All The Grocer articles in 15 December 2001 – Page 3
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Barry Carter
Senior buyer for biscuits, Budgens For Budgens, biscuits are performing extremely well and business is increasing by around 25% year-on-year. A lot of this is down to a project we started two years ago with McVitie's to review and refine our...
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Look back on our wannabe's from the philosopher's moan to
It's time to bid fond farewell to "I wanted to be" which has ended after 49 weeks in which the industry's great and good have revealed their early career ambitions. Intended as a little light relief and as a means of giving you a little more...
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Asda still the best value multiple but isn't the best on ful
Sheila Eggleston Out of stocks have been the most disruptive feature in The Grocer 33 weekly shop in the past six months. Product delistings and promotional activity have been the main aggravating factors, and frozen food most badly hit. In the...
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Tesco and Superquinn vow to freeze prices for euro arrival
Two chains in the Irish Republic have announced price freezes during the changeover to the euro in a bid to reassure customers, while retailers in Northern Ireland are worried about the potential for forged euro notes. Superquinn said its freeze...
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Sainsbury has announced that Stuart Mitchell and Sara Weller
Organic chain Fresh & Wild has secured £3m private finance to add three more London stores to its portfolio of six in the next financial year. United Co-op has bought three stores, in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Kingsley in Cheshire and St...
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Douglas finds an Anchor man
The biggest shock of the year came in the autumn, when arch rivals New Zealand Milk and Arla Foods teamed up to take on Unilever in the yellow fats aisles with the combined brand strength of Lurpak and Anchor. Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble...
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Soup is a mature market, although sales continue to rise as
The £384m soup market has long suffered from seasonality usage and new product activity has taken place over the past few years to increase its year-round fortunes, especially in the chilled arena. While sales in the instant and packet/bowl sector...
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Although wet petfood continues to dominate the category with
As with many grocery markets, convenience is the key to success and the increase in popularity of dry petfood mirrors the overall trend towards convenience. The benefit of dry petfood is that it can be bought in bigger pack sizes because once...
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The take home alcohol market has shaken off some relatively
The sector appears to have recovered from any millennium hangover and in the 12 months to the end of October showed value growth of 4%. This is a creditable performance as the previous 12 months included the peak selling period prior to the...
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All-change at Albert Fisher
In a board reorganisation at Albert Fisher Group non-executive chairman Hugh Ashton is to retire and chief executive Terry Robinson will become executive chairman. Finance director David Meller takes over as chief executive and executive director...
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After the slaughter?
February heralded a year that unfolded as the most wretched in the living memory of most UK farmers, thanks to foot and mouth. As culled livestock burned and farmers despaired, the then agriculture minister Nick Brown repeatedly declared the...
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A time to give added value to the family
Thousands of small store owners are passing up the opportunity to trade almost unopposed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day, when the multiples will be closed. A straw poll taken this week showed that most independent neighbourhood...
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After Curry, Blair must act
It's customary, at this time, for media soothsayers to rub their crystal balls and sound off about the shape of things to come. Fuelled by liberal amounts of seasonal Tesco sherry, pompous business scribes proclaim that we are "standing on the...
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The dairy market has experienced growth of almost 5% this ye
But in the yogurts and dairy desserts market it is the latter which is driving the overall 7% growth. The 13% growth in the desserts sector has been driven by numerous promotions involving discounts on the normal price of the product. Müllerice, in...
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The Grocer 33 six month test again shows Asda is cheapest
Sheila Eggleston Asda has notched up another six months as the UK's cheapest supermarket. The Grocer 33's six-month review shows that Asda produced 12 of the cheapest full baskets between June and November 2001. Its nearest challenger was Tesco...
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A warmer summer encouraged a 3% rise in sales. This has been
Brand extensions have become commonplace, with both Mars and Cadbury launching 451-500ml sized tubs. Cadbury launched Crunchie, Dairy Milk, Heavenly Vanilla and Caramel in September 2000, while Mars brought out Mars, Snickers, Twix, M&M's and...
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The sauces market is experiencing value growth of almost 2%,
Liquid sauces is the largest sector, accounting for an 81% share of the category, with dry sauces having a 16% share. The remaining 3% is filled by the pesto sauces sector. Liquid sauces have the ever-present convenience factor, while dry sauces...
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The total pre-packed bread market experienced a 2% increase
While overall volumes are decreasing by 2%, value may have been inflated by increases in flour prices due to poor wheat harvests following last autumn's floods. This has caused manufacturers to raise their price per loaf, including Allied Bakeries...
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This £10m And there's Müller love' campaign added a little
All the ads had a quirky twist, with a passenger facing an amorous air steward in the plane toilets while his girlfriend ate yogurt, and a man using the only photo of his first love as a spoon for Müllerice. The Mother Love version was most...
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The household cleaners market has experienced more than 1% v
Wipes continue to prove popular with consumers because of their convenience, and the sector is driving growth in the surface cleaner and window cleaner segments. Domestos wipes are just outside the top 20 and growing by almost 40%, suggesting that...
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