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Confidence in customer service - Q&A and Availability
Sainsbury's Salisbury branch in Wiltshire is flanked by bigger retailers who are better suited to the city, but its welcoming staff are fast winning plaudits, including this week's Top Store award. The standard of customer service at the 20,000 sq...
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Retailers urged to raise food waste awareness
Retailers are being told to do more to help reduce the huge volume of fruit and veg thrown away uneaten by consumers each day.New figures released by Wrap this week revealed that 5.1 million potatoes, 4.4 million apples, 2.8 million...
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How can InBev put Stella's shine back?
So how did it come to this? Stella Artois, one of grocery's most iconic and bestselling brands, has been overtaken in volume by Carlsberg, a beer that has morphed in a relatively short time from mediocre standard lager into a premium Continental...
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Bernard Matthews is back in kids' market
Bernard Matthews is moving back into the children's cooked meats category with the launch of a functional range - its first new kids' line since the Turkey Twizzlers debâcle three years ago.The Packed Munch range, which is rolling out...
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Burton's iconic brands turned into cereal bars
Burton's Foods is launching two of its leading brands into cereal bars as part of its strategy to grow its share of the better-for-you snack category and double group sales.It has introduced a Jammie Dodgers and a Maryland cereal bar to...
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Been on shelf for two years? You've made it
New products should only be judged a success if they make it past the two-year mark, according to a food innovation expert speaking at Food & Drink Expo.Criticising the tendency to heap praise on new products, often just months after...
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Whole Foods tells Commission it's a rival to the big multiples
Whole Foods Market is lobbying the Competition Commission to be considered as effective competition to the major multiples despite having just one large store in the UK.The US retailer has also held itself up as a role model for other...
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HeartBeet drink to cut blood pressure
James White Drinks is creating a standalone brand for a new organic beetroot drink billed as a natural remedy to high blood pressure.HeartBeet, which is 90% beetroot juice and 10% apple juice, is backed by the research of four UK...
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Westaways unveils a bold growth strategy
Westaways Sausages has outlined ambitious plans to quadruple its business within the next four years.The Devon-based company, which currently has a turnover of £3m, says growth will come through new product development as well as...
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Price hikes must reach pig farmers, says Bond
Asda chief executive Andy Bond has told its meat processors they must pass at least some of the higher prices they are now being paid on to farmers.In a letter to Bpex, Bond told pig farmers that Asda supported the sector and understood...
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GM: the genie is out of the bottle
Once GM crops are planted they are impossible to eradicate. Sooner or later, it pollutes the food chain - and we'll all end up paying the priceAbout time too. The Food Standards Agency has eventually declared that illegal GM rice from...
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Bottlegreen and RDA launch posh kids' lines
Natural drinks companies Bottlegreen and RDA Organics unveiled ambitious plans at this week's Food & Drink Expo to tap into the fledgling premium kids' drinks market.Bottlegreen is launching a three-strong range, branded Junior, which it...
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Thresher mulls joint venture to sell branded food ranges
Thresher Group is sounding out a possible buying alliance with Musgrave Retail Partners GB.The off-licence specialist, which operates the fascias Threshers, The Local and Wine Rack, is considering a partnership through which its stores...
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Burton's goes for growth
If the recent credit crunch is going to impact on private equity's ability to go shopping this year then no-one told Duke Street Capital. Under its stewardship Britain's second-biggest biscuit manufacturer Burton's Foods, which was bought by the...
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Deal to buy Somerfield won't be done just yet
Reports that The Co-operative Group could secure a deal to buy Somerfield within the next week are wide of the mark, The Grocer has learnt.The society was in exclusive talks to buy Somerfield but a deal was still some time off, a source...
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Changing the menu
Now that Yo! Sushi has become the first restaurant to adopt traffic-light labelling, the FSA is hoping other restaurants will follow suit. The FSA's line of argument is that if the nation really wants to address the obesity agenda, it is...
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French overtake Irish in UK cheese imports
French cheese has overtaken Irish as the most imported cheese into the UK, and French producers are now launching a wide-reaching promotional campaign to consolidate their success.Cheese from France now accounts for 112,085 tonnes - or...
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Value gives a clearer idea of performance
Stuart MacFarlane President, InBev UK & IrelandSir; I must take issue with the tone of your article on the performance of the Stella Artois family of brands ('Stella loses its throne', The Grocer, 5 April, p4). The headline is...
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Dhamecha to head Today's new council
Manish Dhamecha has been given the task of heading up the newly created wholesale council for the Today's Group, the wholesale arm of Nisa-Today's.A director of north London-based cash & carry group Dhamecha Foods, he was elected to the...
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Morrisons steals promo crown from Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's consistently leads the pack for featured space promotional activity in the weekly research conducted by Assosia for Promotrack. But occasionally, Morrisons likes to wear the crown and over the past three weeks it has upped...