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NewsLucozade readies £10m 'Energy Beats Everything' ad campaign
The campaign will offer “a humorous spin on the well-known David and Goliath tale”
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NewsCity snapshot: Reckitt Benckiser like-for-likes up 2% in first quarter
FTSE 100 consumer goods giant Reckitt Benckiser has posted 2% like-for-like sales growht in the first three months of the year, despite weak sales of its Scholl and Dettol brands. Plus, Brakes’ first financial accounts under the ownership of US food distribution giant Sysco show a 30% fall in pro-rata operating profits and all the rest of the latest news from the City.
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NewsMedia Bites 20 April: Kit Kat, Pinnacle Foods, Kraft Heinz
The shape of Kit Kat’s four-finger bar is poised to lose its European Union-wide protected trademark status, reports The Guardian
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NewsAber Falls adds Welsh Dry Gin to spirits lineup
The 41.3% abv drink is copper pot-distilled with juniper, grapefruit, lemon and orange flavours…
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NewsCut breaks into the UK with a trio of rums
It has launched a 37.5% abv spiced rum, a 40% smoked rum and a 75.5% over proof variant
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NewsBig-name spirits brands turn their backs on Twitter
Although their accounts remain online, many big booze players have not tweeted in over a year
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NewsBrewDog packaging to go plastic-free
The brand will replace the plastic can holders currently found on multipacks of its beer - which are not recyclable - with cardboard boxes similar to those it already uses in the US
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NewsP&G quarterly sales up 1% as it seals $4.2bn Merck consumer health acqusition
Sales at US household goods manufacturer Proctor and Gamble (PG) have grown 1% year-on-year in the third quarter, as it announced the $4.2bn purchase of Merck’s consumer health arm
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NewsDried grape prices up after short crops in California & Iran
This in turn is pushing up UK prices for raisins and EU prices for sultanas
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NewsEating Better report urges 'less and better' meat
The report advocates a shift towards plant-based diets as the key to a sustainable future
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NewsMüller's foodservice comes under review
The business supplies fresh milk and other products to 3,000 non-residential customers in England and Wales
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NewsBig Drop to quadruple production on back of huge supermarket win
Award-winning low-alcohol craft brewer is searching for investors after securing massive store deal
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NewsYoung's Seafood officially put up for sale by PE owner
Announcement of sale process follows months of speculation over the future of seafood giant
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NewsM&S marketing boss Patrick Bousquet-Chavanne tweets resignation
He is the latest casualty of M&S senior management cull that has seen head of food Andy Adcock, head of stores and online Laura Wade-Gery and head of womenswear Belinda Earl booted out
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NewsSainsbury's ditches Classic Coke from meal deals
The move has prompted criticism from shoppers who have argued Sainsbury’s should have simply put the price up
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NewsMüller offers farmers fixed contract as part of Lidl milk deal
Farmers will be able to fix up to 50% of their supply at a price of 28ppl for the next three years, helping them combat price volatility, Müller says
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News'Shocking' season set to hike lamb prices
Inclement UK weather has hiked mortality rates, while New Zealand lamb is in short supply
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NewsSainsbury's trials UK's first cargo bike grocery delivery
Zero-emission bikes will deliver up to 100 online orders a day
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NewsWaitrose to introduce healthy eating specialists in stores
The move is part of a set of initiatives to improve customers’ healt
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NewsCrussh to open at Paddington Station as part of SSP deal
The new sites will have the Crussh Fit Food & Juice Bars classic menu