All The Grocer articles in 09 October 2021
Previous issues.
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Analysis & Features
The Grocer New Own Label Awards 2021: the winners across 10 key categories and more
Here are the best of the gold medal winners from across 10 major grocery categories – as well as the best sustainability and special diet products, and the own-label festive retailer of the year
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News
Bird & Blend brews up expansion plans after raising £1m from the crowd
Bird & Blend Tea Co has raised more than £1m after closing its crowdfunding campaign, beating its target by £700,000
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News
City Snapshot: Just Eat continues to thrive as world returns to normal
Growth at Just Eat Takeaway has remained “strong” in the third quarter despite large parts of the world retunring to pre-pandemic life. Plus, THG comments on yesterday’s dramatic 35% share price fall; Nestle changes its geographic zone structure; and Kerry Group kicks off its virtual capital markets day.
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News
AKT raises £1.5m to grow natural deodorant brand across Europe
The London-based start-up will also use the money to enhance its subscriptions, alongside its loyalty initiatives and ecommerce experiences.
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News
Media Bites 12 October: CO2, inflation, beef exports, John Lewis
The aftershocks of the CO2 crisis continues to make headlines, alongside the rising cost of food heading into Christmas.
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News
Canada’s High Tide enters UK’s CBD market with Blessed acquisition
Canada-based Hide Tide has acquired Scottish online CBD retailer Blessed as it looks to build its e-commerce presence in the UK and Europe.
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News
City Snapshot: Treatt sales boom post-lockdown
Drinks ingredients firm Treatt has reported a strong finish to the financial year as it benefitted from the ongoing trend for healthy living. Plus, Asos CEO Nick Beighton steps down.
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Comment & Opinion
The Grocer Gold Awards has shone a light on our industry’s hidden heroes
This week’s awards was a chance to put the names of some of these supply chain heroes up in lights
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News
How Tesco took the title of Britain’s Favourite Supermarket for the seventh year in a row
The Grocer’s survey with NielsenIQ revealed 66% of respondents would definitely go to Tesco for their groceries
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Comment & Opinion
UK’s most digital Christmas ever: what retailers can expect from shoppers
Online search and survey data can help retailers understand consumer trends in 2021, says Harry Walker, industry head of grocery retail at Google
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Category Report
Less but better meat? Category report 2021
Premium cuts have seen strong growth as Brits are urged to curb their meat consumption. So are buying habits really changing?
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Videos
Watch: highlights from the Grocer Gold Awards 2021
Hear from winners of the awards including Entrepreneur of the Year James Sharpe, Mark McCammond, retail director at Independent Retail Chain of the Year Henderson Retail and James Lepley, group retail director at Grocer of the Year Morrisons
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Comment & Opinion
Baking Impossible: Netflix’s high-stakes baking show is pointless but fascinating
Is The Great British Bake Off too cheerfully comradely for you?
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News
Ex-Tesco CEO Dave Lewis to advise government on supply chain crisis
Lewis will work with government officials to “quickly resolve acute, short-term issues”
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Category Report
Sink or swim: fish category report 2021
Environmental concerns on fishing are top of mind for shoppers. Amid calls for tougher restrictions, how is the industry tackling it?
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Webinars
Does the UK have a sustainable food future? Experts to convene for The Grocer’s webinar
Taking place at 11am on Wednesday 27 October, the 60-minute webinar will seek to answer whether the UK can feed the nation without resorting to damaging farming practices.
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Comment & Opinion
Uber Eats offers real world counterpoint to Snoop’s rap
How to rival the phenomenon that is Snoop Dogg’s Just Eat advert?
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Comment & Opinion
Will the CO2 shortage help burst consumers’ ‘everything, now’ bubble?
Shipping containers and carbon dioxide didn’t used to be conversation starters in the pub, but they are now part of the national discourse
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Grocer 33
Tesco’s ‘calm’ branch has slight edge over Morrisons’ untidy store
Just one point separated Tesco and Morrisons in this week’s Grocer 33
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Analysis & Features
How can the meat sector attract and train more British workers?
Boris Johnson is doubling down on his stance industry should stop ‘relying on cheap foreign labour’. So how can the sectors move forward?