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NewsTulip focuses on taste with sausage launch
Bacon giant Tulip is muscling in on the crowded premium sausage market with the launch of its first-ever branded sausage. The Fuller Flavoured Sausage Company is a five-strong range of premium sausages made with freshly ground spices....
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NewsKerry puts premium into frozen food with new ready meals
Kerry Foods is hoping to transform the frozen ready-meal category with the launch of a range of products made with “quality” ingredients.
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NewsSpam, lovely Spam - now with garlic
And now for something completely different Spam and garlic. Five years since it launched Spam With Stinky French Garlic to tie in with the opening of Monty Python-inspired musical Spamalot, brand owner Hormel Foods has announced the…
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OFT waves through Greencore-Uniq deal
Greencore’s takeover of Uniq has been waved through by the Office of Fair Trading. The watchdog today rubber-stamped the deal, which was first announced in July, having been cleared by the Irish Competition Authority last month.
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NewsTesco wages £500m Price Drop campaign
Tesco was this week dramatically forced to reveal plans for a £500m price offensive, as details leaked of its strategy to hit back at rivals who have seized the initiative on price. Following a week of speculation, the supermarket...
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Will government call in Arla Aylesbury bid?
Eric Pickles' communities and local government department is considering calling in Arla's application to build a £150m dairy in Aylesbury, taking away the local council's ability to decide the dairy's fate. The revelation came ahead of...
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NewsInnocent helps kids to make smoothies from unwanted fruit
Innocent has come up with an ingenious scheme to turn unsold fruit into smoothies for schoolchildren. Under an eight-week trial launched last Friday, unwanted fruit collected by one of Innocent's partners in the scheme, food donation...
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NewsDuty change prompts Carlsberg to cut Skol abv
Carlsberg UK has cut the alcohol content in Skol to take advantage of changes to the domestic duty regime. Skol was previously 3% abv but will now be brewed at 2.8%. The move comes after the government reduced the duty on beers of 2.8% abv or lower to encourage responsible ...
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NewsTesco price war threat sends rivals’ shares tumbling
Fears that Tesco is to spark a new price war sent shares in supermarket rivals plummeting yesterday. Shares in Sainsbury’s fell by 2% yesterday, while Ocado was hit even harder. The online retailer saw its share price slump by 11%.
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NewsThe Big Price Drop: Tesco unveils its £500m fightback
Tesco is to plough £500m into a huge new offensive that will see 3,000 products slashed in price. The Big Price Drop launches on Monday, as predicted yesterday by The Grocer, kicking off what many expect to be a full-scale price war in the run-up to Christmas.
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NewsBudvar clinches Euro court battle over Budweiser name
The Czech brewer of Budvar can continue to use the Budweiser name in the UK following a ruling in Europe’s highest court. The Court of Justice of the European Union today ruled that Budejovicky Budvar was entitled to use the famous name it shares with the American beer brand, owned ...
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NewsPlastic fantastic for Sainsbury’s peanut butter
Sainsbury’s has switched its peanut butter jars from glass to plastic, in a move the retailer said would reduce carbon emissions by more than 150 tonnes a year. Packaging has been cut by 83% - or 882,000 kilos – as a result of the change, meaning the lighter jars require less fuel to transport.
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NewsTesco to raise £300m from Thai property sell-off
Tesco is bidding to unlock hundreds of millions of pounds from its Asian property empire. Its Thai subsidiary, Tesco Lotus, is looking to raise more than £300m via an initial public offering for a new property fund secured against 15 of its hypermarkets in Thailand.
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NewsTesco gears up for massive new pricing offensive
Tesco is set to unveil a major shift in pricing strategy, as the UK’s largest supermarket gears up for a price war this Christmas. A dramatic new offensive – due to begin next week – could see it switch emphasis from promotions, which Tesco has reportedly come to see as ...
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NewsNPD key to higher margins, says PZ Cussons
PZ Cussons has vowed to focus on new products providing higher margins as it continues to battle soaring commodity costs.
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NewsFormer Diageo man Litherland crops up at Britvic
Simon Litherland has resurfaced in the new role of GB managing director at Britvic Soft Drinks. Litherland, a former guest editor of The Grocer, was most recently MD of Diageo GB but left the Guinness brewer in July this year following a far-reaching management restructuring.
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NewsNew dawn in convenience pricing as Budgens takes on Tesco
Musgrave has ushered in a new dawn for convenience pricing in the UK with a pledge that its Budgens stores will price match Tesco on 800 products. The programme represents the first move by a symbol group to match Tesco’s prices since…
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NewsOcado debuts savings club as margins face new squeeze
Shares in Ocado slumped 12% this morning on news of a slowdown in sales growth. Gross sales growth for the 12 weeks to 7 August was 16.9%, down from 17.2% in the second quarter.
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NewsFive years on, Tyrrells ends that Tesco spat
Tyrrells crisps will be appearing on Tesco shelves from today (19 September) - five years after a row in which former owner Will Chase threatened to sue the retailer for selling its products via the grey market. The full Tyrrells range will be going...
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NewsSoho C&C increases its floorspace 150%
Today's Group member Soho Cash & Carry has closed one of its three Midlands depots and moved into a bigger 45,000 sq ft facility. The multimillion-pound facility in Smethwick has increased its floorspace 150% and would allow it to...