The Co-op is rolling out its re-launching its entire range of in-store bakery products into its own brand, and revamping its in-store bakeries.

Slow Bread, a new concept based on the criteria of Slow Food, will be taken to the food event Terre Madre (Mother Earth) in Italy in October. The project is the first to arise out of a UK food producer community of bakers, millers, cereal growers and cookery teachers who will represent the UK Slow Bread community.

Canadian cinnamon roll bakery brand CinnZeo has opened its first franchise at the Spindles Shopping Centre in Oldham, Lancashire.

Costa Coffee now sells coffee made with beans from Rainforest Alliance certified farms in every one of it 785 UK stores.