All The Grocer articles in 16 December 2000
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Talking point: A stand on news
Ian Locks, PPA chief executive, and Robin Dickie, md of WH Smith UK Retail Channels, go head to head for readers of The Grocer over the wholesaler's proposals for a national distribution system for magazines Locks: Newspapers and magazines are just...
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Staff on a mission
Employees from across the Bass brewing business will be experiencing the sharp end of take home retailing over the next two weeks. In a repeat of a successful exercise last year, it is inviting its workers from head office through to the breweries...
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Internet shopping: Migration nightmare
A "nightmare scenario" could face grocery retailers as their most profitable customers migrate to their internet shopping arms. This would leave the least profitable casual buyers and bargain hunters to shop in their stores, according to the...
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Middleditch hits out at Verdict
Sir; I am not generally given to commenting upon issues through the letters page, but feel that the most recent Verdict Research on Neighbourhood Retailing paints a very gloomy view of the c-store sector. Using, as it does, an expanded view of the...
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The Grocer top products survey: paper
Procter & Gamble has enjoyed a very successful year in paper products and nowhere more so than in bathroom tissues. Charmin put the wind up the fiercely competitive bathroom tissue sector. And in kitchen towels, P&G stole a march on the opposition...
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The Grocer top products survey: sauces
New products have helped to swell sales of liquid cooking sauces and stir-fry is emerging from pasta's shadow On the face of it, cooking sauces might not appear to be the most likely candidate for fastest growing category. But, as we have seen...
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The Grocer top products survey: laundry
After all the excitement and growth in the market following the hugely successful launch of Persil Tablets, this year has been relatively uneventful. Sales are down, mainly because manufacturers have been phasing out the more expensive concentrated...
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The Grocer top products survey: soups
With feverish NPD, soup is now a category of its own Soup appears as a separate category in this year's Top Brands survey for the first time, following lift off of the sector in the last 12 months. Convenience and snacking are the key drivers for...
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The Grocer top products survey: toiletries
The big news of 1999 continues to be big news in 2000. Gillette’s Mach3 has grown by 17.4% to give it annual sales of nearly £59m. Closest rival Wilkinson Sword sold £21m of razors and blades in the same period and new product launches such as the…
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Prosper with Grocer jobs
Hundreds of pages of retail, sales and marketing jobs makes The Grocer the New Year job seekers' bible. From January 13 to the end of the month bumper issues will give you a great opportunity to increase your new year profits. CTN stores will...
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The Grocer top products survey: household
In an almost completely static market, the bathroom sector is enjoying a boom time. Specifically, it is the shower cleaning products that are causing the upsurge in sales. Mr Muscle Shower Shine is leading the way with a revolutionary new...
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The Grocer top products survey: petfood
While a number of developments in the petfood market have been made for the benefit of the animals, more have been for purposes of convenience for those who actually buy the products. Overall sales have fallen although, as with many of the "staple"...
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The Grocer top products survey: sauces
Shaun Quinton Senior trading manager, proprietary brands Spar UK Central Office Our stores are more for destination top-up as opposed to planned purchase so we tend to do well on standard variants such as Chicken Tonight, Ragú and Uncle Ben's,...
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MD Grist looks to a new world
Campbell Distillers md Iain Grist has taken specific responsibility for the general management of Caxton Wines, following the departure of Noel Reidy, who has left the company to pursue other interests. Caxton Wines, a sister company to Campbell...
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The ghost in The Grocer's machine
Scared witless by this horrible image? The Grocer's advertising and editorial teams certainly are! This ghostly apparition stalks our corridors on a daily basis. Usually he wears a suit (and leaves the chains at home) but doesn't look much...
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The Grocer top products survey: frozen food
One of the permanent problems of the frozen food markets for the manufacturer is persuading people to browse. Put simply, it isn't appealing for a shopper to spend much time hanging round chilly freezer cabinets, so it is often very difficult to...
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Iceland: Grimsey replaces Rose and promises to release ener
Iceland has found a replacement for departing chief executive Stuart Rose in record time with the appointment of Wickes boss Bill Grimsey. But the company is still searching for a replacement for Booker chief Charles Wilson, who announced he would...
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Employment: Rough justice
Suspension is no longer the easy option to take while misconduct claims are investigated. Raymond Silverstein reports Employers of all sizes, including those in the food industry, are routinely called upon to investigate serious allegations...
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The Grocer top products survey: soft drinks
It was the year when Sunny Delight lost out to the sheer energy of energy drinks It's easy to see why the hot beverages category has been in the doldrums when you compare it with the hotbed of activity in the soft drinks sector. The year 2000 has...
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The Grocer top products survey: dairy
As one of the most mature markets in the grocery world, yellow fats often struggles to match other sectors in terms of innovation. Not only that, but the very nature of butter/margarine/spreads is that there is only so much of it you can use. As...