All The Grocer articles in 18 July 2009

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  • News

    Record year for grocery charity Caravan

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Grocery charity Caravan received a record £2.24m during the last financial year enabling it to support support 1,849 people from the food and drink industry who have fallen on hard times through no fault of their own.

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    News

    Government ‘must act on food security’ as cheap food era draws to a close

    2009-07-21T10:09:09.710Z

    Food production must become a strategic priority for the government, the Food & Drink Federation has warned in response to the Food & Rural Affairs Committee’s report on food security.

  • News

    AB InBev could sell Scots lager leader Tennent’s

    2009-07-20T09:46:44.460Z

    The Tennent’s beer brand could be sold as owner Anheuser-Busch Inbev seeks to reduce its multibillion-pound debts.

  • News

    World News

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    l GERMANY: Rewe Group is taking over the four supermarkets owned by Belgian food retailer Delhaize Group in Germany. The four Delhaize stores, which turned over €22m last year, are located in Cologne and Aachen. Later in the year they will be...

  • News

    Tesco overtakes M&S in Northern's retail ranks

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Tesco has overtaken Marks & Spencer as Northern Foods' largest customer, for the first time in the supplier's history.Northern Foods CEO Stefan Barden revealed that Tesco was the company's biggest customer as he talked to The Grocer about...

  • News

    MBM sunk by 'tough' UK vegetable market

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    One of the country's leading fresh produce businesses, MBM Produce, has gone into administration. MBM, which has traded as MBMG since the merger of MBM Produce and FW Gedney in 2006, called in administrators Grant Thornton last Friday. The...

  • News

    MBM sunk by 'tough' UK vegetable market

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    One of the country's leading fresh produce businesses, MBM Produce, has gone into administration. MBM, which has traded as MBMG since the merger of MBM Produce and FW Gedney in 2006, called in administrators Grant Thornton last Friday. The...

  • News

    Palestinian oil secures listing in Sainsbury's

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury's this week pledged to support farmers in troubled areas as it introduced Equal Exchange, a Fairtrade organic olive oil from the Palestinian West Bank.

  • News

    Mars Treets is latest to make retro move

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Mars is the latest company seeking to join the 1980s brand revival movement, bringing Treets out of retirement after 21 years. Looking to do ‘a Wispa’, the chocolate peanut variant of the brand, originally launched in 1976, will reappear on...

  • Comment and Opinion

    Saturday Essay: Let's get more forward thinking on finance

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Supply Chain Finance provides the liquidity vital to help suppliers weather the economic downturn, says Mark Perera

  • News

    Duty Freeze

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Up booze duty goes, year after year, and the drinks industry barely whimpers. But now it needs to fight back, because volumes are falling and livelihoods are being lost. Push Back the Tax is calling for duty rises to be frozen in 2010. Graham Holter presents the case

  • News

    Duty Freeze

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Up booze duty goes, year after year, and the drinks industry barely whimpers. But now it needs to fight back, because volumes are falling and livelihoods are being lost. Push Back the Tax is calling for duty rises to be frozen in 2010. Graham Holter presents the case

  • Comment and Opinion

    Our man from the DRIP

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing

  • News

    Second Opinion: Our stone fruit offer is a disgrace

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Continental shoppers expect and get luscious, robust, low-priced varieties, says Joanna Blythman

  • News

    Persil Naturals debut to mix scent with skincare

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Unilever is launching a premium detergent range that it claims brings fragrance to the skin-kind laundry market for the first time.The debut of Persil Naturals, which will be backed by a £11.7m marketing push, will be the company's biggest...

  • News

    Persil Naturals debut to mix scent with skincare

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Unilever is launching a premium detergent range that it claims brings fragrance to the skin-kind laundry market for the first time. The debut of Persil Naturals, which will be backed by a £11.7m marketing push, will be the company's biggest...

  • News

    Winner: ian donaldson, morrisons, crossmyloof, glasgow

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    How do you manage availability in such a small store? The trickiest thing is weather-related products. Recently this has been a challenge that the staff have risen to. Products such as fresh fruit juices and yoghurts have been selling…

  • Comment and Opinion

    Critical Eye... on the unbridled hilarity only a failing supermarket can provide

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Oh good God. What was ITV thinking? Monday Monday (9pm, 13 July, ITV1), the new 'comedy drama' set in the head office of failing supermarket chain, Butterworth's, is so bad it makes BBC Three's crap Personal Affairs look like a Bafta...

  • News

    Suppliers link up to protect credentials of UK rapeseed oil

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Rapeseed oil suppliers have formed an organisation to protect and promote the quality of the home-grown premium product. Grown and extracted by an estimated 30 suppliers in the UK, cold-pressed rapeseed oil is sold as a premium oil that...

  • News

    Tesco's Cooke takes key role at Menzies

    2009-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Newspaper and magazine wholesaler Menzies Distribution has appointed Tesco veteran David Cooke as commercial and marketing director as part of a management reshuffle. Cooke, who has worked at Tesco for 21 years, most recently as a category...