All The Grocer articles in 11 October 2008 – Page 3
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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