28 April 2012
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Accolade rolls out RTD cans
28 Apr 2012
Accolade Wines is extending its Hardys, Banrock Station and Stone’s brands into the canned ready-to-drink cocktail market.
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Ad debut for Ribena Plus
23 Apr 2012
GlaxoSmithKline has launched the first marketing push for its new Ribena Plus range.
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Animal welfare abuse hotline planned for pigmeat sector
28 Apr 2012
Following a number of damaging animal cruelty exposés, the pig industry is considering setting up an independent whistleblower hotline to enable farm workers to report animal welfare abuses.
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Angel Delight ice cream for Tesco
28 Apr 2012
Angel Delight’s ice cream mixes - launched last year exclusively on Facebook - have made the leap onto supermarket shelves.
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Aduna launches baobab pulp products
28 Apr 2012
A supplier is hoping to take African ‘superfruit’ baobab mainstream with a range of fruit pulp products.
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Asda aims for UK first with seedless grapes
25 Apr 2012
Asda is aiming to become the first UK supermarket to sell UK-grown seedless grapes in store.
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Bakers descend on Downing Street as retailers warn of pasty tax chaos
26 Apr 2012
Retailer leaders have warned HM Revenue & Customs implementation of the Government’s controversial pasty tax will lead to chaos in stores and potentially land them with huge additional overheads.
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BAT boosts sales in first quarter
26 Apr 2012
Despite the declining tobacco market in Western Europe, sales and volumes both grew in the first three months of the year for British American Tobacco.
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Asda stores to get electric car chargers
28 Apr 2012
As soaring fuel prices continue to dominate the headlines, Asda is looking to offer its customers an alternative - by pledging to install electric car charging points at all of its stores by the end of the year.
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Big Prawn Co launches quirky seafood snacks
28 Apr 2012
The Big Prawn Co is pushing the boat out with some innovative NPD for this year’s “summer of celebration”, launching four new seafood products…
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Asda delivery gets stuck in London traffic
28 Apr 2012
Asda claims to have fixed a new online delivery system that left its London web shopping customers in limbo.
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App spots deals on the move
28 Apr 2012
Savvy shoppers can now track down their nearest bargain, thanks to a new smartphone app.
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Bestway seals Queen's export award
28 Apr 2012
Bestway has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade for its export activities.
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Bright denies talk of billion-pound Weetabix bid
23 Apr 2012
Bright Food Group has denied it is in talks to buy Weetabix for £1bn.
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Clarke and the ‘what if’ factor Subscription
23 Apr 2012
Tesco headed up the section on its Japanese operations with the brutally blunt heading ‘Discontinued’. Not so for the US - yet.
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Cold facts and hot potatoes Subscription
23 Apr 2012
Whether it’s stunts against GM wheat, outrage at iffy broccoli or controversy over feed requirements, few issues…
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Carrefour's one-queue trial
28 Apr 2012
A single queue might work in a Post Office or M&S Simply Food, but a large supermarket?
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Comparing food or fighter jets? I know which is more useful for kids
28 Apr 2012
It’s five years since The Grocer first ‘discovered’ EdStat, a children’s card game, based on Top Trumps, in which nutritional data about leading food and drink products is ‘trumped’.
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Contrasting results for Scotmid and East of England
28 Apr 2012
Two regional co-ops have posted contrasting full-year results.
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Bill's Café continues store hunt
28 Apr 2012
Bill’s Café, Restaurant and Stores is embarking on further expansions after openings in Covent Garden and Reading.
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Carrefour watches the weather
28 Apr 2012
Carrefour has teamed up with weather risk management specialists Metnext to factor weather data into its sales forecasts.
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Booths helps suppliers pitch with website
28 Apr 2012
Booths has set up a website for suppliers to make the process of pitching to buyers simpler…
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Brand revamp puts Starburst in pouches
28 Apr 2012
Starburst is targeting the sharing market with a move into pouches as part of a brand revamp.
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Cocktail pouches from Manchester Drinks
28 Apr 2012
If you liked slush puppies as a kid, the new offering from The Manchester Drinks Company could be right up your street.
