All The Grocer articles in 4 November 2000 – Page 2
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Category management: Decade of disservice
Disillusion over the application of category management runs deep and it's time to find a new approach, say Jonathan Smith and Julie Craig It is about 10 years since category management first started to be actively pushed in the UK. At its most...
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Jaffa rebranded by Carmel
Israel's Agrexco is dropping the Jaffa brand on its oranges sold through the wholesale markets and will refer to them as Carmel A. Extending its own brand further, Carmel Grapefruit' will be used on two newly designed cartons. These will be green...
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Career development: Portable skills make switching easy
Towards the end of a successful career in home furnishings, Lynne Flatman could not have anticipated the job change that her career consultant came up with. Flatman was managing director of textile company Chortex and looking for a fresh company. ...
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CANARY tomatoes: Canaries look to growth
Path to new varieties and technology needs government help Canary Island tomato growers have appealed to the islands' government for an aid package to help modernise the industry to boost yields and find new tasty varieties. Francisco Penate,...
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BSE Report: Grocers must help keep supply chain BSE-free'
Retailers have been warned by the chairman of the Food Standards Agency that they have a role to play in ensuring BSE is kept out of the food chain. Speaking at the publication of the FSA's draft report on the BSE controls, Sir John Krebs said...
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Co-ops: CWS brings out buyers to meet Scots
CWS has been holding "meet the buyer" events in Scotland as part of a bid to significantly increase the amount of Scottish products it sources. Events in Glasgow, held in conjunction with Scottish Enterprise's Food and Drink Team, and Inverness,...
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Clicks not bricks: Meshing on the Net
Alan Mitchell reports on how retailers are making a success of e-alliances, where adapting to a fundamental shift in cultural attitudes is the main challenge It's the new Internet landgrab. The old landgrab, where countless entrepreneurs rushed to...
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Brewery site
Deputy prime minister John Prescott has granted outline planning permission to Whitbread for a 300,000 sq ft redevelopment on the site of the former Whitbread Flowers brewery in Cheltenham. Whitbread successfully appealed over its proposal for for...
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Mars boosts grab sugars
Mars is running a 50% extra free promotion on grab packs of its fruit sugars range until the end of the year. The offer applies to 99p bags of Skittles, Starburst Original Chews, Strawberry Mix, Joosters, Factor X, Smilers and Rex the Runt Juicy...
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Fuel blockades: Food depots to get protection'
Clive Beddall, John Wood The grocery industry was bracing itself for disruption on Thursday amid rumours that food distribution depots will be blockaded by fuel duty protesters if Chancellor Gordon Brown fails to deliver in next week's pre-Budget...
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Code of practice: Big five reel over naive' draft as CWS co
Exclusive Clive Beddall The CWS is urging Trade and Industry Secretary Stephen Byers to involve the Co-op in the DTI's controversial new trading code for the top five multiples and their suppliers. In a letter to consumer affairs minister Kim...
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Get dot.com beer smart with SCB
Scottish Courage Brands is seizing the opportunities offered by the internet by launching two major initiatives one for suppliers, the other for customers. The company has built on information and data exchange systems it has in place and has...
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Lang's beef: BSE report
Tim Lang, professor of food policy at Thames Valley University Lord Phillips' Report is a landmark, on a par with the Royal Commission set up to investigate food supply in time of war, back in 1904. The Government is already reviewing the lessons....
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BEEF: Bigger role for importers in stable British market
Focus shifts to non-EU suppliers as Irish production falls BSE makes the headlines but commercial reality in the UK beef sector is more about increasing tension between suppliers of home-killed product and the overseas processors winning a growing...
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What's the beef with the Frogs?
Sir; Your correspondent "Food Lover" (The Grocer, October 28), had a completely opposite experience to me at SIAL. His steak may have been like shoe leather, but I have to say that mine, also bought at the restaurant in Hall 6 was delightful. In...
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Beaujolais seeks new friends
Patriarche Wine Agencies is planning to revitalise the jaded view of Beaujolais Nouveau with a striking repackaging of its wine. It is hoping to promote the wine to a new audience when it goes on sale on the traditional third Thursday in November...
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E-commerce: Waitrose claims a world beater in home shopping
Waitrose will have the most advanced home shopping grocery website in the world, according to director of selling and marketing Mark Price. He said the site was not an adaption of its Waitrose@work site but a brand new system developed with IBM and...
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Barry uses his loaf for Le Pain
Peter Barry has been appointed managing director of RHM's Le Pain Croustillant, the UK's leading manufacturer of part-baked frozen French bread. Barry takes up his appointment next month. He joins Le Pain Croustillant from RHM's dry pasta company...
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UK consumption of pork and bacon
Renewed consumer fears of BSE are a subtle reminder of why the pigmeat industry and its markets have become so politically contentious in recent years. Food shoppers' switch away from beef, a demand shift becoming dramatic in late 1995, gave a...
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United States: Grand Union is up for auction
Cash-strapped US supermarket chain Grand Union is treating a $300m offer for most of its stores from supplier C&S Wholesalers as a "floor bid" after receiving a series of rival offers for its assets this week. The winning bid will be determined on...
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