All The Grocer articles in 22 June 2002 – Page 3

  • News

    Bites: Ian Botham; Ye Olde Oak's Premium Hot Dogs; National Condom Week; Pepsi; Rizla

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Ian Botham has lent his nickname Beefy to a range of Perkins Frozen Foods meat products.

  • News

    Bites: Procter & Gamble; Doves Farm

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Procter & Gamble has launched Thermacare therapeutic heatpads and Fit fruit and vegetable wash in the US this month.

  • News

    Bites: Campbell's; McVitie's; RHM Frozen

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Campbell's has discontinued its Deliciously Good soup in twin packs almost a year after launch.

  • News

    Bites: Bodyform; The Cookie Coach Company; Bonio

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Sanpro brand Bodyform is to sponsor Channel 5's Home and Away for £3m.

  • News

    Bites: Joubère; Country Choice; Cafédirect

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Organic specialist Joubère is bringing out microwavable bowls of organic porridge in two flavours.

  • News

    Bites: Tropicana; Joubère Chilled Foods; Nutella

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Tropicana plans to push its appeal beyond London and the south with a £1.3m three month TV campaign in all other regions from May 1.

  • News

    Bites: Kerrygold Spreadable Pure Irish Butter; Kimberly-Clark; Seven Seas

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Kerrygold Spreadable Pure Irish Butter is giving away limited edition Kerrygold butter knives in exchange for three promotional foils.

  • News

    Bites: Quality Street; Nutri-Grain Elevenses; Rowse Honey; Caledonian Clear

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé's revamped Quality Street hit shelves this week, as did Mars' new Galaxy Silk Collection.

  • News

    Bites: Traffic Cone ice lolly; Friskies; Disprol Soluble Paracetamol; Devil's Fireballs

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé has launched Traffic Cone ice lolly, inspired by blockbuster Toy Story 2 coinciding with the film's release yesterday.

  • News

    Bites: Kinnerton Confectionery; Imperial Tobacco; Sundora Foods

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Kinnerton Confectionery has managed to snare a licence to produce Spider-Man branded sweets, ready for the launch of the Spider-Man film in May.

  • News

    Sainsbury blitzes healthy eating with free from & Five range

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Helen Gregory Sainsbury is launching a huge healthy eating campaign labelled Eat your Way to Better Health. As part of the campaign, the chain is bringing out a Free From range for shoppers with food allergies and food intolerances. More...

  • News

    BN offers a star turn

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    McVitie's is bidding to raise the profile of its BN biscuit brand with a new on-pack promotion and revamped pack design. The money-can't-buy' promotion for kids features on 300g chocolate and strawberry flavour packs from next month and will...

  • News

    Curry takes cash plea to Boateng

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Exclusive Clive Beddall Farming and Food Commission chairman Sir Don Curry will next week make a personal appeal to the Treasury to give financial backing to his radical proposals to transform Britain's rural economy and the agri-food scene....

  • News

    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    You do need to get your priorities right in life, and I have often felt the Federation of Wholesale Distributors' annual dinner at the Savoy does just that. Short speeches, swift awards ceremony, lots of wine and a free bar. Sadly, this year's...

  • News

    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    My thanks this week go to agriculture minister Nick Brown for hosting a splendid media party at MAFF's Smith Square offices. The minister ­ clutching a glass of organic gin, in breach of his New Year's resolution ­ was in jocular mood. "Welcome,...

  • News

    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    The impeccably coiffured Elizabeth Edwards, UK marketing manager of Twinings tea, caused rather a frisson at the first Food and Drink Federation organic forum last week, reports a colleague. Her confession she was feeling "rather delicate" after a...

  • News

    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    The National Farmers' Union gave journalists attending its press conference in London this week a firm dose of motherly love. As we arrived for the mid-morning session, president Ben Gill was on hand with a silver salver of bacon sandwiches. Not a...

  • News

    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    The grocery industry's supreme efforts to get food supplies back on track after the fuel crisis threw up a few interesting instore sights last weekend. A colleague was busy hunting bread and milk at a Tesco in West Sussex (well even responsible...

  • News

    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    While the nation's fittest, including many distinguished foodies, sweated and puffed around London in the Marathon last Sunday, I trotted gently off to Olympia for the Natural Products Show ­ a feast of organics. Not just pony tailed, lentil soup...

  • News

    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    It's Sunday and it's the Summer Fancy Food Show in the ninety degrees heat of the Big Apple! (Well, it makes a change from London in the rain.) This is the food fair where sinister looking guys in black suits with shades do impressions of the...