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Bulk purchasing to the fore in beer and cider
The multibuy x-for-y promotion has become the favoured mechanic for driving higher sales of beer, lager and cider
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WORLD NEWS: Lianhua to open Belgian subsidiary
SHANGHAI: Lianhua Holdings is poised to venture outside its native China for the first time. It plans to open a subsidiary, Shanghai Lianhua (Europe), in Belgium,...
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M&S brand supply defended by Booker
Wholesale giant Booker has defended its move to supply M&S with brands - which appears in conflict with its stated aim of becoming the biggest and best supplier to small businesses in the UK. Supplying M&S fitted its other main ambition of...
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Nisa-Today's shrugs off Booths' departure
Nisa-Today's insists its business won't be affected when supermarket chain Booths leaves the buying group at the beginning of next year. "Booths' termination of membership will have no material effect on the group's operations as Booths...
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Spar retailers boycott Vodafone over rate cut
Almost 3,500 convenience stores boycotted Vodafone yesterday by refusing to sell its top-ups after the mobile phone operator announced it was cutting retailers' commission by one percentage point. Led by Spar retailers, they threatened...
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Credit crunch brings Irish into discounters
Rising prices are forcing consumers in the Irish Republic to dramatically change their shopping habits, according to a survey by the National Consumer Agency. The NCA, a statutory body, found that more than a quarter of those surveyed were...
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Noble gains Burnett from Dairy Crest
Dairy Crest's commercial director of foods, Dale Burnett, is to join Noble Foods as group commercial director. His switch follows that of Peter Thornton, who quit as executive managing director of Dairy Crest in March to become chief...
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Rose hits reset button to pre-Esom structure
Sir Stuart Rose has restructured the food business along pre-Steven Esom lines following the departure of the M&S head of food last week. Speaking at the agm this week, Sir Stuart said the restructure came in the wake of "operational issues"...
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Co-op's one-stop shop for media buyers
The Co-operative Group has launched a one-stop media centre to make it easier for companies to advertise across all its businesses. The move, which the society claims is the first of its kind for a major retailer, will allow the Co-op Group...
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Tesco signs up Lebara Mobile for cheap calls
Tesco has struck a distribution deal with mobile network Lebara Mobile to offer cheap international calls. Lebara Mobile's airtime is now available in 1,900 Tesco stores while Lebara SIM cards will be available at 90 stores from this month. ...
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Sweet Charity picks Davis to be director
The Confectioners Benevolent Fund - also known as Sweet Charity - has appointed Patrick Davis as its director general. At the start of September, he will succeed Malcolm Carter, who retires after almost five years. "I am honoured to...
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Collaborative spirit of PM report welcomed
The government's new strategic framework for food has been hailed by manufacturers as the beginning of the end of conflicting and interventionist measures. The 126-page Food Matters: Towards a Strategy for the 21st Century report, published...
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Waitrose readies itself to take on convenience
Waitrose has appointed Anthony Wysome as head of convenience to oversee a new wave of small shops, the first of which could open early next year. Wysome was promoted from senior project manager to take charge of plans to expand into the...
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Ocado sets up unique waste reduction drive
Ocado has launched a groundbreaking new initiative it claims will help consumers dramatically reduce their food waste. From September, the online retailer will display product use-by dates online and on receipts. "It means the food we sell...
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Henderson offers food-to-go online
Northern Irish Spar wholesaler Henderson Group has launched an online ordering system for its food-to-go offer. The scheme, being trialled at the company-owned Spar store in Great Victoria Street, Belfast, is being run in partnership with...
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Supplier fury as FSA yields little on NPM
The Food Standards Agency is putting an "obsession with control" before nutritional improvement, suppliers told The Grocer this week after the FSA refused to reconsider the controversial 100g base of its Nutrient Profiling Model. Healthy...
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Poundland picks up the pace
Poundland is on course to open 30 new stores this financial year as the value retailer reaps the benefits of the economic downturn. This week Poundland opened new stores in Bangor, north Wales, and Hammersmith, west London. The additions take...
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What's in a filling? Well, you're about to find out
Fancy a reformed chicken sandwich? Or one containing ham made from 5% water? They don't sound too enticing, do they? Yet, these are exactly the sort of descriptions that could soon become the norm on the front of sandwich packs if proposals made...
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UK chicken industry set for merger wave
So it’s finally started. For years, experts have been predicting a wave of consolidation in the meat processing industry. And now, two of the biggest poultry producers have fallen into foreign hands. First, there was Grampian Country…
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Dairy intolerants boost goats milk sales 16.5%
Sales of goats milk continue to soar as lactose-intolerant consumers start to wise up to its health and flavour benefits - sometimes at the expense of soya. Fresh goats milk sales have shot up 16.5% in the past year, with the retail...