Webinar: ‘We look to predict the fresh food landscape 18 months post COVID-19 with our expert industry guest speakers’

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Aired: Tuesday 14th April 15:00 BST.

Panelists: Christine Tacon CBE – Groceries Code Adjudicator, Shaun Browne – Co-Head Corporate Finance, UK at Houlihan Lokey, Sterling Crew – Chair of The Food Authenticity Network’s Advisory Board, Sarah Calcutt – Partners in Produce Ltd, Ben Makowiecki – Area Director Agriculture for Lloyds Banking Group, Max MacGillivray – Editor in Chief for Beanstalk & Webinar Host.…

My Life In The Grocery Trade

Ulster Grocer – 1st April 2020

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Christine Tacon calls for retailers to help suppliers facing cashflow problems

The Grocer – 27th March 2020

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Groceries Code Adjudicator Christine Tacon has made an extraordinary intervention in a bid to help suppliers facing a cashflow crisis from the coronavirus outbreak.

Tacon has always previously refused to give any guidance on payment terms, because the issue is not covered in GSCOP.…

Coronavirus: Groceries Code Adjudicator issues guidance for supply chain

Food Manufacturer – 17th march 2020

The GCA has issued some guiding principles The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) has urged retailers and suppliers to work tog ether but has called on them to follow some “guiding principles”.

It said there were “considerable challenges” facing retailers and suppliers as they worked together to ensure customers had access to food and other essentials during the COVID-19 outbreak.…

GSCOP – Get trained, know the code, speak up!

Spend Matters – 25th February 2020

We haven’t heard from 4C Associates in some time, but they look to have been busy with new hires and a new website. We’ll be catching up with business developments soon. But for now, Simon Latham, a senior manager with the procurement consultancy, shares his thoughts on The Grocery Supply Code of Practice (GSCOP), having worked at JS, Safeway and Tesco where he wrote Tesco’s GSCOP training material and trained over 3,000 people.…

GCA reaches out to small suppliers

Speciality Food – 10 February 2020

GCA reaches out to small suppliers

The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA), Christine Tacon, has launched the seventh annual survey, which provides suppliers with the opportunity to express any Groceries Supply Code of Practice issues. The survey has enabled Christine, as the UK’s first GCA, to achieve progress for suppliers, demonstrate where retailer efforts have improved Code compliance and identify areas for improvement.…

GCA opens annual survey

Fresh Produce Journal – 07 February 2020

Christine Tacon launches final survey of suppliers as Groceries Code Adjudicator before her term ends in June

The Groceries Code Adjudicator Christine Tacon has launched her annual survey of supermarket suppliers, ten years on from when the Groceries Supply Code of Practice came into force. …

New Markets: New Opportunities in 2020

Lexology – 06 February 2020

The turn of a year into a new decade sharpens our focus on what’s happening in our market and what may affect our future. Scotland Food and Drink’s target value for the sector of £30bn by 2030 seems significantly closer in February 2020 than it did when we hosted our annual conference in November 2019!…

After 10 years of GSCOP, what’s changed – and what’s left to do?

The Grocer – 05 February 2020

This week the Groceries Supply Code of Practice reached a major milestone: its 10-year anniversary. Introduced to ensure the country’s largest retailers treat their suppliers lawfully and fairly, the landscape for groceries suppliers has changed enormously since 4 February 2010.…

Women in Food and Agriculture event proves to be a great success

Farming Life – 09 January 2020

Over 300 delegates from 26 countries made their way to Amsterdam for the inaugural Women in Food & Agriculture Summit

Over 300 delegates from 26 countries made their way to Amsterdam for the inaugural Women in Food & Agriculture Summit.

The agribusiness and food event brought together some of the sector’s most progressive and disruptive thinkers with an audience that wanted to openly debate the inclusivity and diversity of the agri-food industry.…

Women in agribusiness: ‘We are not men in skirts’

Farmers Journal – 25 December 2019

Following seven years as the UK’s Groceries Code Adjudicator, Christine Tacon speaks to Amii McKeever about her background, why she is leaving this role and women in agribusiness.

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GCA’s self-regulation proposal: the big misunderstanding

The Grocer – 17th December 2019

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Suppliers are concerned and retailers are confused. Christine Tacon, the outgoing Groceries Code Adjudicator, said in her final annual conference she wanted “to see the retailers build for themselves a whole-organisation approach to code compliance”.…

UK grocery watchdog has dramatically changed dysfunctional UK supermarkets

Farmers Journal – 05 November 2019

Since taking office in 2013, the UK’s grocery code adjudicator has delivered dramatic behavioural change in how UK supermarkets treat suppliers.

