Grocery legislation 'urgently needed', says Food and Drink Industry Ireland
The Ibec-affiliated Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII) has urged publication of “urgently needed” Irish grocery regulations after Tesco was found to have seriously breached the UK’s groceries supply code of practice by short-changing its suppliers in order to protect its own finances.
A probe by Christine Tacon — Britain’s Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) — yesterday said that Tesco had effectively propped up its finances by short-changing suppliers and had an “endemic culture” of making deductions from suppliers’ bills and delaying payments.
