All The Grocer articles in 13 December 2008 – Page 3
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BP convenience queen to join Asda in new year
Convenience store expert Karen Hubbard has been appointed operations director at Asda, responsible for overseeing the retailer's smaller stores.Hubbard left BP last month after almost five years as UK convenience retail director running all...
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Arctic Roll returns to woo thrifty shoppers
Arctic Roll is making a comeback as Birds Eye revives its 1980s recession-busting Make Your Pound Go Further campaign.
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Tudhope appointed Cafédirect chairman
Fairtrade hot drinks company, Cafédirect, has appointed Geoff Tudhope as its new chairman.Tudhope is a business mentor for Merryck & Co, where he advises chief executive officers in the FTSE 500. He was previously a non-executive director at...
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Cadbury repackages to raise gifting appeal of Roses chocs
Cadbury is hoping to stem nosediving sales of its Roses brand by revamping the iconic chocolate to draw in younger consumers and reinforce its gifting credentials.The new packaging design marks the first significant changes to be made to the...
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: Let's all work hard to see off recession by exploiting every possible opportunity
Guy Moreton says we should all do our bit to stave off a long-term slump
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Editor's Comment: If quality was the real battleground, Aldi would have rebranded as Trader Joe
The rise of the discounters this year has been nothing short of extraordinary. At 3.1% Aldi's market share is now close to that of Waitrose (3.6%). To some extent, the discounters have been filling up the space left by Kwik Save's demise,...
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JJ Food Service profit soars after IT spend
JJ Food Service nearly doubled its pre-tax profit from £4.5m to £8.6m for the year ending March 2008, while turnover rose 13% to £117m, according to accounts at Companies House. The company said it had increased its profitability by keeping...
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Buffin steps up within Groupe Aeroplan
Groupe Aeroplan, the company behind the Nectar reward scheme used by Sainsbury's, has appointed Tony Buffin to the new role of executive vice president and managing director. Buffin will be responsible for business units managed out of the group’s...
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Comment and Opinion
Advertising: The battle for the festive buffet begins
In the past four weeks, the 'smaller' retailers have really ramped up their Christmas advertising campaigns as they try to maximise their share of consumers' festive food budgets, writes Richard Hemming
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St Helier adds peach to flavoured ciders
The growing flavoured cider market has a peachy new offering from St Helier. The new 5% abv Peach Pear cider was developed following better-than-expected sales for the brand's other fruit-flavoured pear ciders, launched last year....
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Acid Test: Heinz Dipping Sauce
What will you dip in the new Heinz Dipping Sauce? Probably nothing, concludes our panel
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DCS Manufacturing to employ 50 new staff
Specialist health and beauty products wholesaler DCS Europe is to create 50 jobs when it moves its manufacturing arm to a new factory three times bigger than its existing plant.DCS Manufacturing is due to have closed its site in...
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Booker takes Euro Shopper range to 35
Booker has expanded its Euro Shopper range for the first time since it launched the 30-strong range in the summer of last year.The five new lines are an isotonic orange sports drink, two sparkling glucose drinks, washing up liquid and...
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NewsGrocer 33: Gaps open up as Christmas approaches
Christmas shoppers have hit the stores in earnest over the past week - but the grocers have struggled to keep up with demand, reports Joanne Grew
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NewsGrocer 33: Morrisons is Christmas champion
Morrisons has proved victorious in the Christmas G33 survey, knocking Asda off last year’s top spot and proving to be the cheapest retailer for festive goods, reports Joanne Grew
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McCain ups growers' pay 26% to safeguard supply
McCain is expected to increase the amount it pays its potato growers by up to 26% in a move that will prompt a major shake-up of farmgate potato prices.The Grocer understands the manufacturer will issue the revised contracts in the next...
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Asda cuts payment times to 20 days to support its suppliers
Small suppliers have reported thawing relations with the big four, as it emerged this week Asda has cut payment times to as little as 20 days.One supplier, whose payment time was cut, said the improvement in terms was a "massively welcome"...
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Other Movers 13/12/08
Woolworths has made 450 head office and support staff redundant in London and Rochdale. The job losses are the first since the high street giant slumped into administration two weeks ago. Diana Houghton has joined Thorntons' board of...
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World News 13/12/08
l USA: Anheuser-Busch InBev has announced the loss of 1,400 jobs in its beer division, just weeks after InBev completed its purchase of American business Anheuser-Busch. The job losses amount to 6% of the company's US workforce, and are mostly...
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