All The Grocer articles in 25 October 2008 – Page 3
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News
Credit crunch may spark rise in crime, warns BRC
Shoplifting is set to increase dramatically as Britain enters a recession, with desperate times forcing more people into desperate measures, the British Retail Consortium has warned. The BRC 2008 Retail Crime Survey, published this week, shows...
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Foodvest puts Rilatt in charge of boosting group sustainability
Foodvest, the owner of Young’s Seafood, has strengthened its green credentials with the appointment of Simon Rilatt as its first ever director of sustainability. “This senior appointment underlies the key importance of the sustainability agenda not...
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Raw to hit retailers in bid to rejuvenate cola
Pepsi is to roll out its Pepsi Raw cola across the UK off-trade. The company launched the ‘natural cola’ into bars and restaurants last February but said it was now ready to build on the success of the variant by bringing it to a wider audience....
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Comment and Opinion
Second Opinion: Grocery is a better bet than most
Investors willing to play the longer game should consider the multiples, says Kevin Hawkins
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Sausage-chomping Londoners receive dedicated banger
A new London-branded sausage has been launched to give the capital’s meat-lovers a regional speciality to call their own. The Original London Banger, which is claimed to be London’s first locally-branded sausage, has gone on sale in Sainsbury’s,...
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Liquid Smoking: one way to beat the ban
A soft drink that claims to provide the same ‘stress relief’ as a cigarette is targeting the UK to cash in on the smoking ban. Liquid Smoking, introduced in the Netherlands earlier this year, contains an African herbal extract that provides “a...
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Sustainable prawns arrive in Sainsbury’s
Lyons Seafoods has added a line of MSC-certified coldwater prawns to Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference range. Lyons, one of Europe’s largest processors of prawns, said it had been working with suppliers for two years to achieve MSC status and to...
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John Barn named new ANR chairman
John Barn has been named the Association of News Retailing’s new chairman. Barn, who replaces Russ Simper, is news agency manager at The Co-operative Group, responsible for managing all news and magazines across the Co-operative movement. He has...
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Comment and Opinion
Saturday Essay: The grass is not always greener overseas
In fact, it sometimes pays to keep your manufacturing base in Britain when times get rough, argues Chris Marshall
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Comment and Opinion
Food Standards Agency pulls wonky willy spread
Headline-writers were cock-a-hoop last week at the news Ann Summers was being forced to pull chocolate-flavoured body paint containing melamine – probably not the first panicky withdrawal involving a product from the cheap-and-cheerful sex...
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Advertising: The battle for autumn’s top cuppa begins
Things have hotted up in the tea and coffee sector over the past few weeks. Advertising spend across the category has tripled to more than £3.2m compared with the same period last year. Yet, before this period, spend had been tracking at about 25%...
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Hill Station rescued from administration by turnaround man
More than sixty jobs have been saved as troubled ice-cream maker Hill Station was bought out of administration by turnaround specialist David Lavelle and Acuity Capital. Lavelle’s newly formed company, Loseley Dairy Ice Cream, inherits the business...
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Acid Test: Magners mid-strength cider
The Acid Test panel take some time out to sample the latest weapon in the over-ice cider wars
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BBC reporters spark probe into abattoirs
Supermarkets are investigating hygiene practices at a number of Welsh abattoirs after undercover BBC reporters posing as trainee vets claimed they found carcases contaminated with faecal matter. The journalists secretly filmed in three abattoirs -...
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Booths defies crunch with profit rising 73%
Upmarket northern supermarket chain Booths has defied the economic gloom by notching up a 3.8% increase in full-year like-for-like sales – ahead of its much larger rivals Marks & Spencer and Waitrose. Pre-tax profit jumped 73% to £6.9m on sales up...
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3663 teams up with small wholesalers
Foodservice giant 3663 plans to compete with cash & carries by striking up deals to supply small delivered wholesalers. As part of a new trial scheme, 3663 First For Foodservice will for the first time allow its regional foodservice competitors to...
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NewsGrocer 33: Asda retains the cheapest retailer title
Asda produced the cheapest basket this week – comfortably undercutting nearest rival Tesco by £2.08. The retailer provided 23 of the 33 cheapest or joint-cheapest items and had the most promotions of all the retailers, which helped it net first...
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NewsGrocer 33: Morrisons makes it two wins in a row
All the stores provided great customer service this week, but only Morrisons in Chippenham produced a full basket – clinching it our top store award. Our shopper was particularly impressed by an assistant who went to the back of the store to locate...
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John West turns up the omega-3
John West has launched a new canned tuna steak that contains five times more omega-3 than a standard can, it claims. The company has added extra omega-3 to its tuna to provide 100% of the recommended daily intake of the nutrient in one can....
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Tesco launches sub-£3 wine range for hard up
The sub-£3 price bracket looks set to become the new battleground in wine, as Tesco launches its first range under the Value brand next week. The retailer said that it was reacting to market conditions and the reduction in consumer spend on...
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