All Eggs articles – Page 70

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    Webbs factory to close

    2001-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Webbs Country Foods chicken processing factory at Lymington in Hampshire will close down this summer as part of a rationalisation programme announced by parent company Faccenda Group. A spokeswoman said Faccenda was "restructuring its operations...

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    Crime: Five men jailed for condemned poultry scandal

    2001-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Five meat industry executives were jailed for conspiring to put more than a thousand tons of condemned poultry on Britain's dinner tables. Chicken and turkey destined for Spillers and Pedigree pet food tins found its way to butchers, market...

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    The Grocer top products survey: sauces

    2000-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Shaun Quinton Senior trading manager, proprietary brands Spar UK Central Office Our stores are more for destination top-up as opposed to planned purchase so we tend to do well on standard variants such as Chicken Tonight, Ragú and Uncle Ben's,...

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    Art of organic enjoyment

    2000-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Enjoy Organic has added frozen ready meals to its organic portfolio. A five strong range, with mainly meat based recipes, launches into freezers this month. It includes Mediterranean Vegetable Pasta Bake, Chilli Con Carne, Cumberland Pie, Chicken...

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    Turkey crisps for Christmas

    2000-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Golden Wonder has launched a Golden Gobble Christmas limited edition turkey and stuffing flavour crisps. The 27p Golden Gobble single packs feature a colourful cartoon turkey with a Christmas party hat on a seasonal background. Golden Wonder's...

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    Soups coupled with speed message

    2000-10-28T00:00:00Z

    A risqué three week TV advertising campaign for Heinz microwaveable soups breaks on October 30. Heinz's four bestselling canned varieties ­ cream of tomato, cream of chicken, vegetable and cream of mushroom soups ­ are now available in microwave...

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    SIAL show review: Also seen in Paris this week...

    2000-10-28T00:00:00Z

    A range of organic chicken nuggets on the Moy Park stand attracted interest from continental buyers. The product, which has been added to Tesco's newly expanded range of organics, is available in both 250g and 500g pack sizes. Pudding fans were...

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    Fred takes to the bottle

    2000-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Homepride has entered the ambient soup market for the first time with the launch of Soup in a Bottle. In four traditional flavours ­ cream of tomato, cream of chicken, mediterranean vegetable and cream of mushroom (rsp £1.49), the soup comes in a...

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    Mattessons' Strong stuff

    2000-09-23T00:00:00Z

    Kerry Foods is replacing three of its Mattessons cooked meats products with new versions in October in the second phase of a £5m brand reinvestment programme. Thomas and Friends ham slices replace the pork blend, while Mr Strong chicken slices...

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    Return of Lean Cuisine

    2000-09-02T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-08-19T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-08-05T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-07-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-06-24T00:00:00Z

    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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    poultry

    2000-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Company taking branding to heart of commodity chicken sector Grampian moves to beat price deflation Grampian Country Food Group is launching a huge campaign that aims to take branding to the heart of the commodity fresh chicken market. "We...

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    poultry

    2000-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Belgian birds supplier deal New supplies of Belgian poultry are to enter the UK with the appointment of Poultex as sole supplier for processor Chicken Masters of Belgium. While Poultex, based in Norwich, anticipates greatest demand for trimmed...

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    Patak's heat goes Frozen

    2000-06-10T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-05-27T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-05-27T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    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...