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Freedom Food farm lapses face scrutiny
The RSPCA has suspended a Somerset chicken farm from the Freedom Food scheme following a Five News investigation revealed it was not meeting the scheme's standards. The Five report claimed perches were not in use, chickens were not let...
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The food shock: learning to live with rising prices
As everyday commodity prices rocket, shoppers are finding ways to tick off their weekly shopping list ever more economically Shoppers need to reduce their household expenditure and are now looking closely at where savings can be made on...
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Functional & wellbeing
Unilever started its crusade to turn around the fortune of functional products at the beginning of this year when it pumped £15m into a marketing campaign for its Flora Pro-activ brand. The push was designed to tackle consumer confusion...
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Waitrose offers grapes of wrath
Bogoffer of the Week is the 'buy one, get an agonising drawn-out death free' promotion unofficially being run at the Northampton outpost of Waitrose.The Barron family was delighted last week to find one of nature's deadliest predators...
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Hey, we think we're a top product too!
Sir; The 100 new Must-Stock New Products (The Grocer, 28 June, p28) was a great idea, with some super new products and a few long shots. How did you select them? I would like to have had the chance to enter Cawston Vale apple juices. Launched in...
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Stobart snaps up Innovate
Logistics firm Stobart Group has increased its presence in chilled food distribution after snapping up the chilled and ambient goods operations of Innovate Logistics .Stobart has also picked up a number of the company's contracts,...
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Letter of the week
I feel compelled to comment on your article 'A Licence to Print Money?' (The Grocer, 21 June, p28). As the MD of Fresh Retail Ventures, which holds the worldwide licensing rights for the Jamie Oliver brand in all retail markets, I feel that...
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Sponsors make most of Wimbledon tie ups
Of the seven official 'grocer' sponsors of Wimbledon, only Lansons was not captured on featured space promotion last weekend in any of the retailers researched by Assosia. As in previous years, Robinsons used secondary space in all five...
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Q&A with Paul Reeley Store manager of the week
Who are your biggest competitors? Our main one is Tesco which is currently undergoing an extension. There's also an Aldi in Sudbury but our customers are extremely loyal to the Waitrose brand. Would you like to change anything...
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Research Notes
Shoppers spent £952.7m on butters and spreads last year - a 10.5% increase over the year before. Rising shelf prices have driven this growth. To put it into context, while volume has remained fairly static year-on-year, sales were up just 0.7%...
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What the papers said
?Almost a quarter of a million smokers kicked the habit in the months before and after the introduction of the smoking ban last July, the Daily Mirror reported. The figure represents a 22% increase on the equivalent period in the...
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NewsPrice Survey
Asda has clung on to the title of cheapest retailer by the skin of a sun-dried tomato to secure a sixth straight week at the top of the charts. Despite offering unbeatable prices on seven items, Asda found itself in the unusual position...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visited Premier Stowmarket, SuffolkCo-op Group Woodhatch, SurreyMcColl's Rotherhamsomerfield Springburn Centre, Glasgowtesco express Chelmsford, EssexHow they...
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Spreadable
Spreadable butter seems able to do no wrong as it continues to tap into the hunger for natural yet convenient products. Almost all the big brands have launched spreadable versions in recent years followed by light, lighter, organic and unsalted...
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taking on tesco
Paul Foley is perhaps the only man in retail who believes he can take on Tesco. And he may also be the only man in the country who is seeing the credit crunch in a positive light. As exclusively revealed in The Grocer last week, the man...
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M&S shares plummet on profit warning
More than £1bn was wiped off the value of Marks & Spencer's shares yesterday as the retailer revealed a shock 5.3% drop in first-quarter like-for-like sales.Shares in the retailer sank 25% to 240p - the lowest level since June 2001 - as M&S...
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Esom leaves Marks & Spencer
Steven Esom, director of food at Marks & Spencer, has left the company as the retailer reports a 4.5% drop in like-for-like first-quarter food sales.Esom had been head of food at M&S since joining in June last year from Waitrose where he was...
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Vitacress sold to RAR Group
Prepared and packaged salads producer Vitacress Salads has been bought by Portuguese conglomerate RAR Group in a deal reportedly worth £50m.Vitacress is based in the south of England and recorded turnover of £81m last year. It is the largest...