All The Grocer articles in 28 July 2001
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Recruitment: Supermanager
When change is a priority and the senior team has its work cut out dealing with the core business, it's time to call in the interim executive. John West reports Retailers and manufacturers need to keep re-inventing themselves in the race to keep...
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Magazine scene: internet market
Oh, what a tangled Web they must unweave The internet magazine market is a crowded one where there have been several recent launches, but the attraction for publishers is not obvious from a cursory glance at the ABC figures. Many established...
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Recruitment: gunning for recruits
The multiples must pull together if they are to attract the high calibre managers and store staff capable of fulfilling the promises they are making today. Helen Gregory explains why There's a war on and service is the new battleground. It is of...
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Skips get a Magic taste
KP has climbed aboard on the Harry Potter bandwagon with a £1m Magical' themed ad campaign to back a new limited edition Skips flavour in September. The new Wizard's Wicked BBQ flavour, which introduces a Wizard of Stodge character, will get...
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Magazines: PC Gamer foils its rivals
Future Publishing is adding a little sparkle to the 100th edition of PC Gamer by packaging the anniversary issue in a silver foil bag. The magazine, which goes on sale on August 2, also comes covermounted with two CD-Roms or one DVD-Rom. The...
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The Grocer focus on rice
analysis by Sarah Hardcastle - Growth is driven by ethnic foods - Basmati proves rising star - Ethnic brands move mainstream - Convenience is just swell - Specialities bursting with ideas Not many categories owe their success to the soaring...
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Tesco veg margins extortionate'
Sir; The prices charged for fresh vegetables at Tesco in Mickleover, Derby, are extortionate. For instance, the potatoes which I bought cost me £1.79 a kilo. According to the label they were Maris Piper. This equates to a price of £1,790 a tonne...
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Training: Offering employees opportunities to take on new sk
Frozen food manufacturer Dalepak plans to make a name for itself as a centre of excellence in food industry training through new extended in-house staff training facilities. The north Yorkshire based company plans to encourage staff to take the...
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New products: RAC launches energy drink for drivers
Mary Carmichael The RAC is launching an energy drink to keep tired drivers awake at the wheel. The organisation said its surprise move had been driven by concerns over the growing number of accidents caused by driver fatigue. The caffeine-boosted...
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Meat supply: Foot and Mouth Disease: output gloom as restock
Only about one fifth of 9,000 farms cleansed and officially approved FMD is back in the headlines, the government suspending some decontamination work amid allegations of extravagant claims for payment by farmers or contractors. The main relevance...
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Sainsbury: Disappointed' Whitbread to go
Sainsbury's longest serving director, Robin Whitbread, is leaving the company after being passed over in a restructure in which the supermarket created two new assistant managing director posts. Sainsbury CEO Sir Peter Davis said: "Robin Whitbread...
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Pigmeat: Domestic output forecast points to ongoing decline
UK pig slaughterings this year will be the lowest for at least three decades Retailers are well accustomed to hearing livestock producers talk of niche marketing as an alternative to commodity supply and can usually dismiss the notion as wishful...
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Daddy goes for toilet talk
Holsten is using talking urinals and kebab wrappers in a bid to create a cult following for the It's the Daddy' campaign. The campaign began with TV ads for the lager featuring Ray Winstone asking Who's the Daddy?' of a range of common subjects,...
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New Zealand Milk UK: Price cuts drive war on Lurpak
Price cuts on Anchor Spreadable are the first public signs of New Zealand Milk UK's aggressive plans to reclaim the number one spot in the butter market. MD Simon Tuckey said one reason for the dramatic price cuts of recent weeks, with a 250g tub...
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The CTN Guide: Diary dates
SP Fiesta Readers Letters Special, on sale April 24, £3.95, full SOR, print run 50,000 copies, in A5 format; on sale for eight weeks until June 19, Blackhorse DIST Organic Life first issue on sale May 22, priced £2.95, alternate monthly,...
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The CTN guide: Diary dates
Radio Times is sponsoring a series of classic comedy programmes on satellite TV channel UK Gold. The deal includes bumper advertising every weekday evening until August 31, in which period the channel will be screening classic comedy shows such as...
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Magazines: Provocative Cre@te strikes gold
Future Publishing's magazine for web designers, Cre@teOnline, celebrated its second major design award of the year this month when it picked up gold' for the Best Designed Business Magazine of the Year at the annual Total Publishing Awards. ...
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Republic of Ireland: Cigarette hike looming
Smokers in the Irish Republic will be paying around IR£6 for a packet of 20 cigarettes within four years if a recommendation from a parliamentary committee, backed by health minister Michael Martin, is accepted by government. In a bid to discourage...
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News special: food chain summit
Gill's vision: shorter chain with partnership not confrontation Exclusive Clive Beddall The NFU unveiled its new survival strategy for UK agriculture on Thursday and then appealed for help in "weeding out" unnecessary links in the UK food chain....
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Spar Multiple Retail Group: What the multiples can do, we c
Membership of Spar's buying consortium Multiple Retail Group has swelled to almost 700 members one year after its inception, said Spar's trading director Keith Webb. Originally comprising the company owned stores to "replicate the multiple set-up",...