All The Grocer articles in 6 June 2009 – Page 2
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Napolina's pulses help home cooks
Italian canned tomato supplier Napolina is launching a range of pulses to capitalise on growing consumer interest in scratch cooking.Making its debut into retail canned pulses, Napolina is launching chickpeas, butter beans, red kidney beans...
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Fmcg companies pay price for coupon misredemption
Manufacturers are losing sizeable sums of money from coupon fraud. So why isn't more being done to tackle the problem, asks Chloe Smith
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Ecover turns up the power to clean like petrochemical rivals
Ecover has relaunched its eco-friendly surface cleaning range with a more powerful natural ingredient that it claims will make it as effective as petrochemical-based brands such as Cillit Bang and Mr Muscle.The ecological cleaning brand said...
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Girls-only Gorgeous lacks pulling power, says Chicago Town
Chicago Town's "women-only" pizza brand Gorgeous has struggled to attract consumers since its debut five months ago, the company has revealed.The range, launched in February, had achieved just under £600k in sales due to a "lack of consumer...
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Editor's Comment: Tesco is halfway down the online track but Morrisons can catch up
Morrisons needs to get with the programme online - but it can from rivals' mistakes, says Liz Hamson
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: One negative trait can colour how your contacts see you
Networking. These days, it's a popular way to build up business contacts and establish relationships with potential...
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James switches stores from Budgens to Spar
One of Budgens' most well-known retailers, Jonathan James, has switched two of his five stores to the Spar fascia. James changed the stores in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, from Budgens to Spar after Musgrave opened a new store in the small...
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Halliwell named as new Bernard Matthews MD
Bernard Matthews Farms has named Jeff Halliwell as the company's new UK managing director. He joins from dairy co-operative First Milk, where he was managing director of First Milk Cheese Company, the UK's largest cheese manufacturing...
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Beef industry questions Greenpeace findings
The UK beef industry has hit back at Greenpeace claims that the use of beef from companies illegally deforesting the Amazon is widespread.
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Müller puts low fat at heart of revamp of Healthy Balance
Müller has given its Healthy Balance brand a £2m revamp and asked retailers to stock it next to other low-fat products, rather than with the rest of the Corner range.The revamp, which includes a new recipe and pack design as well as an extra...
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OFF's intensive orchards boost organic apple crop
Organic Farm Foods has launched a new planting project that it claims will slash the cost of English organic apples.The shelf price of OFF's organic apples is set to fall 20% to £1.99 a bag as a result of the project, making them much more...
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Any OFT referral 'will be too late' warns Dawson
Any intervention by the OFT to refer the newspaper and magazine distribution market to the Competition Commission for investigation will come too late to save Dawson News, the company has admitted.The stricken newstrade wholesaler has been...
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Comment and OpinionCritical Eye... on naked ambition and missing vomitariums
For some, the phrase 'all-you-can-eat' is not a sales pitch but a challenge. It's as if the proprietors are taunting them, daring the unwary to rupture an intestine through cut-price gluttony. Sometimes, however, the pledge of unlimited nosh...
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Unilever puts offers on ice after supply setback
Britain's biggest ice cream manufacturer admitted this week it would have to slash the number of special offers on its brands such as Cornetto, Magnum and Carte D'Or - during the crucial summer season.Unilever blamed manufacturing problems...
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New Heinz advert has nostalgic twist
Heinz is playing on shoppers' nostalgia in a £2m TV campaign that claims its tomato ketchup is 'irreplaceable'.
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Hovis targets bread roll shoppers with follow-up to epic ad
It's bread rolls at dawn as Hovis takes on market leader Warburtons with its latest sepia-tinted advert - featuring a lass rather than a lad.
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NewsNestlé and Cadbury act to secure future cocoa supply
Leading confectionery manufacturers are working to secure their supply of cocoa amid widespread disruption and price volatility. Both Nestlé and Cadbury are taking action to tackle the supply issues that have caused the price of cocoa to...
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NewsGrocer 33: Top spot for immaculate Morrisons
Morrisons' branch in Livingston clinched our top store award this week thanks to a full basket, a short queue and polite staff.
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£10m investment pot hit by fundraising problems
A £10m investment fund designed to support up-and-coming fmcg businesses has been hit by delays in securing investment.The Spayne Lindsay Consumer Brand fund was launched in January with the intention of offering smaller businesses...
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