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Food Wholesalers Absorb Losses To Maintain Vital Public Contracts

Standards of food and drink in vital public services such as schools, hospitals and prisons are declining and being delivered at a loss, due to increasing costs and a lack of support from government.

Wholesale distributors are losing money on each delivery and proposed government targets on local and environmental sourcing will be impossible to meet.

Read the full article on the FWD website

NAM Implications:
  • Understandable option…
  • …but, given wafer-thin margins in food wholesale, impossible to sustain.