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Focus On Speciality & Fine Foods: Deli without a café? Forget it!
The days of the standalone deli appear to be on the wane as independents spill out on to pavements and press every inch of stockroom space into use for the cappuccino crowd.
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NewsWill profits be cannibalised in Tesco’s race for space?
As Tesco pumps up the pipeline, leaving even Sainsbury’s in its wake, how close is the market to saturation? Adam Leyland and Michelle Perrett report
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Focus On Speciality & Fine Foods: Coping with cashflow crises
It's cashflow that keeps the retailers polled in our survey awake at night. Twenty-seven per cent said it was the most serious challenge they faced.
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NewsCovent Garden soups turn extra chunky in pot format
New Covent Garden is beefing up for winter with what it claims are the first "extra chunky" soups to hit the chilled fixture. The Big & Bold range of single-serve pots (rsp: £1.89), the brand's first non-carton soups, come in chunky...
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Focus On Spirits: Cool as cucumber
Gin is in strong growth, up 16.4% in value to £223.1m and 8.9% in volume [Kantar Worldpanel 52w/e 13 June] much of it driven by Gordon's.
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Wheat costs threaten to push up price of poultry
Shoppers face rising chicken and egg prices as a result of soaring wheat costs. Sixty per cent of the cost of producing poultry and eggs is feed, and the November futures price for wheat which makes up 60% of that feed has risen £50 per...
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NewsPicture This... Cravendale in the pink
Cravendale is supporting Asda's Tickled Pink Breast Cancer Awareness campaign with the launch of limited-edition pink milk cartons. One-litre cartons of Cravendale skimmed milk will be sold in 200 Asda stores between 6 September and 1 November, and...
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Creamfields festival in Tesco trademark scrap
The organisers of the Creamfields dance music festival, which took place last weekend, are embroiled in a trademark dispute with Tesco over its use of the Creamfields brand for own-label dairy lines.It has emerged that Cream Holdings,...
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Dennis spearheads the fight for regional food
England's regional food groups have appointed a new chair to fight their corner as the final axe swings over their funding. Colin Dennis, ex director general of food research institute Campden BRI, took the helm at the English Food &...
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P&H ‘stronger’ despite a slight drop in profits
Palmer & Harvey has declared itself a "stronger and leaner business" despite posting a small drop in full-year profits.Pre-exceptional EBITDA fell 5.2% to £40.2m in the year to 3 April, the UK's biggest wholesaler said, while...
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Superquinn to lose key exec to Dunnes
Superquinn's second-in-command has resigned from the business and is widely tipped to be heading to Dunnes Stores one of its biggest rivals. Trading director James Wilson, who was part of the Archie Norman and Allan Leighton golden...
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Picture This... East End meets Westminster
David Cameron called in on East End Foods' depot and rice milling plant in West Bromwich to mark its 40th birthday last month.
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EU planning label to regulate the use of ‘mountain’ on foods
The use of the word 'mountain' and images of mountains on foods could soon be regulated by EU law. Brussels is considering a labelling scheme that would give special protection to products from mountain regions.
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Patterson exits PepsiCo to join HR at Findus UK
Louise Patterson will be joining Findus Group's UK Frozen business as human resource director sitting on the UK Leadership team. From October, she will also take on a functional role, joining the group operations leadership team.
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NewsFocus On Spirits: Fashion victims
Spirits is proving a fickle category, with the latest trends in cocktails driving sales of gins and liqueurs but leaving old-fashioned drinks out in the cold, says Graham Holter
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NewsFocus On Speciality & Fine Foods: The survivors
Pricing has now become a key weapon as the speciality food sector changes its tactics. On the eve of the Speciality & Fine Food Fair, Carolyn Wilson reports
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NewsTles of Titania: Learning the P&G way
My short but successful PR career has already taught me a number of things.
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RIP for regional?
Funding for England’s regional food and drink groups is unravelling – the fate of these champs of all things local is in doubt. So what price will the government put on provenance, asks Sue Scott
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NewsArla follows Unilever in pushing umbrella brand
Arla Foods UK has embarked on a major new communications and rebranding drive to increase consumer awareness of the brand behind household brands such as Anchor, Lurpak and Cravendale.
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NewsTyrrells plans to ramp up sales in US and Germany
Tyrrells is poised to dramatically increase its distribution in the US and Germany where it hopes to replicate its success in the UK and France.