All The Grocer articles in 18 October 2003
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Hays trucks on for Waitrose
Waitrose has renewed two contracts for distribution of its ambient, fresh and frozen foods with logistics group Hays.The contracts – worth over £200m in total – will run for five years. Hays serves 43% of Waitrose stores for ambient...
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Jacob’s cracks a deal with Wallace and Gromit
Jacob’s has signed up cheese-loving animated characters Wallace and Gromit as part of a £4m marketing campaign for its crackers.Brand manager Nathan King said the deal represents the largest ever investment in the Jacob’s crackers...
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Nestlé confident of meeting targets
Nestlé posted a 5.4% rise in organic sales for the first nine months of the year boosted by sales of ice cream and water during the hot summer in Europe.However, the Swiss food giant said group sales fell 2.4% to CHF64.6bn due to negative...
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M&S recruits for Christmas
Marks and Spencer is to recruit 12,500 extra employees during the run-up to and over the busy Christmas period. An in-store poster campaign asks applicants to call their local M&S for a phone interview. This will include a multiple-choice...
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Asda digs local produce
Sales of Welsh potatoes at Asda stores in Wales rose 40% this year on the back of its initiative to promote all things local. Pembrokeshire potatoes were sold at all of Asda’s 15 stores in Wales, backed by a promotional campaign celebrating...
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Constellation sells La Baume
Constellation Wines has sold French brand La Baume to concentrate on its New World interests.Specialist exporter Les Grands Chais de France has purchased the winery for an undisclosed sum from the wine giant which wants to focus on “core...
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Londis adds premium beers
Londis has added a selection of speciality beers and premium lagers to its offering in the run-up to for Christmas,Trading controller for beers at Londis, Martin Swadling, said: “As with wines, consumers are now more educated about beers and...
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Persil to clear up ad
Lever Fabergé has been rapped by advertising watchdogs for “misleading” consumers in a direct mailshot for Persil Aloe Vera laundry tablets.A complaint was brought about by rival Procter & Gamble against Lever Fabergé’s claim that its...
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Londis looks to chillers
Londis will remerchandise chillers at members’ stores for free to boost the category that has margin returns of 25%.Following a £2.5m investment at its RDC operations, Londis has increased the guaranteed date-life of over 100 short-life...
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Small store MP lobby
An all-party parliamentary Small Shops Group has been formed to press home the concerns of the sector to MPs.Current issues include the impact of a Safeway takeover, the level of retail crime and violence and the mounting burden of red...
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Multiples’ flower sales booming
Cut flowers represent a huge opportunity for the multiple sector, a leading supplier has claimed.Spalding based Lingarden estimate the market to have grown to £1.5bn by 2006, doubling its value since 1998.Martin Brown, managing...
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Self-scan revolution
Self-scanning will become as popular as ATMs, predicted Sainsbury MD Stuart Mitchell.He said: “ATMs have become so popular hardly anyone goes to a bank teller any more. Self-scanning will bring about a change as...
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organic squeeze?
Organics is jealously guarding its space as functional and fairly traded foods appeal to similar consumer aspirations. Helen Gregory reportsRichard Dent, Asda’s grocery speciality food buyer, agrees that it has had to rethink...
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Spar supplies MoD one-stop shop
Spar has opened a 400 sq ft c-store at one of the MoD’s new one-stop shops combining a retail, catering and leisure offer at military bases.The development, at RAF Henlow, Bedfordshire, is part of the MoD’s new Pay As You Dine initiative,...
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Marketing manager
Chilled and frozen desserts supplier BG Foods has appointed Donna Williams, 31, marketing manager for the Kool brand. She is a former senior product manager at the National Dairy Council. Williams reports to sales and marketing director Charles...
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Whyte and Mackay map out global future
Spirits distiller Whyte and Mackay has created two senior management roles to boost its focus on key brands and global sales growth.Jonathan Cleland has joined as international sales director. He was previously a consultant and has also held...
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Running with the fundamentals
The discounter is staying true to shopkeeping’s core values as it modernises. Sean McAllister reportsClockwise from above right: Fresh fruit and veg lifts the store’s ambience; deli meats prove popular; flowers and plants flank...
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Slim-Fast frozen meals rival WeightWatchers
Slim-Fast is to get its first frozen ready meals range in a move which will pitch the brand headlong into another battle with rival Weight Watchers.
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Frico shelves UK impulse launch
Dutch dairy Frico has shelved plans to launch a new cheese-snacking product in the UK because the brand name is being used for another product in this country.Frico’s 40g Cheez’it impulse bars, which were on show in the dairy hall, comprise...
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RFID makes M&S supplies fresher
Marks and Spencer says it now sells fresher food following the introduction of RFID technology in its supply chain in August 2002.IT director Stuart Senior said it had tagged 2.5 million of the plastic crates it uses to ship fresh and...