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Profile Booker
When Charles Wilson took the helm of Booker in November 2005 he faced a mammoth task to turn the business around. "Calls from the bank manager were not something we looked forward to," he admits of life immediately after the business posted...
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Profile Booker
When Charles Wilson took the helm of Booker in November 2005 he faced a mammoth task to turn the business around. "Calls from the bank manager were not something we looked forward to," he admits of life immediately after the business posted...
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Select & Save boosted by taking fight to Tesco
Symbol operator Select & Save has grown by almost 50% in the past year - and says it has done so by standing up to Tesco.Since opening its 100th store last January it has opened a futher 45 stores.Retail development manager Tony...
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Select & Save boosted by taking fight to Tesco
Symbol operator Select & Save has grown by almost 50% in the past year - and says it has done so by standing up to Tesco.Since opening its 100th store last January it has opened a futher 45 stores.Retail development manager Tony...
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Having the bottle to keep it up
The bottled water aisle is getting a makeover in a bid to boost sales nearer to those in Continental Europe. Though sales of UK bottled water are up 11% year-on-year [TNS, 52 w/e 3 December 06] to £305m, consumption levels remain about one...
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Having the bottle to keep it up
The bottled water aisle is getting a makeover in a bid to boost sales nearer to those in Continental Europe. Though sales of UK bottled water are up 11% year-on-year [TNS, 52 w/e 3 December 06] to £305m, consumption levels remain about one...
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JS: we'll bow to public preference over labels
Sainsbury's will bow to customer demand and remove traffic-light labelling from its products - if Guideline Daily Amount labelling wins public support.Front-of-pack nutritional labelling has become a key battleground in the food...
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JS: we'll bow to public preference over labels
Sainsbury's will bow to customer demand and remove traffic-light labelling from its products - if Guideline Daily Amount labelling wins public support.Front-of-pack nutritional labelling has become a key battleground in the food...
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M&S trials boxes of organic fruit and veg
Marks & Spencer has jumped on the organic veg box bandwagon nearly eight months after Tesco, Sainsbury's and Ocado launched schemes.The first boxes went into 400 Marks & Spencer stores across the UK over a week ago. The store is offering...
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M&S trials boxes of organic fruit and veg
Marks & Spencer has jumped on the organic veg box bandwagon nearly eight months after Tesco, Sainsbury's and Ocado launched schemes.The first boxes went into 400 Marks & Spencer stores across the UK over a week ago. The store is offering...
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Campaign trail: Kellogg's is revamping its Fruit 'n Fibre brand
Kellogg's is revamping its Fruit 'n Fibre brand this month with new packaging and an advertising campaign in a bid to grow sales for the brand. Both the TV campaign and the revitalised packaging focus on the fruit content of the cereal....
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Britvic NPD priorities are Pepsi and squash
Britvic plans to introduce new formats for Pepsi as part of its commitment to carbonated drinks, despite recording a slump last year due to a lack of demand for fizzy drinks.Figures released in the Britvic Soft Drinks Report 2006 confirm...
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Britvic NPD priorities are Pepsi and squash
Britvic plans to introduce new formats for Pepsi as part of its commitment to carbonated drinks, despite recording a slump last year due to a lack of demand for fizzy drinks.Figures released in the Britvic Soft Drinks Report 2006 confirm...
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My Favourite Things Bruce Hodgson, Budgens retailer, Fulham, south west London
What’s your favourite restaurant and why? Baumanns Brasserie in Coggeshall, Essex. Mark Baumann is my best mate and cooks like an Angel.
Do you prefer healthy or junk food? I try to eat healthily but given the choice between a rare rump… -
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BWG buys lease of the store next door
BWG has paid nearly €1m to buy the lease on a rival store next door to one of its flagship Spar outlets in Dublin in a move that reflects the keen competition in the Irish convenience sector. The store, in upmarket Merrion Row, was...
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Hot Stuff Digital Cameras
Complete with a six megapixel sensor, 12x zoom and an image stabiliser, Canon's PowerShot S3 IS has all the features a photographer could want.Running on AA batteries, it's not much bigger than a compact and comes with four batteries in...
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Hot Stuff Digital Cameras
Complete with a six megapixel sensor, 12x zoom and an image stabiliser, Canon's PowerShot S3 IS has all the features a photographer could want.Running on AA batteries, it's not much bigger than a compact and comes with four batteries in...
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Campaign trail: Kellogg's is revamping its Fruit 'n Fibre
Kellogg's is revamping its Fruit 'n Fibre brand this month with new packaging and an advertising campaign in a bid to grow sales for the brand. Both the TV campaign and the revitalised packaging focus on the fruit content of the cereal....
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Cauli crop ruined by warm weather
As much as 25% of the British cauliflower crop will be ploughed back into the ground because it can't be sold.Growers in the West Country have been forced to leave crops to bolt in the field in recent weeks because warm, wet conditions...
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Suppliers enlist celebs' help to promote turkey
Turkey bosses are hoping to stem plummeting retail sales with an ambitious consumer campaign.Quality British Turkey is splashing out on four celebrity chefs to rebuild consumer confidence. Weekly sales have halved since avian flu was...