All The Grocer articles in 5 November 2005 – Page 2
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Mega health drinks for grown-ups
Simply Mega is the latest brand to attempt to get a foothold in the highly competitive adult soft drinks category, promoting the products’ added health benefits as a selling point.Developed by the Food Brands Group, three flavours are being...
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Express empire will double
Tesco has revealed plans to double the size of its burgeoning Express empire within 10 years.Lucy Neville-Rolfe, company secretary, made the admission as she defended Tesco’s dominant market position at the final hearing of the All Party...
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Salt manufacturers don’t understand
from Dr Susan Jebb, Medical Research Council, Human NutritionSir; The Salt Manufacturers’ Association fails to understand the basis of population-based dietary guidelines (The Grocer, Letters, October 15, p30).A salt intake of 6g...
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Device sees off nuisance teens
Retailers are turning the tables on groups of unwanted youths hanging around their stores – by giving them an earful of ultra-sonic soundwaves.The novel technique uses a high-pitched sound said to be only audible to the under 20s.Hidden in...
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Marketing development task for Rhys-Williams
RHM has appointed Harriet Rhys-Williams to the newly created role of group marketing development director. She will be responsible for marketing development across RHM. Rhys-Williams has held several senior positions within RHM, including...
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In Profile: Hamish Renton, MD, Paignton desserts unit, Uniq Prepared Foods
The birth of former Tesco health guru Hamish Renton’s son two years ago inadvertently led to the creation of one of the supermarket’s biggest initiatives. The...
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Who dares discriminates
I caught a packed plane back from Glasgow last month. There were only two aisle seats left – one next to me and one just behind – when on sidled the fattest man I have ever seen on an aircraft. As he shuffled down the aisle, my blood pressure rose...
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Wilma eats into grapefruit crop
Florida’s grapefruit growers have lost between 20% and 50% of their crop after orchards in the state were hit by Hurricane Wilma last month.The Florida Department of Citrus warned this week that the true extent of the damage would not be known...
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Ocado gets full coverage
Ocado is planning a massive boost to its coverage of the UK.The online partnership with Waitrose has identified sites for warehouses to service areas in and around Bristol, Nottingham, Leeds and Sheffield.Tim Steiner, Ocado chief...
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Consumer Insight
Age profile of fish finger/fish cake consumersnFish fingers and fish cakes were eaten on 409 million occasions last year, down by 3% from the previous yearnChildren eat 40% of fish fingers...
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NFU confident of strong OTM market in UK
Markets and abattoirs are ready for the introduction of new rules on Monday that will allow the resumption of beef sales from UK cattle aged older than thirty months.NFU spokesman Rob Newbery said: “Live auction markets are working with...
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Commodities Update: fish, mandarins, pineapple, olives
Red salmon prices upRetail canned fish sales continue to show year-on-year growth in spite of escalating prices due to raw material inflation.IRI figures for the year to September show that by volume, pilchards are up 12.9%, mackerel 12.7%...
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M&S plans food comeback
Marks & Spencer must regain its food crown in terms of quality, the retailer’s chief executive, Stuart Rose, has said.Speaking at the British Council of Shopping Centres annual conference and retail showcase in Belfast, Rose admitted that...
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Tesco colossus enters the mix
Tesco is planning its biggest-ever mixed use development at a site in London that will create an entire community with 835 flats and be the biggest sustainable development of its kind in the country.The brownfield development in Tolworth, which...
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Somerfield collects new wines
Somerfield is launching a premium wine range as part of its most extensive range review in a decade.The Collection portfolio is a range of 26 wines priced between £7 and £20, which will be displayed on a dedicated four-foot bay within...
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Lamb price ‘collapse’
It isn’t just beef producers who are getting a raw deal from multiple retailers, but sheep farmers too, it has been claimed.According to the Farmers’ Union of Wales, lamb prices have collapsed in the past 12 months, even though retail prices...
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Woodhaven label is top of wine class
Marks & Spencer has taken top honours in a competition for innovative and informative labelling in wine brands. Its Californian Woodhaven’s bright and quirky label beat off competitors to win the first Wine Label of the Year Awards at The...
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Healthy and ready for children to eat
Healthy ready meals for kids don’t have to be an oxymoron, according to two Yorkshire mums behind a new range that uses locally sourced meat and vegetables.The Martha and Lawrence range will go on shelf in Co-Op stores from January and is in...
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Public sees flu risk in chicken
Nearly a quarter of consumers believe they could catch avian flu from eating chicken, according to new research seen exclusively by The Grocer.In a survey of 1,000 shoppers, carried out late last month at the height of the media frenzy about...
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Lower down the food chain
There is still plenty to play for in the petfood market for smaller animals such as rabbits and hamstersCompared with dogs and cats, which remain Britain’s favourite pets, smaller beasts such as hamsters and gerbils come well down...
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