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Four new roles to drive growth at Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's has forged ahead with plans to drive growth in the business by revising its operating board and creating four new roles. New roles in information technology and change, commercial services, property and strategy were...
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Mission Foods
Mission Foods, the world's no 1 tortilla and wrap manufacturer, is adding a new Roasted Red Pepper variety to its leading range of Mission Deli Wraps. The new Mission Roasted Red Pepper Deli Wraps will sit alongside the four existing...
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Utopia taps trend for prepared fruit
Exotic produce specialist Utopia UK has completed a £2m prepared-fruit facility in Gosberton, Lincolnshire.The new 40,000 sq ft site, which will cut and pack pineapples and mangoes, will be opened officially next week. The company had...
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How to source and sell locally produced goods
Anthony Davidson Founder, Bigbarn.co.ukWe believe there is a strong market out there for local food and that more people should get involved in selling it. An increasing number of people are looking to buy local food and...
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M&S hit by grimdefiance
Northern Foods' refusal to agree to new terms under Marks & Spencer's controversial Project Genesis has been applauded by suppliers enraged by the retailer's aggressive attitude, The Grocer has learnt.The Fenland Foods plant in Grantham...
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Hi-tech identification system trials make retailers uneasy
Budgens retailers are divided over the merits of face recognition and fingerprinting technologies currently being trialled by their peers.A Budgens in north London is using a facial recognition system to keep a record of every person who...
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Suso unveils lifestyle mag
Suso is investing £4m in its first marketing push for its new fizzy fruit juice, focused around a lifestyle magazine.The company, set up by former Red Bull MD Harry Drnec, hopes to bring the brand to life with a quarterly magazine,...
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Wincanton puts in rival offer for TDG
Supply chain specialist Wincanton, which has contracts with the big four, Waitrose, Somerfield and The Co-operative Group, has tabled a £229m bid for rival logistics company TDG.The bid, at 281.25p a share, beats a rival offer earlier...
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Treasurer Robin Prior
Robin Prior (left), seen here with volunteer Digby Lewis became treasurer of the SVSA when it was formed in 2002. He deals with the financial side, having previously held positions at retail and distribution level. For the past 18 years he has...
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UK shallots in short supply
There could be a shortage of UK-grown shallots ahead of this year's harvest in August.The shortage has been blamed on last year's wet weather, which made growing difficult. There has also been an increased demand for the...
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Store visit Sulgrave Village Shop
What do you do when the only grocery shop in your village closes? Some people resign themselves to travelling to the next town to shop while others take to the streets in protest. But for the villagers of Sulgrave, whose nearest town of Banbury...
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C-store sales soar 5.1% to hit record
Convenience store owners have been urged not to rest on their laurels after a report showed Britons spent a record £27.4bn in c-stores in 2007. The figures, published by IGD/William Reed Business Media, found the sector grew faster than...
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Duchy axing one third of lines in strategy to quadruple sales
Duchy Originals, the organic food brand established by Prince Charles, is set to remove a third of its lines in order to focus on an ambitious growth strategy.In an exclusive interview with The Grocer, chief executive Andrew Baker said...
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Tesco gives pride of place to Value lines
Tesco has taken the unprecedented step of relocating its Value food and drink to the front of its stores in response to rising prices.Branches across the country moved Value ranges to the more prominent location three weeks ago, although...
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M&S hit by grimdefiance
Northern Foods' refusal to agree to new terms under Marks & Spencer's controversial Project Genesis has been applauded by suppliers enraged by the retailer's aggressive attitude, The Grocer has learnt.The Fenland Foods plant in Grantham...
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Nichols trading 'slightly ahead'
Nichols, the soft drinks company behind Vimto and Panda, has said trading for the first 17 weeks of 2008 was in line with budget expectations and slightly ahead of the same period last year.“At this early stage we are pleased with progress...
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New tagline for Waitrose
Waitrose has ditched its seven-year-old tagline 'Quality food, honestly priced' with the new line 'Everyone deserves quality food. Everyone deserves Waitrose'.The slogan will air tonight in a new 60-second television advert, according to the...
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Northern Foods to mothball Fenland Foods
Northern Foods is to mothball its ready meals factory Fenland Foods in Grantham, Lincolnshire.The food manufacturer said it had resigned supply of most of the Marks & Spencer product lines produced at the site, which accounted for £45m of...
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Prince Philip questions organic farming
The Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip has questioned the benefits of organic farming, despite his son HRH Prince Charles backing the methods through his Duchy Originals brand.Speaking to ITV, he said: “Organic farming is not an absolute...
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Industry set for talks to tackle £10bn food waste mountain
The food industry is to sit down with Wrap to examine ways to tackle food waste after a report revealed up to £10bn of food is binned each year. The alarming findings, published this week by Wrap, the Waste & Resources Action Programme,...