All The Grocer articles in 2 May 2015 – Page 5
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News
City snapshot: Consumer confidence at decade-long high
Consumer confidence remains at its highest level in a decade as we head into the final stages of the general election campaign
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Comment and Opinion
Food fraudsters are getting smarter, and we must all be vigilant
Authenticity is becoming a problem for every area of fmcg thanks to sophisticated criminals
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News
BMPA gives pork quality scheme a revamp
The updated BMPA Pork Scheme will launch on Friday (1 May), and follows “the most comprehensive and thorough review” of the body’s pork and pork product standards regime
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Unilever's Simple cleansing brand gets wipes
Unilever is backing the NPD, the brand’s “biggest focus” this year, with a £3m push including TV, print and online activity
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Mello, a raw fresh melon juice, redesigns and secures big listings
The updated range, rolling into 218 Waitrose and 19 Booths stores now, features a new “clean, bold and vibrant” label designed to communicate the brand’s premium credentials
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Thornton's UK commercial sales decline thanks to unnamed specific customer
UK commercial sales declined 6.1% because of fewer orders from one specific customer, which analysts have speculated is Tesco, while sales in retail fell 5.4% to £27.7m
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Real Good Food to sell Napier Brown sugar business for £34m
AIM-listed Real Good Food has agreed to sell Napier Brown to Tereos Group for £34m.
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Morrisons brings back staffed express checkouts
Morrisons said it was responding to customer feedback and cited figures from Kantar Worldpanel which gauge the average basket size in the UK at 11 items costing £15
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Lucozade boss elected new BSDA president
Peter Harding, chief operating officer of Lucozade Ribena Suntory, takes over the role from Dave Wallwork, founder of Feel Good Drinks
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Nichols builds out of home presence with Noisy Drinks acquisition
Vimto owner Nichols PLC has acquired a 49% equity stake The Noisy Drinks Co. to enable it to grow its presence in the out of home market across the UK and Europe.
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Greggs share price soars after sales uplift
Shore Capital analysts Darren Shirley and Clive Black reiterated a “buy” rating on the stock
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Mike Coupe, Sainsbury's CEO, flies to Giza after Egyptian conviction
The supermarket giant said today that Coupe, who vehemently denies the charges against him, had been left with no option but to attend an appeal hearing on Sunday
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Norbert Dentressangle bought up by XPO to create distribution giant
Norbert, a leading global provider of contract logistics, is a major supplier to the UK food and drink sector and has customers including Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Tesco
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Salt: Lack of action causing thousands of deaths, claims BMJ report
New agreement only has half of previous agreement’s signatories, with absentees including McDonalds, Unilever and Kellogg’s
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Media bites: Mike Coupe's Egyptian conviction, Walmart, Reckitt Benckiser
The major story this morning is The Times’ scoop that Sainsbury’s boss Mike Coupe has been sentenced to two years in jail by an Egyptian court.
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City snapshot: Greggs scraps shares buyback for special dividend
Greggs scraps share buyback scheme despite strong trading, Sainsbury’s fights Mike Coupe Egypt conviction, Thorntons’ sales slump and all the rest of the news from The City
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Analysis and Features
The mega pig farm that kicked up a mega stink
For five years, Midland Pig Producers battled to open a pig farm in the village of Foston. They failed. So what happened? And what does the future now hold for large-scale pig farming in the UK?
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Comment and Opinion
Dairy industry shows unity in face of organic milk attacks
Attacks on milk and its nutritional properties are on the rise, and responding to negative headlines (while vital) may not be enough
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News
Divine Chocolate merges its UK and US businesses
Divine Chocolate, the farmer-owned chocolate company, has merged its UK and USA businesses.
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M&S launches "Cook with M&S" app for Apple Watch
The app will offer features and instructions based on cooking time for individual recipes, as well as the ability to “tick off” grocery items as the wearer shops