750,000 pre-seed funding to bring e-sports coach training to US, Puerto Rico | An Icelandic startup is going big on e-sports and the ability of ultra competitive gaming to keep children occupied as they rehearse various games techniques and scenarios, chasing their dreams of someday gracing a big league e-sports stage... |
| Oct 28, 2022 | Global Frozen Chicken Market Prominent Establishment and Financial Deals Impacting Factors 2022 | Global Frozen Chicken Market
Global Frozen Chicken market is expected to reach an estimated USD 109.77 billion by 2029, rising at 5% CAGR.
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, October 28, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The research report "Global ... |
| May 26, 2022 | Meatless Farm Launches Vegan Steak Into Sainsbury’s | UK meat alternative giant Meatless Farm today announces the launch of a vegan steak NPD into 125 Sainsbury’s stores nationwide, targeting flexitarians and meat-reducers who enjoy red meat but are aware of its environmental impact and statin... |
| Mar 10, 2022 | Iceland Trademarks Term ‘Flexitebruary’ to Encourage Plant-Based Choices After Veganuary | Iceland trademarks term ‘Flexitebruary’ with the hope of continuing January’s plant-based sales boom.
After seeing a strong boost in plant-based sales during the Veganuary campaign, British supermarket Iceland is attempting to trademark the... |
| Jan 8, 2021 | Veganuary Makes History As 500,000 Pledge To Eat Only Vegan Food This January | 2
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U.K. based movement Veganuary has hit record-breaking 500,000 signups with people having pledged to eat only vegan food in January 2021. This number is double the number of signups the campaign attracted last year in ... |
| Nov 21, 2018 | Iceland: “We Will Continue to Innovate Using Plant-based Ingredients” | Iceland Foods is the UK’s leading retailer in frozen products with over 900 stores throughout the UK, a further 40 owned or franchised stores across Europe and a global export business.
Following their incredible success with plant-based ‘N... |
| Sep 14, 2018 |
Eat Your Food, and the Package Too
| Around tables strewn with Exacto knives, bowls, cutting boards, tape, funnels, and bags of hemp powder, mushroom parts, and sugar, a dozen graduate students from the packaging and industrial-design departments at Pratt Institute, in Brookly... |
| Aug 20, 2018 | Iceland Launch Largest Single Supermarket Brand of Plant-based Food | ©Iceland
Head of Development for Iceland Supermarket, Neil Nugent, has been focused on sustainability in the launch of 13 new Iceland own brand plant-based products. The new range will be displayed in a special meat-free cabinet and made av... |
| Aug 20, 2018 | Iceland Launch Largest Single Supermarket Brand of Plant-based Food | Head of Development for Iceland Supermarket, Neil Nugent, has been focused on sustainability in the launch of 13 new Iceland own brand plant-based products. The new range will be displayed in a special meat-free cabinet and made available f... |
| Jul 11, 2012 | Iceland Food Group Receives €5M Senior Term Debt from European Capital | Iceland Food Group Limited, a UK-based retail specialist offering frozen, chilled and grocery products in the value-end of the food retail market, recently received a €5m senior term debt from European Capital.
The financing, which was prov... |
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| IBM is one of 20 companies joining The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reduce carbon emissions started by Amazon and Jeff Bezos | Another 20 companies joined The Climate Pledge, a public commitment to reduce carbon emissions launched by Amazon and Jeff Bezos in 2019. Including the new signatories announced Wednesday, there are 53 companies in 12 countries that have jo... |
