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NewsWebsite takes on Tesco over falling gold price
An internet pawnbroker is taking on Tesco after the supermarket slashed the price it is paying shoppers for their old gold. Tesco controversially launched its used-gold service, Tesco Gold Exchange, in January with a buying price of £10...
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NewsOddbins staff fury over redundancy pay move
Oddbins could face legal action from long-serving staff after it was revealed they would not be paid statutory redundancy pay or full-notice payments. The troubled off-licence chain revealed earlier this month that it was closing 39...
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NewsTesco closes pricing loophole exposed by mystery website
Tesco has been forced to put a cap on its Double the Difference price pledge after super-savvy shoppers exploited the deal to actually make money while doing the weekly shop. Consumers were guided by a new and anonymous website,...
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NewsHovis rolls out Union Jack loaf packaging
Hovis is to roll out a Union Jack pack design to highlight its use of flour milled from British wheat. From the end of March, the brand's Soft White range will carry bold Union Jack packaging and the tagline '100% British Wheat'. The new...
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NewsUnilever swaps Sanex for Colgate’s laundry business
Unilever has agreed to sell the global Sanex business to Colgate-Palmolive and acquire the company's laundry detergent brands.
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Private equity group swoops for pet food maker Provimi
Private equity group Advent International has bought Provimi Pet Food in a deal worth €188m (£163.8m). The own-label pet food maker is based in Budapest and employs 1,000 staff across eight sites around Europe.
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NewsBudget 2011: Tobacco duty rise 'a boon to black marketeers’
Legitimate retailers will suffer at the hands of the tobacco duty rise announced in today’s Budget while black marketeers prosper, industry chiefs have warned.
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NewsM&S adds Jamie Redknapp to spring campaign
Marks & Spencer has unveiled details of its spring advertising campaign, with football pundit Jamie Redknapp making his TV debut for the chain alongside the likes of Lisa Snowdon and Twiggy.
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NewsBinned food uses 6% of UK’s water
Retailers have been urged to do more to cut water use and household food waste following the publication of a major new report. More than six million cubic metres of water are used to produce food that is thrown away – nearly double the UK’s annual household water usage.
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NewsPeople’s Supermarket to appeal after tax bombshell
The People’s Supermarket is appealing a council decision not to grant it tax relief after it was landed with a £78,000 bill.
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NewsGreencore ‘must act fast or it will become a target’
Greencore will need to strike a deal swiftly after failing to secure Northern Foods or risk becoming a takeover target itself, City experts have warned. M&A experts have cited Bakkavör and Uniq as potential targets. "Greencore...
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NewsWalkers hails Crinkles launch as ‘biggest in five years’
Walkers is launching a range of crinkle-cut crisps next month, in a move the PepsiCo brand claimed was the biggest category launch of the past five years.
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NewsResponsibility Deal slammed by experts as ‘oversimplistic’
Experts have attacked the calorie-counting logic underpinning the government's Responsibility Deal. This week, the Department of Health finally unveiled the pledges food and drink retailers and manufacturers would be encouraged to sign...
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NewsCoconut water tipped to become £100m category
Product launches and increased distribution have reinforced coconut water's position as a product to watch in 2011, say industry observers. In the same week that coconut water brand Vita Coco was rolled out to 250 Tescos across the UK,...
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Top 100 Advertisers 2011: Social networks and the rules of engagement
Speak to any brand owner in the know and they'll tell you the latest front to open up in the advertising war is in cyberspace.
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NewsTop 100 Advertisers 2011: The war for our wallets
The battle for customer loyalty reached a turning point in 2010, with supermarkets splashing out unprecedented sums on advertising. Rob Gray analyses The Grocer’s first-ever survey into advertising’s biggest spenders
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World News 19/3/11
Carrefour chief executive Lars Olofsson has looked to reassure investors that the decision to divide the group into three by spinning off its hard discount business and 25% of its property arm will pay off both for...
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Peruvian mangoes hit by allegations of worker abuses
Mangoes have become the latest exotic fruit import in supermarkets to be hit by allegations of worker abuse on plantations. Dutch NGO Somo said it had found evidence of abusive practices in Peru, such as "poverty wages" and...
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NewsHeinz adds two chilli variants to ketchup
Heinz is adding a touch of spice to its ketchup portfolio in the shape of two chilli-based variants. The sauces, rolling out now in a top-down format, come in two variants Heinz Tomato Ketchup with Chilli and a hotter Fiery Chilli...
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NewsSainsbury’s sits down with African suppliers
Sainsbury's enlisted the help of the Kenyan government, the British High Commission and the Fairtrade Foundation to get more than 100 African suppliers to attend its conference on its supply chain in the continent this week.