All The Grocer articles in 8 April 2017
Previous issues.
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Analysis and Features
How Scotland has food waste wrapped up
Scotland has emerged as a frontrunner in the fight against food waste. What can it teach the rest of the UK?
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News
Cadbury commits to UK production with new Bournville lines
It is opening four new production lines at site
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News
Unilever 'Sprexit' and strategic review: what the analysts say
The results of Unilever’s much-anticipated strategic review didn’t come as a great surprise to the City, but what did the analysts make of the announcement.
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Category Report
PDF: Suncare category report 2017
Mel and Madge Harvey might not seem likely pinups for an article discussing the beauty & suncare category, but we’d beg to differ
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Category Report
The new face of beauty & suncare? Suncare category report 2017
As own-label beauty & suncare wins share, brand NPD is aiming for those ‘of a certain age’
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Guide To
PDF: Top 100 Advertisers 2017
You might expect fmcg to be at the forefront of digital advertising, but marketers have been playing it safe, spending big on TV and billboard campaigns. So what’s stalling the digital revolution?
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News
Reckitt Benckiser to 'explore all options' with food sell-off
Selling off food assets seems to be all the rage these days
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News
As Reckitt sells off food, KPMG predicts fresh wave of M&A activity
Reckitt Benckiser’s sell-off of its food division is “just the start of a wave of M&A activity for fmcg companies”.
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News
New Caffè Nero app could spell end of paper loyalty cards
Caffè Nero is launching an app that will ultimately make its 20-year-old paper stamp loyalty cards redundant
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Comment and Opinion
Dairy needs a strategy to boost appeal to younger consumers
Previous campaigns prove dairy can engage consumers and get its message heard. Time to use those skills once more
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News
City snapshot: Supermarket prices rise 1.4% in March
Supermarket inflation jumped 0.9 percentage points to 1.4% in March - the highest level of grocery inflation since Christmas 2013.
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News
Media Bites 7 April: Unilever, Co-op, Mothercare
“Unilever shake-up wins over investors” is the headline in both The Financial Times and The Times this morning as the City broadly welcomed the raft of measures to accelerate returns for Unilever shareholders.
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News
Tayto Group sees profits slump on sales decline and investment
Pre-tax profits at Tayto Group more than halved to £3.1m last year as sales declined and the Northern Irish snack maker continued to invest in the business.
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News
Morrisons hikes store staff pay to £8.50 per hour
Morrisons store staff are set to receive a 3.7% pay increase to £8.50 an hour
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News
Unilever confirms it is to sell off spreads division
Unilever’s announced a strategic review of its business in the wake of the failed Kraft Heinz bid
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News
Bidfood profits soar 12% as it slashes administration costs
BFS Group, parent company of Bidfood, has reported a pre-tax profits rise of 12% to £45.9m for the year to the end of June 2016
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Category Report
PDF: The Top 50 independents 2017
A new number one. New entry criteria. But still the definitive ranking of the Top 50 independent food & drink retailers
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News
Bernard Matthews confirms 114 redundancies as it ceases chicken production
A spokesman for 2 Sisters owner Ranjit Singh’s private office confirmed more than 80 chicken production staff and about 30 managerial roles at the Great Witchingham headquarters have been made redundant
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News
Animal antibiotic reduction 'won't solve human resistance' says report
The report was published by the Royal Society and assesses the case for limiting antibiotics in farming
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Grocer 33
'Really easy' Asda scores 95 points in online Grocer 33
It only took 20 minutes to complete the order and there was only one unavailable item