Jamie Oliver news and analysis – Page 30
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Oliver launches Groovy and Twirly pasta range
After lending his name to pesto, sauces and herbs, Jamie Oliver is venturing into the pasta category for the first time. The Jamie’s Pasta range, which is made using free-range eggs, comes in spaghetti, penne and fusilli formats, described on-pack...
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Advertising: Multiples push value message
The battle to win the hearts and minds of Britain’s grocery shoppers is heating up, finds Richard Hemming
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on the Ministry of Food
Damn. I really wanted to hate Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food (9pm, Channel 4, Tuesday 30 September). I was sure he had lost his mojo after the Jamie at Home series featured him cooking pizza in his outdoor woodchip oven – as you do, and all that...
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Advertising: Lidl sticks to its guns
Within the second-tier food retailers, Lidl and Aldi are comfortably the largest spenders, shelling out £7.3m and £8.7m respectively on advertising in the year to date.
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Will Jamie and £1m entice advertisers to Channel 4?
Channel 4’s £1m pot to subsidise advertising for food brands has drawn a mixed reaction, being branded alternately inspired and gimmicky. James Ball reports
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The fine fare seller with a twist
Paul Hargreaves takes an unorthodox approach to staffing and ranging at Cotswold Fayre but it’s proved no bad way to build a wholesaling business. Julia Taylor reports
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Weak sterling yields 12% hike for pork producers
Pork prices are starting to rise at retail as farmers obtain higher prices and weaker sterling makes exporting more attractive to UK producers, says Michael Barker
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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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What the papers said - 9th August 2008
Carrefour has kicked off the hunt for a new chief executive, the Financial Times reported, with the European retail giant calling in headhunters to identify a successor to the embattled José-Luis Durán. Carrefour chose Duran for the role in 2005,...
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What the papers said
?Almost a quarter of a million smokers kicked the habit in the months before and after the introduction of the smoking ban last July, the Daily Mirror reported. The figure represents a 22% increase on the equivalent period in the...
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Letter of the week
I feel compelled to comment on your article 'A Licence to Print Money?' (The Grocer, 21 June, p28). As the MD of Fresh Retail Ventures, which holds the worldwide licensing rights for the Jamie Oliver brand in all retail markets, I feel that...
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Supermarkets deny milking rising costs
Supermarkets have denied profiteering from a period of unprecedented food inflation despite passing on £200m more to consumers in price increases since 2005 than they inherited from suppliers. A new study, published exclusively in The...
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100 must-stock new products
Amoy's Straight-to-Wok stir-fry and rice meals, Heinz. unched: March 2008. Amoy's straight-to-wok stir-fry and rice meals tap the popularity of Chinese food and the convenience of frozen. Six varieties, including sweet &...
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a Licence to print money?
Supermarket shelves are groaning under the weight of Antony Worrall Thompson. That's not a slur on the television chef's size or shape, but a nod to the success of his commercial empire. His new range of ready meals will extend to well over 100...
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EU quotas could push up prices
Farms currently face a range of concerns that will affect the frozen meat and poultry market. The biggest of these is the huge rise in animal feed prices, with a knock-on effect on shelf price. But it's the impact of poultry import...
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can organic rise to the challenge?
After years in the ascendant, the organic category is approaching a cross-roads. Though sales soared 13.4% in the year to March, taking the category through the £1bn barrier to £1.1bn [TNS Worldpanel 52w/e 23 March 2008], some experts are...
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the New food gangs
1 Zeno Youths Zeno Youths are the core demographic of tomorrow. Proudly urbanite and digitally native, they are typically in the 16 to 24-year age range, like their food decidedly synthetic and vitamin-laced and see genetically...
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A triumph for the underdog - Q&A and Availability
Sainsbury's Cwmbran branch in South Wales is smaller, older and less-suited to the working class town than the Asda across the road, but it is this week's Top Store thanks to getting the basics right. Our shopper was delighted by the warm and...
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Influencers
New entry 1 Will Cavendish director of health and wellbeing, dept of Health The food and drink industry has taken the rap for the obesity epidemic plaguing this country. Now Cavendish is promising a more holistic approach....
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Higher-welfare chicken demand at record high
Demand for higher-welfare poultry continues to soar on the back of media scrutiny, producers and retailers have claimed.South-west poultry specialist Lloyd Maunder, a subsidiary of the 2 Sisters Food Group, worked with Jamie Oliver and...