All The Grocer articles in 7 October 2006 – Page 4
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News
Price Basket
The price of our basket of dairy items recorded its biggest rise since the survey began on 4 January, 2005. It is now 7.2% more expensive than ten weeks ago, following its third consecutive rise, returning to roughly the same level as it...
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Profiles and QandAs
Q&A with Neil Barber Manager of the Week
Do you attribute this week's award to any particular programme or drive? I must say I am delighted and proud of my team and I'd like to thank them. This is a testament to the hard work and consistency they have put in. I think the team...
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News
Go bananas for Caribbean fruits
A decade ago, two-thirds of the bananas we ate in Britain came from the Caribbean, notably the Windward Islands of Dominica, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenada. Now sales have been whittled away to less than 10% as cheaper fruits from the...
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News
Ocado's paper bag headache
A trial by online retailer Ocado to deliver groceries in paper bags has been plagued with problems, The Grocer understands. Delivery drivers have complained that the bags, which are made from recycled paper, are affected by the moisture...
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News
In Brief: Illsley for Northern; Society president; Newton joins Bacardi; Innocent reshuffle
Illsley for Northern Northern Foods has appointed Tony Illsley as a non-executive director. Illsley previously held a number of senior marketing and operational roles with PepsiCo in the UK and Europe, before becoming president...
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Availability
Asda Stockport, Greater Manchester. 0 Our mystery shopper at the Asda store on Warren Street in Stockport, Greater Manchester, found almost all the items he was looking for. The store stocked reduced-fat Brussels pâté, but not a...
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Asda plans pilots for wind turbines
Asda is submitting plans for its first UK wind turbines as part of an ongoing sustainability programme. The supermarket chain hopes to hand over plans to Falkirk Council, Scotland, by the end of the year in a bid to gain planning...
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English apples set for bumper sales season
It is shaping up to be a bumper year for British apples, as supermarkets report the fruit is flying off the shelves. Asda claimed it was the first of the multiples to offer English apples from this year's harvest by getting Cox's on the...
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Mason appeals to the empty nesters
It has taken Paul Mason a little more than six months as chief executive of Somerfield to be able to sit down and reveal to the press his master plan for the "confused business that was trying to be Tesco rather than itself". As part of...
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Comment and Opinion
Work as one for all of us to make a sustainable return
In Tim Lang's column the problems of farming, or more correctly food production, were well explained. Policy makers no longer consider that farming matters. As an industry going back hundreds of years, our...
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News
Smoothies war hotting up in the freezer aisles
Taking on the likes of Innocent and PJs, King Parrot Foods has put smoothies in the freezer aisle. The new company has come up with an original concept - a single pouch ?of individually quick-frozen (IQF) fruit, low-fat yoghurt and...
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Cadbury aims to crack luxury eggs for Easter
Cadbury Trebor Bassett has shrugged off the bruises of this summer's salmonella scare-induced product recall to announce its Easter range and is calling on stores to swap Easter egg price deals for premium offerings, claiming that the former do...
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News
This week a year ago the winner was...
The Tesco on Hurst Road in West Molesey, London, won our Top Store award this time last year for its superb customer service. At the time, store manager Kevin Reilly said the experience of opening the five-month-old store had been hard,...
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Waitrose adds liqueur range
A family-owned French company has developed a range of traditional liqueurs exclusively for Waitrose. Gabriel Boudier of Dijon, renowned for its Crème de Cassis, has created the Classic Liqueurs Collection, which comprises cherry and...
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Board games add chocolate versions
Board game fans are used to Monopoly money, but now they can trade in pieces of chocolate instead. Three of the most popular board games in the UK - Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly - have been transformed into edible chocolate...
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Walkers pulls Jamaica ad
PepsiCo has pulled an advert for its new Walkers Baked crisps and replaced it with those it showed for its standard lines after an anti-crisp campaign by the British Heart Foundation.The advert, due to air this week, shows thousands of...
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Take action over government organic threat
Your recent article stating that Asda was committed to extending its organic range, ('Asda: our organics will be a shock to Waitrose', The Grocer, 23 September, p12) was further evidence that organics have at last become mainstream and shaken...
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In Brief: Game for selenium; Herbs keep meat pink; Scottish abattoir
Game for selenium Game contains up to ten times more selenium than other meats, according to the Game-to-Eat campaign, which is promoting the health benefits of game. Scientists believe the trace element plays a role in boosting...
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€400m BWG management buyout set to be tied up soon
Managers at BWG, owner of the Spar and Mace franchises, are set to buy the company from its biggest shareholder, Electra Partners, in a deal that values the business at €400m. The management team, led by BWG chief executive Leo Crawford...