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• Saclà recalls pesto products over peanut contamination fears

  22-12-2019 19:19
  
  FSA issues allergy alert as dozens of ranges including Aldi and Waitrose own-brand products affectedThe Italian sauce company Saclà is recalling dozens of pesto products, including those sold as own-brand by Waitrose and Aldi, over fears they may contain undeclared peanuts.The Food Standards Agency issued an allergy alert, warning that 25 products may be contaminated and pose a health risk to consumers with peanut allergies.Saclà ‘Nduja Pesto; Saclà Reduced Fat Basil P
  
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• Tesco pulls Christmas cards over China forced labour claim

  22-12-2019 16:09
  UK supermarket suspends production after girl finds message purportedly from jail inmates
  
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• Co-op goes back to its roots with move into academy schools

  22-12-2019 14:33
  
  175 years after opening its first store, chain hopes education can boost deprived communities
  Young people in Co-op branded uniforms are chatting among themselves as they walk along brightly painted corridors to work – but this is not a grocery shop or warehouse.It is the Co-Op academy Manchester, a secondary school that forms part of the mutual’s latest effort to put itself at the heart of local communities. Continue reading...
  
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• Tesco withdraws Christmas cards from sale after forced labour claims

  22-12-2019 12:16
  
  Supermarket halts production in China after six-year-old girl finds plea for help inside cardTesco says it has suspended production at a factory in China alleged to have forced foreign prisoners to help make charity Christmas cards and also withdrawn them from sale. The allegations came to light after the Sunday Times reported that Florence Widdicombe, aged six, from Tooting, south London, opened a box of charity Christmas cards from the supermarket and discovered a plea for help inside one of t
  
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• Tesco halts production at Chinese factory over forced labour claims

  22-12-2019 10:39
  
  Supermarket to investigate after six-year-old girl finds plea for help inside Christmas cardTesco says it has suspended production at a factory in China alleged to have forced foreign prisoners to help make charity Christmas cards.The allegations came to light after the Sunday Times reported that Florence Widdicombe, aged six, from Tooting, south London, opened a box of charity Christmas cards from the supermarket and discovered a plea for help inside one of them. Continue reading...
  
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• 'Death of an icon': the downfall of Barneys New York

  22-12-2019 09:00
  
  What was once New York’s premier fashion store is entering its last days before closing – but luxury lives on elsewhere“EMS – Every Thing Must Be Sold,” read the signs plastered all over Barneys New York – an unprepossessing welcome to what was once New York’s premier fashion store as it enters its last days before closing after almost 100 years in business.The red-and-yellow sale signage is certainly an affront to the luxury industry’s fastidious,
  
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• Lush’s Mark Constantine: the socially conscious capitalist

  22-12-2019 06:00
  The chief of the cosmetics group has developed a model that aims to be sustainable and fair
  
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• How Lush took on the cosmetics industry

  22-12-2019 06:00
  
  FT's Daniel Thomas on one of the pioneering ethical brands that are increasingly on trend
  
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