All The Grocer articles in 9 December 2017 – Page 2
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NewsRichard Watling to head Cotswolds Distillery sales strategy
He was enlisted to “grow market share and expand trade sales in whisky and gin”
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NewsHain Celestial buys UK sweetener producer Clarks
Hain Celestial has announced it has agreed to acquire Welsh sweetener supplier Clarks to sit within its wholly-owned Hain Daniels UK business.
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NewsEuro Garages picks up 1,000 German Esso service stations
The deal means EG Group will operate about 3,500 stations across Europe…
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Comment & OpinionA healthy buzz from posher bangers is helping dispel the carcinogen cloud
Back with a bang: sausage sales are starting to rise again, thanks to a raft of healthier NPDs
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NewsPalmer & Harvey sought to delay dividend payments as losses mounted
Collapsed wholesaler Palmer & Harvey renegotiated its onerous dividend payments to management to help mitigate rising losses according to its most recently filed accounts.
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NewsNisa joins coalition of wholesalers supplying Costcutter
Nisa has also picked up temporary McColl’s deal in the wake of the P&H collapse
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NewsMr Sheen makes TV comeback with first live-action advert
The £800,000 Back to Banish Dust push kicks off this evening (4 December)
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NewsMedia Bites 5 Dec: Black Friday, P&H, McColl's
“Black Friday sale failure so hard to swallow” is the headline in The Times this morning on the disappointing in-store sales figures for Black Friday.
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NewsRetail sales rise in November but Black Friday fails to boost non-food
Retail sales were up 0.6% on a like-for-like basis in November according to the latest BRC- KPMG Retail Sales Monitor, but in-store sales of non-food items fell despite the Black Friday sales event.
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NewsCharles Gibb appointed North America CEO at Fever-Tree
The posh mixer brand has established a New York office, 10 years after it entered the US
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NewsVita Coco targets £7m coconut milk sales as Light line added
Rolling out this week, Light contains 1% fat and 20 calories per 100ml
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NewsUK performing "badly" on sustainable agriculture
It ranked 10th out of 34 countries in the 2017 Food Sustainability Index (FSI)
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NewsBrakes opens Reading innovation centre with 13 chefs
Brakes said the new centre had been designed to develop, grow, and support the company’s products, colleagues and customer…
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NewsCo-op adds first Fairtrade and Organic certified Lebanese wine
The wine, Côteaux les Cèdres, is produced by The Co-operative Coteaux Heliopolis
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NewsIrish border solution 'essential' says Ulster Farmers' Union
Comments follow collapse of talks between UK, Ireland and EU yesterday after DUP vetoed deal for ‘regulatory alignment’ between NI and ROI
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NewsFormer FSA boss Catherine Brown joins Hubbub Foundation board
Brown, who left the FSA last November, will share knowledge of running organisations and governmental bodies with charity
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NewsFSA ‘remains committed’ to mandatory display of FHRS
FSA report finds a “continuous improvement” in food hygiene standards since the scheme was first introduced
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NewsMedia Bites 6 Dec: Supermarket shares, Nestlé, Fever-Tree
Tesco surged up the FTSE 100 after analysts told investors to add the stock to their trolley.
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NewsCity snapshot: Nestlé buys Canadian supplement company Atrium for $2.3bn.
Nestlé (NESN) has agreed a deal to buy privately-held nutritional health products producer Atrium Innovations to expand its global consumer goods business. Plus Poundland owner Steinhoff’s shares plunge amid accounting irregularity, £3.4bn European shopping centre merger, supermarket shares surge and all the rest of the latest news from the City.
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Comment & OpinionPat looks to India to help resolve supply issues
Like some of my competitors I’ve experienced one or two unforeseen difficulties recently in obtaining stock