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It is party conference season in the UK with Bournemouth, Liverpool, and Manchester the nexus of political discourse, vanity, and hot air. Prime Minister Sunak managed to speak without referencing the multiple car crash of his previous two predecessors, arguably four, something that Labour will not avoid in never-ending renditions of thirteen years of Tory… Continue reading Planning for growth…

Times have been challenging, frustrating, for most firms participating of food supply chains in recent times. Big left field events, a far from competent UK government, supply-side constraints, and an immensely competitive industry tends to make for such challenge with wins hard gained. Despite a plethora of politicised news and opinion, could we be through… Continue reading Are better times ahead for the UK food system?

I have written previously in these pages about the catalogue of incompetence and incapability at the heart of Whitehall, which is a draining burden upon the energy, goodwill, patience, and finances of the British food industry. The largest industry in the UK in so many respects, a ten minute speech from the Prime Minister is… Continue reading Change in Whitehall has to come…

Are you ready to take your food manufacturing game to the next level?   Introducing Coriolis’ very own operational performance software, Mimo!  With Mimo by your side, you can unlock your production capacity like never before, without burning a hole in your pocket.   Gone are the days of costly inefficiencies and wasted resources. Mimo… Continue reading Unlocking Capacity AND helping the environment without Breaking the Bank? We’ve Got the Solution!

We are delighted to announce that our Managing Director; Mark Schubert has been appointed to the panel of judges for the 2024 Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards. Mark Schubert has 24 years of global consulting experience and was appointed our managing director in 2014. As in any consultancy the deployment of talent is the cornerstone of… Continue reading The Food Manufacture Awards 2024 welcomes our very own Mr Schubert.

Food inflation remains the economic variable of the day as UK food price appreciation remains especially fulsome. The UK Government is right to be concerned about such inflation, not least because of its regressive impact upon the poorest albeit is worthwhile pointing out that obesity is a major food policy issue too, somewhat centred upon… Continue reading UK food price expectations

The local authority elections provide the platform for politicians to say stupid things. Some are more consequential than others, of course, and in the case of Ed Davey, leader of that minority sport that is The Liberal Democrats, backers of the Student Loan Scheme when in power, easy to ignore. However, the crass stupidity of… Continue reading Let’s be polite and just call Ed Davey – ‘ignorant’

Late winter in the UK and the surprises of modern life just keep coming as we approach the third anniversary of then Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, deciding to lock the country down. Indeed, a little over a year ago we all watched in absolute horror as Vladimir Putin showed he was a liar by invading… Continue reading What do salad shortages say about the UK food system?

Price has been the central economic force of food markets for some quarters now. Pressures built notably through 2021 when the distortive impact of the pandemic started to influence the cost of doing business, which metamorphosed into an array of new pressures from a shortage of lorry drivers – the British Government showing unreal incompetence… Continue reading Looking for peak food inflation

Coriolis have over 25 years’ experience within the food sector conducting diagnostics for businesses around the globe. We take pride in understanding the performance level of a site and articulating it in a way that the client team can believe, which helps them to deliver improvements. Understanding your performance losses and opportunities is key to… Continue reading Do you know how well your sites are performing?

I hope that 2023 has started well for you and that it followed a fun festive period. One of the more uplifting features as the days pass by in the first month of the New Year is their light extension, mornings becoming a bit brighter earlier, the afternoon ending in with the absence of the… Continue reading Is there light in that there tunnel…?

We all know that forecasting is a ‘mug’s game’ – unless one is Dominic Cummings, who of course predicted the pandemic – but here are some thoughts regarding the UK food system and its influencing factors in 2023. Given everything that’s happened in recent years we cannot ignore the scope for, and the power of… Continue reading What Gifts will 2023 bring for the UK Food System?