All The Grocer articles in 2 December 2000
Previous issues.
-
News
T&T uses Popstars to target teens
Drinks manufacturer T&T is to use new teen TV docusoap Popstars as a platform for the launch of its range of fruit based soft drinks. It wants to "catapult the brand into the everyday drinking repertoire of the ever fickle teen market" with the...
-
News
Multiples: Waitrose says Sainsbury main victim as quality m
Waitrose claims to have taken £34.7m worth of business from Sainsbury in a year. The upmarket chain says its quality and value message encouraged hordes of Sainsbury shoppers to defect in the 12 months up until March 2000. Waitrose also claims to...
-
News
Liquid milk: Let's talk more urges Waitrose
Better communications with supermarkets can help farmers to increase the shelf space their products occupy, according to Richard Sadler, Waitrose head of buying for meat, poultry, fish and dairy. He was talking to 50 Waitrose Select Farm milk...
-
News
ONIONS: Holus looks to wider horizons
Specialist onion importer/ exporter and distributor The Holus Bureau, which last year sold £17m worth of bulbs from its offices near Ely, Cambs, is branching out to embrace other crops. It has set up a two way office in Antwerp and will launch a...
-
News
Young's grows stouthearted
Young's hopes to double sales of its Double Chocolate Stout over the festive period with promotional activities in three major multiples. Its key bottled brand is Sainsbury's Beer of the Month for December, and features on a recipe card for...
-
News
Scotland: They're great neighbours
Retailers in Kilmarnock and West Cumbria scooped the top prizes in this year's Robert Wiseman Dairies Neighbourhood Shop of the Year awards ceremony in Glasgow. Margaret Low, who manages a Spar store in Munro Avenue, Kilmarnock, received the...
-
News
Peggy's going
Peggy's, on the Hotwells Road in Hotwells, Bristol, is a newsagent on a main commuter route. Run by the current owner for 24 years, there is scope to convert the 600 sq ft sales space into a c-store with development potential into the rear...
-
News
SKB gives Night Nurse a tonic
The Night Nurse TV advert with its reggae theme tune returns to screens this week as the winter sniffle season begins. SmithKline Beecham is targeting the core Night Nurse market of women aged 25 to 44 shopping for the household with the £2.4m...
-
News
Multiples: Fury as multiples stretch Sunday rules
Trade bodies representing thousands of independents have reacted furiously over plans by Asda and Sainsbury to extend their Sunday trading' hours by opening for browsing at 9.30am on Christmas Eve. Association of Convenience Stores chief executive...
-
News
Thunderbirds foods, Parker? Yes, from Hazlewood, m'lady
Thunderbirds are go this winter with the arrival of a host of licensed products in the wake of the Gerry Anderson classic returning in digitally remastered form on BBC 2. Lady Penelope is truly FAB again on a novelty cake, part of a set of four...
-
News
Marks & Spencer: We stay in Europe'
Marks & Spencer has denied press reports that it is considering pulling the plug on its continental European operations. The retailer confirmed it has instructed estate agent Healey & Baker to review its property holdings in Spain, France, Germany...
-
News
Internet trading exchanges: Join e-marketplace now warns Tra
Exclusive Elaine Watson, Vienna Don't mull over investing in b2b e-commerce for 12, six or even three months, Transora chief executive Judy Sprieser warned grocery representatives at Austria's Vienna Centre: "You have to figure it out now....
-
News
Netherlands: Format retreat is dangerous'
Dutch retailer Laurus' radical restructuring plans to axe five of its six store formats, fire half its head office staff and sell non core assets, including its Spar c-stores, have surprised analysts expecting less drastic measures to tackle the...
-
News
Couple retire from Exeter c-stores
Malcolm & Trudie Platt have been running Willeys Grocery Store in Willeys Avenue, Exeter, since 1988 and two years ago acquired what is now a Booker's Premier Store in Bowhay Lane. The Platts are now retiring and have put both businesses on the...
-
News
IGD: Consumers trust multiples most on food safety matters
Consumers trust multiple retailers far more than small shops but vote themselves the most trustworthy when it comes to food safety. In an IGD survey that asked respondents to name their top three for food safety, 37% said they trusted major...
-
News
Everyday story of Commons folk
Given his performance as a buffoon in The Hague last weekend, it was an uncharacteristically sombre John Prescott who stood at the Commons despatch box on Tuesday to present the government's long awaited Rural White Paper. So new Westminster...
-
News
Food and Drink Federation: FDF under Sylvia Jay wants close
The new director general of the Food and Drink Federation is raising the profile of the organisation even before she takes up her post on January 15. Sylvia Jay has thrown herself into a round of meetings with opinion formers in the industry, and...
-
News
Tasting panel: Garnet Point Chardonnay Semillon
From Gallo. An addition to the Garnet Point range. launched two years ago, it has become one of the fastest growing wine brands on the market. Price £4.99 Abv: 13% TARGET CONSUMER Liz Ross Martyn, 25, is marketing manager at JCDecaux. She lives...
-
News
Retail spotlight: Carluccio's, London
Combine harvest Three into one will go, as Elaine Watson discovers in a London deli-caffé which boasts an Italian restaurant, takeaway and shop You'll struggle to find a pot of powdered Sardinian saffron at the local supermarket, but just...
-
News
C&A chief enlists with NAAFI
Managing director of C&A UK Neil McCausland, is to join armed forces retail operation NAAFI as chief executive. McCausland has spent the past year at the head of the high street fashion chain after 20 years with Marks and Spencer in a variety of...