Tag: Sainsbury’s

Sainsbury’s champions Black founder-led brands with successful £1m incubator programme

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s has announced the first three Black founder-led brands to be hitting shelves this year after being selected to take part in Thrive with Sainsbury’s, a UK retail first incubator programme. Sainsbury’s launched Thrive with Sainsbury’s last summer – a free 16-week programme with a £1 million commitment to supporting Black founder-led start-up businesses transition to supermarket shelves, as part of its mission to be a truly inclusive retailer. In partnership with Foundervine and Mission Ventures, the programme sought to combat the barriers Black and ethnic minority start-up businesses face,…

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Sainsbury’s ramps up removal of single-use plastic lids, saving 71 million pieces of plastic annually

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s will be removing more single-use plastic lids from its own-brand ranges, with dips set to be the next product that will see the change. From March 2023, household favourites such as guacamole, tzatziki and sour cream and chive dip will no longer be sold with single-use plastic lids. Since 2019 Sainsbury’s has removed single-use plastic lids from a wide range of products including cream, crème fraiche, custard, cottage cheese and sour cream. Earlier this year, Sainsbury’s also removed single-use plastic lids from all own-brand yoghurt. After removing plastic lids…

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Sainsbury’s donates £3 million to fight food poverty this Christmas

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s will donate £3 million to those in need, with £500k going to FareShare through Comic Relief’s On the Breadline Winter appeal which will provide funding for the equivalent of 2 million meals to those living in food poverty across the UK. In response to the rising cost of living, the retailer has launched Nourish the Nation, a long-term programme, working with longstanding charity partner Comic Relief, that will fund initiatives designed to tackle food insecurity and ensure communities have access to balanced, nutritional, and sustainable food sources now and…

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Sainsbury’s could help to feed over half a million pregnant women and children as cost-of-living rises

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s has announced that it will once again top up the Government funded NHS Healthy Start scheme by £2 – a move that could help feed more than half a million pregnant women and children in need of support over the coming months. The retailer will be providing a £2 coupon every week over the next six months to customers using a Healthy Start card in Sainsbury’s, starting this week on Wednesday 12th October, until Tuesday 11th April 2023. The NHS Healthy Start scheme helps to encourage a healthy diet…

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Sainsbury’s switches all coffee pods from plastic to aluminium, saving over 10 million pieces of plastic each year

Stuart Mitchell

Mornings just got a latte better, as Sainsbury’s announces it has changed its entire coffee pod range from plastic to aluminium pods, allowing customers to recycle them at home. The new aluminium packaging means the range is now fully recyclable and will help to save over 10 million pieces of plastic each year. The change is across the whole Sainsbury’s coffee pod range, helping customers up and down the country to recycle more at home. The move comes after Sainsbury’s was the first UK retailer to label its own-brand aluminium…

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