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Here you will find the news articles that have featured in CIWF media, including our website.

HELLMANN'S UK GOES FREE-RANGE
Hellmann's UK has made a groundbreaking decision to go free-range on all mayonnaise by June 2008.

TWO OUT OF FOUR OF UK’S RETAIL GIANTS STILL SAY NO TO GOING CAGE-FREE
With two out of the UK’s four top supermarkets reducing their sales of battery eggs, leading farm animal welfare charity, Compassion in World Farming, is calling on the top two UK supermarkets to also say no to cruelty and go cage-free.

FOOD SERVICE HEAVYWEIGHT GOES CAGE-FREE IN BELGIUM
Sodexho, the world’s second largest catering and food service firm, has announced it will go cage-free on all the shell eggs it uses in Belgium.

MORRISIONS TAKES ACTION ON EGGS
Morrisons becomes the second ‘big-four’ UK retailer to take action on eggs, by committing to being 100% cage-free in all own-brand shell eggs by 2010.

MINISTER BEN BRADSHAW CELEBRATES GOOD EGGS
The Minister for Animal Welfare attended CIWF’s first Good Egg Awards in London on 27 March and presented the House of Commons with an award for its policy of sourcing cage-free eggs.

CIWF CELEBRATES ‘GOOD EGGS’ IN BRUSSELS
On 20 March CIWF celebrated the first ever winners of its European Good Egg Awards at the International Press Centre, Residence Palace, Brussels.

SAINSBURY'S SIGNALS SEA CHANGE FOR UK BIG FOUR
Sainsbury's, the UK's third biggest retailer, has received a CIWF Good Egg Award for its new commitment to go cage-free on all shell eggs sold in store by 2012.

FOURTH LARGEST EU RETAILER AWARDED
REWE Group is Europe's 4th largest retailer, existing in 14 different countries. REWE Group Austria is winning a Good Egg Award for going cage-free across its three major chains: Billa supermarkets, Merkur hypermarkets and Penny discount stores.

CAGE-FREE PIONEER MARKS & SPENCER AWARDED
In 2002, Marks & Spencer, one of the UK's best known retailers and renowned for its high quality food products, was the first to take the major step of committing to only selling 100% free-range eggs - from its shell eggs to the eggs used as ingredients in any products it sells.

CIWF SET TO HELP OVER 5 MILLION HENS OUT OF CAGES EACH YEAR WITH NEW AWARD SCHEME
CIWF will be celebrating its Good Egg Award winners in Brussels today, for helping over 5 million hens out of cages.

J D WETHERSPOON TO SWITCH ON SAUCES
Leading British hospitality chain J D Wetherspoon wins a CIWF Good Egg Award for committing to go free-range on the eggs used in all of its sauces by the end of 2008.

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