All The Grocer articles in 12 August 2017 – Page 2
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News
Warner's Budgens rolls out Ubamarket app across its estate
Supermarket shopping app Ubamarket is to roll out across the entire Warner’s Budgens estate next month
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Carling launches push with Premier League and Sky Sports
The Premier League and Carling went “hand in hand” said Carling brand director Jim Shearer
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My Alternative CV
Nick Wall, Tails Cocktails, on acting like a big chicken and his pet Labrador
”My first job was working as a host for TGI Fridays. I think this may have been where my love for cocktails started. The bartenders were total heroes.”
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Cobra set to roll out its first gluten-free beer in January
The brand also plans to launch an IPA, called Malabar, exclusively into the on-trade
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Comment and Opinion
Chilled bread isn't cool
What twisted mind came up with the idea of chilling bread?…
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Analysis and Features
European pork price hits four-year record
European pork prices have reached their highest level in four years – and could go higher
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AF Blakemore launches partnership with PTP on apprenticeships
Performance Through People will act as the wholesaler’s lead provider to recruit, retain and develop talent
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City news: Coca-Cola HBC fizzes to the top
Coca-Cola HBC (CCH) fizzed to the top of the FTSE 100 this wee
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Amplify works on Tyrrells recovery as UK sales slump
The US owner of upmarket crisp brand Tyrrells has cut SKUs and axed private-label contracts
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Ketchup sales in the red as Heinz family faves lose favour
Newly filed accounts from the US group’s UK subsidiary HJ Heinz Foods UK show a 16.3% collapse in annual sales to £708.9m.
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JTI supply problems hit tobacco wholesale
Tobacco giant Japan Tobacco International has run into supply issues resulting in serious availability issues for UK customers
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Ocado listing for Camden Brewery's strawberry-flavoured lager
Strawberry Hells Forever will be available in 330ml bottles from 24 August….
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Bestway angling to use Blakemore deal as entry into Spar network
Blakemore insists it is not for sale but cash & carries are on the table, The Grocer understands…
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Kerry rejects nitrates claim over Denny ham
Kerry Foods has insisted the celery-derived ingredient in the ham is an “approved natural flavouring”
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City snapshot: Grocery inflation surges to 2.4% in July
Grocery price inflation jumped from 1.6% to 2.4% in the month to 1 August with Tesco’s prices climbing by the largest proportion. Plus, the FTSE plunges but Coca-Cola HBC surges, a round-up of finance stories in The Grocer this week and all the rest of the latest news from the City
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Media Bites 11 Aug: Amazon, Asda, Coca-Cola HBC, Co-op Bank
Amazon paid just £15m in tax on European revenues of £19.5bn, writes The Guardian.
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NI mushroom firm invests millions in North Yorks facility
Hughes Mushrooms’ 11-acre site at Howden would set “a new industry standard”, the business claimed
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Supermarket prices rise at fastest rate for four years
Supermarket prices are growing at their fastest level for almost four years as the pressure on shoppers’ wallets mounts.
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Analysis and Features
All you need to know about the B&M takeover of Heron Foods
What is the rationale behind the latest convenience shake-up?
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Comment and Opinion
Do consumers actually care about ‘fake farm’ brands?
The move by Morrisons could be seen as a cute PR ploy on a special day of promoting British agriculture … but it looks like it worked as the national media lapped it up