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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,...
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Mars re-registers Marathon as trade name after 18 years
Mars could be poised to resurrect its Marathon brand after 18 years off the shelf in the latest move to cash in on retro brands.Marathon was ditched in 1990 after Mars decided to align the UK branding with the global Snickers moniker....
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ACID TEST - Brandston Beans and Chichpeas range - Papaya exotic juice drink
Expert's verdict...5/10 ?These are certainly an acquired taste. I didn't enjoy the chickpeas or the soya beans. The packaging was confusing, too. I really couldn't get a handle on what this product is trying to achieve. One would have thought...
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Aldi adverts boast of it selling cheapest basket
Aldi is taking advantage of the credit crunch to emphasis how cheap it is compared with the big four.The discounter is running national newspaper ads comparing its prices for 22 common products against each of the multiples using the...
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Asda increases its African sourcing
Asda has outlined plans to source an extra £30m of fresh produce from Africa over the next five years.The supermarket will source 20% more flowers from Kenya by the end of the year and will also buy more bananas, citrus, mangoes and...
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Wyke Farms aims to be big hit in US
Independent farmhouse cheesemaker Wyke Farms is to sell into the US after it successfully brokered a deal with a distributor.Wyke signed a deal last week to supply a range of its cheese and dairy products across the US. Some 10% of its...
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Asda airs its eco-credentials with television documentary
Asda has produced a 30-minute documentary about its environmental credentials, which will be screened on Information TV, available through Sky Digital.The programme - People, Prices, Planet - promises an insight into the chain's...
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How the frozen aisle came in from the cold
Who would have thought it? After years out in the cold, frozen food is undergoing a renaissance. Sales have risen a modest but significant 1.4% in the year to March [TNS] after several years in decline. The credit crunch and weakening economy...
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Ajinomoto to sue Asda over aspartame
The world's largest artificial sweetener producer has issued legal proceedings against Asda for defamation after the supermarket labelled aspartame a 'nasty'.Ajinomoto Sweeteners, which had a £5.5bn turnover in the year to March 2007,...
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Australian winery produces Albariño
Australian winery Nepenthe has produced its first vintage of trendy Spanish wine Albariño.The move comes after UK buyers urged Australian producers to branch out into new grapes and styles to keep consumers interested. The Albariño...
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My Alternative CV - Louise Bird, senior product manager, Alpro
What's your nickname? I don't really have one now but when I was at school everyone called me Birdy. Who was your first teenage crush? Jason Donovan - looking at him now, I have no idea why! When was the first time you got drunk? New year's eve ...
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The quiet American
Greg Peterson is a bit of a dark horse. In many ways the UK MD of Kellogg's is exactly as you would expect an American born in Utah to be - earnest, wholesome and somewhat reserved. But appearances can be deceiving. During his first...
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Andrex targets kids to boost moist tissue
Kimberly-Clark plans to focus its innovation on the moist toilet tissue category in an attempt to help grow the market 10-fold to £150m.This week it launched Andrex Kids - as predicted by The Grocer in February -in the first plank of NPD...
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Innocent and Asda vow to keep fighting on VAT
Innocent and Asda have vowed to continue their campaigns to persuade the government to slash VAT on smoothies and fruit juices.This week, the government delivered a major blow to the two camps when it announced it had no plans to reduce...
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"Confusion reigns at Asda. It is offering suppliers payment up front, but on what terms?"
It's 4.30pm, I am going to press in 30 minutes and until two minutes ago we thought we had what looked like a sensational story. Asda, we had learnt, had written to its suppliers to tell them it was launching an optional 'Pay Me Early'...
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Chaos over Asda terms
Asda has sparked panic among suppliers by sending out a letter that appeared to say it would pay them straight away, in exchange for them knocking 12% off the bill. However the letter failed to clearly explain that it was referring to the rate of...
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Asda won't say if it was whistleblower
Asda has refused to confirm or deny speculation it sparked the latest investigation by the OFT into potential price-fixing of food and household products.Press reports surfaced last weekend that Asda was the whistleblower that prompted...
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We ask... Do you have an online sales facility?
The internet remains a problematic area for wholesalers, according to the results of our latest reader survey. Online sales is clearly an area that wholesalers feel they should be looking at. But they are unsure as to whether their customers are...
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Morrisons' Yorkshire rose - Q&A and Availability
Morrisons has surged to joint first position at the top of our customer service leader board with its third Top Store triumph in four weeks. Its Pontefract branch in West Yorkshire sealed the victory with helpful and polite floor staff and strong...
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Tesco's bully-boy tactics are bad PR
As Tesco pursues libel claims against two Thai journalists, a former Thai MP and The Guardian, it should reflect on McLibelMy mum comes back from Thailand with a front page news cutting from the Pattaya Mail headlined 'Protests against...