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NewsMaxinutrition gets set for sharper focus
Functional food brand Maxinutrition is collaborating with retailers to create a more coherent sports nutrition fixture in store. With parent company GlaxoSmithKline, Maxinutrition is working with Tesco, Sainsbury's and Boots to improve...
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NewsRustlers kicks off NPD with Hot Wraps
Kepak Convenience Foods has added wraps to its Rustlers portfolio in a bid to double sales to £140m. The Rustlers Hot Wraps duo, rolling out now, consists of a Chicken Salsa with Cheese and a BBQ Chicken with Cheese variant (rsp:...
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NewsVanilla Ice raps while he wraps
We've had Lionel Richie singing about Walkers crisps. Now another icon of times past is has been waxing lyrical for tone-deaf foodies this time on behalf of Warburtons wraps. Vanilla Ice who shot to fame 20 years ago with hits like Ice...
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NewsRowntree’s joins the sour sweet ranks
Nestlé is extending the Rowntree’s brand next month with the launch of Sour Pastilles. The sweets, aimed at 25 to 35-year-olds, will join products from Haribo and Barratt in the sours confectionery category. Sales of sour singles have…
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Local shop is ‘an oasis of sanity’ - MP
A Nisa Local store in Worcestershire has received the first My Shop Is Your Shop Gold Award for Community Retailing from the FWD. Local MP Peter Luff, who presented the award to staff at the Broadway store, called Rav Garcha's shop "an...
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NewsSharwood’s reveals a mega-fiery sauce
Sharwood’s is unleashing a cooking sauce made from one of the world’s hottest chillies. Each jar of the company’s Bhut Jolokia curry sauce (rsp: £1.55) contains one Bhut Jolokia chilli which is 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce,…
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NewsTesco turns patriotic with UK-sourced Yoo yoghurts
Tesco has thrown down the gauntlet to yoghurt giants Danone and Müller with the launch of a new 'patriotic' tertiary yoghurt brand that promises to be 100% British and 20% cheaper than "foreign" yoghurts.
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NewsRetailers overtake fmcg in advertising firepower
A huge increase in supermarket advertising saw retailers outspend fmcg brands for the first time last year. Research conducted by Ebiquity for The Grocer revealed retailers increased spend on TV, press, cinema, radio and outdoor...
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NewsAll the fun of the fair with Jamie Oliver's plans for London food festival
Jamie Oliver is launching a three-day food and music festival, to be held in London this summer. The Big Feastival will take place on Clapham Common, South London, from 1 July to 3 July.
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NewsFred back from dead for Coronation Street food debut
TV's most famous butcher - Coronation Street's Fred Elliott - is to have his own range of fresh meat after a groundbreaking licensing deal was struck between ITV and meat supplier Aurora Food Marketing.
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Unilever, Kraft and Dr Oetker fined millions by cartel watchdog
Unilever, Kraft Foods and Dr Oetker have been fined €38m (£33m) by German competition regulators over allegations they illicitly shared commercially sensitive information.
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NewsRobert Wiseman squeezes out Dairy Crest in milk deal with The Co-op
The Co-operative Group has handed a two-year deal to supply all its own-label milk to Robert Wiseman Dairies. The mutual had previously sourced 25% of its own-label milk from Dairy Crest, with Wiseman providing the remaining 75%.
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NewsProsecco in for fags and lager in nation’s shopping basket
Prosecco has replaced lager in the ‘shopping basket’ used by the Office of National Statistics to calculate inflation in the UK. In a sign of the times, vending machine cigarettes have also been ditched from the list.
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Hearts and Krafts
It’s fair to say Kraft hasn’t won the battle for hearts and minds since its takeover of Cadbury last year – although its new toy hasn’t fared too badly, as you’ll see from Britain’s 100 Biggest Brands.
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NewsSupermarkets throw weight behind public health Responsibility Deal
The UK’s leading supermarkets are among 170 companies that have signed up to the government’s Responsibility Deal to improve public health.
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NewsNectar scheme takes flight with easyJet tie-up
Sainsbury’s shoppers will now be able to swap their Nectar points for flights via a new tie-up between easyJet and the loyalty scheme.
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NewsAlcohol campaigners accuse Whitehall of cave-in to drinks trade
A group of senior doctors and health campaigners have snubbed the government’s alcohol ‘responsibility deal’, claiming legislators have caved in to pressure from the drinks trade to water down its plans.
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NewsExponent plans big TV and NPD push for Quorn and Cauldron
Quorn and Cauldron's new owners will launch an aggressive TV advertising campaign this year in a bid to reverse the decline of the meat-free category.
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NewsNew Spar MD is ‘Good with Food’ marketeer Robinson
Debbie Robinson, the former director of food marketing for The Co-operative Group, is to replace long-serving Spar boss Jerry Marwood as managing director, The Grocer can reveal. Robinson will take over from Marwood in the summer when he...
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NewsFrozen retailer owed creditors a cool £1m
Frozen food home delivery retailer Eismann UK owed creditors more than £1m when it collapsed in January, papers filed by its administrator reveal. RSM Tenon Recovery said Eismann UK had 204 unsecured creditors, who were owed a total of...