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Weigh it up!
A little bit of what you fancy does you good. Everything in moderation. A balanced diet is a healthy diet. Who hasn't heard these phrases repeated ad nauseam. The mantras most of us were raised on. Not any more. The Government's food...
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Six of the Best - Yoghurt and Pot Desserts
With health high on the agenda, particularly when it comes to products aimed at children, the yoghurt and pot desserts category is an important one in terms of the buying the most suitable products Suppliers are under pressure to make...
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Buyer survey - NPD
Buyers love getting their hands on a new product and despite the many thousands of SKUs out there, there's always room on shelf for genuinely innovative products. Yet the time and expense needed for R&D means that buyers are often likely to...
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Asda boycotts monkfish
Asda has stopped selling monkfish in its stores because it is concerned about the overfishing of monkfish stocks.“Our customers expect us to do everything we can to protect fish stocks, so we've decided to ban monkfish sales as a precaution...
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Northern Foods CEO steps down
Pat O'Driscoll has stepped down from her role as chief executive officer of Northern Foods.O'Driscoll, who joined Northern Foods in March 2004, has come under pressure in the past to step down following a number of profit warnings from the...
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Finsbury Food to buy Lightbody
Cake manufacturer Finsbury Food Group is set to acquire cake company Lightbody Group for £37.5m.The deal, which is subject to certain conditions and shareholder approval, would make Finsbury Food Group the UK's leading premium cake business,...
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Asda launches electricals website
Asda is aiming to control 5% of the online electricals market by 2012. The retailer is taking on Tesco with the launch of a new electricals website selling thousands of electrical products including televisions, washing machines and fridges....
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In the can
Meat. Brazilian cattle prices remain high but steady in what is traditionally a quiet period leading up to Carnival in Rio next month. Traders expect more activity after that and some price increases. The impact of Russia starting...
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Peperami slashes salt 16% in revamp
Unilever UK has relaunched its Peperami brand, including slashing the salt and fat content and updating the packaging. Salt levels have been reduced by 16% across the core range, while saturated fat has been cut by 10%. To...
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World News - 23rd July 2007
Loblaw cuts up to 1,000 office jobs. Toronto: Loblaw is set to cut between 800 and 1,000 of the 5,000 jobs at its HQ and regional offices as part of a restructuring programme. The shake-up is expected to cost an estimated...
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Big 30 keeping on
Wholesalers are fighting harder than ever for business - but at least there is still business out there worth fighting for. This is the message coming out loud and clear from this year's The Big 30 poll of the UK's biggest wholesalers. While...
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Brits eating 8% more fruit and vegetables
The message on healthy eating finally seems to be getting through to the public. There has been a 7.7% increase in fruit and vegetable consumption, according to The Food and Expenditure Survey. The survey of 16,000 shoppers also found...
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Government action needed
Sir; At long last British retailers appear to be waking up to the huge threat posed by climate change. Last week Tesco was the latest store bidding to become Britain's 'greenest' grocer. Friends of the Earth welcomes the growing...
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Added value, bright future
The market for machine wash products, fabric conditioners, and other laundry lines rose just 1.4% to £1.2bn last year, according to the Grocer Top Products Survey 2006. Despite the domination of big-hitters Unilever and Procter & Gamble, it's a...
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Sunrise takes on Adez with soya drinks trio
Soya Health Foods, the producer of soya milk brand Sunrise, is heating up the competition in the soya beverages market with the launch of a range of juice and milk drinks aimed at the breakfast table. The Sunrise Healthy Start range will...
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This week a year ago the winner was...
This time last year our Top Store award went to Tesco manager Ricky Wheeler for his Amersham store, which not only provided a full basket, but ticked every box on our shopper’s list. Ricky said he was able to spend more time on the shop floor…
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Tulip aims to woo discerning with premium Danepak lines
Tulip is taking its bacon upmarket with the launch of a new range of premium products. Four new lines have been developed under the revamped Danepak brand, including dry cure rashers and a more rounded standard cure rasher, both in...
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Skinny Cow turns up low-fat fruity appeal
Richmond Foods is making a foray into iced smoothies with the launch of a range of smoothie sticks under its Skinny Cow umbrella. Hitting the shelves at the end of next month, Skinny Cow Smoothies will be available in two flavours,...