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Christine Tacon urges government to stick with ‘collaborative’ GCA approach

The Grocer – 27th August 2019

Image result for christine tacon Groceries Code Adjudicator Christine Tacon has urged the government not to ditch her “collaborative” approach to tackling retailer-supplier disputes, as she presses ahead with plans for a system of self-regulation.

Responding to a statutory review of the role by Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Tacon produced written support from supermarkets and food and drink companies.…

Christine Tacon’s exit announcement will surely make suppliers nervous

The Grocer – 24th June 2019

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Outgoing UK grocery business adjudicator sets out new approach to regulation

Just Food – 25th June 2019

Christine Tacon speaking at yesterdays conference The UK government body overseeing the behaviour of the country’s large supermarket chains has set out a new compliance strategy.

The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA), Christine Tacon, told the organisation’s annual conference in London yesterday (24 June) that her aim is to drive effective top-to-bottom compliance risk management by the retailers she regulates. …

Aldi tops GCA annual survey for 6th year with Co-op the most improved

Farmers Guardian – 25th June 2019

97 per cent of suppliers said Aldi complies consistently well or mostly well with the code.

Aldi has topped the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) annual survey for the sixth year, with 97 per cent of suppliers stating the retailer complied well or mostly well with the Groceries Supply Code of Practice (GSCOP).…

Retail supplier complaints hit new low

Fresh Produce Journal – 24h June 2019

Retail supplier complaints hit new low Aldi again named most Code-compliant supermarket in annual report by Groceries Code Adjudicator

The number of supplier complaints against supermarkets has fallen to a new low, the Groceries Code Adjudicator’s new annual report indicates.…

Suppliers call for Amazon to be regulated by Groceries Code Adjudicator

Yorkshire Post – 24th June 2019

Food and drink suppliers have called for online giant Amazon to come under the watch of the grocery industry regulator.

Amazon and Boots were the two retailers which received the most requests from suppliers to come under the remit of the Groceries Code Adjudicator, according to its annual survey.…

Groceries Code Adjudicator to step down

Food Manufacture – 24th June 2019

Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) Christine Tacon is to step down from her role at the end of her current term in June 2020, delegates at the GCA Annual Conference heard.

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Retailers to be given ‘self-policing GSCOP role as Adjudicator steps down

The Grocer – 24th June 2019

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Christine Tacon could face plenty of flak in the BEIS review of the GCA

The Grocer – 21st June 2019

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Waitrose and Ocado to sign up to supplier audit respite pledge

The Grocer – 20th June 2019

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Christine Tacon: suppliers can learn from GSCOP-regulated retailers on payment terms

The Grocer- 30th May 2019

The regulated retailers have told Tacon that being code compliant has improved their internal efficiency.

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As next GCA league table looms, here’s what suppliers need to look out for

The Grocer – 29th May 2019

In six years, Tacon’s collaborative approach has improved retailer compliance and seen millions returned direct to victim suppliers. It is not just working, it has become the envy of many other countries

On 24 June, at the Grocer Code Adjudicator’s annual conference, we will see the new league table of retailer compliance.…

IOD Director Of The Year Finalist

Groceries Code Adjudicator Announced as IOD London and South Director of the Year Awards Finalist

Christine Tacon has been shortlisted for the public sector director of the year at the 2019 IoD London & South Director of the Year Awards.

The finalists were chosen from the hundreds of directors that entered or were nominated across nine different categories. …

The Times: 16/05/2019

MPs upset as groceries watchdog rejects extra powers

The grocery regulator has clashed with MPs after they accused her of not being willing to take on powers that would provide more extensive protection to supermarket suppliers.

The business, energy and industrial strategy committee expressed frustration with Christine Tacon, the Groceries Code Adjudicator, after she said she did not need any more powers and resisted offering a view on a number of issues affecting suppliers.…

Farmers Guardian: 03/05/2019

Gender equality: Why British agriculture is in need of a culture change

With gender equality in the workplace rising up the agenda, Christine Tacon spoke to Olivia Midgley about why she thinks agriculture is in need of a culture change.

Throughout her 40 years in business, Christine Tacon has enjoyed senior roles at some of the world’s biggest companies, including Mars, Vodafone and Anchor/Fonterra.

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News from the Adjudicator

Report of the investigation into Co-operative Group Limited

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The Times: 26/03/2019

Co-op escapes fine despite adjudicator’s scathing criticism

The grocer was told to make “major changes” to the way it deals with suppliers

The Co-operative Group has avoided a fine from the grocery regulator despite being found guilty of “widespread” failings in how it treated its suppliers.

A year-long investigation by the Groceries Code Adjudicator found that the supermarket had dropped suppliers’ products without due notice, levied unfair charges on them and unreasonably varied their supply deals.

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