All The Grocer articles in 28 July 2001 – Page 2
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Germany's waste laws: Back to square one as deposit plan thr
The German retail lobby was claiming victory this week after the Bundesrat threw out a controversial proposal to impose a mandatory deposit on disposable cans and bottles from January next year. Environment minister Jurgen Trittin provoked a storm...
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Back on Location
Stella Artois is hoping to score another hit with film lovers as it takes its open-air cinema concept on the road for the sixth successive year. This summer, the Stella Screen on Location promotion is going to the beach at Brighton, Queen Square in...
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NPD: Bars'n'biscuits
Mars looks set to take its confectionery brands into the biscuit market with the launch of a new Bisc&' range. The biscuits, which combine cookies with Bounty, M&M's, Mars or Bounty, are currently being trialled in the Netherlands. Mars said it...
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Suppliers: Baxters: Even more in a pickle
The Baxters Group of Food Companies will continue on the expansion trail following this week's purchase of Garner's Foods' pickles, chutneys and salad dressings business. Audrey Baxter, chairman and chief executive of Baxters, said: "This is...
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Ben & Jerry's pulls the toes out
They must have a lot of long, lonely nights in Wetton, Staffordshire, if this latest sporting activity is anything to go by. The Ben & Jerry's-sponsored World Toe Wrestling Championships took place in the village recently, and saw grown adults...
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Multiples: Extra pivotal as Tesco works to boost entertainme
Tesco aims to double its turnover of entertainment products online by the end of this year and aims to sell more than 12 million items both at Tesco.com and in store between October and December. At a conference for entertainment suppliers, Tesco...
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Interbrew offers branded fridges
Big-spending Interbrew UK has ploughed £3m into backing its chiller message to the trade in the last 12 months, it has revealed. The company said the spend was justified because its research shows there are more sales to be gained from the beer...
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Brandwatch profile: whisky
Top 15 brands advertised (by media) £k July '00 - June '01 Total Press Cinema Radio Outdoor ...
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Brandwatch: Mintel category report: Cakes: snacking opens ne
Total sales of ambient cakes, excluding cake bars, reached £1.37bn in 2000. Despite its maturity and fierce competition from other markets, such as cereal bars and cake bars, the cake market has performed relatively well over the past five years. ...
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Retail spotlight: Bridge Market, New York
NYC heat, NYC cool One of New York's most stylish food stores also enjoys some spectacular architecture. Clive Beddall visits teh Bridge Market Midsummer in Manhattan, temperature 90degF with 90deg humidity. You can fry a quail's egg on the...
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British exports: Cereals firm fortifies malt whisky
Cereal marketing firm HGCA is pumping £15,000 into schemes to drive British exports of single malt whiskies. Single malt clubs run by Food from Britain managers in Italy, Portugal and Holland were established to boost single malt whisky sales with...
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The Grocer focus on rice: specialities: small but just bubbl
It may be a small sector, but speciality rice shows growth and promise way beyond its size. This tiny niche, worth no more than £3.9m, is achieving 36% value/24% volume yr-on-yr growth [Information Resources, 52 w/e 20 May '01]. Driving forces...
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Spar Multiple Retail Group: What the multiples can do, we c
Membership of Spar's buying consortium Multiple Retail Group has swelled to almost 700 members one year after its inception, said Spar's trading director Keith Webb. Originally comprising the company owned stores to "replicate the multiple set-up",...
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News special: food chain summit
Gill's vision: shorter chain with partnership not confrontation Exclusive Clive Beddall The NFU unveiled its new survival strategy for UK agriculture on Thursday and then appealed for help in "weeding out" unnecessary links in the UK food chain....
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Republic of Ireland: Cigarette hike looming
Smokers in the Irish Republic will be paying around IR£6 for a packet of 20 cigarettes within four years if a recommendation from a parliamentary committee, backed by health minister Michael Martin, is accepted by government. In a bid to discourage...
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Magazines: Provocative Cre@te strikes gold
Future Publishing's magazine for web designers, Cre@teOnline, celebrated its second major design award of the year this month when it picked up gold' for the Best Designed Business Magazine of the Year at the annual Total Publishing Awards. ...
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The CTN Guide: Diary dates
SP Fiesta Readers Letters Special, on sale April 24, £3.95, full SOR, print run 50,000 copies, in A5 format; on sale for eight weeks until June 19, Blackhorse DIST Organic Life first issue on sale May 22, priced £2.95, alternate monthly,...
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The CTN guide: Diary dates
Radio Times is sponsoring a series of classic comedy programmes on satellite TV channel UK Gold. The deal includes bumper advertising every weekday evening until August 31, in which period the channel will be screening classic comedy shows such as...
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New Zealand Milk UK: Price cuts drive war on Lurpak
Price cuts on Anchor Spreadable are the first public signs of New Zealand Milk UK's aggressive plans to reclaim the number one spot in the butter market. MD Simon Tuckey said one reason for the dramatic price cuts of recent weeks, with a 250g tub...
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Daddy goes for toilet talk
Holsten is using talking urinals and kebab wrappers in a bid to create a cult following for the It's the Daddy' campaign. The campaign began with TV ads for the lager featuring Ray Winstone asking Who's the Daddy?' of a range of common subjects,...
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