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Fairtrade sector gears up for merger bonanza
Fairtrade food and drink companies could soon be changing hands at premium prices as bigger operators vie for a share of the ethical consumer market.Philip Nuttall, partner at Clearwater Corporate Finance, said this year could bring...
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P&H plans restructure to boost profit margin
Palmer & Harvey McLane, the UK's biggest wholesaler, is restructuring its business as it bids to improve its wafer thin profit margin.The strategic restructure is to focus on achieving growth specifically across the forecourt,...
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Profile Brakes
The UK's biggest foodservice provider, Brakes Group, is being touted around town by its US-based private equity owners Clayton, Dubilier & Rice with a price tag of £1.2bn. With a turnover of £1.6bn and profit of £50.6m, it should prove...
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Yeo Valley has branched out into free trees
Yoghurt producer Yeo Valley Organic will be offering consumers free trees as part of an on-pack promotion across its milk and yoghurt ranges.Running from 16 April, the dairy company's 'plant a tree' promotion offers a tree, complete with...
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Change to recipes will bring a fat lot of good
Here's a surprise. More tinkering with food regulations that puts the onus once again on manufacturers. The FSA has finally published its draft report on how to reduce the average amount of fat and sugar in people's diets. It wants...
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Britain rules the roost in salmonella testing
Poultry bosses have hailed the UK's top results in a Europe-wide survey of salmonella levels in broiler hens.In tests on every commercial British holding last year, only one was infected with either of the two most common forms of...
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Waitrose launches free mag dedicated to BWS products
In a bid to encourage customers to try new drinks Waitrose is launching a dedicated in-store magazine.The 24-page free magazine, entitled Thirst, will be distributed monthly across all 183 Waitrose branches. It is being produced by the...
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insight - cabbage consumers
There were 822 million meals with cabbage last year. Consumption has remained constant over the past three years. 56% of consumption is by the over-45s 63% of meals where cabbage was consumed are defined as main meals 33% of consumption is on a...
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A caviar that doesn't dent sturgeon stocks
A Polish company claims it is now possible to enjoy the authentic taste of caviar without damaging stocks of sturgeon.Warsaw-based Instade Group has launched a product called Tzar Caviar, which is made with mashed fish fillets and...
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Williamson to oversee Waitrose supply chain
The job of improving the Waitrose supply chain will be handed over to Mark Williamson next week.The head of buying for bakery, grocery and wines for Waitrose will succeed Tony Solomons as supply chain director, with responsibility for...
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Head Start drink claims to cure your hangovers
A drink that promises to be the answer to any party reveller's prayer is poised to hit supermarket shelves at the end of this month.The new product, called Head Start, vows to cure hangovers via a combination of vitamins, amino acids,...
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Sharper Co-op Group tactics deliver 'tremendous' uplift
The Co-operative Group this week hailed a "tremendous" turnaround of its food operations, as it reported strong annual sales and its fifth successive quarter of like-for-like growth.Guy McCracken, CEO of Food Retail for the Co-operative...
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the dangers of HVOs
Hydrogenated vegetable oils are formed as a result of the chemical process of partial hydrogenation, by which liquid oil is turned into solid fat.These cheap alternatives to other fats, such as butter, are used to improve the texture and...
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Daylesford organic
Highly polished white marble floors and walls are just one design feature making the interior of Daylesford Organic's new store on Pimlico High Street truly stunning. Less than a month after being established, it has become a popular...
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Parfetts declares war on trans fats
Parfetts Cash & Carry is risking the wrath of the country's biggest food manufacturers with a campaign to rid products containing hydrogenated vegetable oils from its shelves.The wholesaler has given suppliers, including giants...
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Eastern promise
A huge and youthful population, a burgeoning spending class and a committed and skilled workforce. It's hard not to get excited about the prospects for retail in India. The government predicts growth of 9.2% in GDP for 2006-07, the...
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Princes makes a meal out of Quick Eat! pots
Princes is repositioning its Quick Eat! brand under the main Princes banner in a bid to strengthen its position in the competitive market for instant ambient meal options. The overhaul comes a few weeks after rival Heinz announced it was...
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Farmers want the Tesco treatment
Tesco's move to raise milk prices and work directly with dairy farmers looks set to open the floodgates for similar demands from other farming sectors.Livestock farmers are already talking about securing retailers' support by the end of...
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PayPoint gets phone loyalty scheme that Sainsbury's lost
A mobile phone-based loyalty scheme set for a nationwide launch in c-stores this summer was the subject of an aborted trial with Sainsbury's that started as long ago as 2005.Plans to roll out the Shop Scan Save loyalty scheme to PayPoint...
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spotlight - "We identified a glimmer of interest in goats milk from the multiples"
?Demand for goats milk is growing so fast, it's hard to find time for NPD, says St Helen's Farm founder Angus Wielkopolski Twenty-one years ago, we started out producing yoghurt from the milk of 300 goats near Selby in Yorkshire. We had wanted to...