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UK supermarket Asda has launched 47 new lines into its food-to-go range, inspired by global food trends, available in-store and online.

UK supermarket Tesco has introduced a new brand, Taste Shack, focusing on ready-to-cook chicken mains and sides with restaurant-inspired flavours.

The Specially Selected Garlic Bread Crinkle Cut Crisps feature a smoky garlic and herb taste and are presented in a crinkle cut format for an added crunch.

Tesco has launched two new ice cream flavours in Finest Roasted Pistachio and Coconut and Passionfruit, now available at £3 for a 480ml tub.

UK pizza wholesaler Doughboys Pizza has unveiled a new frozen pizza range, launching with Ocado on 21 July.

Opinion: How can brands tap into consumer trends for salty snacks? Doug Resh, director of commercial marketing at T Hasegawa USA, tells us more.

British instant snack brand Pot Noodle will trial switching to a new 90% paper pot design, to be launched with an initial 500,000 pots in Tesco exclusively.

UK supermarket Sainsbury’s has removed plastic trays from its ‘by Sainsbury’s’ steak range, replacing them with a cardboard tray alternative.

Lidl UK will become the first supermarket in the country to introduce Prevented Ocean Plastic to its water bottle packaging, it has announced.

UK supermarket Asda has agreed to purchase the majority of EG Group’s UK and Ireland fuel, foodservice, grocery and merchandise business.

Tesco and WWF have teamed up with start-up tech innovator AgriSound to roll out its insect-monitoring device across several English apple orchards.

Kraft Heinz has reported a 7.3% increase in its first-quarter net sales to $6.49 billion, up from a 5.5% decrease in sales in the year-ago quarter.