All The Grocer articles in 3 February 2001
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Specialist retailers: Julian Graves sales soar and 30 more s
Julian Graves has announced strong trading results for the six weeks leading up to Christmas and new year. The specialist snack and ingredient retailer saw turnover increase 8.2% to £3.06m for 65 of its established high street stores, compared with...
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Age discrimination: There's a wealth of 40-plus talent that'
Nearly a quarter of the country's workforce believes that employers don't want to hire or promote people over the age of 40, according to research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. The finding will come as no surprise to...
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Acquisitions: Tulip looks to poultry
Tulip International's acquisition of Gott Foods will enable it to become a bigger player in the highly competitive cooked poultrymeat market. The Gott Foods plant at Morecambe in Lancashire will be upgraded. The plant is within easy trucking...
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ACS: Convenient way to catman
Members of the Association of Convenience Stores can now log on to the ACS web site for the latest category management advice from suppliers, including Cadbury Trebor Bassett, Bass Take Home and Imperial Tobacco. The Store 2000' category...
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Kinder gets involved in adult impulses with Bueno launch
Ferrero UK is predicting that its new launch, Kinder Bueno, will become a top 10 countline in the UK. It is spending £4.5m to support the new arrival, kicking off with TV ads and sampling among 120,000 consumers on February 14. Ferrero expects...
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Brandwatch advertising this week.........
A £1.5m TV campaign for Radox breaks on February 5 and runs until March 4. Birds Eye Wall's campaign for its Enjoy! range hits screens and poster sites from February 4. Twiggy fronts TV ads from February 5 as part of the £6m ...
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Is age finally getting the better of veteran Bunty?
D C Thomson is taking Bunty monthly following the closure of its long-running title Bunty Weekly. Bunty will be cutting back on her weekly adventures from the date of the last issue, on sale February 9, and Bunty Monthly, dated March 2001, goes on...
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It's Micro but it's also Mega
A McCain Micro Chip for adult appetites the Mega Micro Chip is due to hit freezers in time for National Chip Week, February 19 - 26. A £3m campaign of TV, radio and press ads and new media support will kick off then, along with instore...
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Code of trading practice: Anger as DTI keeps farmers in the
Clive Beddall Farmers' leaders will next week press agriculture minister Nick Brown to urge the DTI to speed up the introduction of its new legally binding code of trading practice between suppliers and the top five multiples. Publicly, NFU...
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Northern Ireland: Tesco exclusive Angus deal
Foyle Meats has launched a range of Northern Irish Quality Assured Aberdeen Angus beef in selected Tesco Northern Ireland stores. The launch has been backed by cookery roadshows organised by the MLC. Foyle Meats producer club is supplying the beef...
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Sainsbury: Free apples, plums, Navels
Apples featured strongly in promotions at Sainsbury this week with Class I French Golden Delicious on 50% free (12 apples for the price of eight £1.49). French Class I Braeburn were on an identical offer. Cheek by jowl with French crop, in a...
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Wholesale arm for Petty, wood
Petty, Wood is adding a field sales force to its wholesale division ready for a blitz on the wholesale and impulse sectors. The Andover based brands supplier wants to improve penetration in cash and carries and independent forecourts as well as its...
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Organics: Asda move sparks SA fury over escalating organic
The Soil Association has slammed Asda for cutting more organic prices. "We are extremely worried about what appears to be an escalating organic price war, currently led by Asda," said Soil Association director Patrick Holden. Asda cut prices by...
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Badger's Glory
Badger has called its latest Tesco Beer Challenge winner Golden Glory Ale. It is hoping to repeat the success of Golden Champion, which topped the spring 1998 competition. Last year Badger's volume sales rose 54% and its volume shares of the premium...
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Manor Bakeries: exceedingly revamped
Manor Bakeries is giving Mr Kipling a new look, new advertising and its first web site in a major revamp of the 34 year old cake brand. While keeping details of the £5m ad campaign under wraps for now, the company's aim is to give the brand a more...
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Retail spotlight: Eroski Grupo, Basque Spain
Playing at leapfrog Eroski Grupo is raining on Carrefour's parade as it makes its way along the motorway in the Basque region of Spain. Anne Bruce looks at its offer Rivals Carrefour and Eroski Grupo are staking their claims to the Basque...
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Beef: German meat unlikely to tempt UK multiples
Sides and boxes of German bull beef are now circulating in the British wholesale trade at prices about 40% lower than the supermarkets are paying for home produced steer and heifer meat. Some of the product from Germany is visible on Smithfield...
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You have been warned
The food and drink industry has always served up verbal ammo for parliamentary hopefuls pressing flesh outside Tesco during an Election. Thus one of the early campaign features traditionally sees an army of would-be MPs plundering this magazine for...
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Brandwatch profile: hot beverages
Top 15 brands advertised (by media) £k Dec '99 Nov '00 Total Press Cinema Radio Outdoor TV ...
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Channel Islands: Le Riche brings out Guernsey big gun
Channel Islands based food group Le Riche is stepping up its assault against Safeway with a new hypermarket in Guernsey under the Checkers fascia. At 52,000 sq ft, the store will dwarf other retailing outlets on the island. The opening is...