All The Grocer articles in 18 April 2009 – Page 2
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NewsM&S red meat volumes soar thanks to price cuts
Marks & Spencer has turned around last year's poor performance on red meat through an aggressive price-cutting programme. The retailer's volume sales of red meat plunged 30% year-on-year in late 2008 as the recession took its toll....
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NewsOwn Label/PLMA Preview: Ideas that cross frontiers
The recent success of the discounters is a reminder to the UK's grocery establishment that British consumers have a strong appetite for foreign goods and ideas. By Adam Leyland
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First franchising, then foodservice for Cook
Frozen ready meals retailer Cook is set to open up its offer to other retailers in its first move into franchising.Cook, which has 32 stores in south east England, is finalising a franchise package that will allow other businesses to run...
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Compass signals retail push in wake of McColl hospital swoop
Compass Group has announced major expansion plans for its UK retail business following its £19m swoop for 27 hospital stores from Martin McColl.The £1.9bn turnover caterer, which also owns more than 100 stores in education campuses and 14 in...
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NewsCommodities: Waiting for meat prices to fall? You'll keep waiting...
Meat prices haven't reflected the falling costs of commodities and the situation isn't about to change. Why, asks Mintec analyst Robert Miles
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NewsChicago Town claims Takeaway is tastier than Domino's pizza
Chicago Town is aiming to take a slice out of Domino's and Pizza Hut's delivery business with a revamp of its Takeaway frozen range. In a bid to encourage consumers to switch from having pizza delivered, the Dr Oetker brand has added the...
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Doritos puts cheese and spice together
Doritos is launching a new crisp variant that it claims brings together two of the most popular flavours on the market.The new Flamin' Cheeseball crisp (rsp: 38p for 40g, £1.77 for 225g), a mixture of cheese and spices, is to be added to the...
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Comment and OpinionCritical Eye... on Great White and the infernal canteen
Hell is other people, it was famously observed by Jean-Paul Sartre. As a miserablist, drug-using Frenchman, he probably had a point. Hell's Kitchen (ITV, weeknights), meanwhile, is reserved for those pseudo-celebrities so crushingly inane that...
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Campaign Trail: A ripping yarn from Foster's
Foster's is flexing its muscles with Hulk-like strength in S&N's latest ad for the brand's Scuba can. London Tube escalator screens will feature animated images with the metal of a Foster's Scuba can - which contains a lager widget - ripping apart...
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NewsTV campaign pushes Président Emmental
Lactalis McLelland has kicked off a £1.5m TV ad campaign to push its Président Emmental. The three-week campaign, launched this week, features a 20-second commercial running between primetime shows such as Coronation Street, Grand Designs...
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Call for investment in dairy manufacturing
The British dairy industry could be reduced to producing little more than raw milk and some high-value cheese if manufacturers do not invest further, an industry analyst has warned. While Britain had become adept at producing premium...
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: As my hair gets greyer, people's manners in business get worse
They say that we all turn into our parents eventually. I don't know about that but, as the grey hairs multiply, I do find myself coming out with things that, to the people around me, seem to confirm my inevitable transformation into one of Terry Wogan's TOGs (Terry's Old Geezers).
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NewsGeoff Burch Talks Shop: The Londis
In the first of a new series of articles for The Grocer, business guru and presenter of BBC TV programme All Over the Shop Geoff Burch visits a Londis convenience store in Leamington spa to give it his best makeover
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NewsSoup in a Bun failure was down to Tesco, says TV show winner
Southern Co-op is in talks to stock Soup in a Bun after the TV show-winning innovation was delisted by Tesco.
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Brealey moves from Dr Oetker to sales director at Rachel's
Rachel's Dairy has named Neil Brealey as its new sales director. Brealey joins the company from Dr Oetker where he was head of sales for chilled. Prior to Dr Oetker, he worked at Arla Foods, St Ivel and Dairy Crest.Brealey said that...
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Irish seek cross-border booze price clampdown
A crackdown on discounted drink in supermarkets and convenience stores in both parts of Ireland could be on the cards if the Government of the Republic has its way. It wants the Northern Ireland power-sharing executive to agree a joint...
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Booths stocks National Trust farms meat
Booths has become the first supermarket to stock Freedom Food-accredited beef sourced from National Trust farms.The meat, which went on sale in six stores at the beginning of the month, is matured for up to 30 months. It is produced from...
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P&G extends its Bold and Daz ranges
A raft of innovations have been announced for flagship P&G laundry brands Bold and Daz.A gel variant of Bold 2in1 will be launched in May, in a bid to repeat the success of P&G's Ariel Excel Gel, which was introduced in September 2008. The...
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The best own-label suppliers in Britain
Excellent service and the ability to meet ever-tougher pricing demands are the key attributes of this year's own-label supply industry stars. Noli Dinkovski reports
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Teenagers to benefit from retail diploma
Schoolchildren are being encouraged to consider a career in retail, with the introduction of a new diploma in retail business for 14 to 19 year olds. The diploma, which was given the go-ahead by the Government last week, has been developed by...
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