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Focus On Soup: Four to watch
Yorkshire Provender has added three new flavours - savoy cabbage with puy lentils & ham, butternut squash with ginger & orange and mushroom with juniper & tarragon - to its winter range, boosting the line-up to eight variants.
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Focus On Winter Remedies: Four to watch
Lemsip's latest cold and flu remedy allows consumers to choose how they want to take their medicine as a tablet or dissolved in water as a hot drink.
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NewsFocus On Soup: Twice the price, but twice as nice
You’d expect chilled soup to be out in the cold given the fragile state of the economy. But it's actually the fastest growing sub-category – despite the price tag. Peter Cripps finds out why
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Weather forecaster to give indies time in sun
Independent retailers can now harness the power of the weather to boost sales in the same way as the big box multiples do thanks to the launch of a new forecasting tool. Weather website Netweather has launched a forecasting tool aimed...
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NewsStart-up offers fruit and veg snacks for toddlers
A new children's food company is aiming to fight "early onset junk food eating" with a range of 'spill-proof' fruit, veg and grain-based snacks for toddlers. Benjoy products include crunchy strawberry slices, crunchy grape slices, and...
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NewsGreencore set for no landfill waste goal
Greencore plans to send virtually zero waste to landfill across all its UK sites by the end of the year. The own-label giant was minimising waste at source and where this was not possible encouraging segregation to maximise re-use and...
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Mystery shopping Tesco store and service impress
Tesco in South Queensferry, Edinburgh, won this week thanks to its short queues, easy-to-navigate car park and knowledgeable staff. The store was busy because it was Saturday morning but staff were happy to help and on both occasions our shopper...
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NewsThe resealable top for sparkling wines
Tesco is launching Zork a new resealable top for sparkling wine that it says will "revolutionise" the market. The retailer has an exclusive deal to launch the new device in the UK, and says it could have a similar impact on sparkling...
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NewsSoreen gets energy boost as owner calls for promos to be cut
McCambridge Foods relaunched Soreen this week in a bid to reposition the malt loaf brand as an energy food and called on retailers to scale back promotional activity.
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NewsNorway plans campaign to boost cod sales to UK
The Norwegian Seafood Export Council is launching a new campaign to boost sales of cod in the UK and capitalise on an anticipated increase in supply.
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NewsCoca-Cola calls time on Malvern Water
Coca-Cola is to close its historic Malvern Water bottling plant, with the loss of 17 jobs.
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NewsOutcry as Osborne's carbon ‘stealth tax’ lands on retailers
An "environmental stealth tax" introduced in the Comprehensive Spending Review could cost retail chains up to £20m a year each, it was claimed.
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NewsClubcard points lose value with Tesco’s partners
Tesco has confirmed plans to cut the value of Clubcard points with partner organisations to keep its double points push “sustainable’.
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NewsActimel dares mums to Come Out and Play this winter
Danone is launching what it claims is its biggest ever winter campaign for drinking yoghurt Actimel, fronted by TV and radio presenter Gabby Logan.
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NewsWatchdog bans Heston’s ‘happy pigs’ ad
A Waitrose advert starring Heston Blumenthal and some “happy pigs” in Norfolk has been banned for misleading consumers over the living conditions for the animals reared on its farms.
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NewsEating less meat ‘would save 45,000 lives a year’
The meat trade has again come under attack from health campaigners, who claim 45,000 deaths a year are due to excessive meat consumption.
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NewsMarmite monument is shrine for spread’s lovers
Unilever has given Marmite fans a place to congregate and share their love for the famously divisive spread – Monumite, a stone ‘shrine’ in Burton-on-Trent.
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Grocery bosses back deep public spending cuts
Executives from Asda, Boots, Ocado, Marks & Spencer and Diageo have urged the government not to water down its plans to tackle the budget deficit.
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Lower-yielding tomatoes have higher C02 output
The carbon footprint of lower-yielding tomato varieties is typically twice that of higher-yielding varieties such as classic loose tomatoes, new research has shown.A project commissioned by the Horticultural Development Council (HDC) and...
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World News 16/10/10
X5 Retail Group has reported a 5% rise in like-for-like sales for the first nine months of 2010. Despite the tough environment, third-quarter net retail sales rose 24% to £1.6n year-on-year with like-for-like sales...