All The Grocer articles in 27 October 2001 – Page 2
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Shampoos and conditioners
Shampoos and conditioners remain highly competitive, driven by intensive promotional activity at point of sale. The total market was valued at £460m in 2000, up 19% since 1996. However, recent trends suggest a slowdown in real terms, due to...
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Commission divides over dismembered Doughboy
General Mills has finally got the thumbs up from the US regulators to acquire Diageo's Pillsbury food division 15 months after the deal was first proposed. The merger doubles the size of General Mills, boosting its annual turnover to $13bn and...
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Euro MP claims tide is finally in favour of GM technologies
Exclusive Clive Beddall, Aarhus Populist resistance against genetically modified foods is "backward-looking, hysterical and reactionary." That's the view of leading Euro politician Bertel Haarder, who is vice chairman of the Liberal Democrats...
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Tilda's taste of China
Tilda is adding a new Egg Fried Rice variant to its Rizzazz range of microwaveable gourmet recipe rices. It hopes that the newcomer, which combines pure basmati rice with Chinese-style scrambled egg and peas will help to maintain the boom in...
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Strong growth for now but we will feel the chill'
The major multiples are still experiencing strong sales growth despite warnings of an imminent slowdown. Sainsbury and Safeway have issued upbeat trading statements. And speaking at a food retail conference organised by Schroder Salomon Smith...
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cheeky novelties make the office run faster on laughter
Builders' Bum, Busty Boobs and Butt Ugly Martians are helping to make at least one sector of the fading whole cakes market a big success. The trio are novelty cakes, a sector that's booming according to leading manufacturer Hazlewood Foods, which...
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cakes: out of the tin and into a lunchbox
New products and packaging have caught the attention of younger consumers and snackers who want to have their cake and eat it now! I f there's one word that sums up the direction of the cake market it is snacking. Virtually all the main players...
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United buys Willis chain
United Co-op is still on the acquisition trail, following the purchase of the 12-store Willis convenience chain. The Willis group is the sixth chain of c-stores which United Co-op has acquired in the past four years, and has an annual turnover of...
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Glenfiddich works to build style and substance with younger
Tim Palmer The fist shots in a campaign designed to revitalise the UK malt whisky market have been fired by William Grant. It is spending £1.5m on pre-Christmas press and poster advertising for its brand leader Glenfiddich, which began this week....
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Malibu could hold key to Seagram deal blocked by worries ove
The future of Diageo and Pernod Ricard's bid to buy up Seagram's wines and spirits empire could lie with the Malibu brand. The deal was blocked this week by US competition authorities but both Diageo and Pernod Ricard are confident that further...
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Trade urged to check bio-terrorist defences
An urgent review should be made of the vulnerability of the European food chain to attack by bio-terrorists, according to EU Consumer Commissioner David Byrne. The Commissioner told the EU Council of Farm Ministers on Tuesday that while it was...
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Delhaize plans franchises as Biosquare proves major hit
Delhaize's first store selling exclusively organic foods has proved so successful that the Belgian chain is setting up a franchise scheme for the format. Trading development director Xavier Ury told The Grocer he expects the Biosquare franchise...
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First session flags up need for better chain communications
A healthy agricultural sector is vital to the continued wealth of the nation, the government's Commission on the Future of Farming and Food has been told. However, the manufacturers and retailers who gave evidence at the Commission's first public...
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Pumpkin proves a Cinderella in Somerfield and best buy at As
Hallowe'en was the focus for our special purchase of a pumpkin. The majority were labelled as small but sizes varied from store to store. Small pumpkins at Asda were enormous and they were the best buy at 98p, while those at Safeway, Diss, were a...
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beef: exports
MLC keeps up pressure Beef exporting is a sensitive issue among retailers, many of whom resent producers' and processors' determination to find alternative customers abroad. So controversy seems likely when it becomes widely known DEFRA and...
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The day David grew sore at the Beeb
Poor old David Sawday. Not only was the former Tesco spin doctor pilloried during the first episode of the latest series of Have I Got News For You, but the programme researchers got his name wrong! From now on, if the Beeb is correct, we shall...
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Booker bares its soul to suppliers
Suppliers have told Booker to improve category management, store layout and its approach to promotions. Trading director Shaun Birrell admitted at an IGD trade briefing that there was a lack of trust between Booker and suppliers and pledged to...
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Kellogg's caramel first takes both cereal and bar routes
Mary Carmichael Kellogg's is launching a limited edition Caramel Coco Pops this week amid criticism of the brand's nutritional value. The new baby comes as a boxed cereal and as a cereal bar the fastest growing breakfast sector. Unfortunately,...
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Can the apples feed the cows?
Sir; I note the predictions of heavy crops of apples this year, notably Cox. In previous years where high crops caused gluts on the market some dumping occurred. Can greater use be made of apples for animals' consumption? Would apples impart a...
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Sunny Raisins with mobility appeal
Whitworths has launched a Sunny Raisin snack brand aimed both at kids' lunchboxes and munching on the move. Initially available as a multi-pack of 18 smack packs (rsp, £1.49, but with an introductory price of 99p), the pocket-sized boxes are...
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