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Booker bags S&N pub deal
Booker has landed a contract to supply Scottish & Newcastle’s 2,100 UK pubs. Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises customers will gain access to a dedicated website and telesales service for landlords to order products and free deliveries in...
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Pre-paid card keeps student beer fund full
Sainsbury’s is launching an innovative new Meal Ticket scheme designed to assure worried parents their kids are feeding themselves properly at university. Next month, it is bringing out a pre-paid card that parents can top up at their local store,...
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Noble claims first with boiled eggs
Noble Foods is claiming an industry first with the launch of a range of chilled hard-boiled eggs aimed at time-conscious consumers. The British Lion-approved free-range eggs, which have a 12-day shelf life, are being sold under the Fresh & Tasty...
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Burts focuses on multipacks
Burts Chips is to concentrate its efforts on the multipack market following success in the multiples. The company is launching its first range of multipacks for adults and has revamped its range of kids’ multipacks. It has built a new factory to...
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Cow flags up calcium
Kids’ yoghurt brand Munch Bunch has introduced a new on-pack character called Munch the Cow in an attempt to remind parents and children that yoghurt is a key source of calcium. The image of Munch will feature alongside nutrition information, which...
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Sainsbury’s claims it’s greenest in UK
Sainsbury’s has opened what it claims is the UK’s greenest supermarket. The timber-built store in Dartmouth, Devon, which opened this week, is heated by a biomass boiler that halves the amount of energy taken from the national grid. Rainwater is...
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Gooseberries: rain or shine
Sales of cooking gooseberries at Waitrose have risen by 91% this season compared with last year, an increase the retailer put down to the adaptability of the fruit to British weather. Waitrose, which also reported that sales of its later-season...
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Q&A with Nick Harris Store manager of the week
How do you manage availability in a new store? It’s much harder than normal, of course, as you don’t know what’s going to sell. Luckily, we’ve had a lot of support from head office, and have been on the emergency ordering list. That meant we could...
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M&S lightens up sparklers
Marks & Spencer is putting some of its sparkling wines in lighter bottles in an effort to cut down on packaging. The retailer claims the move will save hundreds of tonnes of glass a year. Bottles of Prosecco and the pink Prosecco Raboso now weigh...
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Top-Up shop
Every week The Grocer’s mystery shoppers also visit convenience stores to check out the price of 10 commonly bought fast-moving food items across all grocery categories
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Top-Up shop: 16 August 2008
Every week The Grocer’s mystery shoppers also visit convenience stores to check out the price of 10 commonly bought fast-moving food items across all grocery categories
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Independent view: We ask... how do you manage the BBQ season?
Barbecue season can be a lucrative time for independent retailers – if the weather obliges. After last year’s washout, some store managers admit to approaching this summer with trepidation and, with the weather once again inconsistent, issues with...
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Whole Foods Market: why the numbers went bad
A dismal start in the UK is the least of its woes for Whole Foods Market. And nor is the credit crunch entirely to blame, says Charlie Wright
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M&S brands cheaper than at Sainsbury’s, new survey finds
M&S brands cheaper than at Sainsbury’s, new survey finds: The brands in Marks & Spencer’s branded goods trial are cheaper than at Sainsbury’s, a survey by analyst Blue Oar Securities has revealed. The survey, which Blue Oar admitted was “fairly crude”, looked at 40 brands and found that M&S had ...
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Youngs brings scampi and Kiev together
Seafood company Young’s is combining two 70s favourites in its latest launch. Scampi Kievs are made from Scottish scampi stuffed with garlic butter and covered in breadcrumbs and retail at rsp £3.99 for a 250g bag. They join Young’s other scampi...
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Corpora creating ‘Red Bull of wine’
Chilean wine producer Corpora is planning a blueberry functional wine drink, described as “the Red Bull of wine”. The functional wine is still in development and there is currently an issue over whether the tipple, which would also contain vitamin B...
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Mulberry juice first claimed by Fairjuice
Drinks company Fairjuice has introduced what it claims is the UK’s first mulberry juice drink. Mulberry Fair is available in two flavours, Mulberry & Sanguinello Orange and Mulberry, Grape & Pear, rsp £3.29 for 1 litre. The company says mulberries...
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Warwick to close Kirton research unit
One of the country’s leading horticultural research institutes is to close in a move that will deal a major blow to future UK R&D. The University of Warwick confirmed last week it would be closing its 120 acre research site in Kirton in Lincolnshire...
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Spotlight: Cornwall Quality Livestock Producers
It is quite a challenge for producers to match supply with demand in the independent food retailing sector, says Catherine Broomfield of marketing group Cornwall Quality Livestock Producers You would think that in a market where both demand and...