All The Grocer articles in 21 October 2006
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Shop profile - Lawrence Hunt
After 60 years in business, Spar convenience store chain Lawrence Hunt is addressing issues remarkably similar to those it faced in its early years.
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Healthy eating trends affect independents
Healthy eating trends are hitting independent retailers in a major way, according to the latest survey of The Grocer Top 50 store chains.All respondents say their stores have increased their stocks of so-called healthy products since the...
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Hewitt calls for alcohol tax rise
Patricia Hewitt has called for taxes on alcohol to “really increase” in an effort to curb binge drinking.Speaking to a children's newspaper, the health secretary said that tax increases should focus on ready-to-drink 'alcopops' because they...
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Kellogg's cereals under fire
Certain brands of Kellogg's cereal sold in the UK have come under fire for containing higher levels of salt and sugar than in the US.Health campaigners found that in the UK, Kellogg's All-Bran had 133% more salt than in the US, and that...
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Arla to sue dairy companies
Robert Wiseman Dairies has said that it is being sued by Arla Foods after the Office of Fair Trading provisionally ruled that Robert Wiseman and other milk suppliers might have breached price fixing rules in Scotland.Arla is seeking damages...
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European Capital to buy Whitworths
Nuts and dried fruits supplier Whitworths is expected to be sold to private equity firm European Capital for £85m.Reports suggest that European Capital has beaten off bids from private equity groups Barclays Private Equity, HG Capital and...
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Nisa-Today's drops merger with Costcutter
Nisa-Today's has abandoned its proposed merger with Costcutter, launched in May.The company said the complaint made to the Office of Fair Trading last month regarding its alleged cartel activities had effectively derailed...
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Soundbites
?"Because The Simpsons is such a high profile brand, it is essential that we are aware that children and adults alike are taken in, show an interest in the products and are not disappointed. We take the initiative to make all our products...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visitedcostcutter, Eden Street, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surreylondis, Brighton Road, Horsham, West Sussexsainsbury's LOCAL, Ealing Broadway, West Londonscottish Co-op Lenzie, Kirkintilloch, East...
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Price Survey
Tesco scored its first victory in The Grocer 33 this month, with Sainsbury displaced from its lead last week and Asda pushed into second place two weeks on the trot. Asda had come in cheapest in seven of the previous nine surveys, but...
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Retailers say... supermarkets are too powerful
Everyone, including planning authorities, is powerless to stop supermarkets expanding where, when and how they like and small shops will disappear as a result, say independent retailers.That's the message from The Grocer's latest...
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Pharmacies
The in-store pharmacy is rising in importance within supermarkets, particularly since changes to the rules on opening new ones came into force in April last year. This means that stores opening for more than 100 hours a week or which are...
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Research Notes
The winter remedies market is worth £198.7m, and experienced a growth of 3.5% from the previous year after a substantial decline of nearly 8% the year before. The category is growing ahead of over the counter (OTC) healthcare, which is in 2.6%...
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M&S praised for welfare
Marks and Spencer has won the RSPCA's good business award for animal welfare, stealing the crown from Waitrose.Judges praised the fact the store's welfare policies covered all tiers of meat, led by its 'look behind the label'...
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'This makes no sense'
Kwik Save store managers have reacted with astonishment to the company's purchase of 45 Somerfield stores at a time when it is still struggling with availability.Managers willing to speak to The Grocer claimed they had been warned off...
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Nesquik Magic Straws
Celebrating the launch of new Nesquik Magic Straws, The Grocer is giving readers the chance to win this exciting new Nesquik product that magically flavours milk into a delicious milkshake.The clear plastic drinking straws contain...
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Throat lozengers
It was probably not a miraculous disappearance of sore throats and the like across the nation that caused sales of cough sweets and throat lozenges to fall in the past year by 5%.Grocers, independent pharmacies and c-stores, the largest...
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Letter of the week
I agree with Mike Keeble's plea for an understanding of the need for the sustainability of British farming (The Grocer, Comment, 7 October, p32). However, he also says: "The combination of UK/EU agri-policy forcing farmers to become subsidy-free...