All The Grocer articles in 25 November 2006
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News
Heinz reports mixed results
Heinz has reported a 6% decrease in second-quarter net profit to $191.6m (£97.1m) on sales up 3.5% at $2.23bn.Net profit was hit by higher tax rates and discontinued operations, while sales were boosted by higher prices and a weaker...
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Hill Station secures funding
Shares in Hill Station have started trading again after the ice cream manufacturer secured the funding it needed to upgrade its factory in Cwmbran, south Wales.The company suspended trading of its shares on the Alternative Investment Market...
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Wal-Mart beats Tesco to India
Wal-Mart has beaten Tesco to India, linking up with Indian telecommunications giant Bharti Enterprises in a joint retail venture. Tesco had been one of the retailers, together with Wal-Mart and French retailer Carrefour, in line for the...
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Talking shop
Tara Garnett, director of the Food Climate Research Network, University of Surrey, says we could be paying too much attention to food miles and missing the real culprit. The Stern Report has rewritten the economic agenda. Ignoring climate...
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Comment and Opinion
TV makers: where is their morality?
Ofcom's ban on junk food advertising during children's TV broadcasting has prompted a predictable chorus of whingeing. Advertisers hate it - well no surprise there - but I did raise an eyebrow at the outcry from programme makers bemoaning the...
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Comment and Opinion
Letter of the week
We were pleased to see your coverage about the Waste Resources Action Programme's Courtauld Commitment ('Another lash for Labour's favourite whipping boy', 18 November). We believe that the industry should see the environmental...
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Sainsbury's is putting its money where its mouth is
I fully endorse Bill Jordan's views on the need to 'develop a sustainable supply chain that fuels growth in UK-grown organic food and reassure people of the integrity of British food' ('Give farmers incentives to guarantee organic supply',...
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Profiles and QandAs
Interview
How did you get where you are today? I had no ambitions to get into food but I joined the sector in 1987 as a graduate trainee production manager with Marshall Food Group, a big UK poultry processor. I was there for 11 years,...
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The russia house
A gourmet phenomenon has taken off in Moscow over the past few years with a variety of food boutiques springing up in the Russian capital. Probably the most diverse new food operation is the aptly named Globus Gourmet, which offers its consumers...
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Temple to italian gastronomy
With its origins in the fashionable European city of Milan, it's no wonder the glamorous Peck has managed to stand out as a popular luxury delicatessen in Italy on a par with London's Harrods. The company, which began in 1883, has...
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Platform for the future
Sir; If the market needs evidence of the value of independent retailers - and cynics seem to need to overdose on it - then the story of David Ward, who runs a store at East Barkwith, Lincolnshire, is surely typical. This week I presented...
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Whole Foods Market still top in our world's greatest league
Its name has been on every food director's lips in the past 12 months and it's a must-see on any visit to the US. Now Whole Foods Market has topped The Grocer's World's Greatest Food Retailers list for the second year running. It is yet...
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The world's greatest food retailers
We all love food. We all love food shops. That's our business. But how often do we get to step back and fully appreciate the simple pleasure of shopping for food ourselves? Not often enough. So once again we're celebrating the best the...
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Food theatre
It may not be modest, but Hong Kong's self-named Great Food Hall isn't wrong either. Our experts heaped praise on Great's huge medley of 46,000 gourmet items, including 2,000 organic and health-orientated items and a bakery offering 300...
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Healthy Start for new food voucher scheme
Greengrocers are set to grab a share of a £129m a year windfall, thanks to a government initiative. Healthy Start is a Department of Health scheme that gives families vouchers to spend on milk and, for the first time, fruit and...
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From here to eternity
David Jones' flagship food hall in Sydney, Australia, is the country's only entry in our finest stores list. Affectionately known as DJ's, the 37-strong department store chain, founded in 1838, has seven food halls that have taken on iconic...
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Profiles and QandAs
McGettigan leaves a hole at Dunnes
Dunnes Stores, the Irish Republic's number-two grocery retailer, is in the market for a new director of food after Eoin McGettigan's move into the sportswear sector. McGettigan is to become chief executive of Lifestyle Sports, a chain...
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One-stop shop with a difference
Loblaws is one of the quality supermarket formats operated by Loblaw Companies, which opened the doors to its first grocery store in Toronto in 1919. Its selection of speciality departments and shops under one roof in its bigger branches...
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Headline writers fail to dent sales of eggs
Egg sales have cruised through a double whammy of bad news. Major retailers said it was business as usual, in spite of last week's negative headlines alleging fraudulent free-range labelling and high salmonella levels in Spanish...