All The Grocer articles in 17 February 2001
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Scooter power to drive 1664
Scottish Courage has switched the emphasis for its first major promotion of the year from Foster's to Kronenbourg 1664. For the last five years the brewer has unveiled big budget Fostralia promotions which it said had been a major success. This...
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Price wars: Tesco kicks off 2001 blitz with weekly shop cut
Tesco is to invest £70m in a new round of price cuts across grocery and non-food from Monday as the multiples go back to war for 2001. The permanent cuts will reduce the cost of an average weekly family shop by 20%, claimed Tesco, with reductions...
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Mace: Big deal for Aberness
Aberness Foods is celebrating the acquisition of its biggest ever convenience store in a deal with TM Retail. The Aberdeen based distributor to Scottish Mace outlets has bought the former Forbuoys store in Newmachar, near Aberdeen. The store has...
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Dairy: Graham's acquires Country Fresh
Scotland's largest independent dairy Graham's has bought Lothian based dairy Country Fresh in a deal that will increase its capacity by another 500,000 litres of milk a year. Graham's accountant Jackie Farrell said the acquisition was just the...
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Association of Convenience Stores: ACS aiming for smooth han
The Association of Convenience Stores is looking to ensure a smooth handover of power after its chief executive Trevor Dixon confirmed he would be retiring at the end of October. ACS has appointed a firm of recruitment consultants to seek a...
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News analysis: British pigmeat advertising
Fed up with MLC As the wrangle over last year's ads drags on and on, the Danes and the Dutch just wish the MLC would be more positive. And that the ASA would act faster. Elaine Watson reports The Advertising Standards Authority came in for more...
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Advertising: Return of the High flyers
The big five have gone back to basics with leaflet drops and brochures that focus on price. And they're paying handsomely, says Helen Gregory Open your local paper and you can guarantee that a sheaf of glossy advertising will fall out not...
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Duck turns all Imperial
A new ad for Cusson's Imperial Leather slips on to TV screens this week as part of a £9m investment in the brand. It airs on February 19 andshows a woman enjoying a shower. Foam falls on her rubber duck which then springs to life and dances around...
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Unappealing antics
When bacon sellers put on a show of international bonhomie at the Provision Trade Federation annual dinner on Tuesday, behind the polite smiles will be a deep-seated feeling of anger and frustration. For as overseas sellers sit down with their UK...
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Health and safety: Asda fined by magistrates for electric sh
Asda has been fined £7,000 after an employee received an electric shock from a faulty plug socket on a cash till at a Nottingham store. The company pleaded guilty before Nottingham magistrates to breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act at its...
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Holsten to go back to its core values
Exclusive Holsten UK plans to revitalise its brand with new marketing and advertising campaigns including a wide ranging packaging revamp. MD Jeremy Main and sales director Geoff Bradman want to take the brand back to its authentic roots and...
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Retail price spreads: Retailers are backing British farmers
Hints of a weakening in consumer demand for beef and perhaps even for pork but more evidence of surprisingly resilient trade in the bacon and lamb categories are the main features of MLC analyst Tony Fowler's latest farm to retail price spread...
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The battle over detergents: It's a marketing coup as Co-op g
Exclusive Julian Hunt Co-operative Group has scored a major marketing coup by beating both Procter & Gamble and Unilever to market with dissolvable laundry liquid pouches. Brio Actipods, developed by McBride, go on sale in selected Co-op stores on...
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Beef: Irish fear continent will tempt UK supermarkets
Will multiples be unwilling or unable to maintain two tier market? From Ireland come warnings of impending trouble in the British mainstream retail beef trade as a result of the continental BSE crisis and its effects on trade flows and official...
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Beef: BSP blow from Brussels
Detailed changes to cattle aid regime seem likely to affect UK disproportionately Price and supply prospects in the already confused British beef market were further clouded on Tuesday night after European Commission officials met in Strasbourg and...
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Unilever Bestfoods organic buy
Newly formed Unilever Bestfoods UK has made its first deal in the rapidly growing organics sector with the purchase of small Scottish firm Go Organic. Founded and run by Sheila Ross and Charlotte Mitchell, Go Organic makes organic pasta sauces,...
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Profile: Kurt Bettin, CMA Central Marketing Organisation o
Accidental exile Kurt Bettin has spent 32 years masterminding the CMA's progress but now, as he tells Helen Gregory, Germany beckons A resident of this country for 32 years, German-born Kurt Bettin declares a fondness for Cheddar, bacon and...
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Partner for black undies
Procter and Gamble is hoping to make pantyliners an everyday item by bringing out an Alldays Black version intended for use with black underwear. And it is continuing the sector's move from coy blue liquid' style or white lycra and roller skates...
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Bogofs: Wild card
They're in, then they're out, and now they're being shaken all about. So what is the future of the bogof? Ed Bedington asks those in the know Not so long ago the days of the buy-one, get one free offer seemed to be numbered as the multiples...
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Brandwatch profile: bottled water
Top 15 brands advertised (by media) £k Jan '00 - Dec '00 Total Press Cinema Radio Outdoor TV ...