All The Grocer articles in 11 October 2008
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Other Movers: 11/10/08
Mervyn Davies is stepping down as a non-executive director of Tesco. He has resigned due to potential conflicts of interest as the supermarket increases its financial services in similar areas to Standard Chartered Bank, where Davies is...
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Doubts over Aldi 1,500 UK stores target
Aldi has said it is on track to eventually operate 1,500 UK stores, despite a report this week that claimed the number was unrealistic. The CACI report, Discounters’ Challenge in Tesco & Sainsbury’s Heartland, claimed there were 959 potential new...
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Three-for-£10 offers at centre of Asda’s wine range revamp
Asda has carried out a “root and branch” overhaul of its wine range with the introduction of 250 new wines and permanent double bays for three-for-£10 offers in all stores. The number of Extra Special premium own-brand lines has been increased by...
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World News 11/10/2008
African supermarket chain Pick ’n Pay has opened its first convenience store in Johannesburg, South Africa, as the business moves into small format stores for the first time....
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Investor group in 11th-hour Cappoquin deal
Beleaguered Irish poultry processor Cappoquin Chickens has been hauled out of liquidation in an 11th- hour buyout by an Anglo-Irish group of investors. Cappoquin, which looked certain to close last month following the collapse of takeover talks,...
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NewsGrocer 33: Tesco comes in 22p less than Asda
'Britains biggest discounter' emerges as the cheapest of the bunch in the latest G33
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NewsGrocer 33: Sainsbury's stock and staff impress
The Sainsbury's in Halifax gets the nod from the Grocer 33 panel
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Acid Test: Baby Blue and Baby Pink
Our panel test-drive the brightly-coloured new his'n'hers alcopops from Alcohol Drinks
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Indies call for Co-op’s expulsion from ACS
There were calls this week for the Co-operative Group’s membership of the Association of Convenience Stores to be revoked following its £1.57bn acquisition of Somerfield in July. Some independents claimed the society’s size post-merger as the UK’s...
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Ad of the Week: Guinness bangs the drum
Good things come to those who wait… and Guinness has finally moved on from that age-old slogan in its latest onscreen extravaganza.
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Vickery ads push up Aldi’s seabass sales
Aldi’s sales of seabass have increased ten-fold in the two weeks since celebrity chef Phil Vickery has promoted it. The chef has endorsed the fish in the discounter’s television advertisements and on podcasts on Aldi’s website in which he...
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Advertising: TV in the driving seat for cereals
Do you run your original budget and get a bigger campaign, or do you cut the spend and get the original weight, asks Martin Radford
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Online marketing works, so why aren’t brands using it?
A new report reveals that online is now as effective a way to get your message across as TV – yet it’s still an underused medium. Robert McLuhan reports
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Comment & Opinion
Careers File: Associate your brand with the values of your target consumer
Let’s suppose we’re developing a campaign to turn meat eaters into vegetarians. For many veggies, the logical proposition would...
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Dettol fights bacteria and winter flu germs
Reckitt Benckiser has launched an audacious campaign to get people to do their spring cleaning in the autumn.
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Co-op bakery offer taken in-house
The Co-operative Group has taken its in-store bakery offer in-house. It has launched a 57-strong range of products including bread, rolls, pastries and cakes across its 1,483 in-store bakeries, as well as a further 433 Co-op stores run by smaller...
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Ex-Cadbury man Baldry takes top CCE GB role
Former Cadbury Schweppes UK confectionery managing director Simon Baldry has been named vice president and general manager of Coca-Cola Enterprises Great Britain. Baldry replaces Hubert Patricot, who was made president of Coca-Cola Enterprises’...
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Tobacco display ban call comes under fire from industry
The tobacco industry has slammed an Action on Smoking and Health report endorsing bans on tobacco displays and branding and reiterated its warning that display bans in shops would boost illegal trade. Published a week after graphic warnings...
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Britain’s biggest chameleon
On a busy results day for Sir Terry Leahy, Adam Leyland talked exclusively to Tesco’s CEO about discount brands, the downturn, Fresh & Easy and the noble art of retailing
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Global Brands looks to future with new management team
VK Vodka Kick producer Global Brands has reshuffled its senior management team to drive growth in its premium drinks portfolio. Mark James has been promoted from sales director to replace Steve Perez as managing director. Perez has been named...