All The Grocer articles in 20 January 2001
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Phew what a stunner
I get no pleasure from mocking the afflicted (unless it's Stephen Byers and his misinformed posse at the DTI). But I couldn't resist a smirk this week while pondering the antics of certain downmarket Sunday rags and some of the third rate analysts...
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Is Parmesan scared of UK rival?
Sir; Twineham Grange Italian Style Premium Cheese, a winner at the World Cheese Awards and voted Best Export cheese at the British Cheese Awards is so popular that even the Italians are calling for it. Indeed, Italy imports more Twineham Grange...
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Is this money well spent?
Sir; Your otherwise excellent overview of the consumer research market (Big Brother is Watching, January 6, p22) managed to skirt around the vital question businesses should ask about research. What value for money is my research giving me? Many...
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Tesco tackles Levi Strauss
Tesco is confident of victory in its legal battle with designer jeans firm Levi Strauss over the right to sell imported designer clothes at discount prices. Lawyers representing Tesco and warehouse club operator Costco went head to head with the...
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UBS lends muscle to independents
A drinks buying group, known to few in the trade outside its nine wholesale members, is reinventing itself as a specialist independent wholesale distributor. UBS was founded as a deals club in 1990 to negotiate big volume, cost-effective deals for...
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Princes reshapes for growth
Princes Foods has restructured its group board responsibilities. John Harrison becomes chief executive, while retaining his existing role as group managing director. He takes over from John Mutch, who remains group chairman. "The change will allow...
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Kingfisher: General uncertainty
The roll out of Woolworths General Store convenience format would be jeopardised should Kingfisher decide to sell off Superdrug and Woolworths to separate buyers, say analysts. Kingfisher is planning to demerge its DIY and high street retail arms...
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The Grocer focus on logistics: round up
- Shell and BP are to explore the feasibility of integrating their forecourt shop supply chains which are currently run separately by Hays Food Logistics. Combining the two operations, which would continue to operate and trade in competition with...
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The Grocer focus on logistics: Smart tags will keep track of
Sainsbury undertook the biggest grocery tracking project in the world and is now preparing for the first stages of implementing a smart' science Tracking products around the supply chain often used to be a matter of inspired guesswork. Now it's...
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The Grocer focus on logistics: partnerships: the way forward
In Holland they do the unthinkable grocery retailers and suppliers share a £25m cold store where automation yields big savings. Sarah Hardcastle reports Imagine Tesco, Sainsbury and Birds Eye Wall's sharing a cold store to benefit from goods...
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The Grocer focus on logistics
Analysis by Jon Woolven Wal-Mart's entry to the UK has forced its competitor multiples to reassess their supply chain strategies radically. Sainsbury supply chain director Martin White sums it up: "For the first time, there's now clear blue water...
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The Grocer focus on logistics
IT'S A VERY LONG HAUL, SO MAKE IT PRODUCTIVE How data keeps flowing from the New World vineyard to the shelf New World wine is one of the drinks industry's great success stories. At around £5 a bottle and of excellent quality, the attractively...
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Ferrero sticks its neck out
Ferrero plans to focus consumers' attention on St Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Easter during the spring with TV advertising for its Ferrero Rocher and Kinder Surprise brands, and new seasonal packs and display material. A seasonal Giraffe...
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Retail spotlight: Tesco Extra hypermarket Kingston Park, New
Tesco Extra helpings Theyr’e big spenders at Kingston Park and staff at the purpose-built hypermarket give them every encouragement, as Elaine Watson finds out With almost 100,000 sq ft, 55 tills and its own railway station, Tesco Extra …
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The Grocer focus on logistics: in the driving seat with sate
Until recently one big gap in the supply chain has been the ability to know the precise location of delivery trucks once they leave the warehouse. Mobile phone communication is expensive and open to abuse as drivers can easily give a false location....
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Multiples: Sainsbury shakes up trading division
Exclusive Julian Hunt Sainsbury has rejigged its trading division with a raft of changes that it hopes will make the business more effective in responding to the needs of consumers and suppliers. The changes will also result in 75 job losses....
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Suppliers: Sir Ross decides the time is right to retire
Uniq's high profile chief executive Sir Ross Buckland is to retire in April more than 18 months earlier than expected. Sir Ross told The Grocer that the imminent demerger of the Wincanton business meant the timing was right for his early...
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Manufacturers: Derby head office goes as Hazlewood is decent
Hazlewood Foods' new owner Greencore has introduced sweeping changes to the structure of the convenience foods specialist just weeks after completing the £258m purchase. Hazlewood's Derby head office will be scrapped as the first step in a...
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Rooster's dawn
GF Lovell is bringing out a new cereal bar aimed at health conscious snackers. Rooster is made with oat flakes and crisped rice and comes in two variants: chocolate chip and apricot. It contains 3g of fat. Commercial director Stephen Angle said:...
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The Grocer focus on logistics: Costco: speed is of the essen
Costco is an expert at pushing just in time' to its limits as Elaine Watson discovers in Lutterworth Pay a late afternoon visit to plot 4400 at Lutterworth's Magna Park industrial estate and it's hard to believe you're in a central distribution...