Tag: Lidl GB

Lidl GB Announces New Target And Trials For Food Waste Reduction

Stuart Mitchell

Lidl GB has revealed a new food waste reduction target to coincide with the start of Food Waste Action Week and announced new trials to help accelerate progress.   After surpassing its FY2025 goal of 40% food waste reduction1, the discounter has now raised its five-year target from 50% to a more ambitious 70% by FY20302. To drive this next phase of food waste reduction, Lidl is extending its current partnership with Neighbourly to trial the charity’s Surplus Saviours3 initiative this summer in the Midlands. This redistribution scheme enables registered individuals…

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Supermarkets playing with fire on future of food, says WWF

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s broken food system is causing environmental collapse and creating volatility in supply and price, according to a report by WWF released recently.     Drawing on data from 10 retailers (Aldi, Asda, Co-op, Lidl GB, Marks & Spencer, Morrisons, Ocado, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose), 2025’s What’s in Store for the Planet report assesses the progress on environmental action of 90% of the UK grocery market and concludes that action on reducing environmental risks is stagnating.   It warns that without decisive action environmental impacts will escalate, threatening food security and…

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Lidl GB Commits £30 Billion To Strengthen British Food Industry Over Next Five Years

Stuart Mitchell

Lidl GB announces a landmark £30 billion investment in the British food and farming industry, strengthening its commitment to backing British suppliers and supporting long-term sustainable growth across the sector. The new investment reflects the value of sourcing contracts with British-based suppliers which will be made between 2025 and 2030. £30 billion marks a 100% uplift on the discounter’s original commitment to invest £15 billion over five years1, which they surpassed by an additional £6 billion in 2024. With Lidl now in its fourth decade in Great Britain, today’s announcement…

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“UK Supermarkets Must Go Further”: Lidl GB Launches ‘Live Well’ Logo To Signpost Healthy Products Based On The Planetary Health Diet

Stuart Mitchell

Lidl GB has become the first discounter to introduce a health  marker to its own-label products: Live Well. A new logo designed to help customers easily identify products that are healthy when shopping in store. While other competitors’ health markers only inform shoppers about nutritional profiles, the Lidl Live Well logo goes a step further with products also needing to align with the Planetary Health Diet, a global diet that is healthy for both people and planet, as well as broader sustainability criteria. The Lidl Live Well logo has been…

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UK’s largest grocery retailers set sights on prefill to take more single use packaging off shelf

Stuart Mitchell

Nine of the UK’s largest grocery retailers, with support from UK Governments and WRAP, have recently issued a joint Statement of Intent to explore how reusable packaging could be implemented across their stores and online.  The plan is to offer a system that makes it easy to shop for prefilled* items in stores and online and marks a bold commitment towards a standardised in-store and online system to reduce the amount of single use packaging put on the market, to give shoppers a better experience outside of single use packaging. …

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