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Walkers' Nonsuch
Walkers' Nonsuch, England's finest speciality toffee maker, is giving 10 readers the chance to win a Toffee Hamper.The hamper will contain a variety of twist-wrapped toffees, a selection from its traditional bar range, along with its...
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Retail Surgery - Christmas trading
Christmas offers the biggest sales potential for independents. The key is to maintain 100% availability and stock a range of food and non-food so last-minute shoppers return in the new year Raj KrishanRetail controller, Landmark...
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Store visit - Judges Bakery
Size of depot: 450 sq ftEstablished: 1826 (reopened 2005)Promotional focus: Organic, localOn the face of it Judges, originally founded in 1826, is simply a traditional bakery in a seaside town. But looks can be deceptive....
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How to pick the perfect gift for loved ones at Christmas
a bottle of perfume for your loved one this Christmas. What about a spot of hang gliding or naming a rose from the British Library? What do consumers really want for Christmas? There was a time when Christmas presents were as predictable...
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Reader Survey Christmas sales
Source: Phone poll carried out by The GrocerSales of all Christmas-related groceries will hit £1.07bn this year, up 4% on last year, according to the British Retail Consortium and Nielsen, news that has given cheer to independent...
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Climbing the ladder - Richard Williams
What was your first job? I had a paper round - I wanted to be earning from a young age. Give us a quick run-down on your career to date. I started at TNS, working with panel data, before moving to Burton's Foods. After working in the insights team I...
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Self-scan theft costs £200m
Shoppers who steal items when using self-scan checkouts are costing retailers more than £200m a year.A poll by security company G4S found 7% of adults had failed to scan the barcode of an item when using self-scan checkouts."While...
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Vin & Spirit to be sold at auction
Vin & Spirit, the company behind Absolut Vodka and owned by the Swedish government, is to be sold at auction.Analysts expect the company to be sold for between $6bn-$7bn (£3bn-£4bn), with Pernod Ricard, Diageo and Fortune Brands touted as...
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Responsible drinking ads 'not effective'
Industry funded responsible drinking advertising campaigns are not effective, researchers have claimed.Adverts such as the Diageo funded campaign 'The Choice is Yours' launched last month are ineffective because drunken antics are seen by...
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The 10 LAST christmas AD campaigns?
The indulgence of the Christmas season approaches, but an air of potential gloom hangs over this year's big food and retail advertising campaigns. Maybe for the last time retailers and brand owners are spending the countdown to Christmas...
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Price Survey - 8th December 2007
For the first time in more than two months, Somerfield has replaced Waitrose as the UK's most expensive retailer, while Asda reached a 10th week as the cheapest. Somerfield's £49.43 basket reflected a 49p increase in the price of Cadbury Dairy Milk...
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What the papers said - 8th December 2007
Pressure on Cadbury Schweppes not to close its Keynsham factory has increased after the UK's largest trade union Unite published an internal memo showing huge sales growth in October, which meant the shutdown was unnecessary, it argued. The memo...
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The Christmas G33
Asda has emerged victorious in our first-ever Christmas G33 survey comparing the prices of festive fare and non-food, including gifts and wrapping paper, across the big four.It was a close fought fight and its £112.92 trolley of festive...
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Lords' pre-9pm ad ban call is jumping the gun says DH
The government has distanced itself from a call by the Department of Health's chief whip to introduce a pre-9pm ban on the advertising of junk food.In a House of Lords debate on obesity, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon was asked by...
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acid test - Love bars
Expert's verdict... 6/10 ?The packaging is eye-catching and looks like it is aimed at women. However, it is hard to see what the product is so it would need to be positioned in the right place so shoppers could find it. The information on the pack...
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GLA urged to increase surveillance activities
The treatment of seasonal workers looks set to come under closer scrutiny next year as the Gangmasters Licensing Authority steps up the number of unannounced visits it carries out. More inspections and more staff were among the...
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Christmas turkey trade resilient after avian flu
Fears the November avian flu outbreak would have an adverse impact on the Christmas turkey trade are beginning to recede.There had been widespread concern that the cull of thousands of birds in Suffolk would cause major shortages over...
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Chitty back to full capacity after fire
Chitty Food Group has announced business as usual just weeks after a fire gutted offices at its Guildford boning plant.The beef and lamb business, which supplies M&S, independents and foodservice operators, said it had switched...
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Tsingtao switches its distributor after row
Chinese brewer Tsingtao has signed a distribution deal with Halewood International following the collapse of its agreement with Global Brands Limited (GBL).GBL signed an agreement to distribute the Tsingtao beer brand in the UK at the...