All The Grocer articles in 21 November 2009 – Page 2
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Comment and Opinion
Second Opinion: Santa is conservatively optimistic
It won't be a wild one this year, but neither should it be. Loyalty is now key, says Clive Black
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News
Makro confident it can reduce losses this year
Makro Cash & Carry insists it is on target to reduce its losses to less than £20m this year. Accounts posted at Companies House earlier this month revealed Makro had recorded a loss of £26.7m in the year to 31 December 2008, up from...
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News
Costco UK sticks with Coke despite US spat
Costco has reassured UK customers it is still selling Coca-Cola products after its US parent company delisted some of the drinks giant's products this week following a pricing row."We are still trading with Coca-Cola in the UK and it's...
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News
Duchy chief working with Mey Selections
Andrew Baker, chief executive of Duchy Originals, has joined the board of North Highland Products, the company behind the Mey Selections brand.Baker has taken up the role of non-executive director and spends time working on the brand...
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: Sit up straight at a conference and you'll learn a lot more
Whenever I speak at conferences, the delegates tend to fall into three categories. Those in a trance, those in a deep sleep, and those who are fully comatose.
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Comment and Opinion
Saturday Essay: Takes care not to go overboard with cost cuts
And beware the supplier that delivers savings from nowhere - if it looks to good to be true, it is, says Les Flanagan
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News
Revealed: how the FSA spun our calorie count cock-up story
The Grocer's exclusive story revealing how the error in calorie count limits prompted the FSA to put a confusing spin on the news, writes Adam Leyland
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Comment and Opinion
Geoff Burch Talks Shop: Leckhampton convenience store
With an owner aged 26, Leckhampton convenience store could either be in the hands of the young entrepreneur of the year, or the grip of the foolish impetuousness of youth. Martin Pashley will tell you he is very much the former.
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News
Curry king spices up Indian meals with first branded range
Sir Gulam Noon is hoping to shake up the own-label dominated Indian ready meal market with his first branded range in partnership with Kerry Foods.
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News
M&S voted UK’s most family-friendly brand
Marks & Spencer is the UK's most family-friendly brand, according to shoppers. The retailer was judged as having the most caring and trustworthy image of 97 brands in a poll of 1,500 consumers conducted by The FamilyBrands.
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News
Holme Farm bottles its love for local milk
Lancashire milk processor Holme Farm Dairies has launched a campaign to reassure consumers its milk is 100% locally sourced. The Love Milk Love Local campaign was launched last week by the sixth Duke of Westminster, Gerald Cavendish...
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News
Eggs set to receive a promotional boost from new campaign
British Lion is to launch a £1m egg marketing campaign that focuses on their health, cost, convenience and culinary benefits.The campaign, which kicks off in January, aims to capitalise on recent scientific studies that have debunked the...
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News
McKenna is tipped as Bolland replacement
Is Morrisons, the Yorkshire-based supermarket known for its traditional ways, ready to surprise the market again and appoint a woman as its new CEO?
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NewsCan Morrisons move forward without Bolland at the helm?
As the Morrisons board begins its search for a successor to Marc Bolland, Ronan Hegarty looks at the potential candidates and the prospects for the retailer
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Comment and OpinionDon Pumsey on Marc Bolan's Fairtrade pants
I haven't yet heard from the editor of this proud organ but I feel sure a letter of thanks for earning him the title of Least Supine Lickspittle in Trade Publishing must be on its way. It's the least I can expect in my ministerial postbag.
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News
Campaign Trail: Green & Blake masterpiece
Iconic pop artist Sir Peter Blake, who designed the Beatles' album cover for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, has created a giant art work out of 700 bars of Green & Black's chocolate.
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News
Threshers stores set to become bookmakers
Threshers stores are more likely to be taken over by bookmakers, food-to-go outlets and hairdressers than off-licence chains, claim industry insiders. Growing competition from supermarket and c-stores' alcohol offerings meant small local...
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News
The battle of Crouch End
Run a successful independent store and the chances are a big chain will have its eye on your patch. Joanne Grew looks at the efforts one high-profile indie has gone to in an attempt to fend off a bigger rival
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News
A Christmas price war? Bah humbug
Supermarket shoppers looking for the record-breaking money-off deals they've read about in the papers are set for a shock, The Grocer can reveal, as new data shows this year's deals offer a smaller saving than 2008.Of the big four...
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News
Burts: It's in the bag
Turnover has nearly doubled at premium crisps maker Burts this year, thanks in no small part to a thriving export market. Alex Beckett reports
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