European Private Label Awards 2023 – Winners Announced
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A total of 16 different retailers, hailing from nine European countries, have been named as winners in the 2023 European Private Label Awards, which celebrate excellence in store-brand innovation.
This year's winners include ABBI Holding (Italy), Albert Heijn/Etos (Netherlands), Aldi France, Aldi Italia, BWG Foods/SPAR Ireland, Conad (Italy), Consum (Spain), Coop (Italy), Coop Trading (Denmark), Desarrollo de Marcas/Euromadi (Spain), Lidl Denmark, Migros Ticaret (Turkey), Pingo Doce (Portugal), REWE Group (Germany) and Salling Group (Denmark).
Awards were presented in 17 grocery categories, as well as four cross-category 'Best of the Best' Awards: Innovative Product of The Year, Packaging Excellence Award, Sustainable Product of the Year and Taste Excellence Award.
A full list of winners can be found in the video announcement below.
Coop Denmark has announced the launch of a new strategy, titled ‘The Coop of the Future’, which will see the establishment of the country’s largest supermarket chain trading under the Coop banner. The chain will consist of the largest stores from three of Denmark’s retail chains: Kvickly, SuperBrugsen and Irma. The local stores in Dagli’Brugsen – along with the stores that will not be part of the Coop chain – will in time trade under the Brugsen banner.
Fruit and vegetable consumption per capita stood at 364g per day in Europe in 2021, and could drop by around 10% once the final figures for 2022 are known, representative group Freshfel has said. The group said that these figures are 'particularly worrying', given that they fall below the minimum 400-gram recommendation by the WHO, while they are also driven by low levels of consumption by millennials and the youngest generations. The cost-of-living crisis, coupled with growing protectionism, is impacting consumer purchasing power which in turn is limiting expenditure on fruit and vegetables, Freshfel said.
Private-label sales in Italy reached an all-time high of €12.8 billion in 2022, an increase of 9.4% year on year, new data has shown. The market share for private-label brands increased from 19.8% to 20.8%. The data was presented in a study undertaken by the European House-Ambrosetti for Italy’s Modern Distribution Association and presented at the Marca 2023 event. Over the 2013-21 period, private-label companies were found to perform better than the industry average of the food sector.
Sales of beer, wine and spirits fell 4% across the European retail channel last year, according to IRI, as consumers cut discretionary purchases to moderate the impact of inflation. According to IRI, total alcohol category sales value in the European supermarket, discounter, convenience store and off-licence sectors totalled €66 billion in 2022, down €2.7 billion year-on-year. The data was revealed in IRI's FMCG Demand Signals report, which covers some 230 FMCG categories, 2,000 product segments and more than 100 million SKUs.
UK retailer Tesco is trialling low-carbon fertilisers in partnership with five of its largest field vegetable suppliers, as it seeks to boost food security in the UK and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its supply chain. The move will reduce GHG emissions by up to 20% in the first year at no extra cost to farmers, the retailer said. The rollout will see the use of eight fertiliser alternatives across 1,300 hectares in the 2023 growing season. The retailer plans to scale up the area to a minimum of 4,000 hectares in 2024 across Tesco’s field veg suppliers.
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