Food delivery group promises to expand worker model already operating in London and BirminghamJust Eat is to offer 1,500 takeaway couriers in Read More
Apr 20, 2021
Food & drink industry
Mar 01, 2020
Children as young as eight picked coffee beans for Starbucks
Nespresso also named in TV exposé of labour scandal in GuatemalaHigh street coffee shop giant Starbucks has been caught up in a child labour row after Read More
Jan 24, 2020
Haribo lawyers bear down on alcoholic sweets firm
Multinational company says Spanish firm’s bear-shaped sweets infringe trademarkSmall, sweet bears with the capacity to inflict a very sore head have Read More
Jan 24, 2020
Haribo lawyers bear down on alcoholic sweets firm
Multinational company says Spanish firm’s bear-shaped sweets infringe trademarkSmall, sweet bears with the capacity to inflict a very sore head have Read More
Jan 15, 2019
McDonald’s loses Big Mac trademark after legal battle with Irish chain
Supermac strips US food giant of trademark across Europe after landmark EU rulingPat McDonagh earned the nickname Supermac as an Irish teenager after Read More
Oct 09, 2018
Pret has power to stop more food allergy deaths, says coroner
Report into death of teenager concludes current system of monitoring ‘highly inadequate’Pret a Manger has the power to take action to prevent future Read More
Oct 04, 2018
Young people are rewiring capitalism with their McStrike | Owen Jones
A precarious and exploited workforce has had enough: young employees are joining unions and demanding to be heardThe day McDonald’s workers walked out Read More
Sep 25, 2018
MeToo’s hidden activists? Working-class women
Janitors and fast-food workers, not celebrities, are ground zero of the MeToo movement. Time to shift the focus to themLast Tuesday, McDonald’s Read More
Sep 25, 2018
MeToo’s hidden activists? Working-class women
Janitors and fast-food workers, not celebrities, are ground zero of the MeToo movement. Time to shift the focus to themLast Tuesday, McDonald’s Read More
Jul 25, 2018
KitKat does not merit trademark protection, EU court rules
Court brings 11-year legal fight to an end with ruling that chocolate bar should not have protected statusIt is a question that has been debated by Read More
Jul 25, 2018
KitKat does not merit trademark protection, EU court rules
Court brings 11-year legal fight to an end with ruling that chocolate bar should not have protected statusIt is a question that has been debated by Read More
May 01, 2018
Gay marriage cake row reaches UK’s supreme court in Belfast
Ashers bakery to challenge ruling that its refusal to bake cake was discriminatoryA bakery run by evangelical Christians is to launch a fresh attempt Read More