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Medina plans £400m sales with ex-DFB site
Medina Dairy has bought Dairy Farmers of Britain's former milk processing site at Blaydon as part of a plan to nearly double turnover to £400m within five years. Medina, the UK's largest independent dairy company, completed the purchase...
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In flux: Kraft’s 850p share offer at mercy of market
The final price Kraft pays Cadbury shareholders is likely to be substantially below the 850p per share that won over the Cadbury board last week, analysts have warned.Owing to the bid's cash-and-shares mix, movements in Kraft's share...
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NewsDragon wowed by Asda’s A-Bay plan
Asda is gearing up to launch its own answer to eBay in a bid to shift residual non-food stock to the grey market, The Grocer has learnt. Executive development director Doug Gurr is heading up plans to launch A-Bay an e-auction website...
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NewsAcid Test: Barratt Lovely Mini Eggs
The small size of the bag is suitable for kids and has packaging that will appeal to them and mums. The name could be a little more inventive as it is very similar to the Cadbury product. Or maybe...
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Vimto to drive sales through acquisitions
Vimto is on the acquisition trail to help meet a target of £60m sales by 2012.The Nichols-owned soft drinks business recorded sales up 24% to £43.8m last year [Nielsen 52w/e 28 December 2009] and is looking to snap up two soft drinks...
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Tesco bids adieu to two fresh category directors
Tesco's fresh produce category is being shaken up as two leading figures responsible for spearheading its development move on.
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Cuisine Africana creator takes plunge into retail
The owner of a range of authentic African-style ready meals has come up with an innovative solution to flagging sales leasing vacant shop space in a London shopping centre.The five-strong range of Cuisine Africana-branded dishes was...
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Geoff Burch Talks Shop: Almondsbury Community Shop
It took them six years, but the residents of Almondsbury have finally got their act together. Their Community Shop has brought in sales of £100,000 in just eight months, despite operating out of a private house with an entirely (mad) voluntary workforce
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Second Opinion: The answer’s not in the price tag
Problem drinking is not as easy to solve as Iain Duncan Smith believes, says Kevin Hawkins
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Asco Stores founder leaves director role
The founder of new supermarket business Asco Stores has stepped down as a director little over a month after its Warrington store opened for business. Edward Ward terminated his appointment as a director of the company earlier this...
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Seven-day ordering and store rivalry lift availability at Asda
Asda is trialling seven-day ordering in a bid to further improve availability. The retailer currently places orders with suppliers five to six days a week but is hoping that by spreading orders over the weekend it will more "closely...
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Asda opens its first fish concession
Asda's first fish counter concession has outperformed the previous Asda offer, the supermarket has admitted.The Riddlers branded counter in Asda's Newton Abbot store opened eight weeks ago and is run by a local fish processor. "It is...
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NewsParty spirit tempered as flat beer sales hit festive trading
Christmas 2009 brought a little joy to an otherwise gloomy year for alcohol. But it wasn't quite the party some were hoping for. Graham Holter reports
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Saturday Essay: Getting the best of both from Kraft-Cadbury
If handled correctly, the possible synergies could outweigh any negative fallout or loss of trust, says Graham Hales
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Green & Black’s to convert its entire range to Fairtrade
Green & Black's is to switch its range of organic chocolate bars to 100% Fairtrade to aid its appeal to a global audience.With its Maya Gold chocolate bar in 1994, the then independent premium chocolate manufacturer was the first...
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Picture This... British cucumbers in stock
The year's first British cucumbers hit supermarket shelves this week. Up to 700,000 cucumbers a week will be harvested at Thanet Earth in Kent once the season is in full swing, having been grown in giant glasshouses.
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Retailers cut fruit prices to keep shoppers buying
Supermarkets have slashed the prices of tropical fruits to prevent consumers deserting the category.Value and volume sales of tropical fruits nosedived in the opening months of the recession as consumers re-evaluated their spend.
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Focus On Packaging: Cartons muscle in on cans’ territory
Cartons are invading cans' territory. Sainsbury's Basics tomatoes are the latest canned product to make the switch. They follow products such as Sainsbury's premium tomatoes, Asda baked beans and Princes Tuna Bites.
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Carlsberg offers chance to rally World Cup team
Frustrated England football fans will have the opportunity to inspire players themselves through Carlsberg's new £18m World Cup-themed marketing campaign.Carlsberg UK has revealed to The Grocer that it is investing about £18m 60% of its...
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Catering to every requirement
It's not big, but it's pretty clever. Catering Academy is in double-digit growth despite the recessio, thanks to its flexible and "personally tailored" approach. Nick Hughes reports