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K Group Sees Growth In Demand For Non-Alcoholic Beverages

The K Group believe the beverage culture in Finland has changed as more and more people are choosing non-alcoholic counterparts for beers, ciders, and cock...

SPAR Austria Sells 100,000 Too Good To Go ‘Magic Bags’

SPAR Austria and food waste prevention firm Too Good To Go have sold 100,000 bags of food nearing its use-by date, following the signing of a nationwide pa...

Seven In Ten Greek Households Waste Food, IELKA Study Finds

Seven in ten Greek households waste food to some degree, a new study by IELKA has found, with around 300,000 tonnes of food ending up wasted on an annual b...

Too Good To Go Saves 10 Million Meals In Germany

Food waste prevention app Too Good To Go has reached the milestone of saving ten million, with Edeka Treugut on Heidelberger Strasse in Berlin the site for...

A Third Of Food Bought By UK Households Ends Up In The Bin, Study Finds

UK households throw away a third of the food they buy (30%) despite three in four making attempts to prevent wastage, a new study commissioned by Waitrose...

Biedronka Donated Food Worth More Than PLN 130m In 2020

Polish retailer Biedronka donated food worth more than PLN 130 million (€28.4 million) in 2020 to over 100 charitable organisations in the countr...

SPAR Teams Up With Too Good To Go In Ireland

SPAR Ireland has launched a new partnership with food waste app Too Good To Go in Ireland, making it the first retail network in the country to s...

Metro Completes First Phase Of Food Waste Prevention Initiative

Metro AG and more than 30 of its major suppliers have completed or have committed to baseline measurements of their operations' food loss and waste as part...