All The Grocer articles in 3 June 2006 – Page 4
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News
"The appointment of Tim Smith and an FSA rethink on natural sugars - a little sanity is at last emerging"
I would love to have been a fly on the wall at Tim Smith's interview for the CEO role at the Food Standards Agency. How does the ex-chief executive of Arla Foods UK, a purveyor of precisely the kind of products the FSA would like us to consume...
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Cognac set to appeal to a new generation of lovers
A Cognac that has been designed to offer an alternative to the category's traditional image has been launched into the UK off-trade. ABK6 Cognac is the brainchild of producer Francis Abécassis Vineyards, and was created to...
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"Suppliers watch out - Andy Bond has no intention of dropping Asda's combative price stance"
It's been a tough year for Asda's head honcho Andy Bond. What with those pesky members of the GMB union, widespread criticism over price-cutting tactics that saw £100m wiped off the value of the banana sector alone, suppliers unhappy over...
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Comment and Opinion
Second opinionTelling kids they can't always have the food they want marks a step change in our attitudes to food and retailing, says Tim Lang
Less choice means habits will change Behind the new, tougher school food standards announced by the government earlier this month (May 19) lay an important shift. While it is certainly not the slaying of the Great Emperor Choice, it is...
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"Foot and mouth may be the least of its challenges. The Year of Food & Farming must also overcome vaulting ambition"
A plague rides roughshod over everything, and so it has proved again with the latest outbreak of foot and mouth this week: supply has been plunged into turmoil, processors and packers stand idly by, and farmers gnash their teeth. (Editors, too,...
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Nut-free cereal for allergy sufferers
Nut allergy sufferers can now sit down to breakfast without worrying about the content of their muesli.It&'s Nut Free has launched four new cereal varieties in 700g plastic tubs that are completely free of nuts and nut traces:...
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Ireland aims to raise its game in organics
The Irish Department of Agriculture is cracking down on sales of bogus organic produce in farmers' markets across the Republic. An additional inspector has been appointed with special responsibility for policing the rapidly...
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"Once again, Tesco has raised the bar. It is in competition to catch up that the planet will benefit"
My morning ablutions were rudely interrupted, on Monday, by Stuart Rose, announcing on Radio 4 a dramatic new £200m eco-plan. I cut myself shaving as he reeled off some of the 100 exciting initiatives, including plans to go carbon neutral, use...
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Es Sidra targets English after Scottish success
A Spanish cider, which has sparkling and cloudy variants, is heading over to England following its successful debut in Scotland. Es Sidra, a 5% abv cider produced in Champagne-style bottles, is traditionally used for weddings in...
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This business is a real family affair
Business for Lizette Craig, MD of Botterills Convenience Stores, is very much like the old Sly and The Family Stone hit - a real family affair.Granddaughter to the company&'s founder, daughter of its chairman, and wife to its...
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Friendly bacteria gives ActiMint healthy start
Consumers looking for a simple way of topping up their healthy bacteria don't need to reach for the fridge for a probiotic yoghurt drink any longer - all they have to do is take a mint. Ecobrands reckons that just two of its...
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"If Morrisons has failed to act quickly enough, it won't have done itself any favours"
Just how many warnings does a retailer need? Morrisons could now face criminal prosecution for the Scottish E.coli outbreak. On the one hand, it's easy to sympathise. There's been a huge increase in the number of food scares in the past...
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Acid test: Café Kiss; Jacob's Creek Sparkling Rosé
Company: Halewood International. Price: £1.59 per can. Expert's verdict...20/25. Café Kiss really does what it says on the tin, and delivers a frothy coffee experience with a subtle kiss of alcohol. Undoubtedly, it's...
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Comment and Opinion
Acas tips on keeping clean sheet for World Cup
The World Cup is inspiring great debates - even before the first ball has been kicked. But it has also inspired us at Acas, ordinarily an impartial adviser, to take the unprecedented step of coming off the sidelines to referee perhaps...
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"I scribble furiously. This is gold dust. The Wal-Mart subsidiary is secretive about its numbers. I could win a Pulitzer"
It's 8:30. Darren Blackhurst, the guitar-strumming food trading director at Asda, is making a gung-ho speech at a Christmas conference for Asda's 350 store managers . And up pops a powerpoint slide that is every journalist's wet dream....
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Category Report
"The Big 30 must provide good fresh produce, premium offerings, backed up by constant NPD"
I love the guys down at my local corner shop. We’re on first-name terms. And when I’ve been away for any length of time… -
News
"21st century green is about one fundamental issue - building a sustainable business for the future"
You will not have failed to notice that we have put the green back into grocery this week by devoting all our feature and comment pages to environmental and sustainable business issues. Like health, the green agenda is now firmly at the heart of...
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Comment and Opinion
Editor's Comment: 'London 2012 can boost British food'
What an inspiration the Olympics have been, providing a welcome if temporary lift to our spirits from the lousy weather and the even lousier economy. Actually, I sense the Games will lift the spirits far longer than the recession we now appear to...
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"What is staggering is the amount of fat, in 2007, that a company of this size and standing can cut"
It's not hard to see why Unilever is shedding 20,000 jobs (see p4). After years of negligible growth and margin underperformance versus rivals like Procter & Gamble and Reckitt Benckiser, the One Unilever programme initiated in 2005 is starting...
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"What could have happened to bread prices? Did ABF buy up a job lot of wheat in the futures market in 2007 BC?"
We all know the price of commodity-based products has gone up. Bread, pasta, milk, cheese: on telly, in the papers and in this magazine, there has been only one direction to this story: up, up, up. Official figures out this week showed...