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NewsRobinsons takes drinks brands into sweets aisle
Britvic is making the leap from cordials to confectionery with a new sweets range under its Robinsons brand. The range of boiled and jelly sweets, which will be made under license by upmarket confectioner Monty Bojangles, will come in…
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NewsOstrich ‘alternative to everyday meat’
Ostrich is set to move from expensive niche product to affordable everyday meat with a new range of free-range ostrich meats that's 20% cheaper than beef. Meat wholesaler DB Foods is launching the Mossell Bay ostrich products in a bid to...
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NewsBallyrashane plans anaerobic digester
Ballyrashane is set to become the first dairy in Northern Ireland to build an anaerobic digester. Ballyrashane a dairy co-operative that supplies all of M&S’s liquid milk requirement in Northern and the Republic of Ireland hopes…
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NewsBurts Chips terminates MJ Baker supply deal
Burts Chips has terminated its supply agreement with fellow West Country business MJ Baker Foodservice after three years with neither party revealing why. MJ Baker Foodservice MD Malcolm Baker claimed he had been left in the dark as to...
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Focus On Juices & Smoothies: A big year for smoothies on TV
In terms of spend, the past year has been a big one for juices and smoothies, with the top 10 brands spending 71% more on advertising than last year. TV spend alone was up 86.9%.
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NewsBlack Garlic gains listing with Tesco
Black garlic has taken a step further into the mainstream by gaining listings with Tesco. The unusual-looking bulb largely used by chefs will roll out into Express and superstores on 27 May. It is already available through Ocado as well...
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NewsBurrell takes company secretary role at Iceland
Jayne Burrell has been appointed as Iceland's company secretary effective from 1 April, taking over from Iceland veteran John Berry, who has been in the role for 22 years. "I am really excited about the challenge" said Burrell, who is...
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NewsTaj ‘on the up’ with a new store set to open in central Crawley
Brighton-based independent retailer Taj is set to expand with the opening of a new store in Crawley. The company had been planning to move beyond Brighton for some time and the new store, due to open after Easter, would mark the end of a...
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NewsExclusive labels drive Champagne recovery
The success of supermarket "exclusive label" Champagnes has helped to pull the overall market out of a two-year slump. Brits drunk five million more bottles of bubbly last year than in 2009, according to the latest Champagne Bureau...
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NewsCheap Cheddar on the way out as prices rise
Shoppers may soon need to get used to seeing far fewer promotions on Cheddar as soaring cheese prices threaten to make aggressive pricing strategies unviable. Cut-throat promotions have seen standard 400g packs of mature Cheddar...
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NewsRange review swells Waitrose cheese offer
Waitrose has completely revamped its pre-pack cheese fixture, adding 80 new lines as well as an entirely new 'better plus' tier of high-quality artisan cheeses. The chain is also expanding its own-label Essential range by a further 15...
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NewsLake District Cheese gets new formats
First Milk is extending The Lake District Cheese Co brand of Cheddar into convenience formats with the launch of grated cheese and portion-size packs. Lake District Grated (£1.99 for a 200g pack) and Lake District Bites (£1.49 for six 20g...
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NewsUnilever: ‘expecting great things’ from its chilled cooking oil
Unilever is hoping to inject a bit of cool into the cooking oil category with Flora Cuisine, the UK's first major chilled oil launch. The oil, which is rolling out now, is made from a blend of linseed, rapeseed and sunflower oils and...
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NewsSingh corners Clegg at Lib Dem shindig
NFRN president Parminder Singh buttonholed the deputy PM at the Lib Dems' spring conference in Sheffield last weekend. Singh told Nick Clegg of his members' disquiet over the wholesaler duopoly, crime, planning rules and the tobacco...
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DCS welcomes Smith Coats as head of sales
Personal care wholesaler DCS Central has appointed Bill Smith Coats as head of sales. Smith Coats was head of impulse sales and Tesco business unit manager at Typhoo. Previous to this, he worked at SHS Sales & Marketing as a national...
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Morrisons scraps major DVD contract
MBL Group is urgently seeking a buyer after Morrisons terminated its contract with the DVD distributor, putting up to 320 jobs at risk. The company's two supply agreements with Morrisons accounted for 78% of its turnover in the financial...
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NewsQV Foods creating a new potato vodka
A British potato vodka is being developed as a mass-market alternative to premium potato vodka Chase. Potato supplier QV Foods asked visitors at this week's IFE show to rate potential designs for the 70cl bottles.
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Douwe Egberts makes debut in refill packs
Douwe Egberts is following the lead of other major coffee brands with the launch of refill packs. Two variants of its Instants Pure range Pure Gold and Pure Indulgence will be in Asda and Morrisons nationwide in refill packs from this...
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NewsFocus On Juices & Smoothies: Keeping the juices flowing
The juices and smoothies market looks poised for recovery, but some sectors are struggling, and the spectre of commodity prices continues to haunt everyone. Elinor Zuke reports
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Focus On Juices & Smoothies: Innovations
Fructose intolerant Mark Walker spotted a gap in the market for a range of chilled pure vegetable juices and, having adapted traditional olive oil-making methods to create a process for extracting juice from beetroot, spinach, celery and carrot, he came up with WB&CO.