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Fast forecourt work helps boost profits of Snax 24 by 40%
"Speedier shoppers" have helped forecourt operator Snax 24 boost its full-year pre-tax profit by nearly 40% and sales by nearly 20%.Snax 24 group MD Bill Ahearn said sales rose 19% to £228.8m and pre-tax profit by 39% to £3.5m in the year to...
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City: axing 25 Simply Food stores won't fix M&S food problems
Marks & Spencer's closure of 25 "underperforming" Simply Food stores will do little to fix its struggling food business, analysts said this week. Defiant chairman Sir Stuart Rose claimed he was "encouraged" by this year's 5.2% drop in food...
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NewsGrocer 33: Asda back on top with five promotions
Asda has made a strong start to 2009, regaining its familiar cheapest retailer title and undercutting nearest rival Sainsbury's by £1.13
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Velvet invests £5m in promoting green Three Trees scheme
Swedish toilet roll producer SCA is ploughing £5m into its Velvet brand in the first quarter of this year to try and close the gap on market leader Andrex.The company is pushing its environmental credentials in an attempt to give it a point...
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Chicago Town pizza is given £5m push following acquisition
Dr Oetker says it is avoiding the trend for "virtuous" brand messages with its new marketing strategy for Chicago Town pizza
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Ad of the Week: Benylin goes viral
Getting yourself heard through the post-Christmas fug can be tough, when the cash-strapped and partied-out stare glassy-eyed at the television, drained for a week or two of the irrepressible impulse to Buy Things. A spot of controversy often...
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Cirio adapts packaging to suit demand
Italian tomato products company Cirio is adding three products to its UK range in response to consumer demand for environmentally friendly packaging and smaller formats.Its chopped tomatoes in 390g Tetra Pak cartons were priced in line with...
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Supermarkets adopt fresh tactics as price war escalates
January sales are nothing new - but this year the supermarkets are taking a brave longer-term approach. James Ball reports on the latest pricing battle
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NewsAdvertising: Danone gives ads a healthy kick
Ad spend in the yoghurt and yoghurt drink category was up 75% year-on-year in the four weeks to 13 December thanks to Danone turning up the firepower behind Actimel and launching a Stay Actiwell campaign
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Tesco press ads hit back at Asda cheapest claim
Tesco is challenging Asda’s positioning as the UK’s cheapest supermarket with a new campaign claiming Asda’s big green arrow ads are “misleading”.The new Tesco adverts use items collected from Clubcard data on 220,000 shops on Friday 2...
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Premier suppliers’ trade insurance limit cut again
Trade credit insurers have reduced Premier Foods’ suppliers’ cover for the second time in a month.
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Anchor aims for a great leap forward with felt
Anchor has tapped into the most famous scene in iconic war movie The Great Escape in a bid to boost its profile as a 'free-range' butter brand.Manufacturer Arla Foods has created a £2.5m TV ad in which a felt cut-out Anchor cow makes a bid...
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Long Clawson plans value alternatives
Long Clawson Dairy has revealed plans to introduce a value range for shoppers on a lower budget. The range, details of which have not yet been released, would also provide a safety net in case sales of the company's more premium products...
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Anyone for a packet of Walkers Cajun Squirrel?
Cajun Squirrel, Chilli & Chocolate, Crispy Duck & Hoi Sin and Onion Bhaji are some of the more unusual crisp flavours to be shortlisted in the Walkers Do Us A Flavour competition, which was announced this week.Six flavours in total have been...
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Stella and Baileys: subdued approach to festive price party
Discounting may have been the buzz word this credit-crunch Christmas, but traditional footfall drivers Stella Artois and Baileys held their prices over the 2008 party season. Although on promotion, the cost of these, and the other two key...
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Asda offers to check out shoppers' blood
An Asda store in the Midlands is offering customers blood tests with their shopping.Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust has installed a senior hospital phlebotomist one day a week at the superstore at Great Bridge, West Bromwich, to...
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Aunt Bessie's moves into cooking sauces
Aunt Bessie's is launching a range of traditional British casserole cooking sauces this winter.The six-strong ambient line-up will be made under licence by Greencore Grocery. It was developed following consumer research suggesting cooking...
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Banana prices set to be driven even higher
The price of bananas has increased by more than a third over the past year – and further price rises look likely to be on the way as the impact of the weak pound hits home. A kilo of bananas has risen from an average 70p at the big ...
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Beer duty fraudsters hit cash & carry sales
Cash & carries have revealed that sales of leading beer brands were down by up to 90% in the run up to Christmas - because of duty fraud.Carling and Foster's were the brands most affected by retailers buying cheap beer from duty fraudsters,...
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Bell's turns up premium value of blended Scotch
Diageo is relaunching its premium Bell’s whisky, Bell’s Special Reserve, in a bid to encourage drinkers of blended Scotch to trade up. The blended Scotch category is perceived as cheaper and more old-fashioned than the booming malt whisky...