nastasia Savchenko was at agricultural university in Kharkiv in Ukraine when she saw a Facebook advert for a job picking courgettes on a farm in Cornwall. The process of being interviewed and receiving her six-month work visa took about six weeks. She is among 30 […]
We’re excited to announce that Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS), a Scottish vertical farming tech provider, has raised £5.4 million in Series A funding. The round was led by leading agri-foodtech investor S2G Ventures as well as AgFunder and Scottish Investment Bank (SIB). IGS has developed […]
Banks across Europe earn hundreds of millions of euros a year from overcharging small corporate customers for foreign exchange services, according to a new paper from the European Central Bank. The new research is the first data-driven study of the traditionally opaque world […]
Morrisons and Amazon say they will expand their same-day delivery service for groceries to Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool, Sheffield and Portsmouth. Morrisons agreed to supply Amazon with groceries in 2016 and the service now includes delivery within the hour for some customers. So far customers […]
Tesco said sales growth in its core UK business slowed in the first quarter, but that it had outperformed a “subdued” grocery market. The grocer, which is nearing the end of a four year turnround programme under chief executive Dave Lewis, said on Thursday that […]
Lidl plans to invest £500m ramping up its presence in London, opening 40 new stores over the next five years in a region where it has traditionally found it difficult to expand. The German discounter on Wednesday said the move — which will see […]
in the 12 weeks to May 19, with its sales unchanged from the same period last year. Sainsbury’s was the biggest loser, with sales declining 1.7pc year-on-year as it narrowly avoided being overtaken by Asda in the battle to be the country’s second largest supermarket […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Morrisons, Britain’s fourth-biggest supermarket group, said political and economic uncertainty had weighed on its first-quarter growth and warned that it faced a tough comparative over the next three months. The group, which trails market leader Tesco (LON:TSCO),Sainsbury’s and Walmart’s Asda in annual […]
The Ministry of Agriculture confirmed to the agricultural food sectors that, in case of a Brexit without agreement, all shipments of fruit and vegetables from the EU to the United Kingdom will not be required to present phytosanitary certificates, except citrus fruits with leaves and […]
Grocer on track to achieve margin targets during coming year Tesco has accelerated plans to increase its dividend as it draws near to achieving the goals of a four-year turnaround programme in the coming financial year. The UK’s biggest grocer on Wednesday announced a […]