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IPL’s Gender Pay Report for 2024 IPL has published its Gender Pay Report for 2024 In a report published on...
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Congratulations to all our Colleague of the Month Winners for July 2024. Our business would be incomplete without hardworking and...
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Congratulations to all our Colleague of the Month Winners for June 2024. Our business would be incomplete without hardworking and...
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Our Whittlesey site has recently been involved in the ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety Audit Programme. This immersive audit,...
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Congratulations to all our Colleague of the Month Winners for May 2024. Our business would be incomplete without hardworking and...
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Our Sittingbourne site has been the first site to be involved in the ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety Audit Programme....
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Congratulations to all our Colleague of the Month Winners for April 2024. Our business would be incomplete without hardworking and...
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Congratulations to all our Colleague of the Month Winners for March 2024. Our business would be incomplete without hardworking and...
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Tuesday 16th April 2004 marks 20 years of IPL as a business. We started out in 2024 delivering grapes and...
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IPL has published its Gender Pay Report for 2023. In a report published on the Government’s Gender Pay website, IPL...
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We are pleased to announce that our Sittingbourne site has been granted ‘organic status’ for another 12 months, with no...
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A regular blog from a member of our ESG team on the latest happenings within the world of ESG at...
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National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) is a week-long celebration that brings together businesses and apprentices across the country to shine a...
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Congratulations to all our Site Colleagues of the Year for 2023 at IPL International Procurement and Logistics and Forza and Kober Foods – you...
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We are pleased to announce our Health & Safety site awards for 2023… These awards are based on a set...
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Throughout 2023, all our food sites have gone through version 9 of the British Retail Consortium (BRCGS) standard audits. The...
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It has been confirmed today that Asda is supporting the Coronation Food Project in partnership with FareShare, and will be...
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To put it into simpler terms 3,000 days equates to over 8.2 years since the last major incident. This is...
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Asda has announced recently that it has become the first UK supermarket chain to stock a range of bagged salad nationally and...
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To all IPL, Forza and Kober suppliers 17th August 2023 Dear Supplier RE: Standards for Suppliers Asda’s Standards for Suppliers...
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Message for our Suppliers: Extreme heat stress provisions for workers With Southern Europe experiencing conditions of extreme heat, and temperatures...
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IPL has published its Gender Pay Report for 2022. In a report published on the Government’s Gender Pay website, IPL...
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At the recent Retail Industry Awards, Asda scooped a hat trick of awards, which included ‘Fresh Produce Retailer of the...
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Asda has announced plans to remove the best before dates on almost 250 of its fresh fruit & vegetable products...
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With the heatwave bringing blue skies and record temperatures across the country our colleague Dom Edwards is getting behind a...
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The Fresh Produce Consortium (FPC) is the UK’s fresh produce trade association and is widely recognised as the voice of...
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IPL has published its Gender Pay Report for 2021. In a report published on the Government’s Gender Pay website, IPL...
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Our Board have chosen Jody Bellucci (a Warehouse Key Operative at our site in Whittlesey) as the winner of our...
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We’re set to begin a significant new programme in partnership with Apeel Sciences, which will introduce Citrus fruits and Avocados...
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We are appointing 150 specialist in-store Greengrocers in Asda stores across the UK as part of a £9m investment to...
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To support Asda’s commitment to reduce the use of plastic in the business, we aim to remove 350 tonnes and 200...
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Eva Kohajda, a Line Leader at our Normanton site has been selected as the winner of our Colleague of the...
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IPL has today published its Gender Pay Report in line with a Government requirement for large companies to do so...
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Throughout this year, we will be highlighting some of the fantastic sustainability work and environmental projects undertaken by our suppliers...
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This year we’ve removed 487 tonnes of plastic from our packaging to support Asda’s commitment to reduce the use of...
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Colleagues at our site in Peterborough are supporting the valuable work of a fantastic local charity. Family Voice Peterborough are charity...
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To support Asda’s commitment to reduce the use of plastic in the business, throughout this year we’ve been looking for...
