All The Grocer articles in 21 March 2009 – Page 2
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Tims Dairy makes retail yoghurt move
Foodservice yoghurt supplier Tims Dairy is celebrating 60 years in business with a move into retail.Its new posh, health-orientated yoghurts range, which rolls out to selected Budgens stores next month, includes a selection of Greek-style...
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Voice picking system cuts waste at depot
Henderson Wholesale claims to have saved £175,000 since introducing a new voice picking and stock system.The Northern Ireland-based Spar wholesaler said the system at its ambient depot in Belfast had helped halve its wastage and that it...
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NewsCritical Eye... on freaky french fries and pixie nutritionists
It's hard to know what's more insidious - documentaries that exploit people just about weird enough to be interesting , or those shows' attempts to position themselves as anything more constructive than a chance to point and laugh. Despite...
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Mystery Shop: Independents have a good crack at Easter
At this time of year it's all about the eggs and bunnies. All but one of the stores surveyed in this month's mystery shop stocked a good range of Easter products, Nick Hughes reports
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Milk Link completes Oswestry upgrade
Milk Link has claimed the upgrade of its Oswestry packing plant will offer its customers the most flexible automated technology in the UK cheese market. The last piece of equipment to go into the upgraded production facility will be...
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CK's fined for out-of-date food sales
CK's Supermarkets has been fined £18,000 for selling out-of-date food, including garlic sausage five weeks past its use-by date.The company admitted 12 offences of breaching food labelling regulations at two of its stores in Swansea and...
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Five-a-day the city c-store way
Three months in, how is the pilot scheme to increase the availability of fruit and veg in deprived areas shaping up, asks Noli Dinkovski
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Morrisons to offer in-store health checks
Morrisons has followed Sainsbury's lead in expanding the range of health services it offers in stores, with a range of check-ups and vaccinations. From May, Morrisons will offer weight, blood pressure, blood glucose and cholesterol checks...
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Delamere Top Life Cat Milk gets Tractor
The UK's first cat milk to carry the Red Tractor logo has been launched by Delamere Dairy.Pet milk supplier Delamere has developed the milk for cats over eight weeks old. Top Life Cat Milk is lactose-reduced cows' milk with added taurine to...
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: Employers that value youth over experience will be forever reinventing the wheel
It is a huge advantage to have a diverse spread of people, personalities, skills, experiences and knowledge in any team, says Guy Moreton
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Caravan gears up for Windermere Row
Caravan, the charity for the grocery industry, is gearing up for its annual Windermere Row.
The gruelling 10-and-a-half mile row from one end of Lake Windermere to the other, takes place on Saturday 16 May.
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Skinny Candy heads for the mainstream
Confectionery group Glisten has teamed up with Sahar Hashemi, the founder of Coffee Republic, to launch a new low-calorie confectionery range for fashion-conscious women.A limited selection of Skinny Candy products was previously available...
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Diageo rolling out summer campaign for off-trade spirits
Diageo is ploughing £1.6m into a summer campaign to encourage consumers to create more spirit-plus-mixer drinks, and investing a further £50,000 in the launch of a half-size bottle of Pimm's.The drinks giant said it was launching Bring Home...
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Campaign Trail: A dog's breakfast
A Wallace & Gromit 'turbo-matic toast rack' is one of the collectable items in a new on-pack promotion for Kingsmill, which has joined forces with Aardman Animations to celebrate the DVD release of A Matter of Loaf and Death. The push kicks off next...
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NewsShoppers stick to brands despite own-label push
Shoppers have spent the past year being told to switch and save, look for cheaper alternatives and try Discounter lines. But new figures collated for The Grocer by TNS reveal they haven't been paying much attention - in fact, they are...
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NewsBrands grow sales as price gap with own label narrows
Contrary to expectations, brands have outperformed own label in both value and volume terms. James Ball asks how they've managed to pull it off
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Unpasteurised milk hit by fears over bovine TB
There are growing concerns over the long-term availability of unpasteurised milk as the bovine TB crisis worsens.Several of the UK's biggest unpasteurised cheese producers were forced to use pasteurised milk in their products for the first...
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Booze stings show stores lead way in responsible retailing
As chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson continued his crusade for potentially "devastating" minimum pricing levels on alcohol this week, new research revealed supermarkets and convenience stores were already leading the way on responsible...
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Debut for Dee Bee's online order service
Dee Bee Cash & Carry is launching a new online ordering and delivery service it claims is unique in the convenience sector.Shoppers at Today's Local stores supplied by Dee Bee can use the website to order food the retailer will then...
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Beef shortages likely as Irish go elsewhere
The UK is facing a shortage of British and Irish beef on supermarket shelves from this summer.
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