All The Grocer articles in 9 June 2018
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Category ReportThe Midas touch: Butters and spreads category report 2018
Block butter prices have soared a whopping 33% over the past year – pegging the average price per kilo at £5.58
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NewsCommodity cost increases and weak pound hit profits at Filippo Berio
Premium olive oil supplier Filippo Berio saw a fall in profits despite 8% sales growth as it was impacted by increasing commodity costs and a weaker pound
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Analysis and FeaturesWilliam Jackson Food Group pledges to reinvest Aunt Bessie's cash
William Jackson Food Group has pledged to plough cash back into the business after agreeing a bumper £210m sale of its key Aunt Bessie’s brand to Birds Eye owner Nomad Foods
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My Alternative CVSteve Perez, Global Brands, on jets, the killer instinct and Alan Sugar
It pays to work hard and be tenacious
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Comment and OpinionCould a unified company vision save WH Smith from the high street scrapheap?
The retailer needs to align the whole organisation with one consistent vision, tell one story and speak with one voice, argues Chris West of Verbal Identity
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Category ReportSwimming against the current? Scotland category report 2018
Can salmon, and other flagship Scottish food & drink industries, flourish in such turbulent political and economic waters?
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NewsScotland to re-examine minimum unit pricing wholesaler advice
Wholesalers selling to both trade customers and directly to consumers were left confused on how to manage the two channels
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NewsJTI alerts retailers to fake tobacco voucher scam
Silk Cut, Mayfair and Benson & Hedges were also hit by a similar fraudulent scheme in March 2015
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NewsWhat do US-style feedlots mean for British beef?
Does the existence of a dozen industrial-scale beef finishing units in England undermine Britain’s grass-fed image?
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NewsBig brands lose listings in Tesco's latest Project Reset
Higgidy, Kerrygold and Danepak are among the big brands to have lost shelf space
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NewsCharlie Bigham's adds capacity as it records 18% profits rise
The upmarket ready meal manufacturer saw pre-tax profits rise to £4.1m for the year ending 31 August 2017, after sales rose 7.5%
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NewsWH Smith exceeds expectations with solid third quarter sales
WH Smith’s “profit-focused strategy” seems to be winning more friends in the City than it has on the high street
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NewsPies & pastries supplier Peter's embarks on refinancing deal
Welsh pies and pastries supplier Peter’s is undergoing an emergency multimillion refinancing after falling to a pre-tax loss of £2.6m last year
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Comment and OpinionPM must take decisive action on HFSS products
While we welcome PHE’s first assessment of progress on the government’s sugar reduction programme, much more must be done…
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NewsShortages and Ramadan demand set to hike watermelon prices
Warm temperatures in the UK have increased demand for the fruit
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Analysis and FeaturesTaking the battle to brands: the new trends in own label
Buoyed by a decline in brand loyalty, the rise of the discounters and a value-focused younger generation, own label share
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NewsVita Coco CEO Giles Brook invests in snack startup Bepps
The new “partnership” makes Brook the largest investor at the company
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Comment and OpinionInside Cadbury: an unsatisfying look under the purple wrapper
Those looking for investigative journalists to lift the lid on secrets lurking in vats of Dairy Milk would have been disappointed with Inside Cadbury
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NewsCity snapshot: Supermarket inflation eases to 1.1% in May
The Grocer Price Index measure of supermarket inflation fell from 1.2% to 1.1% as Tesco recorded its lowest level of inflation for almost a year. Plus Distil shares rise after year of double-digit growth and all the rest of the latest news from the City.
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NewsMedia Bites 8 June: Costa Coffee, M&S, Poundworld
Whitbread has mooted the possibility that it could sell its Costa Coffee or Premier Inn businesses rather than pursue its proposal to demerge its coffee business within the next two years.