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Fairtrade certification for fisheries by 2011?
The Fairtrade Foundation and the Marine Stewardship Council are working together on a project to allow Fairtrade certification of fish by 2011, The Grocer can reveal. The two bodies embarked on a three-phase collaborative project this May when...
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Alpro Soya on track for 2020 carbon target
Alpro Soya has announced it is on track to meet the target it set last year to be carbon neutral by 2020. The producer, which was crowned Green Supplier of the Year at The Grocer Gold Awards in June, said it would have saved a third of carbon...
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Grocer 33: Tesco's staff give Banbury store a win
Tesco’s Banbury branch excelled in customer service and availability, to scoop this week’s Top Store award. There were lots of staff available around the tidy store who proved most helpful, walking our customer to the items she needed.
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NewsGrocer 33: Lamb chops give £6 lead to Morrisons
We all know competition is fierce, but it’s amazing what a lamb chop promo can do for a supermarket’s performance. With Asda’s price on the chops up 62.1%, after a one-week promotion, Morrisons walked away with the prize, with a gap of £6.25 compared with only 26p last week.
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Christmas is all about community initiatives
The team behind National Independents’ Week is putting together a plan of action aimed at shoring up the Christmas trading period for independent retailers, which is threatened by the twin challenges of the credit crunch and the supermarkets price...
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Acid Test: Dannoff Vodka
Our panel road-tests Dannoff Vodka. Is it really ‘premium without the price’?
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Good value ad drive by Co-op Group
In the same week that Tesco and Asda launched an all-out price war on value lines, The Co-op Group launched a campaign to prove it’s also good value. The society doubled its usual press activity to trumpet its A Great Deal Locally campaign with...
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Advertising: Tesco diverts ad spend to non-food
Supermarkets’ expansion into an ever-increasing range of non-food categories is something that, rather like Sunday opening, we now take for granted. Visit a larger store and the chances are that the first thing you come face-to-face with is books, clothes and homeware rather than fruit and veg.
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Ad of the Week: Domestos calls in the Grotbuster
Unilever’s latest ruse to clean up in household goods is a triptych of ‘How to’ movies plugging the Domestos Grotbuster on Videojug (imagine a professionally shot, vaguely useful version of YouTube with far fewer users). Explicitly targeting female...
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Blockbuster brands switching ad spend to the silver screen
Grocery brands are deserting the small screen for the silver screen, with advertising spending at cinemas up 73% this year. While year-on-year advertising revenues for television sank by £35m in the first half of 2008, cinema was up £14m , according...
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‘Faddy’ fruit-flavour ciders in danger of following alcopops
The cider sector is in danger of repeating the same mistakes as the once buoyant ready-to-drink category, Gaymer Cider boss John Mills has warned. The plethora of ‘faddy’ fruit-flavoured ciders that have hit the market in the last few years are in...
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Guylian gives chocs an antioxidant halo
Chocoholics looking for a healthier hit will welcome Guylian’s latest boxed chocolates. Guylian Extra Shells retain the distinctive seashell shape and hazelnut praline filling of the originals but the new range uses dark chocolate with very high...
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Sunderland Arc continues with Tesco site plans
A lengthy row over the development of a site owned by Tesco in Sunderland has taken another twist. Sunderland Arc, a regeneration company run by Sunderland Council, has advertised for a developer in the hope that work can finally get under way. It...
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No joke for Coke as Thai top man is axed
Coca-Cola must be worried following recent controversy over Thailand’s top celebrity chef. Samak Sundaravej last week was forced to give up his other job, as Thai Prime Minister, after a court ruled his cookery show breached the constitution. Sadly...
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Tesco hits back with ‘discounter in every store’ tertiary lines
Tesco has brought back the tertiary brand, with the biggest new range since Tesco Value was launched in 1993. The introduction of Discounter Price and Market Value products was revealed on thegrocer.co.uk on Monday before hitting stores on...
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Holland & Barrett buys Julian Graves
Health food retailer Julian Graves has been snapped up by rival chain Holland & Barrett. The 345-store business had been under review by its Icelandic owner Baugur since June, when Baugur admitted it had received a number of approaches for the…
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Careers File: Don’t be shocked if bright young things put global warming before salary
Wherever you are today – at work, at home or online – it seems you can’t escape green messages. Global warming, carbon footprint...
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Heinz lightens up its plastic sauce bottles in bid to be greener
Heinz is set to roll out lighter plastic bottles across its sauce range as part of its green drive. The company switched to plastic PET bottles for its Heinz Tomato Ketchup portfolio in May, in a move it claimed would save 340 tonnes of plastic each...
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Editor's Comment: Do the big four really need to reinvent themselves as discounters?
With the collapse of Lehman Bros, a bumper worldwide wheat harvest, the return of tertiary brands at Tesco, and Asda’s launch of a 5,000-strong product price war, events threatened to supersede our special Green Issue this week. But saving the...
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Chilli sauces with a bit of Latin passion
Bart Spices is teaming up with Latin restaurant chain Las Iguanas to release a new range of chilli sauces. The herb and spice specialist has been supplying Las Iguanas’ dining tables with hot sauces for the past two years, and their popularity among...