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Emmi offers healthy treat with Swiss milk
Switzerland's largest dairy company Emmi is setting its sights on UK expansion and hopes to tempt health-conscious consumers with a new chilled yoghurt range.Capitalising on demand for healthy products made from quality ingredients, the...
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Fiona McLelland
Meet "Mr Yin" and "Mr Yang", the pair on a mission to create a new chain of organic and artisan food stores. The duo have been working 20-hour days since the first outlet of The Natural Kitchen opened just over a month ago on thriving...
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Sainsbury's under fire for lamb pricing policy
Sainsbury's has come under attack for vaunting the provenance of its regional lamb while selling it at the same price as standard meat. Following the launch of West Country lamb in south west stores earlier this year, it has...
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Innocent mounts new push for lower VAT on fruit juices
Innocent Drinks has renewed calls for VAT on fruit juices to be slashed - in the hope Gordon Brown will be more sympathetic to the cause now he is prime minister.Innocent has been lobbying since last August for a change in the law that...
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Waitrose's red meat to get welfare mark
Waitrose is preparing to roll out its high-welfare Select Farm quality mark on all its fresh red meat.The retailer plans to launch packaging featuring the Select Farm logo for fresh pork, lamb and beef in the autumn. The products will...
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Ginger Pig opens in Yorkshire
The owner of London's famous Ginger Pig butcher's shop has opened a traditional grocer in North Yorkshire - and says he is planning a chain of similar stores across the region.Tim Wilson, renowned for his meat shop in Marylebone and...
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Why outlook for grocery is grim
The latest interest rate hikes will have affected shoppers' spending and for multiples offering non-food items, sales may start to wobble Tesco's share price has come under severe pressure in the past fortnight. Its comments at the...
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Shop Profile Mills Group
Heavy rains and flooding have hit the UK over the past fortnight but convenience retailer Mills Group has been weathering a different type of storm for a lot longer. Pre-tax profit plunged 24% on turnover down 2% as poorer-performing stores, the...
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Wheat shortages hit poultry prices
A global shortage of wheat is forcing the price of poultry up, producers have warned.South west poultry producer Lloyd Maunder predicted that the retail price of a whole 1.5kg corn-fed chicken would go up by 20p - equivalent to 4% - as...
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Nisa-Today's hits recruitment trail
Nisa-Today's is to launch its biggest-ever recruitment campaign for new members as it aims to improve its supply chain efficiency and increase the volumes going through its central distribution centre.The drive will be a cornerstore of...
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Hyson rises to Musgrave
Acting Musgrave Budgens Londis MD Martin Hyson has been given a new role of group business development director for parent company Musgrave in the Republic of Ireland.Hyson had been acting as GB MD since November last year when Mike...
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do miles matter?
The validity of food miles as an indicator of sustainable development was a key theme at the Climate Change and the Food Industry conference in London last week.Food miles cost the UK economy an estimated £9bn per year through factors...
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Reader survey
Independent retailers agree unanimously that the supermarkets are preventing them from opening more stores. Competition from the multiples makes it difficult to find suitable stores, they argue. Life is likely to get tougher in the wake...
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Reader survey - growth
Independent retailers agree unanimously that the supermarkets are preventing them from opening more stores.Competition from the multiples makes it difficult to find suitable stores, they argue. Life is likely to get tougher in the wake of...
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Shop Profile - Mills Group
Store numbers: 75Staff: 1,150Turnover: £50.8mType of operation: C-store/CTNHeavy rains and flooding have hit the UK over the past fortnight but convenience retailer Mills Group has been weathering a different type of storm for a...
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Meat content of sausages in spotlight
Retailers are selling sausages containing just 30% meat, according to a report by Which?The consumer group found some companies bulked up sausages with cooked rice and rusk, while sugar, water and beef fat was used to bulk up...
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Premier Foods to close six factories
Premier Foods is to close six factories as part of a review of its manufacturing operations following its £1.2bn acquisition of RHM in December.The food manufacturer said it would close six factories in Bristol, Droylsden, Ledbury,...
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Processors bought by 2 Sisters group
Three meat processing companies have been bought by 2 Sisters Food Group in a bid to raise its profile in niche markets such as halal and 'local' meat.It has acquired Joseph Mitchell, near Fife, and two poultry processors in the north of...
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World News - 30th June 2007
Private equity goes cold on Coles. Tooronga, Australia: A private equity bid for Coles Group looks increasingly unlikely, following news that a private equity consortium, including Blackstone Group Texas Pacific Group and Carlyle...