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NewsCommodities: Retailers drop meat prices to keep shoppers spending
Meat and fish prices have largely fallen this month, but an increase in the price of salmon has pushed up the overall basket price. Richard Ford reports
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Retail rice price stuck six times higher than the commodity cost
The shelf price of a bag of rice is more than six times the cost of the commodity, The Grocer can reveal.The cost of importing rice rocketed from about $400/tonne (£274/tonne) to more than $1,100/tonne last May amid severe supply shortages....
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NewsSecond Opinion: Tesco out of step with customers
And the multiple's move into discount tertiary ranges will not help, says Jonathan Pritchard
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New jobs total more than cuts
With job cuts across the UK, people in the grocery sector will take heart from our new Jobometer, which shows that more jobs have – so far, at least – been created than lost.
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InBev displaces S&N as Wembley supplier
InBev UK has pulled off a marketing coup by becoming the official beer supplier to the Wembley Arena in north London.The two-year deal will link InBev brands to performances by leading music artists at the venue, with Beck’s Vier the...
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Thanet Earth gets green thumbs up on emissions
The green credentials of the Thanet Earth glasshouse project have received a major boost after a new report found the site to be more environmentally friendly than foreign facilities.
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Nando's turns up the peri-peri sauce heat
Restaurant chain Nando’s is to launch its hottest-ever chilli sauce into supermarkets after its diners kept stealing bottles.The Extra Extra Hot Peri-Peri Sauce, made by All About Food, had been developed in response to growing consumer...
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Hook, line and $ink£r
Senior executives are scared of switching jobs in the current economic environment and employers are having to offer some pretty juicy bait to lure people away from the security of their current roles. Unfortunately, there aren't a wealth of high-level jobs out there - and the generosity only extends so ...
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Whey-ste of money
Don't miss the must-attend SCA course on "troubleshooting cheese" at Duchy College, which costs just £350 and answers such timeless dairy dilemmas as what to do if your Stilton has weird blue lines in it. Sadly, the companion course on buttering a...
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Strong trade for second Mullaco store
Independent Asian supermarket Mullaco has defied the credit crunch by opening a second store in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.The 10,000 sq ft store, which used to be a Kwik Save, sells 5,000 lines including fruit and veg, halal meat and a wide...
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Swedish vodka with plutonium rod style
A new Swedish super-premium vodka inspired by nuclear engineering design will make its world debut in the UK market.DQ vodka, which is made by the Nordic Spirit Company, comes in litre bottles designed to resemble plutonium rods. It has an...
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NewsBooker in sales boost as Barclays brokers new debt deal
Wholesale giant Booker has announced a rise in like-for-like sales of almost 3% for the past four months despite a slight fall in tobacco sales.
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Britain now world’s top wine importer as youngsters fuel vodka boom
Britain has become the world’s largest importer of wine, according to new figures from show organiser VinExpo.
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Tesco confirms 2.5% growth as Cescau comes aboard
Tesco has posted a modest 2.5% rise in UK like-for-like sales for the seven weeks to 10 January, in what is likely to be the slowest rate of growth among the UK’s big four supermarkets for the key Christmas period.
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Mouthwash in cancer scare
The fast-growing mouthwash category has been dealt a blow after new research showed ethanol-based products increase the risk of oral cancer by up to nine times.
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Premier eyes private equity role in bid to reduce debt
Premier Foods is set to sell off a 40% stake in the company to private equity investors as the owner of Hovis and Branston Pickle seeks to reduce its £1.6bn debt burden.
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World News 10/1/09
USA: Wal-Mart will pay $640m to settle 63 lawsuits accusing the retailer of breaking labour laws by denying employees breaks and forcing them to work unpaid overtime. The retailer said it would continue to ensure it complied with the law….
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Other Movers 10/1/09
Sean FitzPatrick has resigned as a non-executive director of Greencore Group. He had been on the board of directors for six years
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NewsGrocer 33: Waitrose gets off to strong start in 2009
Waitrose’s Bath branch has kicked off the new year with a promising start. The immaculate store provided full availability and the checkout assistant was described as “friendly, cheerful and helpful” after she made polite conversation with our shopper, efficiently scanned her items and offered to pack her bags
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2009 preview: The year of make do...and mend
With job losses escalating, sterling in big trouble and businesses falling by the wayside seemingly daily, we're finding out the hard way what happens when the heart is ripped from a credit-based culture. The grocers generally traded well...