All The Grocer articles in 13 October 2007 – Page 4
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Task Force exposes £200m meat losses
The red meat industry in Northern Ireland is losing more than £200m per year, according to a new report for the Red Meat Task Force.Retailers and processors in the province make an annual profit of £20m each from sales of red meat, but...
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Comment and Opinion
our man from drip Don Pumsey - 13th October 2007
How culturally sensitive of King - or should we say Sheikh - Justin to adapt so readily to the customs of JS's probable new owners, the Qataris! I think we all knew that the area around King's Cross (he's no reason to be, has he?) was something of a...
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Price Survey - 13th October 2007
Asda is the cheapest retailer for the second week running, after weeks of battling for the top spot with Morrisons. This week the retailer won The Grocer 33 price survey with a £38.39 basket, just creeping ahead of rival Morrisons' £38.85 total....
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What the papers said - 13th October 2007
Members of the Sainsbury family will block the Qatari bid for the supermarket unless a deal is struck with the group's pension fund trustees. The Telegraph reported the family fear Sir Philip Hampton, the retailer's chairman, plans to recommend a...
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non-food - 13th October 2007
? Buying a games console is no longer as clear-cut as it once was. The arrival of three next-generation consoles, each offering a unique entertainment proposition, has broadened choice for the consumer, but has made choosing new hardware more...
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Nectar gets firepower to analyse 10 million
Sainsbury's loyalty card is set to "leapfrog" Tesco's by analysing the shopping habits of millions more consumers than its rival, according to the man who used to run Clubcard.This summer Peter Gleason left Dunnhumby, the company that...
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Trends & Developments
?Foodie photo appealPremier Foods gave its Cadbury Cakes portfolio a shake-up in June with new packaging intended to up its consumer appeal. The range, which is produced under licence from Cadbury, has been redesigned to unite all the...
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CONSUMER FEEDBACK
Innovations in cakes and biscuits are inevitably shaped by pressures to eat more healthily, with lower in fat and sugar formats at one level and new products that deliver more indulgent tastes for those times when consumers treat themselves at...
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Celebration cakes
The party has gone a bit flat in the celebration cakes market in the past year with the market down by slightly more than 2% to £85m [Nielsen].Part of the reason for the decline is that licences for some of the summer movie blockbusters...
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Sweet biscuits
For a category worth nearly £2bn and with penetration of almost 100%, it seems remarkable that biscuits are still posting year-on-year growth of 2.7% [TNS, 52 w/e to 15 July 2007]. But it is - and sweet biscuits are driving growth....
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Savoury biscuits
The savoury biscuits sector is in danger of becoming the poor relation of the market with sales down 0.1% to £72m and little growth in the £228m crackers and crispbreads sector [TNS].Part of the problem is the success of sweet biscuits,...
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Rising prices take the biscuit
Spiralling wheat costs have hit the headlines this year. But it's not just the price of a loaf of bread that's been affected - the sweet side of the baking industry has also felt the squeeze. Biscuit flour prices have doubled from about £90 a...
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Shoppers on lookout for cake and biscuit offers
The biscuit and cake section is a regular destination for shoppers, and purchases are mainly influenced by price, taste, the meal occasion and health.Biscuits are a planned staple in many shoppers' trolleys, with 32% buying them at least...
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