All The Grocer articles in 18 August 2001 – Page 2
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Law of the land: Carola Godman Law, farmer
A friend of mine had a group of city schoolchildren on his farm. They were lucky enough to be present when a hen laid an egg in a hay wrack. Far from being delighted, one young fellow exclaimed in disgust: "Gawd, that's the last time I eat one ...
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Co-operative Group: Three in One divi card is a hit with sho
The launch of a new variation on Co-operative Group's Dividend card has proved a hit with more than 200,000 customers signing up. The Three and One Dividend card, which earns 3% back on all Co-op branded and fresh goods and 1% on all other...
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Canned fruit: Importers switch sources as pineapple shortage
Thailand running at 50% of capacity; civil unrest and port congestion in Philippines Availability of pineapple is causing serious problems for importers. They have been trying to cover shortages in Thailand and the Philippines by switching to...
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Dairy: EU butter storage scheme reaches peak
Privately owned stocks of butter held under the Private Storage Aid Scheme are peaking at near record levels. Across the EU, PSA stocks at the beginning of August had reached 162,000 tonnes, including 7,400t in the UK. This was 13,000t more than at...
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Trading conditions: Despair grows at thugs and bureaucracy
The raft of new legislation, the amount of paper work that independent retailers are faced with and the expansion by the major multiples into convenience trading has made retailing more demanding than it was 10 years ago. That was the view of...
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Brandwatch profile tobacco
Top tobacco brands advertised by media £k Jul '00 - Jun '01 Total Press Direct Mail Total ...
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Symbol groups: Quix resourcing boosted
The National Federation of Retail Newsagents says it is struggling to cope with the flood of orders from members to join Quix, its new symbol group. The 50th Quix conversion since the scheme was rolled out 18 months ago is due to open next week....
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Persil Black Velvet fills black hole in UK laundry
Lever Fabergé is bringing out Persil Black Velvet, a liquid detergent for dark clothes, to fill one of the few gaps left in the UK laundry market. The new liquid, which is a main wash biological detergent, will be on shelves next week. It has...
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Cadbury Schweppes: Bitter buys for Mott's
Cadbury Schweppes' Mott's subsidiary is focusing on profitable niche brands with the acquisition of the North American ReaLemon and ReaLime superbrands. Motts is to pay $128m (£90m) for the Eagle Family Foods brands, which last year had sales of...
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Biscuit break
Green & Black's is using its eponymous organic chocolate brand to break into the biscuit fixture with the launch of milk and dark Organic Chocolate Butter Biscuits in mid September. The half-coated biscuits come in cream packaging with purple or...
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Spar: Tates set for biggest ever
Spar UK's most powerful member is planning to build its biggest ever store. Tates, the company owned stores division of Spar UK's biggest wholesaler AF Blakemore, is awaiting planing permission for a store in mid Wales of about 6,000 sq ft, and...
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Brandwatch Mintel category report: Hot beverages get a cold
The market for hot beverages suffered a significant decline over the last decade. Household consumption of tea and other hot beverages fell by 30% in the case of tea and 17% for coffee, while consumption of hot chocolate and branded food drinks has...
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Co-op decides honesty the best policy for selling own label
The Co-op is extending its honest-labelling policy to cover its entire range of own-label wines and is celebrating the move in its first ever women's press campaign. The £1m push, which aims to highlight the group's self-proclaimed position as a...
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Pop down to Kwik Save to see Becks
We all love sucking up to celebs. But you don't need to go party hopping with the wannabes in London night spots to be able to fawn around the rich and famous try your local Kwik Save. Our northern correspondent tells us that the fair ladies of...
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Xmas in the bathroom
Lever Fabergé has unveiled its gift set range for Christmas 2001. Lynx fans have nine gift combinations to choose from, ranging from £4.49 to £13.95. All fragrances are available and new Lynx hair and shaving ranges are included. There are four...
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Business barometer: The mixed weather has flattened sales in
When asked about current trading levels, 24% said sales were up on this time last year, whereas last month the figure was 21%. This time round, 45% said sales were the same and 31% believed they were worse. The respective figures last month were 47%...
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Online retailing: Tesco targets Mothercare with baby site
Tesco has launched a new web site offering parents and prospective parents advice, information, shopping facilities and chatrooms to talk to other parents about their experiences. The You and Your Child site accessed via Tesco.com deals with issues...
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Tasting panel: Isle of Arran Blonde
From Isle of Arran Brewery. Voted Champion Wheat Beer' by the Society of Independent Brewers. Abv: 5% Price £1.95 TARGET CONSUMER Barry Savage, building maintenance surveyor, age 44, from Sydenham, London The name sounds like an eighties...
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EU apples: Industry being reshaped by bicoloured varieties
Golden and Red Delicious tonnages are now stabilising Golden Delicious still remains the largest variety grown in the EU and will show a marginal 1% increase in the coming season, reaching 2,537,000 tonnes. However, according to crop levels...
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Apples: Global oversupply feared
European apple crops may be down this year by 9% to 7,497,000 tonnes. But producers have claimed that there is an international crisis ahead because of an explosion in world production. That's the view of Noel Devisch, president of the Belgian NFU...
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