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Tell them about the honey mummy - again
The Sugar Puffs Honey Monster is back as part of a £3m marketing push to promote honey's health credentials and establish the ailing brand as a better-for-you option.The iconic brand ambassador will mak e his first on-pack appearance...
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Confectionery gets bulk of promotional activity
The top ten branded activity chart shows Nestlé in first place with 23% of total promotional featured space activity, McVitie's second with 14%, Cadbury and Kellogg's sharing third with 11% and Weetabix taking fifth with 9%. The other brands...
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Added ingredients
Fortified foods are poised for major growth this year as consumers look for convenient staple foods with added health benefits. Dairy manufacturers have long recognised the value - and relative ease - of adding extra ingredients to their...
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Aero's lovely bubbly ads
Aero Hot Chocolate will debut on the small screen as part of a £1.8m marketing campaign for the year.The four-week push, which breaks on Monday, positions the hot drink as an everyday indulgence for the cold winter months.Based ...
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Retailers say... labelling does not affect sales
Meeting demands Kishor Patel Houghton Trading South East London?Our customers are expecting some kind of food labelling to come into force in the near future. There is a lot of awareness about healthy eating at the...
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Bird flu measures won't affect eggs
Egg producers near Suffolk's bird flu outbreak will be allowed to carry on selling free range and organic eggs, even though the birds have been moved indoors.Farming minister Jeff Rooker confirmed the exemption, which will affect about...
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"Here are yet more signs that power-crazed agendas are winning out over reason"
The squabbling continues. This week, the National Heart Forum issued a damning report about Guideline Daily Amounts (GDA), accusing manufacturers and retailers of 'misleading the public'. The most valid criticism was that GDAs for adults...
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this week a year ago The winner was...
This time a year ago the winner was Asda's store in Bearsden, Glasgow. Kelvin Mobbs ran the store, which ticked all the boxes on our shopper's list.One year on, Mobbs has left to be general manager of another Asda store in Clydebank....
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Allied's using its loaf to take on Kingsmill rivals
Allied Bakeries is aiming to regain the number one slot in bread with an overhaul of its flagship Kingsmill brand.Elements include reformulated recipes, updated packaging and a £10m advertising campaign - double last year's spend....
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Retailers rubbish anti-cheap booze campaign
Drinks retailers have hit back against a mounting campaign to put an end to cheap supermarket booze. An Early Day Motion (EDM) signed by 84 MPs and submitted by John Grogan, chairman of the All-Party Beer Group, states : "The...
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Asda moves in on Corrie sponsorship
News that Asda is to descend on Coronation Street will have Dev, Rita and Ashley quaking in their boots.But the y need not fear for their shops - the retailer isn't planning a supermarket next to the Rovers Return . It is one ...
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Asda weighs in for fight
The UK's second-biggest supermarket and biggest wholesaler have lent their weight to The Grocer's Weigh it Up! campaign, now in its third week.Asda said it supported our efforts to force Ofcom to review the Nutrient Profiling Model (NPM) as...
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Aspatria rival close to Cumbria cheese deal
Building work on a 60,000 tonne cheese plant in Cumbria could begin in April after a breakthrough on milk supplies last week.The company behind the £60m plant, Partners in Cheese, has already secured support from Asda, which buys cheese...
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Whole Foods unveils slogan for UK assault
We've had Every Little Helps, Try Something New Today, More For You For Less, and More Reasons To Shop At Morrisons.And now we have It's Not Something We Do, It's Everything We Do - the new slogan adopted by Whole Foods Market, the US...
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Availability
Asda Patchway, Bristol2 This store had run out of loose closed-cup mushrooms and 4-packs of own-label croissants. Our shopper was hindered by shelf stackers and packing trolleys and there were insufficient checkouts open for the...
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WEEE compliance doesn't need to be an awful burden
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive came into force in the UK last month, with anticipated howls about the cost and complexity of the new legislation from businesses.Developed as a way of ensuring that...
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Sainsbury's backs DoH label scheme
Sainsbury's is the first retailer to sign up to the Department of Health's proposed guidelines on the labelling of own-label alcohol products. The voluntary guidelines, which aim to encourage sensible drinking, were created after...
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Meet the New Mr Bean
Heinz is still big into beans. That much is clear when you visit its head office in Hayes and are confronted by two startlingly life-sized - as in human-sized - beans flanking a giant tin of the tea-time favourite . But times are...
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Beckham-style US hype raises stakes for Tesco
The hype surrounding Tesco's US launch has escalated to such heights it can only lead to consumer disappointment, American retail experts have warned.Press coverage for its Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market chain has been...