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Vegan-and-Go
Planglow Launch New Vegan Sticker to Support Rapidly Expanding Vegan Market
We’ve launched a brand new Vegan Sticker to help food and drink providers highlight vegan options on pack. And with ever growing numbers of Brits now following plant based diets, there’s really never been a better time to launch or expand a vegan offering.
Street Food Does it Again
Hot Food Packaging Range is Voted Most Innovative by Contract Catering Industry
Street Food does it again! Yep our multi-award winning hot food packaging range is really getting it's street on having now received the FSM Supplier Innovation Award 2017, as voted for by contract caterers!
CQUIN: Achieving Compliance
Hospital Food + Service - July / August issue, 2017
Planglow's marketing director Rachael Sawtell, looks at the requirements of the latest Health and Wellbeing CQUIN scheme in the July / August 2017 issue of Hospital Food + Service Magazine.
Footloose and Gluten Free
Gluten-free offerings and how to create your own
In 2016 the gluten-free market was worth a staggering £2.6bn worldwide with sales taking one sizable - 12.6% or £323m - step up on the previous year (Euromonitor). This figure is all the more astonishing given that this expansion was three times that of the wider packaged foods market (4%). What’s more, give it another three years and sales of gluten-free products are set to grow over a third (38%) as much again reaching a giddying £3.57bn (Euromonitor). As the market continues to blow up however, it does beg the question: why are so many consumers bidding adieu to gluten? What’s more, how can you introduce a gluten-free offering?
So Hot Right Now
Three trends for spring / summer
The coming months are full to bursting with new concepts, flavours and culinary finesse. In this post, we take a peek inside the great melting pot of developing trends and simmer it down to three…