Jamie Oliver news and analysis – Page 32
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Opinion - "The M&S price position right now is more Kerry Katona than Myleene Klass, and that doesn't feel right"
The chickens are coming home to roost. And I'm not talking about the vengeance that is being meted out on Sainsbury's et al by Jamie Oliver and his ingrates, as grocers get it in the neck for their poultry welfare. I'm talking about Marks &...
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Sainsbury's hits out at celebrity ads of rivals
Sainsbury's advertising boss has launched an astonishing attack on the TV campaigns run by the company's rivals. Speaking to Sainsbury's staff magazine, national advertising manager Anna Shirley described the Spice Girls, who featured in...
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Tesco tops the big Xmas ad spenders
Tesco was the biggest spender on advertising in grocery retailing over the Christmas period, The Grocer can reveal. The UK's largest retailer ploughed £18.6m in festive advertising, pipping Morrisons which spent £18.29m, according to...
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The 10 LAST christmas AD campaigns?
The indulgence of the Christmas season approaches, but an air of potential gloom hangs over this year's big food and retail advertising campaigns. Maybe for the last time retailers and brand owners are spending the countdown to Christmas...
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Jamie cries fowl play over TV documentary
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has reacted angrily to claims he plans having a pop at the chicken industry in a Channel Four programme to be made in the new year.Last week Channel 4 said he intended to expose "the hideous realities of...
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Christmas: will things turn ugly for Bernard?
Christmas could be a lean one for turkey tycoon Bernard Matthews. Perhaps unfairly, the best-known brand and largest producer of turkeys in Britain acts as the lightning conductor for the entire sector. And last week lightning struck in the form...
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Doh! Bernard Matthews was too 'stuck in the past' for Bart
Bart Dalla Mura quit Bernard Matthews last week over frustrations about the slow pace of change at the company, a close source to the former UK chief executive has claimed. He left unexpectedly after less than a year in the job, without...
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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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Dalla Mura leaves Bernard Matthews
Bernard Matthews' chief executive Bart Dalla Mura has left the turkey producer, The Grocer has learned.Dalla Mura, who joined Bernard Matthews in July 2006, is understood to have departed on Monday.His exit follows a tough year for...
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Nijhar to deal with Spar PR
Spar UK has expanded its head office marketing team by appointing Kam Nijhar as marketing manager. Nijhar will be responsible for internal communications with Spar wholesalers and retailers. She will also look after charity sponsorship...
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My Alternative CV - Diana Cooper, Tideford's
Who was your first teenage crush and why? David Cassidy. Loved the big hair. When was the first time you got drunk and what did you drink? I was 14 years old and it was Dom Perignon Champagne. Lovely.
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Sainsbury's is focusing on unique ingredients
Sainsbury's is launching an own-label scheme that will use "signature" ingredients in an attempt to appeal to shoppers looking for premium products. Sainsbury's brand director Judith Batchelar said the signature ingredient initiative...
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Page appoints trio for Fresh Retail Ventures
Jamie Oliver's food and kitchenware company Fresh Retail Ventures is ready to grow its business and has made three appointments for its new headquarters in Manchester. The business was set up in 2006 and is one of the fastest-growing...
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our man from drip Don Pumsey
It's no secret, distributive darlings, that the Pumster enjoys a light tipple from time to time. In fact, in the heyday of Pumsey's Price Palace I often obtained volume discounts from Diageo simply by restocking my own top shelf. But it did come...
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TLC works wonders for stocks - Q&A and Availability
With six out of stock items last week and five products missing the week before, Sainsbury's seriously needed a decent availability score this week. Not only did the retailer's branch in Loughborough, Leicestershire - this week's Top Store - provide...
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When the chips were down...
Nick Vermont is not a fan of Jamie Oliver. In fact, the McCain Foods regional CEO pinpoints the arrival of Jamie's School Dinners on Channel 4 as the moment the bottom fell out of the oven chip market. A healthy 3% annual growth swung violently to...
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What the papers said - 4th August 2007
Bacardi is investing more than £120m in increased production of its Dewar's brand to tap into rising demand for Scotch whisky from emerging markets such as Asia and Latin America. According to the paper, last year was a record one for Scotch...
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Tesco cookware lacks that star chef ingredient
Tesco's plans to launch a range of celebrity chef-endorsed cookware have gone down the pan - because the retailer can't find anyone to endorse it.Bogof has it on good authority that the retailer has been frustrated in its attempts to...
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Healthier Britain requires education and lower VAT
Innocent Drinks' campaign for a reduction on VAT is the best chance for companies and the government to act together for public interest Recently I announced my support for a campaign being led by Innocent Drinks to reduce VAT on juices...
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Why school food policies don't make the grade
Should kids be allowed to drink milk shakes at school? Or eat cereal bars? These are the sorts of question that the four bodies charged with improving school food in the UK have been tussling with as they continue Jamie Oliver's crusade to rid...