All The Grocer articles in 27 October 2007 – Page 2

  • News

    Cigarette fights to get fair trade label

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    A company claiming to produce the UK's first ethically sourced cigarettes is being refused accreditation from the Fairtrade Foundation. The brand, 1st-nation, has been developed by Native American Mohawk Indians and is made on their...

  • News

    Rivals feel the crunch as McVitie's takes charge

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    McVitie's continued to grab the lion's share of the biscuits/cakes category - leaving everyone in its wake. With a 26 percentage point lead over its closest rival Fox's, ...

  • News

    Carrefour: out with the old world, in with the new

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Not so long ago the foundations of Carrefour's empire were looking shaky. French consumers were abandoning its hypermarkets in favour of discount chains and things weren't going so well overseas either. Like Wal-Mart, the French retailing giant...

  • News

    campaign trail - Kellogg's Rice Krispies

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Kellogg's Rice Krispies will be encouraging families to have fun in the kitchen through an on-pack promotion beginning next month, supported through a multimillion-pound TV and press campaign. The special packs will feature baking ideas that...

  • News

    spotlight - More people will be eating exotic meats such as crocodile, camel and kangaroo this Christmas

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    More people will be eating exotic meats such as crocodile, camel and kangaroo this Christmas, which means business is booming for Shropshire company Alternative Meats says co-director Jeanette Edgar (above left) The 2001 outbreak of foot and mouth...

  • News

    we work together - Husband and wife David and Lucy Calland

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Husband and wife David and Lucy Calland own and run a 2,000 sq ft Budgens store in Exmouth, Devon David on Lucy Lucy and I opened our store on 20 September. My family have always been in retail and own a Spar shop so Lucy and I have always wanted ...

  • Profiles and QandAs

    Commercial director for Greencore cake division

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Convenience food manufacturer Greencore has appointed Jonathan Hodgson as commercial director of its cakes and desserts division. Hodgson was previously account group director at Young's Seafoods, where he managed a team that looked after...

  • News

    Midcounties Co-operative buys out Hazlemere Foodhall from Chalfont

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Midcounties Co-operative Society has snapped up its third major independent retailer this year. The society has taken over Hazlemere Foodhall in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, a one-store business owned by Chalfont...

  • News

    In Brief: Owen set to retire; FSA director for Wales; New role for Wylie; Saxton due to leave; Brown joins Liberty

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Owen set to retire  Morrisons has announced that executive director Roger Owen is to retire in October next year, coinciding with his 60th birthday. Owen joined the company in 1975 and has responsibility for site acquisition, construction, estate...

  • News

    Jam boy gets Tesco deal

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Teenager Fraser Doherty has landed a major contract with Tesco to sell his home-made preserves in 230 stores. Doherty, 18, started making jam at home when he was 14 following his grandmother's secret recipe. Until now his parents have...

  • News

    thinking outside the box

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Dominic Lowe, Green & Black's new MD, is lying on a bed, surrounded by chocolate and being gawped at by members of the public - not because he fancies himself in the starring role of the brand's next round of commercials, but because we've...

  • News

    Fears that Scots booze laws could limit consumer choice

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Asda has warned that proposed new legislation for Scotland controlling where retailers can sell alcohol will harm consumer choice. The draft law, introduced to the Scottish Parliament this week, requires retailers to limit stocks of...

  • News

    Irish c-stores welcome sales boost as expansion kicks off

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Ireland's Celtic Tiger economy may have slowed after a decade of unprecedented growth, but its convenience store sector is still booming, according to new data. Figures from the Irish government's central statistics office indicate sales...

  • News

    Consumers spurn chocolate biscuits for healthy options

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Consumers are spurning chocolate biscuit bars for healthier options, according to exclusive research for The Grocer. TNS Worldpanel data shows that, for the first time, healthier biscuits have overtaken chocolate biscuit bars in terms of...

  • News

    Binge drinking is really no surprise

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Alcohol abuse is not a time bomb. It's been happening for 30 years and it'll take more than tinkering with licensing to rectify the problemThe media relishes nothing more than discovering a "time bomb". Once upon a time it was population...

  • News

    A green light for the best of both worlds?

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    W hich way do you swing? Traffic lights? GDAs? Or a bit of both? A poll of GPs and healthcare workers at a National Obesity Forum conference last week found 71% of them preferred traffic lights over GDAs. The survey is the latest in a...

  • News

    BerryWorld embraces the snack pack format

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Berryworld has braved concerns over a global blueberry shortage and unveiled the UK's first branded blueberry snack at this week's World Fruit and Veg show at London's ExCel. Marketing manager Lisa Hoggarth said the first packs of its new...

  • News

    Barnes joins Wash & Go

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Footballer John Barnes has been signed up as the face of a new in-school charity campaign for Procter & Gamble's shampoo brand Wash & Go. Score Ethiopia campaign is a tie-up between Procter & Gamble and UK-based education charity Link...

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    Functional bar gets a kick from taurine

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    A new flapjack-style bar that "boosts body and mind" is claiming to be the first snack product to contain the Red Bull key ingredient taurine. The Will Bar comes in two flavours: coco-a-go-go, with caffeine and taurine; and booster...

  • News

    Mail strike holds up Warburtons ballot

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Union leaders have been forced to reschedule a strike ballot for Warburtons staff after voting papers were held up by Royal Mail stoppages earlier this month. The original two-week ballot was open from 10-24 October, but the Royal Mail...