Topic
Retail
The chilled aisle, the counter and the buyer: how cheese and dairy move through supermarkets.
Intelligence
7 pieces on Retail.
2026 the volatility year
2026 will not be the recovery year the sector expected but the year that resets it, splitting shoppers into clearer tiers and leaving mainstream Cheddar the most exposed.
27 April 2026
UK Cheese to 2030
The fastest-growing line on the cheese shelf is premium own-label Cheddar, up 20.5% in volume while branded Cheddar fell 4.7%; the growth worth funding to 2030 is repeat demand that survives promotions, waste and fulfilment, not branded volume rented at the expense of the retailer's own label.
29 October 2026
What happens to the Christmas cheeseboard in January
Christmas puts more farmhouse cheese in front of supermarket shoppers, but whether it grows choice depends on whether they can find and recognise the same cheese in January, and nobody publishes the repeat-purchase figure that would show it.
27 October 2026
The Longevity Economy
The opportunity is not a product labelled for older people but a portfolio redesigned around the nutritional, functional and experiential needs of longer lives, with value growth more plausible than broad volume growth.
19 October 2026
ICDA 2026: the retail and foodservice winners at a glance
Waitrose & Partners dominated the 2026 retail titles with six categories, while Booths claimed Supreme Cheese Retailer.
26 June 2026
FETA PDO: provenance the buyer can verify
With speciality cheese outgrowing the category and feta supply tightening, buyers should secure genuine PDO product early rather than treat it as a commodity.
19 June 2026
The artisan advantage
Farmhouse and artisan cheesemakers punch far above their tonnage, defining reputation and premium value the wider dairy sector should treat as strategic.
19 June 2026
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