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Campaign trail: Danone is making consumers' resolutions to drink Actimel every day easier to swallow by giving a month's free supply
Danone is making consumers' resolutions to drink Actimel every day easier to swallow by giving a month's free supply. Its new promotion, running on 10 million packs, tells them how 'A little every day goes a long, long way' and offers to...
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Layers added in bid to revive Müllerlight
Müller is hoping to boost sales of its struggling Müllerlight brand by adding a range of layered real fruit products to the low fat yoghurt portfolio. Müllerlight Layers, which consist of creamy-tasting yoghurt with a bottom layer of...
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Asda advises on full scope of insurance
Asda is to become the first supermarket chain to offer its customers choice and independent advice on the full range of life insurance and income protection policies available on the UK market. In what it described as a "groundbreaking"...
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Ainsley at it again with smoky spray
Ainsley Harriott has endorsed yet another food product - a spray which adds a smoky taste to grilled meat. The celebrity chef's face already sells cup soup, cous cous, salad dressings, barbecue marinades and sauces. This latest...
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This week a year ago the winner was...
Asda store manager Kevin Prince won our Top Store award this time last year after his Small Heath store in Birmingham impressed our mystery shopper with a clean shop and impressive levels of customer service. Prince left the store in March 2006...
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Retailers go it alone with produce drives
The government's 5-a-day campaign has lost out as supermarkets start the year with a blaze of fruit and veg promotions. Tesco and Sainsbury's are both pumping millions into free or cut-price produce, and Waitrose is also running a citrus...
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Crush squeezes out ambient premium
'Not as thin as a juice and not as thick as a smoothie' is Aussie drink brand Sunraysia's sales pitch for its new Crush brand, made from crushed fruit blended with purified water. The manufacturer aims to build a premium offering in the...
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Team up to save planet says Asda
Asda has pleaded for more collaboration between retailers to help save the planet in the wake of huge media announcements on the environment from its rivals. On Thursday Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy unveiled far-reaching plans to...
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Asda Bearsden, Glasgow. 0 Asda provided everything on our shopper's list and offered help with packing his bags. An error-free receipt left the shopper happy and he noted a large number of promotions in the store, which was clean...
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Good pack, bad pack
The UK creates some 5.2 million tonnes of packaging waste each year. But even worse is the six million tonnes of food left out for bin men. Packs that prolong shelf life can have a huge impact in reducing the amount of food wasted each...
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US beef set to return to UK supermarkets
US beef could soon return to British supermarket shelves after nearly 20 years of absence. A new software product launched for American cattlemen gives their animals full traceability and can guarantee they have not been given hormone...
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Tesco 'sabotage' blasted
A leading independent retailer is accusing Tesco of bully-boy tactics - just days before the Competition Commission publishes its emerging thinking document on the grocery sector. Powys-based retailer Harry Tuffins claimed Tesco was...
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In Brief: Huizeling tackles IT; WSTA recruits board; Sainsbury's NED; Kerry non-execs; Tookey gets UK
Huizeling tackles IT Jan Huizeling has been named as the new chief information officer of European logistics specialist Christian Salvesen. He replaces Tim Mills, who left the company in December. "My aim is to rejuvenate the IT...
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The cereal brands keep on bowling for Britain
Cereal brands had a consistent presence on the featured space promotions sections across all retailers in 2006, with 2007 looking set to continue the trend. When looking back at the Promotrack data captured in 2006, Kellogg's had one or...
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Festive sales brighten independents' mood
It wasn't just the multiples that enjoyed the Christmas spirit - the festive period was just as much a winner for independents. Nisa-Today's put to rest the ghost of Christmas 2005 - when it suffered serious distribution problems at its...
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Prior is a 'good fit' for Campina UK
International dairy company Campina UK has brought in Alan Prior from the Nescafé Coffee Company as sales and marketing director. Campina said the new role had been created as a result of Campina's ongoing success in the UK market, with...
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Tesco's Wharton takes on MBL supply chain
After five years as network development director for Tesco, Scott Wharton has split ranks and joined MBL as its new supply chain director. He steps into the shoes of Mark Aylwin, who left the MBL team in September to become chief...
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Chains rule it out - but farmers open to cloned
Retailers have rejected the idea of selling meat from cloned animals and their offspring, but farmers are keeping an open mind. Britain's major grocers say the possibility of perfect cuts from prime cloned animals at an attractive price...
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Yeo Valley sticks meet kids health challenge
Yeo Valley is on a mission to get kids taking the tube to school by launching the yoghurt market's first organic, hand-held, stick product. The producer will challenge rival Petit Filous' popular fromage frais brand Frubes with its Yeo's...