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Co-op Group is OK with me
Sir; I was rather surprised to see that the Co-operative Group was being criticised for the content of its submissions to the Competition Commission grocery inquiry ('The Co-op bares its soul', 18 November, p6). All supermarket groups at...
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Own-label is latest target for copycats
Copycat branding in grocery is a growing problem and retailers are even mimicking each other's own label products, it has been claimed. A survey of 100 brand managers found 60% believed plagiarism of their brands by competitors was a...
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A culinary epicentre
Paris' stylish Place de la Madeleine has been home to this French food emporium for 120 years. The business was founded in 1886 by grocer Auguste Felix Fauchon when he set up a fine foods cart in Paris specialising in French products....
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Dairy store Disneyland
Stew Leonard's has just three outlets in the US, but its shoppers are devoted. They vote with their wallets, with each store raking in millions to create a £300m turnover business. As Simon Dunn, MD of food broker Product Chain says:...
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Pernod Ricard is quite happy to stay in dark
Drinks giant Pernod Ricard is putting its weight behind dark spirits with a raft of upmarket extensions for its core The Glenlivet, Martell and Havana Club brands. The producer has added a premium line to its The Glenlivet single-malt...
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Headline writers fail to dent sales of eggs
Egg sales have cruised through a double whammy of bad news. Major retailers said it was business as usual, in spite of last week's negative headlines alleging fraudulent free-range labelling and high salmonella levels in Spanish...
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One-stop shop with a difference
Loblaws is one of the quality supermarket formats operated by Loblaw Companies, which opened the doors to its first grocery store in Toronto in 1919. Its selection of speciality departments and shops under one roof in its bigger branches...
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From here to eternity
David Jones' flagship food hall in Sydney, Australia, is the country's only entry in our finest stores list. Affectionately known as DJ's, the 37-strong department store chain, founded in 1838, has seven food halls that have taken on iconic...
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Healthy Start for new food voucher scheme
Greengrocers are set to grab a share of a £129m a year windfall, thanks to a government initiative. Healthy Start is a Department of Health scheme that gives families vouchers to spend on milk and, for the first time, fruit and...
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The world's greatest food retailers
We all love food. We all love food shops. That's our business. But how often do we get to step back and fully appreciate the simple pleasure of shopping for food ourselves? Not often enough. So once again we're celebrating the best the...
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Food theatre
It may not be modest, but Hong Kong's self-named Great Food Hall isn't wrong either. Our experts heaped praise on Great's huge medley of 46,000 gourmet items, including 2,000 organic and health-orientated items and a bakery offering 300...
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Whole Foods Market still top in our world's greatest league
Its name has been on every food director's lips in the past 12 months and it's a must-see on any visit to the US. Now Whole Foods Market has topped The Grocer's World's Greatest Food Retailers list for the second year running. It is yet...
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Platform for the future
Sir; If the market needs evidence of the value of independent retailers - and cynics seem to need to overdose on it - then the story of David Ward, who runs a store at East Barkwith, Lincolnshire, is surely typical. This week I presented...
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Temple to italian gastronomy
With its origins in the fashionable European city of Milan, it's no wonder the glamorous Peck has managed to stand out as a popular luxury delicatessen in Italy on a par with London's Harrods. The company, which began in 1883, has...
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The russia house
A gourmet phenomenon has taken off in Moscow over the past few years with a variety of food boutiques springing up in the Russian capital. Probably the most diverse new food operation is the aptly named Globus Gourmet, which offers its consumers...
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Sainsbury's is putting its money where its mouth is
I fully endorse Bill Jordan's views on the need to 'develop a sustainable supply chain that fuels growth in UK-grown organic food and reassure people of the integrity of British food' ('Give farmers incentives to guarantee organic supply',...
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Talking shop
Tara Garnett, director of the Food Climate Research Network, University of Surrey, says we could be paying too much attention to food miles and missing the real culprit. The Stern Report has rewritten the economic agenda. Ignoring climate...
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In Brief: Bee Movie promo; Higgidy additions; Hunger-stoppers
Bee Movie promo Honey Monster Foods has teamed up with Paramount DreamWorks' film Bee Movie for an on-pack promotion on Sugar Puffs to coincide with the film's launch on 14 December. Shoppers can win an XBox 360 and copy of the...