Month: June 2013

Lara O'Reilly

Supermarkets should follow Coke’s lead in shunning new Gov’t labelling system

Lara O'Reilly

This week all the major supermarkets signed up to the Government’s new “traffic light” food labelling scheme. Conspicuous in their absence from the voluntary initiative were Coca-Cola, Mondelez, United Biscuits, Unilever, Kellogg and Dairy Crest – to name but a few. Without backing from the UK’s biggest food and drink manufacturers, retailers should take their next steps to introducing the new system cautiously.