All The Grocer articles in 13 January 2001 – Page 2
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Manufacturers: Greencore takes control of Hazlewood
Irish firm Greencore has finally taken control of Hazlewood Foods after a protracted struggle to gain shareholders' approval which extended over the festive season. As soon as the £258m cash offer for the convenience foods specialist was declared...
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Company culture: Safeway
You lovely people! Safeway under Carlos Criado-Perez is going all out to make employees feel empowered and motivated. Helen Gregory reports Safeway staff talk about life BC, but it's not a religious reference, rather a term to describe life...
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Profile: Sir Colin Spedding
Welfare states. Chicken safety champion Sir Colin Spedding is adamant that standards need not mean soaring costs as Helen Gregory reports Sir Colin Spedding is, by his own admission, an "old fashioned, public service guy". Years of committee work...
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Multiples: Revealed: demands of the industry code
Exclusive Clive Beddall The DTI's legally binding code of trading practice, set to be imposed on the big five multiples soon, will be tougher than the industry's voluntary version facilitated by IGD last year. The Grocer has seen the confidential...
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Co-ops: Forty jobs go as CWS closes Port Talbot superstore
The CWS has announced the closure of another unprofitable superstore at Baglan Moor, Port Talbot, after failing to find a suitable buyer. Although the organisation will try and redeploy staff from the store, 40 full-time and 40 part-time employees...
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Webbs factory to close
Webbs Country Foods chicken processing factory at Lymington in Hampshire will close down this summer as part of a rationalisation programme announced by parent company Faccenda Group. A spokeswoman said Faccenda was "restructuring its operations...
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Iceland chain goes for stability
The new managing director of Iceland is no stranger to the frozen food chain. And the appointment of Andrew Pritchard who joined the chain from Ernst & Young in 1983 gives the Iceland group some much needed stability at a time when the mds of...
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OBE for King of Castle
Colin Warden, chief executive of Castle MacLellan Foods, capped an award winning year with an OBE in the New Year honours for services to the Scottish food industry. In June last year an innovative range of soups from Castle MacLellan Foods was...
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Canned meat: Stewed steak out of stock
Erratic shipments from Brazil caused by port strikes and shipping diversions have resulted in serious out of stock positions of both hot packs and canned Beef. Hardest hit is stewed steak which was scheduled to arrive in time for post Christmas...
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Pepsico builds salty snacks
PepsiCo has boosted its snack food portfolio in north Africa and the Middle East. A joint venture between Pepsico's Egyptian salty snack operation Tasty and market leader Chipsy will create a new company called Chipsy International. Pepsi will have...
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Drinks: Bud Light fails to catch on in UK
US brewing giant Anheuser-Busch has decided to withdraw Bud Light from the UK after drinkers spurned the low calorie alternative to the brewer's best selling Budweiser brand. The current market leader in the light beer sector, Bud Light took the US...
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Potatoes: Imports keep lid on British prices
New year assessment of the potato crop has indicated that around 12% either remains in the ground or is affected by waste. Farmgate prices have only increased marginally so far because at present growers are keen to offload middle to lower grade...
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Clicks not bricks: Up close and personal
Undreamed of advertising opportunities are emerging from the plethora of new technologies. Alan Mitchell reports on the revolution There's no doubt about it. Technology is turning the world of advertising upside down. This week, for example,...
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Brandwatch: Mintel category report: Cold / flu remedies & de
The total UK market for cold and flu remedies and decongestants is estimated to be worth £174m in 2000, having increased by 37% since 1995. Cold and flu remedies, worth an estimated £106m in 1999, account for the mainstay of the market....
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Let's make it wider, boys
The news that the OFT and its band of legal eagles will stick to the letter of Stephen Byers' law and only enforce a trading code across the big five multiples, rather than all of them, will disappoint many. It seems ridiculous, particularly to...
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Wholesaling: I'll take my time over Booker'
A new managing director for Booker will not be appointed for at least 12 weeks, says Bill Grimsey, chief executive of the parent Iceland group. Grimsey, who has just completed his first week at the head of Iceland, said he was prepared to take his...
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Republic of Ireland: Dunnes personnel procedures blasted by
Thirteen staff dismissed by Dunnes Stores during an industrial dispute in the Irish Republic have been awarded substantial compensation for being unfairly sacked. The awards, made by the Irish Employment Appeals Tribunal, averaged I£5,400, the...
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It's a bigger and creamier Waistline
Exclusive Karen Dempsey Crosse & Blackwell is revamping its low fat dressings brand Waistline to take a bigger dollop of the salad cream market which was rejuvenated by Heinz last year. Waistline will be made with a creamier recipe and it will now...
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BEW looks to regenerate image with Enjoy! meals
Karen Dempsey Bird's Eye Walls is stumping up £30m over two years to make Enjoy!, its new range of upmarket ready meals, a regular feature in UK freezers. Enjoy! is pitched as a "meal solution" for adults who choose what to eat at the last...
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Intervention: New beef mountain rising
Brussels has begun building a new intervention beef mountain. But first purchases prompted by BSE on the continent have totalled only 12,000 tonnes, mostly in France and Germany. The stockpile will not match the previous mountain in size as...
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