All The Grocer articles in 24 November 2001 – Page 2
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The top priority of Rally Store owners Roger and Chris Water
Roger says: "If we bring our prices down we should be able to encourage more people to do a trolley shop. I don't mind making lower margins if we can increase our takings. We want to be like the multiples with our KVIs." The husband and wife took...
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Remember superb Caters chain
Sir; re your articles on the evolution of the supermarket, The Grocer, November 3. Your omission of Caters Supermarkets, which provided leadership in fresh food supermarketing at that time, needs to be corrected. In the early 1960s we had sales…
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A case of rejuvenation
The notion that "most" Sainsbury shoppers are poofy southerners with plums in their mouths is almost as daft as the idea that typical Asda patrons wear clogs, breed whippets and hang pictures of Geoffrey Boycott in their outside loos.Yet, that's...
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Parkinson heads McVitie's cakes
United Biscuits has made Joy Parkinson director of the McVitie's Cake Company. She replaces Garry Biggs who is taking over as McVitie's marketing director. Parkinson, who will report to Colin Hutchison, UK & Export managing director, will oversee a...
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So why did you buy that?
Shoppers walking through the meat aisles of their local super-markets in September may have been bemused to find themselves being asked why they bought what they did from the bacon fixture. They were being quizzed as part of a major instore...
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BACKING BRITISH STRENGTH
Danish Crown's decision to restructure its European processing operations is testimony to the importance it places on the UK market. And the changes are good news for buyers in this country, says international president Carsten Jakobsen. The new...
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Britain: TIME TO CUT BACK
With its acquisition of Malton, Grampian becomes the dominant supplier of bacon in the UK says Elaine Watson Two years ago the jewel in the crown of the British bacon industry was driving growth at parent company Unigate and clocking up annual...
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Archers revamp
Archers Schnapps has been redesigned as part of Guinness UDV's multi-milliion pound support for the brand this year. The new look 70cl bottle hits shelves in the multiples next month and will be rolled out in other pack sizes and trade channels...
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AN AMBITIOUS FLAGSHIP
Steady expansion has been the game plan of the Flagship Foods Group. It consists of Roach Foods, its bacon and cooked meat business, pigmeat processor Dalehead Foods and British Quality Pigs, and its latest buy, foodservice company Wicketts...
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All Naafi stores to get Bake n' Bite units
Naafi has struck a deal with instore bake-off specialist Country Choice to supply all of its outlets across the UK with Bake n' Bite bake-off units. Country Choice is now the preferred supplier to the 175 Naafi stores in the UK, which include...
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The total bacon market is valued at £979m in the latest year
However this inflation is solely due to price (up 10% year on year) since March 2001, a result of FMD. Although the buyer base remains very high, frequency has been affected and bacon is now purchased just over once every three weeks. Bacon...
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Family-run Neish's had humble beginningsit began life 47 ye
Aileen and James Anderson own the store and work there part-time, while their daughter Lara is the manager. Together they decided on a major refit everything is being ripped out and replaced lighting, ceiling, air conditioning, and the floor...
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