Skip to content
Search
AI Powered
Latest Stories

Angie Turner is new Head of Marketing at UFIT

Angie Turner is new Head of Marketing at UFIT
Angie Turner

High protein ready-to-drink brand UFIT is to welcome a new Head of Marketing, Angie Turner as Co-Founder, Terry Adams steps away from the business this September.

Angie brings senior experience from leading food and drinks companies, Ella’s Kitchen, Mars & United Biscuits to support the ongoing marketing strategy and direction for the brand as it reaches a milestone decade of success.
Terry Adams, Co-Founder of UFIT, alongside Founder and Managing Director, Austin Bailey, supported the company’s evolution from start-up in 2014 to a now multi-million revenue business, before joining with the Weetabix Food Company in 2022. He will have celebrated 10-years with the business in November.


“We are delighted to welcome Angie Turner to UFIT, bringing her unique expertise and knowledge within the FMCG sector to help steer the next chapter of success for the business," said Austin Bailey, Founder and Managing Director of Lacka Foods.

“Her previous role in helping develop Ella’s Kitchen into a sustainable and established brand in the UK and internationally makes her a perfect addition to our team, sharing our core values of championing market-leading nutrition and taste for our customers.

“Lacka Foods is thankful for Terry’s dedication and direction over the last 10 years, we are excited to see what plans he has in store for the future and wish him all the very best.”

More for you

Deposit Return Scheme

Retailers express concern over Welsh government’s decision to press on with its own DRS

A single UK-wide scheme deposit return scheme (DRS) would be far more successful, efficient and effective, retailer body the Federation of Independent Retailers (the Fed) has stated, expressing surprise and some concerns over Welsh government’s decision to press ahead with its own deposit return scheme for bottles and cans and not to join a UK-wide DRS.

The Fed’s National President Mo Razzaq has further warned that this decision by Wales - coupled with its intention to include glass in its scheme - would cause unnecessary confusion. He commented: “While we applaud Wales’s desire to make its deposit return scheme a success, we would prefer to see one single scheme for the UK.

Keep ReadingShow less
Retail Insolvency

Retail insolvencies flat though 'wave of distress' expected

Retail insolvencies remained flat in the lead up to the Budget, shows a recent report, though experts feel that a wave of distress is expected following the Chancellor’s increase in employers’ National Insurance contributions and National Minimum Wage.

Today’s company insolvency statistics show retail trade insolvencies fell slightly from 2,101 in the 12 months to September 2023, to 2,089 in the 12 months to September 2024, and were flat month-on-month (137 in August 2024 to 138 in September 2024).

Keep ReadingShow less
Raj Patel

Raj Patel

National Lottery retailers help raise landmark £50bn for good causes

Today, on The National Lottery’s 30th birthday, operator Allwyn is announcing that, through selling tickets, National Lottery retailers have helped players raise a landmark £50 billion for Good Causes since 1994 – funding an incredible 700,000 individual projects across the UK.

Allwyn is also announcing that National Lottery retailers have now earned over £8 billion in sales commission since the first draw on Saturday 19 November 1994.

Keep ReadingShow less
Bacardi Cocktail

Brits ditch tea for G&T

Nearly half of Brits (44%) say they would prefer a G&T to a cup of tea when getting together with friends, according to a new survey by spirits major Bacardi Limited.

The UK consumer survey was conducted as part of the sixth annual Bacardi Cocktail Trends Report which anticipates the key trends redefining global cocktail culture and the spirits business in 2025.

Keep ReadingShow less
Tractors take to the streets of Westminster as demonstrators attend a farmers rally on November 19, 2024 in London, England. Thousands of farmers descended on central London to protest against changes to inheritance tax announced in the budget last month. The farmers argue that the changes will destroy family farms and that the nation's food security is at risk, while the government says that the change will likely affect only around 500 larger estate farms. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Tractors descend on Westminster as farmers protest begins

Thousands of British farmers today (19) are set to march to Parliament Square to protest against the end of an inheritance tax exemption that has helped family farms pass down the generations, saying the move will threaten food production.

First unveiled in chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Budget, the plans to impose inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1m have sparked fury among rural communities, who have contested the government’s assertion that small family farms will not be impacted by the changes.

Keep ReadingShow less