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Steps up for Heinz
Pop band Steps is lining up with cartoon stars Butt Ugly Martians to join Heinz' range of character pasta shapes for kids. The new products also include licences for TV shows Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Fetch the Vet. All are aimed at three to...
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Heinz devises Pizza-Pleasure to get more adults munching
Heinz is bringing out a Pizza-Pleasure range of "adult-focused" frozen pizzas, and backing it with £10m the biggest spend in the frozen and chilled arena this year. John Hendy, marketing manager, frozen and chilled, said most frozen pizzas were...
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John West - grizzly bear fights back
"In an advertising world dominated by celebrities, sex and high production values, it's refreshing to see an ad that is genuinely funny and conveys a core message true to the product. The ad's appeal lies in the humour of the grizzly bear fighting...
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Fills for kids wrapped up
Findus has gone back to school to add two new flavours to its range of Crispy Pancakes Pepperoni Pizza and Sausage & Baked Beans. The company said it had consulted with its target audience children before coming up with the new twists on an...
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Ketchup: US Heinz takes purple to heart
As The Grocer predicted (July 21, p9) Heinz is adding a purple variant to its US ketchup portfolio from September. EZ Squirt Funky Purple joins Tomato Red and Blastin' Green which was launched in the UK last month. Heinz UK admitted it "might...
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Cirio Del Monte Group: MD for north Europe arm
Del Monte's new owner Cirio has picked Stephen Thorpe for the top job of md, Northern Europe, for the new Cirio Del Monte Group. Former md Ed Petrie, who recently moved to the UK from South Africa, becomes md for commercial operations, Africa,...
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Recruitment: Supermanager
When change is a priority and the senior team has its work cut out dealing with the core business, it's time to call in the interim executive. John West reports Retailers and manufacturers need to keep re-inventing themselves in the race to keep...
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Heinz: Johnson dismisses obituaries for tinned foods
International pundits who have predicted the demise of the can as a food packaging medium have been given a sharp rebuff by Bill Johnson, president and CEO of Heinz. He said this week: "The can will be around long after you and I have gone." But...
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On your marks for opera with Safeway
The supermarket business is all about entertainment, and that's certainly the case with Safeway. Their Pavarotti Picnic in the Park bash in London last weekend, which raised half a million quid for the Prince's Trust, will go down as one of the...
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Playing Ketchup
Walkers and Heinz are teaming up to produce Heinz Tomato Ketchup flavoured crisps. Walkers already had a Tomato Ketchup flavour but the Heinz version which has taken six months to perfect has proved more popular during trials. Both brands'...
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Canned fish: Princes/West seize chance to revive red salmon
As tuna prices rise, red salmon is being promoted at greatly reduced levels, as leading brands bring forward their promotional deals to take advantage of an opportunity to reinvigorate sales. For the last couple of years, red salmon sales have been...
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Canned food: Princes gets Napolina
As The Grocer went to press, sources in the Italian canning sector said Unilever Bestfoods UK had completed the sale of its internationally famous Napolina canned tomato products brand to Princes Foods, as we predicted in our March 31 issue. It's...
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Cirio Del Monte: Corporate face up front
Cirio and Del Monte are poised to present their group face to the world in a pan-European advertising campaign. This is the first time the Cirio Del Monte Group will publicly appear in its new guise since Cirio Alimentare completed its acquisition...
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Princes: Heinz denies being hustled over pouch pack tuna
Heinz is claiming victory in its battle with Princes to be first to bring pouch pack tuna to the UK. It claims that John West Tuna pouches went into Waitrose stores this week, with nationwide distribution scheduled for May. However, Heinz...
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PRINCES CIRCLING NAPOLINA
Strong rumours in Naples this week suggested that Princes Foods was negotiating to buy the internationally famous Italian canned tomato products brand, Napolina, from Unilever Bestfoods. Although there have been no comments from either party, the...
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Suppliers: Princes restructures to spread further across EU
Princes Group has restructured as it gears up to expand its operations in continental Europe. Canned meat, fish, sandwich spreads, canned fruit and vegetables, cooking sauces, pastas and oil operations are all affected in the shake-up. The...
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Canned fish: Princes prepares to pack new punch in tuna war
ExclusiveKaren Dempsey Princes is firing another salvo in its battle with Heinz for supremacy in the canned tuna market by racing to be the first to bring pouch pack product to the UK. Princes Ready to Go Tuna is set to launch in May, with a July...
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Acquisitions: Princes finally seizes Beta Foods
Princes this week completed the acquisition of Beta Foods and its wholly owned subsidiary, C Shippam (The Grocer, February 3, p12). Three years ago Chichester based Beta Foods, the fishpaste, canned chicken and pâté business, thwarted Liverpool...
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Sandwiches get major brand leverage with arrival of Heinz
Exclusive Karen Dempsey Heinz is going into chilled for the first time with a range of branded sandwiches. The 10-strong range is traditional rather than fancy. But the sandwiches do bring new uses for Heinz staple products such as John West...
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Princes tuna in Mauritius: Faster, better canning
Princes claims the most streamlined tuna production process in the world in Mauritius thanks to an integrated, computer controlled, thaw, cook and cool system’ which it has developed in conjunction with a Danish equipment producer. It claims that,…