Today’s consumers have a greater awareness of wider global issues and want their food to not only be exciting, healthy and nutritious, but also sustainable, ethical and environmentally-friendly. There are also regulatory standards to meet, allergens to minimise, waste to manage, margins to increase and the need to make supply chains more resilient in the face of unpredictability.
In our interactive infographic, we lay out these issues and look at some of the ways food businesses are responding to them. Here’s a summary of our findings:
- A third of food businesses are struggling to recruit labourers/unskilled manual workers
- If global food waste was a country, it would be the world’s third biggest contributor to CO2 emissions behind only the US and China
- Two-thirds of consumers consider it important the products they buy are in recyclable packaging
- In response, over 230 food businesses have committed to the UK food waste reduction roadmap
- UK retailers Sainsbury’s has pledged to reduce its use of plastic packaging 50% by 2025. As a result of this move, 18.5 million plastic straws will be removed from circulation each year
- Food businesses can leverage technology to address these challenges such as managing waste and increasing supply chain visibility. This is because digital tools give you access to advanced analytics and enhanced reporting capabilities
Ready to learn more? Download our interactive infographic by clicking the button below.
