All The Grocer articles in 10 January 2009 – Page 3
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Premier suppliers’ trade insurance limit cut again
Trade credit insurers have reduced Premier Foods’ suppliers’ cover for the second time in a month.
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Tesco press ads hit back at Asda cheapest claim
Tesco is challenging Asda’s positioning as the UK’s cheapest supermarket with a new campaign claiming Asda’s big green arrow ads are “misleading”.The new Tesco adverts use items collected from Clubcard data on 220,000 shops on Friday 2...
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NewsAdvertising: Danone gives ads a healthy kick
Ad spend in the yoghurt and yoghurt drink category was up 75% year-on-year in the four weeks to 13 December thanks to Danone turning up the firepower behind Actimel and launching a Stay Actiwell campaign
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Supermarkets adopt fresh tactics as price war escalates
January sales are nothing new - but this year the supermarkets are taking a brave longer-term approach. James Ball reports on the latest pricing battle
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Cirio adapts packaging to suit demand
Italian tomato products company Cirio is adding three products to its UK range in response to consumer demand for environmentally friendly packaging and smaller formats.Its chopped tomatoes in 390g Tetra Pak cartons were priced in line with...
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Ad of the Week: Benylin goes viral
Getting yourself heard through the post-Christmas fug can be tough, when the cash-strapped and partied-out stare glassy-eyed at the television, drained for a week or two of the irrepressible impulse to Buy Things. A spot of controversy often...
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Velvet invests £5m in promoting green Three Trees scheme
Swedish toilet roll producer SCA is ploughing £5m into its Velvet brand in the first quarter of this year to try and close the gap on market leader Andrex.The company is pushing its environmental credentials in an attempt to give it a point...
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Chicago Town pizza is given £5m push following acquisition
Dr Oetker says it is avoiding the trend for "virtuous" brand messages with its new marketing strategy for Chicago Town pizza
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NewsGrocer 33: Asda back on top with five promotions
Asda has made a strong start to 2009, regaining its familiar cheapest retailer title and undercutting nearest rival Sainsbury's by £1.13
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City: axing 25 Simply Food stores won't fix M&S food problems
Marks & Spencer's closure of 25 "underperforming" Simply Food stores will do little to fix its struggling food business, analysts said this week. Defiant chairman Sir Stuart Rose claimed he was "encouraged" by this year's 5.2% drop in food...
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Fast forecourt work helps boost profits of Snax 24 by 40%
"Speedier shoppers" have helped forecourt operator Snax 24 boost its full-year pre-tax profit by nearly 40% and sales by nearly 20%.Snax 24 group MD Bill Ahearn said sales rose 19% to £228.8m and pre-tax profit by 39% to £3.5m in the year to...
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Comment and Opinion
Editor's Comment: Did the earth move for you on 23 December?
In these apocalyptic times, there's a lot to take in. Yet the consensus seems to be that it's not as bad as it had been painted
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NewsGrocer 33: Waitrose gets off to strong start in 2009
Waitrose’s Bath branch has kicked off the new year with a promising start. The immaculate store provided full availability and the checkout assistant was described as “friendly, cheerful and helpful” after she made polite conversation with our shopper, efficiently scanned her items and offered to pack her bags
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2009 preview: The year of make do...and mend
With job losses escalating, sterling in big trouble and businesses falling by the wayside seemingly daily, we're finding out the hard way what happens when the heart is ripped from a credit-based culture. The grocers generally traded well...
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World News 10/1/09
USA: Wal-Mart will pay $640m to settle 63 lawsuits accusing the retailer of breaking labour laws by denying employees breaks and forcing them to work unpaid overtime. The retailer said it would continue to ensure it complied with the law….
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Other Movers 10/1/09
Sean FitzPatrick has resigned as a non-executive director of Greencore Group. He had been on the board of directors for six years
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