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Coke US fizzy milk drink could be destined for UK
A new fizzy milk that is "the world's first vibrancy drink" is being trialled by Coca-Cola, The Grocer has learned. The global soft drinks giant is understood to have conducted consumer tests on two products - an organic cola and a...
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Coke US fizzy milk drink could be destined for UK
A new fizzy milk that is "the world's first vibrancy drink" is being trialled by Coca-Cola, The Grocer has learned. The global soft drinks giant is understood to have conducted consumer tests on two products - an organic cola and a...
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Tesco's Cooke takes key role at Menzies
Newspaper and magazine wholesaler Menzies Distribution has appointed Tesco veteran David Cooke as commercial and marketing director as part of a management reshuffle. Cooke, who has worked at Tesco for 21 years, most recently as a category...
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Tesco's Cooke takes key role at Menzies
Newspaper and magazine wholesaler Menzies Distribution has appointed Tesco veteran David Cooke as commercial and marketing director as part of a management reshuffle. Cooke, who has worked at Tesco for 21 years, most recently as a category...
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Suppliers link up to protect credentials of UK rapeseed oil
Rapeseed oil suppliers have formed an organisation to protect and promote the quality of the home-grown premium product. Grown and extracted by an estimated 30 suppliers in the UK, cold-pressed rapeseed oil is sold as a premium oil that...
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Winner: ian donaldson, morrisons, crossmyloof, glasgow
How do you manage availability in such a small store? The trickiest thing is weather-related products. Recently this has been a challenge that the staff have risen to. Products such as fresh fruit juices and yoghurts have been selling…
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Persil Naturals debut to mix scent with skincare
Unilever is launching a premium detergent range that it claims brings fragrance to the skin-kind laundry market for the first time.The debut of Persil Naturals, which will be backed by a £11.7m marketing push, will be the company's biggest...
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Persil Naturals debut to mix scent with skincare
Unilever is launching a premium detergent range that it claims brings fragrance to the skin-kind laundry market for the first time. The debut of Persil Naturals, which will be backed by a £11.7m marketing push, will be the company's biggest...
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Second Opinion: Our stone fruit offer is a disgrace
Continental shoppers expect and get luscious, robust, low-priced varieties, says Joanna Blythman
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Duty Freeze
Up booze duty goes, year after year, and the drinks industry barely whimpers. But now it needs to fight back, because volumes are falling and livelihoods are being lost. Push Back the Tax is calling for duty rises to be frozen in 2010. Graham Holter presents the case
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Duty Freeze
Up booze duty goes, year after year, and the drinks industry barely whimpers. But now it needs to fight back, because volumes are falling and livelihoods are being lost. Push Back the Tax is calling for duty rises to be frozen in 2010. Graham Holter presents the case
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Mars Treets is latest to make retro move
Mars is the latest company seeking to join the 1980s brand revival movement, bringing Treets out of retirement after 21 years. Looking to do ‘a Wispa’, the chocolate peanut variant of the brand, originally launched in 1976, will reappear on...
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Palestinian oil secures listing in Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's this week pledged to support farmers in troubled areas as it introduced Equal Exchange, a Fairtrade organic olive oil from the Palestinian West Bank.
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MBM sunk by 'tough' UK vegetable market
One of the country's leading fresh produce businesses, MBM Produce, has gone into administration. MBM, which has traded as MBMG since the merger of MBM Produce and FW Gedney in 2006, called in administrators Grant Thornton last Friday. The...
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MBM sunk by 'tough' UK vegetable market
One of the country's leading fresh produce businesses, MBM Produce, has gone into administration. MBM, which has traded as MBMG since the merger of MBM Produce and FW Gedney in 2006, called in administrators Grant Thornton last Friday. The...
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Tesco overtakes M&S in Northern's retail ranks
Tesco has overtaken Marks & Spencer as Northern Foods' largest customer, for the first time in the supplier's history.Northern Foods CEO Stefan Barden revealed that Tesco was the company's biggest customer as he talked to The Grocer about...
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World News
l GERMANY: Rewe Group is taking over the four supermarkets owned by Belgian food retailer Delhaize Group in Germany. The four Delhaize stores, which turned over €22m last year, are located in Cologne and Aachen. Later in the year they will be...
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NewsRetail crime up as recession bites
The recession is leading to an increase in retail crime the Government must respond to, the British Retail Consortium has warned.
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NewsCoors blimey! Record ad campaign for “world’s most refreshing beer”
Coors Light is to receive its biggest-ever marketing push with the launch of a £3.5m advertising campaign today.
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NewsClover, Cathedral City keep Dairy Crest on track
Improving sales of key brands including Clover, Country Life Spreadable and Cathedral City have kept Dairy Crest on track to meet previous performance targets, the company has said in its latest trading update.