All The Grocer articles in 10 November 2001
Previous issues.
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Unified responses are vital
Given, at the last count, there were 10 separate government investigations, commissions or inquiries, all spotlighting issues across the chain, you could be forgiven for thinking that grocery will never be the same again. So no apologies for...
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Village newsagent
Denby Dale is an affluent, village in West Yorkshire, with easy access to the motorway network. Denby Dale Newsagents fronts a busy high street and is an established business with a healthy trade. It is surrounded by housing including new...
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Partners have major role in turnaround
Discount chain Kwik Save has launched it first national promotion of meat and fresh produce. Three deals are featured in the chain's latest leaflets and press ads. Consumers in England and Wales are being offered bone-in legs of pork for 99p/lb,...
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Zest Organic Tomato & Herb Pasta Sauce
Rsp: £1.99 for 355g The Zest range, distributed by G Costa, comprises six pasta sauces, four pestos and one sun dried tomato paste. All are free from artificial additives. The organic tomato and herb variant was launched in May 2001 and achieved...
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Shake up for Hazlewood Pizza
Convenience foods specialist Hazlewood Foods has made two new appointments in its pizza division. Angus Raynard, former project director at the new pizza factory in Deeside, succeeds David McLaughlin as Hazlewood Pizza managing director. Adrian...
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Home loans and purchase guide
Crimson Publishing is launching Home Buyer, a new magazine aimed at consumers choosing and buying a home. Issue one of the monthly consumer title hits the news stands on November 16, with a cover price of £2.99. Home Buyer aims to provide its...
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Italfresco Gnocchi
Rsp: £1.19 for 400g This Italian potato dumpling product isn't new, but rebranding in January 2001 has pushed up sales. New packaging plus the impact of a Delia Smith recipe promotion in Sainsbury helped boost sales, its bestselling month being...
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Pure Vodka gives VK a kick
GBL International is adding a full strength upmarket vodka to its successful VK Vodka Kick premium packaged spirit (PPS) range to give it extra credibility. While the rest of the industry has developed PPS brands from established well known spirits...
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Shaping for the future
Express Dairies has outsourced its field marketing and is focusing on own label flavoured milks in a bid to overcome difficult market conditions in the liquid milk sector. Commercial director David Arrow said: "We have talked a lot about our...
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morrisons gives IGD a full house
IGD is claiming membership by all the major UK supermarkets now that Morrisons has signed up. The research and educational organisation for the food and grocery industry has been working with Morrisons for the past 12 months with a view to the...
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FRESH: A sauce of swell meal solutions
New shapes, flavours, fresh sauces and fillings are pulling new consumers into a sector that's growing at a rapid 16% P asta's unstoppable growth is most evident in the £113m fresh sector which has experienced a massive 16% sales rise in the...
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Schwartz Fish! Tuna & Mushroom Pasta Melt
Rsp: 77p for 40g sachet Launched in September 2000, this is one of eight products from McCormick Foods, designed to make a fish meal in a quick and easy way. Sales peaked in January and March 2001 at £9,000 both months. Average four-weekly sales...
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GrocerTV's viewing figures leap
GrocerTV essential viewing for all enterprising independents is mid way through its second series and is attrac ting a host of new viewers. Packed with ideas and business tips, the series has looked at the plight facing rural shops, violent...
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Farewell to Lux, but not to flakes
One of Britain's most famous washing brands is being axed with at least one manufacturer eager to take on the mantle being left behind by the disappearance of Lux. Lever Fabergé has confirmed that production of its centenarian soap flakes brand...
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the space enablers
Ed Bedington reports on a service designed to match seekers of short-term warehousing and companies with space to spare Space, once described as the final frontier, is often more like an invisible obstacle course warehouse space, that is, rather...
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Two Leading Edge members took to the platform at the recent
Grabbing the headlines Having spent a few days writing the presentation, Jon Woolven of IGD came to meet us in York a week before the conference. His feedback was positive, and it was encouraging to know that IGD were confident for us to devise...
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DOUBLING UP FOR LOVE
Swizzels Matlow has combined two of its star products to produce Love Hearts Double Lollies. The 5p treats each contain one of the 20 different Love Hearts messages which have become something of a national institution. The lollies will be available...
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Kevin Hawkins is struggling for the right words to describe
Despite being uttered with a hint of irony, these are statesmanlike words from Safeway's corporate communications director. But the political tone is not entirely unfounded Hawkins spent many years as a Tory councillor in Bradford and was leader...
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ICL failed to deliver' on IT
The Co-operative Group is taking legal action against ICL to recover "several million pounds" relating to a dispute over the installation of a Globalstore IT package. The dispute dates back to the merger of CWS and CRS in April 2000. Nick Eyre,...