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Vie Shots mini drink addition
Unilever is adding a newcomer to the UK line-up of its Knorr Vie Shots mini health drinks range. The pineapple, passionfruit & sweetcorn combination joins the existing trio this month in a three x 100ml bottle multipack. The range has had...
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To advertise or not to advertise...
TV food and drink advertising is in limbo. With just weeks to go until Ofcom delivers the results of its investigation into advertising to children, many manufacturers are holding fire on ad campaigns for fear they will fall foul of the proposed...
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This week a year ago the winner was...
Morrisons' relatively compact 20,000 sq ft store in Warminster, Wiltshire won our award this time last year. Since then, manager John Volney has moved on to the company's much larger store in Weymouth, Dorset. The Weymouth deputy...
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Manns Brown Ale: best with a shot?
Oxfordshire-based brewer Wychwood is trialling a new positioning for its Manns Brown Ale, where the beer is used as a mixer with a selection of spirits. The concept is initially being tested in the on-trade in its heartland of the north...
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It's no longer just a Cameo appearance
Cameo, a trademarked bi-coloured dessert branded apple, beat 145 entries to win top prize at the National Fruit Show. Its rise to prominence underlines how the English apple season, while still based on Cox, is embracing varieties with an...
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In Brief: Salmonella's toll; Asda zero tolerance; Food hall facelift
Salmonella's toll Mars sold more chocolate than Cadbury Schweppes in the four weeks to 14 October, according to ACNielsen data, following a 5% year-on-year fall in Q3 sales at the Bournville-based company. Cadbury blamed the...
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Availability
Asda Sinfin Shopping Centre, Derby3 There were several items out of stock when we visited the Asda at Sinfin shopping centre in Derby. The store was sold out of parsnips, the long own label French baguette and the 700g pack of...
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Premier takes on Heinz with Batchelors soups
Premier Foods is launching yet another attack on Heinz, this time pitching its recently acquired Batchelors brand against its rival in the canned soups category. A range of four canned soups is being developed under the Batchelors name to...
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It was, er, beautiful, but now it's over
When a bombshell like the collapse of the Nisa/Costcutter merger hits, the fallout is huge. People are left asking not just what happens to the two companies themselves. There are also wider implications for the whole independent grocery sector....
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Dunn rises for Fray Bentos
Premier Foods has promoted Julian Dunn to the position of commercial director for convenience and spreads. Dunn joined Premier Foods in 2004 as general manager for its convenience foods business. Prior to this he held a number of...
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Little Scotney Best joins paler brother
Westerham Brewery is to add an additional beer to its range following the success of recent brand launches into Waitrose stores. Little Scotney Best Bitter, produced by the Kent-based brewery, is set to go into Waitrose's south east...
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Bestway eyes Nisa-Today's
Wholesaler Bestway has reaffirmed its interest in acquiring Nisa-Today's in the wake of the collapse of the Costcutter merger. Bestway MD Younus Sheikh said it remained willing to explore further the benefits of a potential takeover. An...
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Penderyn bids to raise profile of Welsh spirits
A Welsh distillery plans to raise the profile of its native land as a premium drinks producer, by launching a range of spirits to tackle the off-trade market.
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"It's still a lot easier to put the blame on food manufacturers than to make people get off their lazy, fat derrières"
In the past six months the government has finally started to widen the remit of public health minister Caroline Flint, so that exercise as well as diet is considered in the ongoing obesity obsession. Two years on from the government White Paper,...
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Labelling blamed for high salt intake
Trading Standards bosses have called for a tightening of food labelling rules after research indicated that children could be eating twice the recommended daily amount of salt. Officers from 37 local authorities analysed the nutritional...
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Bogof's week
Tesco pulled out all the stops in Turkey last week by taking one of our hacks out to dinner in a posh restaurant. But when his hosts came to pay they tried four or five credit cards and all were rejected. The team from Tesco had to have the...
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Co-op boss retires from 'restructured' business
Martin Beaumont is to retire as chief executive of the Co-operative Group in October 2007. Beaumont, 57, has been at the helm of the UK's largest co-operative society for the past five years. He said that, after a sustained period of...
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Ramsay does a Ratner on own boxed chocs
Outspoken celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has inadvertently belittled his premium boxed chocolate range while hitting back at critics. Responding to a question on the quality of the range while speaking at a Channel 4 food event last...
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In Brief: Co-op Group in lead; RFID privacy fears; Getting technical
Co-op Group in lead The Co-operative Group is the UK's highest-placed society in a new global ranking of major co-operatives and mutuals. The listing, Global300, placed The Co-operative Group in ninth position, with United...
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The great British food fight
The food industry has taken a battering in the two years since the publication of the government's Health White Paper, Choosing Health. First, the Food Standards Agency settled on traffic lights as the best approach to front-of-pack...