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Does obesity carry too much weight?
Is the supposed obesity epidemic in danger of overshadowing genuinely weighty issues such as climate change and food security? This is the question many food and drink experts are asking in the wake of obesity-focused media coverage...
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The Challenge
Sipahh's entrance into the UK market is a modern day David and Goliath story. It was launched there early in 2007, but its Australian inventor Unistraw had been making waves there well before then, taking on the world's biggest food...
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Ocado's service gives online shoppers a merry Christmas
Ocado provided the best service of all the online grocers over Christmas - and Tesco the worst - according to research carried out exclusively for The Grocer. Mystery shoppers used by eDigital Research placed 36 orders with the major...
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Company Profile Strawtech
Company: Strawtech Established: 2006 Number of lines: 1 Listings: Sainsbury's, Asda, Spar Andrew Robinson's mantra is 'life's good when it sucks' - not because the 29-year-old is prone to wallowing in misery, but because he's the...
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Rose reticent over suppliers as Esom eyes food price cuts
Marks & Spencer is gearing up to slash food prices in the wake of disappointing Christmas sales. On Wednesday the retailer revealed that like-for-like sales of food fell 1.5% in the 13 weeks to 29 December. Total food sales rose...
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Website revamp is designed to reduce transaction times
Ocado is hoping a website redesign will boost sales by speeding up transaction times. The site has been given a complete overhaul by an in-house team over the past nine months. New features, such as an extended favourites section...
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Müller is determined to stay top of the pots
The new year health drive usually ensures the chilled yogurts and pot desserts category gets the lion's share of promotional space in chilled cabinets in stores. And so it has proved this year. Müller led the top five brands last weekend...
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Opinion - "The M&S price position right now is more Kerry Katona than Myleene Klass, and that doesn't feel right"
The chickens are coming home to roost. And I'm not talking about the vengeance that is being meted out on Sainsbury's et al by Jamie Oliver and his ingrates, as grocers get it in the neck for their poultry welfare. I'm talking about Marks &...
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Envive supported by education drive
Procter & Gamble is investing £4m in the launch of a new product under its Always brand aimed at women with sensitive bladders. Always Envive, rolling out across the trade now, will benefit from national TV ads kicking off next month,...
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East of England pulls out of milk processing
The East of England Co-op is pulling out of the dairy processing sector, blaming tough market conditions. The co-op this week confirmed it is in discussions with Dairy Crest for a sale of its dairy distribution business in February that...
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Eco-friendly prawn packs
Compostable packaging, described as a first for the UK seafood industry, has been launched by Dawnfresh Seafoods. Easy-peel, jumbo, ready-to-eat prawns, sourced from Thailand, have gone on sale in Asda stores under a six-month...
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Harkjaer heads new umbrella group for Findus and Young's
Seafood giant Young's and frozen food group Findus are to be brought together under a new umbrella structure by owner CapVest next month. The Foodvest Group, which will have a turnover of £1.1bn making it one of the largest seafood and...
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Marks heads towards one-stop grocery offer
M&S is gearing up to take on the big four with a significant move towards becoming a one-stop-shop. It has brought out a comprehensive cooking ingredients range and said this week it was taking a "serious" look at introducing major food...
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R&R targets health and super premium sectors
Rachel's Organic and Ribena are breaking into new categories with the launches of ice cream and smoothie lollies as licence owner R&R seeks to drive sales through super premium and healthier products. The February launches come after last...
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the house of lancaster
If there's a question mark over the future of cheap food, the grocers don't seem to be taking much notice. Asda and Tesco have set out their stalls to match the hard discounters' low prices, albeit with more frills. And, ironically perhaps, one...
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Online services stumble intothe new year
It seems retailers are suffering from an extended New Year's Eve hangover. Our latest quarterly online survey shows the high standard of service achieved in September could not be matched this time round, with lengthy delivery times, a...
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spotlight - rapeseed oil
As awareness grows of the health benefits of cold-pressed rapeseed oil over olive oil, Jill McGregor and her team at Borderfields, supplier of Oleifera, are well placed to benefit from rising demand We are the only Scottish producer of cold-pressed...
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star order
The winner of this quarter's Star Order award for shopping excellence is Asda.com, which replaces Tesco as The Grocer's top online retailer. The Asda.com website was found to be very simple to navigate with clear instructions.
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Trust is the building block of joint problem solving
If a deal goes wrong those involved are likely find themselves in conflict, but an optimistic approach can resolve a problem and preserve a business relationshipAll too often in commercial agreements, something goes wrong. Typical...