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We’re removing plastic fruit & veg bags from 9 stores, in a trial that aims to help Asda continue its...
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We’ve launched the first 100% recyclable blueberry punnets. Asda customers can now recycle the punnets and film as a whole,...
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Igors Dumbajevs, a Machine Operator at our Inchture has been selected as the winner of our 2019 Colleague of the...
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IPL have worked with Asda and our partners at StarStock to launch our latest food box, brimming with fresh fruit and vegetables, delivered straight...
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In-line with Asda’s ongoing commitment to ‘Use less and recycle more’, we will be removing plastic forks from our salads and...
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Nothing says ‘it’s summer’ like the first bite of a juicy strawberry. In the absence of everyone’s favourite tennis event...
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We’ve supported Asda to introduce two new varieties of tomatoes to its customers, grown sustainably right here in Britain. When...
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At IPL, we take our compliance with the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 very seriously. At the start of May...
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In a bid to continue our support for those in need during the current crisis, IPL have worked with Asda...
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The new Pick for Britain website is a joint public sector and industry initiative to bring together those who are looking...
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To support Asda’s commitment to reduce the use of plastic in the business, we aim to remove 225 tonnes of...
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IPL has today published its Gender Pay Report in line with a Government requirement for large companies to do so...
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Kelly Paddington-Hughes, a Business Unit Planning Advisor at our Westry site has won our Colleague of the Quarter award for...
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We’re looking for determined, enthusiastic and innovative graduates to join our agile, fast paced business. The scale and diversity of...
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IPL have supported Asda in launching a supermarket first – a range of plastic-free living herbs. All of Asda’s living...
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Our Produce Technical Manager, Nasir Ahmed, on an exciting new technology… Every year as a country we waste millions of...
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Since 2010, IPL have been supporting Starehe UK to provide free secondary education for promising children from all over Kenya....
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Hugo Rodrigues, an IT Service Delivery Assistant at our Spade Lane site has won our Colleague of the Quarter award...
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IPL colleagues have appeared on BBC One’s Supermarket Secrets to explain the steps we take to ensure our produce remains...
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Our very own Nasir Ahmed has appeared on BBC One’s Supermarket Secrets alongside Gregg Wallace and our tomato grower, Andy...
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The use of a unique seed mix has resulted in rare insect sightings in our growers fields. Operation Pollinator is...
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Jim Shanks of Standhill Farm is Scotland’s last remaining tomato grower. Situated in the Scottish Borders, Standhill Farm was originally...
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IPL has today published its Gender Pay Report in line with a Government requirement for large companies to do so...
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We have awarded Ultimate Packaging with our 2018 Sustainability Award. Through Ultimate’s dedication and hard work to help Asda transform...
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2018 was a monumental year which saw IPL deliver 256.3 tonnes of surplus products to FareShare. FareShare are a UK...
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Britain’s appetite for berries is showing no signs of slowing down according to Asda sales data for 2018, with raspberries...
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Gary Mac-Fall, our Senior category for potatoes explains how the weather this year has impacted our growers – and how...
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Usually reserved for sipping summer drinks out of or eaten as a tropical snack, it seems pineapples now have a...
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We’ve worked with our British growers to harvest over 1.6 million pumpkins for Asda customers. With the adoption of a...
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The recent heatwave has helped our grower produce more watermelons than ever before. This year has seen a harvest of...
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Red Tractor is the largest food standard scheme in the UK and is an easy signpost for consumers looking for...
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Jon Wynn, our Technical Manager for vegetables, has been out on the road assessing the impact of Britain’s record-breaking weather...
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Asda has reported a 20% year on year sales increase in whole head and prepared mangoes. Working closely with growers...
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The combination of the hot weather and a lack of rain has made it difficult for a lot of our...
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We have taken the decision to remove the plastic wrapping from our British-grown whole swede – this will save around...
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Jon Wynn, Manager – Technical Produce and Fran Lewis, Graduate Trainee recently visited Minor Weir & Willis Ltd, one of...
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