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Efficiencies drive up profits at JW Filshill
Scottish wholesaler JW Filshill has increased its pre-tax profits by 7% to £2m, despite a sales growth of just 1% to £163m.The increased profitability in the year to January 2009 was brought about by driving unnecessary cost out of the...
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As Nature Intended fails in Manchester
As Nature Intended, the organic supermarket chain founded by Iceland boss Malcolm Walker's daughter, has closed its store in Hale near Manchester due to lack of demand from northern customers. "It wasn't successful and it wasn't worth us...
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National Trust set to launch range of food
The National Trust insisted it was not "doing a Duchy" as it unveiled ambitious plans to launch a 100-line food and drink range into the supermarkets.The charity, which already sells a limited range of ambient goods through its own...
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NewsInnocent pins hopes on kids push to get smoothies growing
Innocent Drinks is making its kids offer a top priority as it strives to restore ailing smoothie sales to growth. The company is next week launching its first TV ad aimed directly at kids as part of an attempt to raise its current 48%...
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Time for a great milk shake-up
Jodie Farran and Andrew Howie's premium Shaken Udder milkshakes, launched last year, are rapidly gaining listings. Could they be the next Innocent, asks Richard Ford
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Walker snapped up Woodward for a quid
Iceland boss Malcolm Walker paid just £1 in cash to purchase DBC Foodservice's parent company the Woodward Group in May, according to accounts filed this week.The sum, paid to DBC's previous owners Baugur and Fons Eignarhaldsfelag, was...
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Who’s winning in Westminster?
The grocery industry spends millions of pounds each year beanding the ear of politicians and making sure the industry's needs are understood by policy makers. Nick Hughes reports
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NewsAsda in loyalty drive as Bond rules out move to M&S
Asda has ushered in what it claims will be a new era of transparency in the way it engages with shoppers.
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Muesli gets the Fairtrade treatment
Consumers will soon be able to start their day in a fairer way with the forthcoming launch of a new range of Fairtrade mueslis.
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NewsGSK takes ‘healthy’ Lucozade to China
GlaxoSmithKline is to launch its iconic energy drink Lucozade into the Chinese market.
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World News 26/9/09
7-Eleven has announced the appointment of Bill Merrigan as vice president of logistics at its 6,200-store chain in the US and Canada. He is charged with making the supply chain more efficient. Merrigan, who was most recently vice president of...
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Other Movers 26/9/09
Michael White the chief executive and vice chairman of PepsiCo International, in charge of all PepsiCo's operations outside the US and Canada is to retire later this year. Zein Abdulla will take over as head of PepsiCo Europe, while Saad...
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Spar sales soar 8.1% as recession propels local shopping trend
Spar has credited a strong sales uplift to the rise of local shopping coupled with a recession-driven revamp of its own-label range and advertising strategy. Sales shot up 8.1% in the three months to the end of June, with like-for-like...
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TJ Morris set to hit £1bn barrier target early as profits leap 28%
TJ Morris is expecting to break through the £1bn sales mark two years earlier than expected after reporting a massive hike in full-year sales and profits.The north of England-based discounter, which trades as Home Bargains, had aimed to...
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Fury as shellfish left out of FSA’s 2-a-week advice
The Food Standards Agency has been blasted by the seafood industry for failing to include shellfish in its latest consumption advice to consumers.The agency reissued its advice last week following a consultation asking stakeholders for...
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Waitrose is warned: 300 c-store target will be hard
Waitrose will find it tougher than it thinks to meet its target of opening 300 c-stores within the next 10 years, experts have warned. This week, the retailer unveiled aggressive expansion plans to open the c-stores as well as nine new...
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NewsGrocer 33: Good service delivers win for Morrisons
Competition was fierce this week with three retailers providing strong availability. But Morrisons in Anniesland pipped its rivals to the post thanks to helpful staff. The store looked tidy and although there were several packing...
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NewsGrocer 33: Asda reclaims the top spot from Tesco
Asda has shot back to the top of the rankings after emerging as the second-most expensive retailer for ethical products last week. But it was no easy victory, as Sainsbury's basket cost just 7p more.
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NewsOnline Grocer 33: Helpful driver steers Tesco to victory
A chatty and knowledgable delivery driver plus strong availability and a well designed website has made Tesco this quarter's G33 online winner.