All The Grocer articles in 9 December 2017 – Page 5
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Brakes 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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UK performing "badly" on sustainable agriculture
It ranked 10th out of 34 countries in the 2017 Food Sustainability Index (FSI)
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Vita 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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Charles 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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Retail 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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Media 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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Mr 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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Nisa 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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Palmer & 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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A 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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Euro 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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Hain 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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Richard 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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Tesco trials Next fashion tie-up at Surrey Quays store
Tesco launch more than 50 concessions at various UK stores in 2017
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Cauli Rice rebrands as Fullgreen to go ‘beyond cauliflower’
The changes will take effect from 11 December to better reflect the portfolio’s all-natural ingredients, said the brand
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Nisa to supply McColl's stores in wake of P&H collapse
Nisa’s new short-term contract begins today
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Yeo Valley to boost c-store presence with distribution deal
Supplier has teamed up with Omsco and Freshways to distribute organic milk into convenience channel
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Collaboration between startups and corporates is great – but the 'human fit' has to be right
A growing number of big companies are looking to form partnerships with entrepreneurs. But significant hurdles to collaboration remain, says Alessio D’Antino of Crowdfooding
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City snapshot: McColl’s annual sales rise 19.1% but like-for-like sales slip in fourth quarter
McColl’s Retail Group (MCLS) has reported a 19.1% uplift in annual sales following the acquisition of 298 Co-op convenience stores, but like-for-like growth tailed off towards the end of the year. Plus a look ahead at finance news this week and all the latest news from the City.
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Media Bites 4 Dec: Food waste, Palmer & Harvey, Amazon, Simply Fresh
East of England Co-op will become the first major retailer to sell food beyond its “best before” dates.