All The Grocer articles in 21 March 2009 – Page 2
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Asda and Tesco consider further halal counters
Asda and Tesco are increasing the number of halal counters in stores in a bid to cater more fully to their Muslim customers.Asda is set to double the number of National Halal Food Group concessions from 10 to 20, creating 200 jobs this year,...
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NewsCommodities: Herd expansion may lead to cheaper pork and bacon
The overall meat and fish basket price has remained the same month-on-month but several pork lines changed significantly in price says Richard Ford
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Bacon defies recession as consumers turn to butties
Pre-pack bacon is defying the credit crunch as consumers look for convenient, recession-busting comfort food.Although sales increased just 1.6% in volume terms in the year to 26 February [TNS], they were up 4.3% in the final three months of...
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Yes! We have no bananas, says Innocent
Innocent Drinks is introducing its first banana-free smoothie in response to calls for a thinner drink.The green smoothie, which is rolling into Sainsbury's this week and other multiples in mid-April, is made from kiwis, apples and limes. It...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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