Last year we talked about David Attenborough’s gripping documentary Blue Planet II, which brought to the fore the devastating effects of our plastic consumption. With ‘single-use’ becoming word of the year in 2018, over the past few years consumers, brands and businesses are growing increasingly concerned about the damage we are causing to the environment….
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Hands up, when was the last time you did a big shop? Did you stock up on plenty of frozen food as well as fresh and ambient staples? According to a recent article, frozen food is set to be the ‘coolest trend’ of 2019. And while it might not be the most glamorous of kitchen…
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Have you started to stockpile food in anticipation of the Apocalypse, aka Brexit? We might be used to panic buying, and stashing away bread, milk and eggs when there’s mention of snow in the weather forecast, but now there’s a new kid on the block… The possibility of a no deal Brexit has sent us…
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Spring is around the corner, temperatures are slowly starting to increase and we are finally getting a little more sunlight in the evenings. This means it’s time to start thinking about one of our favourite occasions, Mother’s Day, or traditionally, Mothering Sunday. This internationally celebrated day lends itself to a substantial increase in sales, with…
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This week saw the publication of, the Environmental Audit Committee’s report on Sustainability in the Fashion Industry Enquiry. It revealed that that today, people buy and discard clothes faster than ever, getting rid of more than 1m tonnes of clothes a year, with £140m worth going to landfill every year. On average, Britons buy 26.7kg…
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Parcels still arriving from your Black Friday or Cyber Monday splurge? Or were you one of the exasperated shoppers, hoping that the endless Black Friday week emails offering deal after deal would just stop? While early reports suggest that shopper footfall declined 4.5% compared to 2017, it’s clear that online sales were the winner of…
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It’s no longer just the Coca Cola ad that gets us excited about Christmas, oh no, we now have the iconic John Lewis countdown, Kevin the carrot and this year even a very unexpected whirlwind involving Rang-tan! Here’s our favourite picks from 2018! “We have Love Actually to thank for casting a lobster in their Christmas…
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Is it too early to say Christmas? Probably… but I’m going for it anyway! This week Amazon commissioned a new survey to investigate the UK’s festive shopping habits to support the launch of their Christmas Shop and Gift Finder on their website as they found brits spend 882 hours in their lifetime purchasing 1,386 Christmas…
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It is widely reported that Halloween owes its origins to an ancient Iron Age pagan festival called Sanheim. Sanheim marked the end of summer and kicked-off the Celtic new year, symbolising a time of both death and rebirth, with the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. Later, in the mid-eighth century,…
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