All articles by Grocer Staff – Page 8
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Tesco signs up Lebara Mobile for cheap calls
Tesco has struck a distribution deal with mobile network Lebara Mobile to offer cheap international calls. Lebara Mobile's airtime is now available in 1,900 Tesco stores while Lebara SIM cards will be available at 90 stores from this month. ...
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Sweet Charity picks Davis to be director
The Confectioners Benevolent Fund - also known as Sweet Charity - has appointed Patrick Davis as its director general. At the start of September, he will succeed Malcolm Carter, who retires after almost five years. "I am honoured to...
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Henderson offers food-to-go online
Northern Irish Spar wholesaler Henderson Group has launched an online ordering system for its food-to-go offer. The scheme, being trialled at the company-owned Spar store in Great Victoria Street, Belfast, is being run in partnership with...
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Poundland picks up the pace
Poundland is on course to open 30 new stores this financial year as the value retailer reaps the benefits of the economic downturn. This week Poundland opened new stores in Bangor, north Wales, and Hammersmith, west London. The additions take...
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We ask... Do retailers show less loyalty in hard times?
Deals improve loyalty Delivered wholesaler. Retailers are looking around the various wholesalers for bargains at the moment, but probably more worrying is the amount of grey market stock on issue this...
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Tesco is looking good in health and beauty
Health & beauty continues to be one of the most heavily promoted categories in the multiples, ranking fourth among the top five categories last weekend, with 14% of total offers. Tesco boasted the most promotions.
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The Top 50 Independents 2008
The head of the grocery inquiry says there is nothing to stop independents from succeeding, but what do the figures show? A special report by The Grocer
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acid test -Thierry's Wine services & Carlsberg
Expert's verdict... 6/10 ?A novel idea and a crisp Cabernet Sauvignon with lots of blackberry and vanilla. The Vins de Pays market is enjoying something of a rejuvenation at present. However, I am not sure that the absence of a strong on-pack brand...
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Premier Foods to meet expectations
Premier Foods has said it expects to meet market expectations for 2007 despite rising raw material and packaging costs. In a trading update released this morning, the food manufacturer, which owns brands including Branston, Hovis, Oxo and...
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Needs aren't met by supermarkets alone
Needs aren't met by supermarkets alone Jerry Marwood Managing director, Spar UK and chairman of the Association of Convenience Stores Sir; The Competition Commission has...
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Ambient lines take the lead in pasta sales
Ambient pasta and pasta sauces are bucking the general trend by growing faster than their counterparts in chilled, new figures show. TNS Worldpanel figures produced exclusively for The Grocer show the dried pasta sector grew 4% in value...
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Clipper Teas bids whittled down to five
Clipper Teas, the organic and Fairtrade hot drinks supplier, is to be sold off, it is understood. Clipper's founders Lorraine and Michael Brehme had received 10 bids and were whittling these down to a shortlist of five, a source close to...
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King faces shaky comparisons
Unflattering comparatives revealed by The Grocer show that Sainsbury's has a tough task ahead to continue its recovery after the Delta Two débâcle, says Mark Choueke Doing nothing is no longer an option”. That was the warning Deutsche Bank...
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It's a cracking yarn
At the height of the BSE crisis in the mid-90s The Observer predicted that by 2016 CJD caught from eating BSE-infected beef would be killing half a million Britons every year. National Euthanasia Clinics would be "struggling to help 500 people...
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Small producers and retailers dismissed
Bob Farrand National director, Guild of Fine Foods Sir; On reading all 270 pages of the Competition Commission's provisional findings, I have reached the sad conclusion there is little hope for Britain's independent food retailers, small...
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Waitrose Entertaining goes from strength to strength
Waitrose Entertaining is going from strength to strength, according to the retailer. Kate Greenslade, category buyer, Waitrose Entertaining, said sales at the catalogue service had been consistently good and were rising steadily. She...