M&M Chocolate Bar

M&M’s fans, rejoice: Your favourite bags of chocolate will now come in bar-form. And yes, we are excited. Okay, so the M&Ms chocolate bars aren’t exactly new – they’ve been available in the U.S. and Australia for some time now – but they’re finally coming to the UK. The chocolate bars come in four flavours: chocolate, peanut, crispy and a new hazelnut edition. Each flavour features mini M&Ms packed into a chunky chocolate bar.Cordelia Linacre, M&M’s Senior Brand Manager, said: ‘We’ve been inundated with requests to bring M&M’s Bars to the UK – so we’re extremely excited to announce that the wait is over! We invite existing fans and all chocolate lovers to get stuck in!’ The bars, which will be sold in Tesco nationwide from 17 July before going on to be sold across other retailers from 17 August, will be showcased on shelves standing up, just like the M&Ms mascots. They’ll each be selling for £2.49, and come wrapped in bright packaging much like the bags, with the M&M’s characters across the front.

M&M Bars

Greggs Drive Thru

There was a lot of hype around its arrival and the first customer of Greggs' first ever Newcastle drive-thru got the VIP treatment on opening day. The new Greggs drive-thru and sit-in restaurant at Sandy Lane officially opened for business on Thursday morning and Metro Radio ran a competition for the chance to be its first customer. The new opening has creates 20 new jobs in the area and for those customers who wish to enjoy their purchases inside there is seating available for 40 people as well as 40 seats outside. Greggs say their intention is for Drive Thru customers to be served straight away, offering them the ultimate convenience, but during busy periods and on rare occasions there may be a slight wait for certain items.
Greggs Drive Thru

Yes! Recyclable packaging!

Nestle has launched a new recyclable wrapper for a snack bar that it claims will degrade in a marine environment within six months. The YES! range will also be used on a high-speed packaging line in a "world-first" technological breakthrough. Last year, the brand pledged to make all of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025. Speaking about the wrapper, Michael Carroll, lead on innovation and sustainability for Nestle, said: "We know it will degrade in a marine environment within six months, which, compared to the flow wrap that it's currently in, it's about 450 years."The confectionery company said it had to overcome 90 challenges to develop the material and adapt current machinery and processes to handle the product more gently.

Yes!

Amazon is 25!

Jeff Bezos filed the paperwork to create the e-commerce retailing giant Amazon 25 years ago. His genius was to recognise the potential of the internet long before others. Amazon is known for its disruption of well-established industries through technological innovation and mass scale. But its dominance is problematic. Its growth has displaced traditional retail jobs. And it's faced criticism over worker conditions at its warehouses. Today, 25 years on from when it started, Amazon is one of the most valuable public companies in the world, with Mr Bezos now the world's richest man, thanks to his invention.What started as an online book retailer has become a global giant, with membership subscriptions, physical stores, groceries for sale, its own smart devices and a delivery system which can get things to customers in just an hour.

Amazon 25

Profiting From Pride

It's hard to miss the colours of the rainbow flag during Pride month.Everything from High Street shops, supermarkets and banks are changing their logos, adding new window displays and selling special products. But is this "rainbow washing"? In other words - is it jumping on a bandwagon without making any meaningful change? Some LGBT campaigners are asking what brands actually do to support their community. Years and Years singer Olly Alexander calls this "rainbow capitalism" and says it feels "especially icky" this year. Pride in London receives around £650,000 from corporate partners, which works out at about two-thirds of its income.Tom Stevens says this means a million people can celebrate for free. There have been an increasing number of companies displaying their support of LGBT rights but are they supporting it for sales or actually doing something to support the community.

Profit From Pride

Future of Interviews

Could you do a video interview for your next job? Artificial intelligence is likely to play a role in whether you get your next big job interview. Research by the BBC shows that video interviews and screening is rising - used by over half of employers in their recruitment. But staff aren’t so keen – one recent survey showed nearly half (45%) aren’t happy with video interviews and most (91%) feel face to face is best. Business correspondent Colletta Smith tries out the technology with students from Liverpool University – one of many educational institutions supporting students to be comfortable with the tech as they know it’s so important for their futures. Do you think it would be a help or hindrance for employers & employees?
Interviews

Cadbury Invetor

Choca-latte, Simply the Zest and Raspberry Shortcake flavours will all be joining the rest of the collection on shelves - but only one of the bars will be made permanently available. All three new flavours were created by chocolate fans as part of Cadbury 's inventor competition, with consumers being asked to vote for their favourite new chocolate bar out of the trio, to decide which one stays forever. Each of the competition's entrants had to make a new flavour of up to three ingredients come up with up to three ingredients, a name and explain what had inspired their creation. The three 122.5g limited edition bars are on sale from June 1st and will set you back £1.49 a pop, although shops can set their own prices. Have you tried any? Which is your favourite?
Cadbury Inventor