All The Grocer articles in 4 April 2009 – Page 2
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Editor's Comment: Booker's Indian wholesale move shows Charles Wilson's entrepreneurial spirit
Charles Wilson is a canny one. The CEO of Booker has done a great job since returning to his old stomping ground, and the latest quarter's 6.4% like-for-like growth confirms the progress. Indeed, coming in the same week M&S announced a 4.2%...
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NewsTesco milk price cut brings relief to the dairy industry
Tesco is in dairy farmers' good books after dropping the price it pays for milk by just 1ppl. But what are the wider implications, asks Michael Barker
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Unilever buys TIGI hair products
Unilever has completed its deal to buy TIGI, the Toni & Guy premium hair care business, for $411.5m (£295m). A spokesman confirmed the company had "obtained the required regulatory clearances and has completed the acquisition of the TIGI hair...
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Campaign Trail: Oreo's movie magic for mums
Kraft hits the silver screen this month with a £4.3m cinema campaign. The six-month long activity will include in-foyer sampling and marketing material in Vue cinemas. Oreo's Boy and Dog ad will also appear before family blockbusters including...
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Holberry leaves C&C in wake of influx of execs
John Holberry's decision to resign as MD of Magners GB was unsurprising, say drinks industry analysts.
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Food manufacturing training centre opens
Thousands of trainees are set to benefit from the newly created National Centre for Food Manufacturing at the University of Lincoln.
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Retailers grow profit margins on Cheddar
Supermarkets have been accused of significantly increasing profit margins on Cheddar in the past year - but failing to pass on the benefits to processors or consumers.The retail gross margin on mild Cheddar has increased from 37% of the...
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U-turn over vanilla chew
Chewits is reviving its vanilla ice cream flavour variant after an online campaign by consumers.The sweets - phased out in the mid-1990s - will join Chewits' existing range in May, after more than 500 Bebo and Facebook users clamoured for...
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Stassen set to rival S&N's over-ice cider offerings
Belgium's leading cider producer is planning to enter the UK just over a year after winning its independence from S&N.Stassen was bought back by the family of the same name in January 2008, 16 years after being sold to Bulmers, which was...
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Dairy Crest sells Yoplait stake as import costs hit
Dairy Crest chief executive Mark Allen has blamed its decision to sell its stake in Yoplait prematurely on soaring import costs in the yoghurt market.Britain's biggest dairy business sold its 49% stake in Yoplait Dairy Crest to the Yoplait...
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on the reincarnation of Gordon Gekko
How cringingly fantastic was The Apprentice this week? (9pm, BBC1, 1 April). Channelling the spirit of the 'greed is good' eighties and the 'thick is better' noughties (thanks, Jade), the hapless candidates were again divided into girls and...
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Our man from the DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Picture This: Here's one I tossed earlier...
Posh salad bar chain Tossed has opened its seventh store in London this week. The store on Tottenham Court Road is Tossed's second franchise store. The first was opened last October on Baker Street. The company plans to open a further six premises...
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Indies urged to make most of Easter Sunday
Wholesalers are urging independent retailers to capitalise on Easter Sunday when their larger supermarket rivals will be closed.Stores over 3,000 sq ft are not allowed to open in England and Wales on Easter Sunday, leaving independent...
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Comment & OpinionSaturday Essay: Do not try to raise fresh money in a hurry
With the banks in turmoil, companies that need capital must plan ahead with great care, says Clive Baker
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In the firing line
Trade bodies have warned of a significant rise in retail theft, burglary and violence as a result of the economic downturn. So what steps are retailers taking to protect themselves and their staff, asks Kelly Smith
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Fish takes fresh to new levels
With just yards between the sea and the counter, it doesn't get much fresher than at Brighton and Newhaven Fish Sales' new retail venture Fish. Richard Ford reports
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Waitrose trials new food store format at motorway services
Waitrose is locking horns with M&S Simply Food by trialling two motorway service franchises.The retailer has teamed up with motorway services operator Welcome Break to open 2,500 sq ft food stores next month at Oxford Services on the M40 and...
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Quality test: own-label fRESH PASTA SAUCE, TOMATO & MASCArPONE
At £1.99, Waitrose's sauce was the priciest of the bunch and was pale in colour.
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Merger 'not spurred by pension fund hole'
Douglas Fletcher, CEO of Plymouth & South West Co-op, has poured cold water on speculation that the society had proposed a merger with The Co-operative Group to shore up a £17.4m deficit in its pension fund.Plymouth & South West Co-op, which...
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