All The Grocer articles in 2 November 2002 – Page 3
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cloud in a box
New Zealand wine brand Nobilo White Cloud has been released in a wine box format. BRL Hardy has made the move to capture Christmas sales. The three-litre box is priced at £16.99. REmy's C&C offers Remy Martin is rolling out a range of...
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books and crisps
Walkers has signed a deal with The Sun to run the Free Books For Schools campaign for the fifth year running. From next year, schools will again be able to collect tokens from The Sun, sister paper News of the World and packets of Walkers...
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Smirnoff Black Ice states its Crystal Clear difference
Smirnoff Black Ice has made its first TV appearance with two new ads running until Christmas. The drive, part of a £11m launch budget behind the brand, also includes an outdoor poster campaign, national bus advertising, and branded taxis in...
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Unilever Ventures has been snowed under with ideas from eage
The venture capital outfit is looking for fresh initiatives, but mad inventors and me-too operators need not apply. Says Coombs: "Lots of people come to us with things that have already been done which we're not interested in, while others approach...
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Baugur set for BFG takeover
Anne Bruce City analysts predict the Big Food Group's newest shareholder Baugur will mount a full takeover bid for the company in the next year. The Icelandic retailer, which has built up a 14.99% stake in BFG, "is looking at possibilities...
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Jewell and Bischoff will retire from BAT
Two top executives at British American Tobacco are to retire. They are operations director John Jewell and director of smoking tobacco and cigars Chris Bischoff. Bischoff will step down from his post at the end of February. His responsibilities...
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Blair backs relaunch of little red tractor mark
Anne Bruce The NFU has enlisted prime minister Tony Blair to relaunch its little red tractor at a conference on November 12. The union will ask retailers and manufacturers to take joint ownership of a revamped Assured Farm Standards 2...
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Asda reinforces work on supply chain ops
Rod Addy Asda has promoted deputy trading director Dave Cheesewright to logistics director with a brief to significantly improve supply chain operations. The multiple said Cheesewright's move followed a highly successful year working for...
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The sensational tie-up between Arla and Fonterra brought Lur
The Arla Foods Fonterra joint venture has been working hard to differentiate the two brands. Anchor has had a major relaunch with pack revamps and the traditional yellow colours toned down. Senior brand manager Mikael Horsboll says the £7.2m...
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Paul Monk is a self-confessed masochist. Why else, he argues
Also, if the fact that Walkers already appeared to be in an unassailable position as Britain's number one branded crisps producer wasn't bad enough, Monk now faces the reality that the battle lines are in the process of being redrawn without the...
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Morning applications
Functionality has never been so exciting, with Benecol fighting off Flora Pro-activ, and the arrival of Calvia, says Sean McAllister Consumers are beginning to digest terms such as the cholesterol-reducing ingredient plant stanol ester, and...
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English apple push sees results
Ed Bedington Sainsbury's campaign to boost English top fruit is beginning to show results in terms of market share, according to the multiple. Pear buyer Jay Norbury said the focus on English top fruit was producing results: "Market share...
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Italian factor in Americas
Simon Mowbray Discovery Foods is getting ready to broaden its horizons by giving its American-inspired offering an Italian twist. The company, best known for supplying authentic foods from Mexico and the Americas, is launching New York Italian...
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Elevated ambitions
Successful graduation from CTN operation to a c-store chain has fired the best of ambitions of Mill's MD, says Elaine Watson.In ten years' time, says the MD of Mills Group, "we won't be the biggest, but we want to be the best". Nigel Mills is...
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In profile: Richard Ali, BRC
What was the biggest challenge of your new role?The biggest surprise has been the breadth and number of issues I'm covering on the food side, ranging from technical and scientific topics to farming and the food chain. But I was brought up on a...
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Previous attempts to market alcoholic milk drinks have large
In 1997, the fast-growing UK alcopops' market saw the launch of two alcoholic, dairy-based drinks of around 5% abv. Super Milch from Intercontinental Brands was described as an alcoholic vodka milkshake', which raised the hackles of alcohol...
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We've done it once, we can do it again
Just about everyone with any ambitions to be a serious player in the convenience market has cast a rule over Alldays in the last few years. It's cheap, it's well located and it's probably had more suitors than Ulrika Jonsson.Alldays' stock, once...
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Not for Tesco a slow and painful Sainsbury-style advent into
Then it can get on with its plans to convert 450 prime sites to its lucrative Express format over the next three to four years. The masterplan is to use T&S's distribution network to serve the new standalone Express chain and around 400 residual One...
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Birds Eye Chicken Lattice 2 for £2 Gondola end Asd
Birds Eye Fish Fingers 240g Buy one get one free Gondola end Sainsbury Cadbury's Ice Creams 4 Buy one get one free Gondola end Sainsbury Cadbury's Mighty Mini Cooki's 75g ...
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