All The Grocer articles in 9 December 2006 – Page 4
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News
UBUK goes nuts with brands for New Year
UBUK is welcoming in the New Year with a range of snacking launches as well as slashing the saturated fat content across its crisps portfolio. New for 2007 is limited edition McCoy's Jackets, available from March. The crisps are made...
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UBUK goes nuts with brands for New Year
UBUK is welcoming in the New Year with a range of snacking launches as well as slashing the saturated fat content across its crisps portfolio. New for 2007 is limited edition McCoy's Jackets, available from March. The crisps are made...
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Comment and Opinion
Personal coach Graham Botwright why trading on personal relationships isn't good business sense
The word 'partnership' is often bandied around as the holy grail of negotiation. But while it is always appropriate to create a true partnership with your buyer or supplier, some partnerships are more about one side trying to make the...
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Nurturing the bottom line
Raising an infant is a wallet-emptying experience, with companies in the infant care sector constantly dreaming up new ways to part parents from their cash.And the pressure on suppliers to do so is great, because birth rates are stable,...
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Wold Top has the bottle to expand
A new micro-brewery in Yorkshire has begun bottling its most popular ale and will, initially, target regional off-licences and specialist stores.The Wold Top Brewery, which was founded in 2003, is bottling its bestselling cask ale,...
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Fairtrade fans boosting nuts
Tesco is extending its Fairtrade nut offer. It claims more than 13,000 farmers in Malawi, Mozambique and India will benefit from the decision to launch a 200g Fairtrade peanut and raisin mix and Fairtrade natural cashews in 150g...
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Fairtrade fans boosting nuts
Tesco is extending its Fairtrade nut offer.It claims more than 13,000 farmers in Malawi, Mozambique and India will benefit from the decision to launch a 200g Fairtrade peanut and raisin mix and Fairtrade natural cashews in 150g...
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Bogof's week
Bogof was in Scotland last week for the launch of Tesco's new eco-friendly superstore at Wick. Unfortunately, when he landed at Inverness at 10pm ready for a 6am drive up to the remote superstore the next morning he discovered his luggage had...
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Bogof's week
Bogof was in Scotland last week for the launch of Tesco's new eco-friendly superstore at Wick. Unfortunately, when he landed at Inverness at 10pm ready for a 6am drive up to the remote superstore the next morning he discovered his luggage had...
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Business blooms in the desert
Few British shoppers realise it, but they are taking home more produce than ever before from Israeli fields, groves and orchards. Of the £140m of produce imported into Britain by Agrexco and Mehadrin Tnuport Export, about three-quarters...
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Business blooms inthe desert
Few British shoppers realise it, but they are taking home more produce than ever before from Israeli fields, groves and orchards.Of the £140m of produce imported into Britain by Agrexco and Mehadrin Tnuport Export, about three-quarters...
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Industry blasts Defra welfare labelling plan
Defra proposals for a good-better-best welfare label on food products have come in for flak from the industry. Following the launch of a 12-week consultation period last week, the proposed bronze, silver and gold labelling system has...
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Industry blasts Defra welfare labelling plan
Defra proposals for a good-better-best welfare label on food products have come in for flak from the industry.Following the launch of a 12-week consultation period last week, the proposed bronze, silver and gold labelling system has...
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Morrisons' Melnyk set to go before Christmas
Marie Melnyk has resigned as managing director of Morrisons after taking medical advice. She will leave on 22 December after more than 30 years at the supermarket chain and will then consider her options for the future. The company...
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Shelves spilling over as beautiful offers pick up
The health, beauty and baby category has started to increase activity in featured space promotions in the run-up to Christmas. This category has been consistently in the top 10 branded activity chart and in the top five for three of the...
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Greenpeace guns for beam trawling
Greenpeace ratcheted up the pressure on multiples to improve fish sourcing policies by "displaying" hundreds of dead fish and crabs at store entrances.Tesco, Asda and Morrisons in Oxford were targeted in two days of protest this week and...
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Scientists battle over organic chicken taste
Organic chicken is fattier and less nutritious than standard chicken, new research claims. The University of Strathclyde's scientists said tests on supermarket-bought chicken breasts showed organic ones contained fewer Omega-3 fatty acids...
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Scientists battle over organic chicken taste
Organic chicken is fattier and less nutritious than standard chicken, new research claims.The University of Strathclyde's scientists said tests on supermarket-bought chicken breasts showed organic ones contained fewer Omega-3 fatty acids...
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Battered, yes, but not bowed
The bombardment of southern Lebanon and renewed hostilities in Gaza have dominated the national media for months and fuelled rising fears about instability in the Middle East. Yet for the Israeli companies that produce and import food and drink...
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Battered, yes, but not bowed
The bombardment of southern Lebanon and renewed hostilities in Gaza have dominated the national media for months and fuelled rising fears about instability in the Middle East. Yet for the Israeli companies that produce and import food and drink...