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Return of Lean Cuisine
Slimmers’ stalwart Findus Lean Cuisine brand is making a mid September comeback with new ranges, new recipes and revamped packaging. The six strong Classic range comprises six 97% fat free versions of Findus favourites, including Chicken Curry and…
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Some real' temptation
Birds Eye is putting £2.6m behind the launch of two new frozen chicken products, Honey & Mustard Chicken and Thai Chicken. The products, rsp £1.99, will be pitched as having real food values and ingredients even though they are frozen. Birds Eye...
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Massel squares up to cube kings
Food Masters is launching Massel stock cubes to challenge leading stock cube players Knorr and VdB’s Oxo. The three flavours chicken, beef and vegetable are all gluten and lactose free and contain no animal products. Advertising in local press…
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CWS: Wallace and Gromit team there for CWS
CWS has recruited Aardman Animations creator of the Chicken Run movie to produce its new £12m tv ad campaign devised by Partners BDDH. In what is being hailed as a groundbreaking campaign, the humorous ads feature computer generated animals in...
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The King with a sense of humour
Bestfoods is nudging the dynamic instant hot snacks category nearer to meals with the launch of King Pot Noodle size on July 17. The new packs are 400g rather than 300g, in chicken and mushroom, and beef and tomato flavours. Bestfoods is backing...
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Patak's heat goes Frozen
Patak's is pitching at the snack market with the launch of a new range of Frozen Snack Pots. It comes in four flavours chicken tikka masala, chicken jalfrezi, chicken korma and vegetable balti and cooks in the microwave in five minutes. It is...
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The Morrisons are identical twins with the same pricing down
After last week's out of stock débâcle, thankfully only two stores failed to provide full baskets this week. Tesco, Roborough, had no Home Fries or milk, while chicken and Jacob's Creek wine was missing from Somerfield, Alton. Our shopper at Asda,...
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Poultry: Sun Valley sells off its turkey arm
Sun Valley is selling off its turkey business to focus on its core chicken interests. Brandons Poultry will take on Sun Valley's production plant at Abergavenny by the end of June, as the Cargill owned subsidiary homes in on its chicken and food...
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Laughing and running
The Laughing Cow is running an on pack cinema promotion to coincide with the new Chicken Run movie the latest film from the producers of Wallace and Gromit. Consumers can collect six tokens from standard The Laughing Cow cheese portions (eight...
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No need to cry fowl
Sir; Anticoccidials are meant to control coccidiosis in chickens. Some, the ionophores, are manufactured by fermentation. Professor Spedding suggests that ionophores are neither antibiotics nor growth promoters in his letter (The Grocer, April 15,...
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C0-op: Egg colouring is no yolk
The Co-op has followed Iceland's lead by selling eggs from chickens fed a natural diet. Buyer Geoff Cox said the society would source its entire range of eggs from hens fed an artificial ingredient-free and GM-free diet once a suitable supplier had...
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Page 52 briefs
Nestlé has brought back Ian Botham as Shredded Wheat spokesman in an updated version of the Can you eat three?' ad. Bernard Matthews is launching fresh versions of children's frozen turkey products Dinosaurs and Drummers this month. Mixed...
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THE HEAT IS ON FOR SALES
Supermarkets across the country are preparing a carnivores' feast in preparation for this year's barbecue season. Somerfield has streamlined its range of chicken products into a core range of popular lines namely chicken and chinese flavours ...
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Questioning UK salmonella level
Sir; In his letter (The Grocer, February 5, p18), Peter Bradnock said we were incorrect in our assertion a third of British chickens have salmonella. This figure is, in fact, an estimate but our source was a report from the publication Sustain. We...
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British poultry facts laid down
Sir; I read the article in The Grocer (p10, Jan 22) on the Danish poultry company that believes it is being snubbed by British supermarkets. The chicken market is increasingly competitive, but it does seem a little desperate to attack our industry...