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Mums beware! Charlie and Lola hit dairy aisle
Milk Link is predicting an outbreak of pester power after teaming up with BBC Worldwide to launch a strawberry milk drink featuring characters from hit children's TV show Charlie and Lola. Called Charlie and Lola Pink Milk (rsp: £1.29),...
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Spar strikes gold with GB’s athletics heroics
While many independent retailers feel let down by England’s dismal showing at the World Cup, Spar retailers are toasting a sporting success story through the group’s sponsorship of the GB athletics team.
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NewsBoil in the bag is back
Minus the boil, that is - and sometimes the bag. Simon Creasey asks what chance restaurant phenomenon ‘sous vide’ has of becoming a retail phenomenon too
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NewsRetail spotlight: Hotel Chocolat - Raising the bar
Upmarket and ethical retailer Hotel Chocolat is defying a volatile cocoa market by offering its growers a premium far above current spot market prices. Sue Scott reports. The cocoa growers of St Lucia will do well this year. The City has developed a taste for chocolate. Hedge fund trader Anthony ...
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Molson and c-stores club in for cold beer
Molson Coors is launching a convenience store loyalty scheme called My Cold Beer Club to help smaller stores compete with the mults. The Carling brewer is investing £2m in the initiative, which will reward retailers actively promoting...
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Xtra Local the best way for club members
Bestway's Xtra Local Retail Club members have grown their sales by an average of 14% in the past year. The 2,200 indies were aided by promotional campaigns and business advice, Bestway said. It is now looking to add new members. Since its...
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Fat and fit better than thin, unfit
Sir, There has been a raft of media reports over recent weeks about the dangers of obesity. Ironically, the issue has ballooned out of all control. The National Health Survey shows that since 2003 the average BMI in the UK has remained...
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Billingsgate porters blast licence repeal
Porters at Billingsgate fish market are up in arms over plans to overhaul a local bylaw that they claim threatens to undermine the professional standing of their trade. The City of London Corporation is proposing to repeal a bylaw from...
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Brakes seeking CEO to drive its UK operations
Brakes is looking for a UK CEO to drive the UK business forward while new group CEO Philip Jansen oversees strategy and spearheads its aggressive expansion plans abroad.A spokeswoman for Brakes confirmed the foodservice giant was looking...
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Vogel’s speciality bread shaken up by its new owners
Speciality bread brand Vogel's is relaunching next month in an attempt to boost sales from £3.5m to £10m in two years. Twelve months after upmarket bakery Nicholas & Harris (N&H) acquired the brand from Goswell's as part of a...
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Sapping the life from British dairy
Sir, Milk buyers play a very dangerous game withholding money due to our dairy farmers. The consequences are obviously not of major concern to large profit-driven businesses whose actions are slowly sapping the life out of the British...
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Picture This... A run on squirrel meat at budgens
The media went nuts over squirrels last week after animal rights group Viva! launched a campaign against a Budgens in north London selling squirrel meat. Although the line isn't new to the store The Grocer first revealed the story in April owner...
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Grooming on a Budget
lines and buying on promotion. But some brands are bouncing back, says Simon Clarke
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Campaign Trail puzzling way to drink
Drinking problems of the non-booze variety are the subject of Britvic's bizarre new cinema campaign for Drench starring Cubehead a man with a Rubik's cube-style puzzle for a head. The drinks supplier is reminding consumers of the importance of...
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Peperami extended into microwaveable chilled pizzas range
Unilever is rolling Peperami beyond the meat snack market for the first time with a chilled pizza range that it predicts will make £30m in three years. The three-strong Peperami Pizzas range is rolling into Tesco now, followed by other...
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Suppliers say cloning is not a food safety issue
The meat industry has hit back at suggestions that the discovery of meat from a cloned animal in the UK could spiral into a crisis of similar magnitude to BSE in the 1990s.Industry representatives said it was vital to make it clear to...
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FSA-friendly Coco Pops launched by Kellogg’s
Kellogg's has launched a new variety of Coco Pops that meets the FSA's nutrient profiling requirements.Coco Pops Choc 'N' Roll, which launched this week, is classified as 'green' under FSA guidelines as it contains reduced sugar, salt...
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Colour codes help Lil-Lets to stand out
Lil-lets is introducing new colour-coded packaging to its flagship tampon range to make them easier to find in-store. The five lines in Lil-lets' non-applicator range are now available in the more colourful designs, with each colour...
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Potz offer a pick ‘n’ mix experience in ice cream
Nestlé ice cream maker R&R plans to bring pick'n' mix shopping to the freezer aisle with its new Potz range of ice cream tubs. R&R will introduce the mini tubs of Aero, Smarties, Rolo and Toffee Crisp ice creams (rsp: £1.29 per...
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NewsWhat does the milk price war mean for the future of dairy?
A pint of milk selling for just 12.5p. How is this possible? What must the new milk price war be costing? And who will it impact the most? Richard Ford reports