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Confectionery brands think inside the box
Cadbury recorded the most activity across all brands found on featured space promotion last weekend. Accounting for 29% of the top five overall branded chart, Cadbury was nine points clear of Mars in second place.
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Muesli brand from a land down under
Australian cereal brand Carman’s is hoping to shake up the breakfast market with the launch of its muesli range in the UK.
Carman’s Original Muesli, available in 315 Asda stores from next week, is being positioned at the premium end of… -
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Thick bread. It's a disgrace
Pssst. Do you want to know the real cause of obesity? It's nothing to do with people gorging themselves on sweets and fizzy drinks, or eating Big Macs, apparently, but rather the curse of the thick-cut sliced sarnie.This revelation was...
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Caledonian Cooler
Retailers across the UK are tapping into the potential of Caledonian Cooler - the latest RTD brand from Beverage Brands, maker of WKD. Caledonian Cooler's distribution in grocery and in the impulse sector is growing. Almost a year after...
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Waitrose develops surplus calf scheme
Waitrose has developed a cross-sector initiative that it hopes will revamp the home-reared veal and beef market.Under the Calfline project, every surplus bull calf produced on Waitrose's dairy farms will be reared for the beef and veal...
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Suppliers call on inquiry to probe Iceland terms change
Iceland faces the scrutiny of the Competition Commission inquiry after disgruntled suppliers reported the retailer for making radical changes to its terms and conditions without negotiation.Last week we revealed Iceland's holding company...
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Nisa steps up recruitment campaign
Nisa-Today's is stepping up its bid to attract hundreds of new retail members with the production of its first recruitment brochure.The brochure, part of a £1.5m bid to enlist 300 new members, features details of the group's products and...
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Demonising saturated fats is risky, dairy chiefs warn FSA
Dairy companies have warned the Food Standards Agency it risks harming people's health if it takes an over-simplistic approach in its bid to cut saturated fat intake.The agency is gearing up to finalise its strategy for cutting...
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How to make the most from Christmas trading
Raj Krishan Retail controller, Landmark WholesaleSays: Christmas and the new year can be an extremely profitable period for independents. Whether it is meeting the demands of shoppers on their way to a party by offering chilled...
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Terms & conditions
Whether suppliers can resist Iceland's demands depends on their relationship with the retailer, according to legal expert Richard Matthews, partner at Eversheds.If there are no written terms and conditions underpinning the trading...
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Opinion - "Now, the sympathy vote simply won't wash. But the fine will have unintended consequences for the PM too"
The £116m of fines meted out by the OFT to Asda, Sainsbury's, Dairy Crest and Robert Wiseman last Friday came too late to be included in Saturday's issue, but this story, already five years old, is far from over. And right now, save for a few very...
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Could dairy farmers be the real losers?
The OFT's decision last week to hand out a £116m fine to some of the UK's leading supermarkets and dairies for colluding to fix the price of milk, cheese and butter had more than a whiff of pyrrhic victory about it. They may have rightly...
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Morrisons recruits own label execs
Morrisons has poached two senior executives from Asda and Tesco to spearhead a product development drive to transform own label.It has appointed head of Asda brand product Simon Mitchell and Tesco's Central European product development...
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Indie stores hit by 'worrying' fall in year-on-year revenue
Independent retailers were given more bad news this week as TNS Worldpanel data showed sales in the sector dipped 2.2% year-on-year in the 12 weeks to 2 December.Total grocery sales through independents were £506.6m in the period...
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Zig-Zag filter tips
Zig-Zag recently launched Extra Slim Filter Tip Rods. These filter tips are wrapped in cellophane, six to each rod, with 20 rods packed into a Zig-Zag-branded cigarette type packet.The packets have an rsp of 69p, which gives retailers a...
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Tryton Foods MD Sanderson leaves
The managing director of Tryton Foods - owners of Aunt Bessie's frozen food brand - left the company with immediate effect this week.Neil Sanderson had been with Hull-based Tryton Foods for the past four and a half years. Prior to this...
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Iceland's new terms get frosty response
Iceland's decision to extend its payment terms to 90 days and introduce a settlement discount of 2.75% has sparked a revolt among outraged suppliers.The suppliers who spoke to The Grocer have vowed to fight the changes and say suppliers...
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Unilever must do more for growers
Sir; While it is good news for the environment that Unilever has at last recognised the importance of sustainable tea production, these new plans do nothing to financially guarantee a better future for poor tea growers ('PG Tips claims title of...
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Haribo's Maoam range
The Maoam range of fruit chews from Haribo has been one of the success stories of the decade. Since its launch in 2001, Maoam has made a major contribution to the development and success of this growing sector and in just six years has become...
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Heinz Hidden Veg
Market leader Heinz is helping mums to smuggle essential vegetables into their kids' meals by introducing a new range of Beanz, Hoops and Spag Bol. Heinz Hidden Veg is part of Heinz's £6m investment in its beans, kids (pasta ranges) and meals...