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Carbonated Soft Drinks report Subscription
02 May 2012
Splurging on marketing has paid off for established cola brands in the past year, but is there scope for flavours to win back favour?
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Britvic completes HQ move
28 Apr 2012
Britvic officially moved into its new headquarters near Hemel Hempstead this week, bringing with it more than 85% of the staff from its old Chelmsford office.
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Clark to become SABMiller CEO
28 Apr 2012
SABMiller has named European boss Alan Clark as its next CEO.
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Co-op Group and Tesco criticised
28 Apr 2012
The Co-operative Group doesn’t do enough to support innovation in food and drink…
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City news 28 April 2012
28 Apr 2012
Unilever has bounced back from its disappointing fourth quarter sales in January by smashing analyst expectations for the first quarter.
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East of England unveils latest results
23 Apr 2012
East of England Co-operative Society has posted an increase in full-year sales despite intense competition from the multiples.
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Dairy Crest cuts milk price for contracted farmers
26 Apr 2012
Dairy Crest has announced a 2p per litre cut to the price paid to farmers on its standard contract, as it continues to try to shore up its struggling liquid milk business.
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Flaky? Bright's Weetabix bid is 'very credible' Subscription
30 Apr 2012
Weetabix seems an odd fit for China. And Bright Food’s record in securing deals is flaky. But it should not be dismissed too quickly.
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Developments may leave investors worse off Subscription
28 Apr 2012
The UK supermarket industry has entered a phase of development where existing stores are the battlefield.
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Duty stamps will wipe out all of our profits, warn brewers
27 Apr 2012
The government’s plan to introduce spirits-style duty stamps on beer…
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Don Simon to take on Innocent with budget smoothies
27 Apr 2012
Spanish juice giant Don Simon is gunning for Innocent with a range of low-cost smoothies.
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Frozen Value opens two new depots
28 Apr 2012
Frozen Value is planning to double its warehouse capacity this year.
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ECI ends hunt for Bargain Booze buyer
27 Apr 2012
The private equity owner of Bargain Booze has abandoned its hunt for a buyer for the off licence chain.
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Discounters spreading into out-of-town
28 Apr 2012
Discounters took more than one million sq ft of space in out-of-town retail parks in 2011, a new report has revealed.
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Darth Sugar's acolytes talk meatballs
28 Apr 2012
Street food no longer means salmonella on a stick or chips made from Styrofoam.
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Diet Chef targets European success Subscription
28 Apr 2012
Kevin Dorren has a lot to thank Denise Van Outen for. Last June she tweeted about the “amazing results”…
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Dairy giant Müller set to make its UK debut in own-label yoghurts
28 Apr 2012
Müller Dairy UK is set to break into own-label yoghurt manufacturing for the first time, The Grocer can reveal.
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Emerge offers independents a billboard advertisement
28 Apr 2012
Independent retailers could see their name in lights thanks to a competition by the environmental charity Emerge.
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Footie push and sharing bags for McCoy's
28 Apr 2012
McCoy’s is expanding into sharing bags for the first time as it kicks off a footie-themed promo.
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Eat Balanced's half-salt pizza
28 Apr 2012
Eat Balanced, the producer of a range of nutritionally balanced pizzas…
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Cotter's Irish crusade Subscription
28 Apr 2012
Bord Bia’s Aidan Cotter is hoping to spearhead a food-based revival for the struggling Irish economy, using the country’s dairy and beef industries as a focal point for his efforts to up exports.
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Focus on: Non-carbonated soft drinks Subscription
02 May 2012
The big story of the past year has been double concentrates - as traditional strength squashes and brands have found to their cost
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Focus on Energy Drinks Subscription
02 May 2012
As CCE says, sporting events “don’t come any bigger” than the Olympics - but will it mean big bucks for sports & energy drinks?
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Grocery world news 28 April 2012
28 Apr 2012
Walmart is conducting a “comprehensive investigation” following allegations of corruption in Mexico.
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Focus On Soft Drinks
28 Apr 2012
Splurging on marketing has paid off for established cola brands in the past year, but is there scope for flavours to win back favour?
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