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200 days on, what’s changed?

To truly start understanding the impact of this on our lives, we in the Thinking House in Bord Bia, designed a study that would allow us to start tracking behaviours and to start learning about what this mass interruption would mean for our lives including what we eat, what

UK Consumer Perceptions Around Irish Food & Drink Remain Strong

Since the UK voted to leave the EU four years ago, Bord Bia has been monitoring the situation, measuring clients’ preparedness through the Brexit Barometer and the Readiness Radar and assisting them in developing their Brexit Action Plans. This FoodAlert article will share

Protecting the Land for the Next Farming Generation

Back in September 662 Irish Farmers took time out of their working day to respond to an online survey sent to them by an independent research agency, Opinions.ie on behalf of Bord Bia. The main purpose of the research was to uncover their thoughts on the future of the

Demand for Carbon Footprint Labelling is Heating Up in Germany

The CO2 (Carbon) footprint is increasingly becoming an important criterion for consumer decisions in Germany. What’s exciting about is that insurgent food brands are paving the way for climate positivity and using it to their advantage. In November 2019, a number of

Bord Bia’s Grass Fed Standard Launch in Italy

Bord Bia Milan has just launched a B2B2C Campaign in Italy to promote the new Grass Fed Standard for Beef, the world’s first on a national scale, that allows it to track and verify the percentage of grass consumed in the diet of Irish beef herds. The campaign focus is on

Bord Bia’s London Office Brexit Update: 27th November 2020

The EU and UK will resume face-to-face Brexit trade talks on Saturday with negotiations still deadlocked barely a month before Britain exits the single market. Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, confirmed on Friday that he and his team were no longer in quarantine

US Consumers Quickly Adapting to Change

While the impact of Covid-19 on grocery shopping habits around the globe has been clear for some time, how this has played out in the US has been little short of transformational. Relatively conventional behaviors in other markets such as online shopping, cooking from

Swedish Sustainability: Food Waste

Swedes have long been at the forefront of sustainability and they are continually searching for new ways to improve their environmental impact. By the end of 2018, the Swedish Government had already exceeded their 2020 recycling targets that 70% of glass and 65% of paper in

The Irish Craft Beer Industry

Innovation, Quality and Resilience. 3 words that adequately describe the Irish Craft beer industry. The industry is driven by innovation. It is an industry where you innovate or become irrelevant. This is because the craft beer consumer is innately adventurous and

Dairy Ingredients in South East Asia – Performance and Opportunity

Irish ability to continue to successfully win a share of the burgeoning dairy consumption – and therefore import - in South-east Asia will depend on continuing to understand the consumer and providing for their needs. This article will introduce the scale of that import

A Change of Perspective: Germany a Look at Positive Developments through Challenging Times

The past months have been challenging, that’s quite evident. However, through challenges emerge also positives. A Focusing on good news for now, some positive developments from across the German food and drink industry:

5 Tips to BE Information Smart:

GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) is a concept that is common to computer science and mathematics. Essentially, it refers to how the quality of output is determined by the quality of the input. So, for example, if incorrect data is input to a computer program, the output is

Significant Increase in French Organic Market as Gap Closes with Germany

As mentioned in recent food alerts France is a major market for organic food in Europe and quickly adopting to new consumer habits with online sales particularly following the Covid crises. The French organic market increased by 13.5% in 2019 compared to 2018 to reach

Bord Bia’s London Office Brexit Update: 30th October 2020

Brexit talks this week have been making good progress, according to Ursula Von der Leyen. As the negotiations moved to Brussels after seven days in London, the European commission president said that they were making good progress and were hoping to see more progress soon

Bord Bia 2020 National Organic Awards Winners Announced

On October 21st, replacing the physical bi-annual event, a celebration of Irish Organic food and drink took place when the 2020 National Organic Awards winners were announced through Bord Bia’s social media channels. There were seven award categories including Retail,