All The Grocer articles in 4 July 2009
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NewsRetail prices: June prices fell 0.2% - but that's not the whole story
All quiet on the inflation front? Not quite, says James Ball. Beneath that innocent-seeming 0.2% fall in prices there lurks a hive of pricing activity...
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World News 4/7/09
Rewe Group has set itself a target of cutting carbon emissions 30% by 2015. It said it was looking at ways to reduce refrigerating agents (15% of emissions), heat (12%), logistics (8%), paper consumption (3%) and business travel (2%). "With our goal to reduce...
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Other Movers 4/7/09
Robert Birch, Dino Ransome and James Campbell have joined the field sales team of Young's Seafood. A further two appointments are expected to be confirmed this month.
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Poundland's £1 sandwich offer set to be rolled out to 150 stores
Poundland is aiming to grab a bigger share of the growing food-to-go market as it prepares to roll out a range of £1 sandwiches to 150 of its stores. A range of eight sandwiches, trialled at three stores for about a year, is currently being extended...
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NewsGrocer 33: Asda beats Sainsbury's by a whisker
Two retailers boasted strong availability and impressive service this week, but Asda in Dunbar clinched our top store award thanks to its helpful staff and chatty checkout assistant.
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NewsPicture This...M&S serves an ace pepper
M&S has got into the Wimbledon spirit and launched what must be one of the most tenuously tennis-linked products of the season - the ACE pepper. The Essex-grown pepper, (pictured right) which is said to provide the entire daily quota of vitamins A,...
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NewsAcid Test: New Covent Garden Soups Watercress & Crème Fraîche
Can be served hot or cold, but the reaction is distinctly lukewarm
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Yoplait adds strawberry-only Choobs
Yoplait has introduced a Limited Edition Strawberry Choobs yoghurt under its Wildlife brand to boost summer holiday sales. The kids yoghurt specialist expects the limited-edition pack (rsp: £1.15 for a 6x40g pack), along with the regular...
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New Omsco adverts push affordability of trading up to organic
Omsco is set to launch a campaign this autumn to persuade consumers that trading up to organic milk is more affordable than they think.The £1m TV campaign will run from September to December and focus on the low price premium organic dairy...
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Suffolk ales get a Springer in their step
Greene King is highlighting Suffolk’s ale heritage with new beer Suffolk Springer, which will hit shelves in Sainsbury's and Morrisons next week.
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Full sale or return on all Booker's Best Sellers
C&C giant Booker, which this week moved from the AIM to the main market, is offering sale or return on all full cases from its Retail Best Sellers range.
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Wine all the way from Blighty
Producing wines in a Sussex-based vineyard good enough to sell alongside the classics is no mean feat. But Bookers is doing just that - and doing it well. Alex Beckett reports
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Warburtons guns for Hovis in south west with Bristol bakery
Warburtons' dominance of the British bread market is set to expand across Hovis-dominated south west England following the opening of its £45m Bristol bakery this week.The Bolton-based business has opened the hi-tech plant with the intention...
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Promotions by brands keep own label at bay
Consumers are sticking to brands in the recession despite the best efforts of own-label, which is actually losing market share, Nielsen data shown exclusively to The Grocer reveals.At the start of the year, own label food accounted for 48.2%...
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Beef processors hit by falling leather returns
Beef processors are losing millions from the sale of cattle hides as the downturn in consumer goods hits wholesale leather prices.Prices paid to processors for leather have slumped by £15 per head of cattle, according to Gerry Maguire, MD...
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Now Tesco's been bitten by the pound shop bug
Tesco is rolling out a new 'pound shop' strategy that involves both food and non-food to its larger stores.
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Burgers get big boost from recession and hot weather
Burger consumption is soaring as recession-hit shoppers turn to affordable foods - and sales are set to get a further boost as the weather gets warmer.
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United Biscuits gets healthy with brand reformulation drive
United Biscuits has slashed the fat levels across brands such as Go Ahead! Jacob's Cream Crackers and Wheat Crunchies to boost sales among health-conscious consumers.The manufacturer made the changes this week as part of a drive to make its...
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Mills broadens offer with new food ranges
CTN and c-store chain Mills Group is further expanding its grocery offer with new meat, poultry and bakery ranges in a bid to reinvent itself as a one-stop shop.The 78-outlet chain, which operates c-stores and CTNs in the north of England,...
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David Sands' Central Kitchen business gets ready for T in the Park
A new sandwich and ready meal business developed by independent retail chain David Sands is set to service thousands of rock fans at next week's T In The Park music festival.The Central Kitchen business will supply a 24-hour sandwich stall ...