Tuesday newspaper round-up: Riverford, US investment, Publicis

(Sharecast News) - Consumers searching for healthy food from trusted sources have fuelled the UK organic market's biggest boom in two decades, according to vegetable box seller Riverford. The delivery business, which sells meat, cheese, cookbooks and recipe boxes alongside vegetables, recorded a 6% increase in sales to £117m in the year to May 2025, as the UK organic food and drink market grew by almost 9% in that year, according to new figures from the Soil Association. The strong growth, significantly outpacing the wider food market, helped the employee-owned business give a £1.1m bonus to workers. - Guardian Donald Trump has announced the creation of a critical mineral reserve worth nearly $12bn, a stockpile that could counter China's ability to use its dominance of the hard-to-process metals as leverage in trade talks. "Today we're launching what will be known as Project Vault to ensure that American businesses and workers are never harmed by any shortage," Trump said at the White House on Monday. - Guardian

Britain is losing out on American investment because of its high energy costs, Sir Keir Starmer has been warned. Executives of US businesses and embassy officials said at a gathering on Monday that the crippling cost of power in the UK was making it harder to justify spending money here. High taxes and employment costs are also harming international competitiveness. - Telegraph

Net zero poses an "existential risk" to Britain's struggling farmers, Labour's favourite think tank has warned. The push to decarbonise agriculture is set to force thousands of profitable farms into the red unless the Government steps in to cover the costs, the Resolution Foundation said. - Telegraph

A string of high-profile client wins has lifted underlying revenue at Publicis ahead of market expectations, as the French advertising house capitalises on the weakness of rivals such as WPP. Organic revenue rose 5.6 per cent last year, ahead of a previously-upgraded guidance range of 5 per cent to 5.5 per cent, bucking an anticipated decline across the broader advertising industry, which has been hit by a pullback in spending by major brands as macroeconomic conditions have worsened. - The Times