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First Milk wins Asda regional cheese deal
Asda has signed First Milk on an 18-month contract to supply regional cheese, despite speculation that it was looking to switch manufacturers.The deal covers more than 20,000 tonnes of cheese from the dairy co-op's three creameries at...
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ASDA Stowmarket, Suffolk1The Stowmarket Asda could have been cleaner, our shopper said. Although the staff were helpful when providing assistance, our shopper was mistakenly charged for grapefruit rather than oranges. The red...
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Ministers back bid to combat illegal fishing
The government is putting its weight behind an industry-run scheme to stamp out illegal fishing.Ministers said they would go to Brussels to promote a new traceability system that tracks fish from the moment they are caught until they...
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Six of the Best: Bagged snacks
Star buyer: Adrian Gash senior buyer, crisps, snacks & nuts, waitroseGash has been with Waitrose for three years. He joined from Safeway, where he spent six years covering pharmaceuticals, bread and finally crisps. Gash says...
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Marmite gets into bangers
In the wake of its success with Marmite-flavoured crisps and Guinness-flavoured Marmite, Unilever has teamed up with another supplier, this time to give a different sort of bang to the humble banger. Sausage producer Broad Oak has...
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Beef export trade success
Beef exports have been branded a success by the MLC one year on from the resumption of trade.Volumes have now reached 66,000 tonnes in total, according to figures to be released shortly. The resumption of exports has led to...
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Prepare for tighter UK beef supply, says MLC
Retailers should brace themselves for a tightening in UK beef supplies this summer, the MLC has warned.The number of prime beef cattle for slaughter is expected to fall by 1.5% and a similar scenario is expected in the Republic of...
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Stores can prosper by being 'glue of local communities'
Retailers must make themselves indispensable to their communities to remain competitive in the face of the multiples' assault on convenience, it was claimed this week.Former CBI director general Sir Digby Jones told delegates at the...
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Sainsbury's to rebrand Jacksons, Bells stores
Sainsbury's is to convert its Jacksons and Bells convenience stores to Sainsbury's Locals within a year in a bid to cut costs and boost sales.Lawrence Christensen, Sainsbury's head of convenience, said the shake-up would create a more...
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Belvoir fruit farms: building on natural health
The cordials and pressé juice products from Belvoir Fruit Farms are the product of inefficient fruit picking.The people who set up the company had a pick-your-own-fruit operation on the Belvoir Castle Estate in the Vale of Belvoir near...
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Berryworld gets kids skipping for free fruit
Berryworld is to give away £40,000-worth of blueberries to kids in a link-up with Sainsbury's.Millions of schoolchildren will be offered the chance to join skipping classes, for which their reward will be a 60g punnet, equal to a serving...
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Six of the Best: frozen food buyers
Star buyer: Helena Watson Frozen desserts and ice cream buyer, Sainsbury'sWatson has been in her role for almost two years but has previously traded in petfood, soft drinks and fresh and processed fish products. Before joining...
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A 'listening' culture reaps big rewards
The huge variety of products in the bagged snacks sector, which includes crisps, baked snacks, tortilla chips and nuts, means that it covers a wide range of needs, from food that is an occasional, sinful treat to products a nutritionist would...
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Wrigley squirms as Trident takes a bite
It is too early to claim victory in the gum wars. After all, one side - Wrigley - began with a mouthwatering 98% share at the beginning of 2007. But to say Cadbury Trebor Basset is cock-a-hoop about Trident would not be an...
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Morrisons is green as 'it keeps us in the black'
Retailer green initiatives are 10-a-penny these days. There's Plan A from Marks & Spencer. Tesco has made a £500m green pledge. Now Asda is in a war on packaging, and Sainsbury's has its designer reusable bags.One supermarket conspicuous...
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Plaid Cymru blasts links to Labour
Welsh nationalists have accused Tesco of being too cosy with the government.There were question marks over the "ethics of the relationship" between the chain and Labour, said Plaid Cymru shadow enterprise minister Alun Ffred Jones ahead...
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Marwood blasts press for doom-mongering
The national media is painting an inaccurate and unnecessarily negative picture of small retailers, according to Spar UK MD Jerry Marwood.Speaking at the ACS Summit 07 in Birmingham this week, Marwood said journalists too often portrayed...
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whole foods market HQ hit by blaze
A fire that gutted a block of buildings on London's busy Oxford Street last week was started in Whole Foods Market's HQ. The blaze, which ripped though the office space above the New Look fashion store, forced more than 20 neighbouring stores to...
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Whispers force Hall to quit levy board
John Hall has resigned from Levy Board UK, where he was leading efforts to reform the levy system in the horticulture sector.Hall blamed his resignation on a whispering campaign, which followed the failure in 2005 of his nursery company...
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the GREAT PROPERTY BOARD GAME
The supermarket property game is like Monopoly. It promises players the thrill of getting rich quick. Over the past decade, UK supermarkets have amassed a vast collective property portfolio. Valued at more than £100bn by experts, it includes...