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🚨FOOD INDUSTRY NEWS🚨 China will accelerate the pace of agricultural and rural modernization and stabilise grain planting area in its quest to ensure stable and high production of grains, citing an annual rural policy meeting. At an annual meeting that sets rural policy priorities for the year ahead, policymakers highlighted a need to improve farmers' incomes and strengthen the use of agriculture science, technology and equipment. The world's biggest grains producer announced record grains production of 706.5 million metric tons this year, including 294.92 million tons of corn. #china #grain #commodities #newsletter #foodindustry Reuters

🚨FOOD INDUSTRY NEWS🚨 Global food and drink giants including Mondelēz International and Kraft Heinz are accused in a #Pennsylvania lawsuit of purposefully designing and manufacturing addictive ultra-processed foods, using tactics akin to tobacco companies to do so. #foodindustry #lawsuit #newsletter #upf #ultraprocessed

🚨FOOD INDUSTRY NEWS🚨 Pubs up and down the U.K. say they are running low on #Guinness after a surge in demand that caught the beer’s brewer off guard. The timing couldn’t be worse, with millions across the country heading to #Christmas parties and other gatherings as the festive season here kicks into high gear. Guinness owner Diageo says it has seen “exceptional consumer demand” for the brand in Britain over the past month. In response, the company is limiting the amount of its stout that pubs can buy to prevent stockpiling and ensure supplies last through the peak Christmas season. The issue affects both cans and kegs of Guinness in Britain. #beer #pub #beverage #newsletter

🚨FOOD INDUSTRY NEWS🚨 Nestlé will be launching protein shots in the United States which it says help suppress appetite for people looking to shed pounds, the latest effort by the world's biggest packaged food maker to tap the booming market for weight-loss products. #foodindustry #weightloss #ozempic Reuters #snacking #protein

🚨FOOD INDUSTRY NEWS🚨 Tony's Chocolonely’s advent calendar has left a day blank to increase awareness of the inequality faced by cocoa farmers in the chocolate supply chain. The Dutch chocolate brand’s Big Countdown Calendar – which can set back customers £15 – doesn’t have a bar of chocolate hiding behind door number 10.   The brand, famous for its unequally divided chocolate bars, said the reason behind the missing bar was to highlight the “unequally divided chocolate industry.” #inequality #cocoa #christmas The Independent #chocolate #foodindustry.

🚨FOOD INDUSTRY NEWS🚨 Starbucks has more than doubled paid leave for new parents working at 10,000-plus US stores, a policy change under new chief executive Brian Niccol as the company manages a union-organising push among baristas. The improved benefit of up 18 weeks of paid leave will be available to the more than 200,000 baristas, store managers and other retail employees who work at company-operated stores. They currently receive six weeks of paid leave. #coffee #foodindustry #labourunion Financial Times #management

FOOD CHART OF THE WEEK: #poultry #foodindustry #chicken #meatindustry #newsletter Vox

🚨FOOD INDUSTRY NEWS🚨 McCormick & Company is in talks to acquire Sauer Brands, Inc. from Falfurrias Management Partners, according to people with knowledge of the matter. A transaction could value the company, best known for its Duke’s mayonnaise brand, at more than $1 billion, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are confidential. An agreement hasn’t been reached and talks could still end without one, or another buyer could emerge. #manda Bloomberg #acquisition #foodindustry #snacking

🚨FOOD INDUSTRY NEWS🚨 Starbucks Workers United members at a number of stores in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle are set today in the first wave of actions in an escalating, multi-day strike. The union called the strike in response to outstanding unfair labor practices, with the aim of forcing Starbucks to offer raises at the bargaining table. At a bargaining session this month “Starbucks proposed an economic package with no new wage increases for union baristas now and a guarantee of only 1.5% in future years,” the union said in a press release. #coffee #labourunion #strike #foodindustry #fastfood #newsletter