All The Grocer articles in 28 October 2006 – Page 3
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News
Whisky prices set to soar as Chinese tipplers up demand
Scotch whisky prices in the UK are set to soar due to rising demand from China, distillers have warned. Scotch whisky is increasingly drunk by the Chinese as a mixer with green tea. Demand has nearly doubled, reducing supply to such an...
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Check up for small shops
What could be more logical? Families from disadvantaged communities need more help choosing a healthy diet, ergo small stores serving such communities are the salve for the country's obesity crisis. Get them to stock more salads and council...
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Comment and Opinion
Kwik Save is in the last chance saloon
Last week's announcement of a potential £30m refinancing package for Kwik Save will bring welcome relief to a long-suffering business. It has been a difficult few years for Kwik Save, in its many guises, but refinancing presents it with...
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Skinny Candy for Waitrose
Skinny Candy - a sugarfree confectionery range developed by Coffee Republic founder Sahar Hashemi - is poised to announce a listing in Waitrose stores. The brand, which was launched last year and is available in Harvey Nichols and...
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Rum campaign is set to exploit 'huge growth'
Diageo GB is launching a £1m marketing campaign for Morgan's Spiced rum this autumn. Its Out of the Ordinary campaign will feature at events in Scotland and England and there will be advertising and sponsorship, with XFM Radio....
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BWG plans leave rivals undeterred
Two Irish symbol groups have said they intend to open more stores just a week after the new owners of BWG announced expansion of the Spar and Mace networks in the Republic. Gala, the mainly rural-based convenience chain, plans a €40m...
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Lamb sales fuelled by burgeoning demand
Lamb sales are booming this year on the back of rising domestic demand and lucrative exports. The Grocer forecast rising prices earlier this year and export values have risen 10% to some e4 per kilo. The average retail price of lamb in...
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Brits show a hunger for their own fare
UK regional food received unprecedented exposure in this year's British Food Fortnight. More retailers than ever before took part from 23 September to 8 October, including 2,200 Budgens and Londis stores, plus 300 delis, independents and...
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The great British food fight
The food industry has taken a battering in the two years since the publication of the government's Health White Paper, Choosing Health. First, the Food Standards Agency settled on traffic lights as the best approach to front-of-pack...
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In Brief: Co-op Group in lead; RFID privacy fears; Getting technical
Co-op Group in lead The Co-operative Group is the UK's highest-placed society in a new global ranking of major co-operatives and mutuals. The listing, Global300, placed The Co-operative Group in ninth position, with United...
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Ramsay does a Ratner on own boxed chocs
Outspoken celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has inadvertently belittled his premium boxed chocolate range while hitting back at critics. Responding to a question on the quality of the range while speaking at a Channel 4 food event last...
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Co-op boss retires from 'restructured' business
Martin Beaumont is to retire as chief executive of the Co-operative Group in October 2007. Beaumont, 57, has been at the helm of the UK's largest co-operative society for the past five years. He said that, after a sustained period of...
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Bogof's week
Tesco pulled out all the stops in Turkey last week by taking one of our hacks out to dinner in a posh restaurant. But when his hosts came to pay they tried four or five credit cards and all were rejected. The team from Tesco had to have the...
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Profiles and QandAs
Bridge to play a major part in levy board
John Bridge had been appointed chair designate of the UK's new statutory agricultural and horticultural levy board. He will play a leading role in setting up the new board, which is set to replace five existing levy boards - the British...
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Labelling blamed for high salt intake
Trading Standards bosses have called for a tightening of food labelling rules after research indicated that children could be eating twice the recommended daily amount of salt. Officers from 37 local authorities analysed the nutritional...
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"It's still a lot easier to put the blame on food manufacturers than to make people get off their lazy, fat derrières"
In the past six months the government has finally started to widen the remit of public health minister Caroline Flint, so that exercise as well as diet is considered in the ongoing obesity obsession. Two years on from the government White Paper,...
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Penderyn bids to raise profile of Welsh spirits
A Welsh distillery plans to raise the profile of its native land as a premium drinks producer, by launching a range of spirits to tackle the off-trade market.
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Bestway eyes Nisa-Today's
Wholesaler Bestway has reaffirmed its interest in acquiring Nisa-Today's in the wake of the collapse of the Costcutter merger. Bestway MD Younus Sheikh said it remained willing to explore further the benefits of a potential takeover. An...
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Little Scotney Best joins paler brother
Westerham Brewery is to add an additional beer to its range following the success of recent brand launches into Waitrose stores. Little Scotney Best Bitter, produced by the Kent-based brewery, is set to go into Waitrose's south east...
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Dunn rises for Fray Bentos
Premier Foods has promoted Julian Dunn to the position of commercial director for convenience and spreads. Dunn joined Premier Foods in 2004 as general manager for its convenience foods business. Prior to this he held a number of...
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