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Sales soar at non-HVO ingredients suppliers
Steps to remove hydrogenated vegetable oils, or trans fats, from processed foods is providing a cash bonanza to suppliers of the healthier ingredients being used in their place. One, KTC (Edibles), said sales of its non-HVO shortenings...
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Traffic light lines will do well with us, King tells suppliers
Brands opting for traffic light labelling will benefit from strength in numbers within Sainsbury's, the chain's boss said this week. Chief executive Justin King said its stores would be dominated by traffic lights due to the roll-out of...
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Southall and Truro take over as the leading Tesco towns
Inverness is no longer 'Tesco-town' - and has in fact fallen to fourth in the ranking of places most dominated by the UK's biggest retailer. Although Tesco's market share in the Scottish town has risen from 51% to 52% in the past year,...
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Letter of the week:
While Tesco's awesome interim results may have been welcomed by financial institutions, a recent poll conducted by the Yorkshire Post found that 75% of respondents believed that the supermarket's dominance in the UK was limiting consumer...
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Power to the people
It was the most devastating boycott of recent times. Following the publication in a Danish newspaper of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, a boycott of all Danish products was called for in Muslim countries. Lurpak manufacturer Arla Foods...
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Price Survey
Sainsbury's edged out Asda and Tesco in this week's The Grocer 33 price survey - but it was mighty close. The winning margin was a razor-thin 10p for our 33-item basket of goods. Sainsbury's led at £46.88, followed by Asda...
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Profile Revisited
A lot more than salt has crystallised at the family-run Maldon Salt Company since we last spoke to its Essex-based MD Steve Osborne this time last year. A number of plans have come to fruition in the past 12 months, not least the opening...
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Salitos returns, but without the tequila
Global Brands has taken on a tequila-free version of Salitos beer, the brand which pulled out of the UK eight months after launch. The 4.7% abv Salitos Imported Cerveza Especial is the first time the tequila-free brew has been available...
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Talking shop
Just when British farmers looked set to benefit from farm assurance as a sales tool, they have been let down, says Robert Forster, chief executive of the National Beef Association. Nearly 95% of cattle sold for slaughter in the UK are...
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Viennetta spawns two tasty variants
Ice cream dessert brand Viennetta is being given two new variants - the first major NPD for the product in more than three years - to warm up sales in the run-up to Christmas. A chocolate and orange version, comprising chocolate and...
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World view
There appears to be no slowdown in launches of products with an on-the-go positioning and packaging, driven by what seems to be the ever-increasing pace of life of many consumers. A bowl of cereal is already a convenient breakfast option...
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Company profile - More Food
When Caron Howe started baking cakes for her small family run coffee shop in Chichester in 1992, she could never have known that 14 years later her culinary skills would have snowballed into a £1m a year business.Having noted the local...
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Advice shop - national listings
What should you consider if a retailer wants to take your product national?Chris Grantham, Consultant at Dragon (brand and design agency)Entry into the supermarket environment for an unknown cake brand is a very tough proposition...
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Dairy Crest linked to Uniq
Dairy Crest could be interested in the French spreads business of chilled convenience foods group Uniq.Reports suggest that the dairy company participated in the first round of bidding for the Uniq subsidiary which owns the St Hubert butter...
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"The ideal ambassadors for promoting a healthy lifestyle? Our sporting heroes, of course"
That was easy, then. A TV ad featuring Frank Lampard shows the Chelsea and England midfielder playing keepie-uppie with a cauliflower, and sales of the nobbly vegetable double overnight. Need to boost sales of fruit? Get Freddie Flintoff...
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'Buying power leads to better prices? I don't buy that argument' says King
Justin King insisted this week that Sainsbury's would remain competitive, despite a prediction that Tesco's growing buyer power would allow it to open a big price gap with its rival.Analysts at Citigate said it had calculated that...
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Deals killing NPD warns Unilever
Suppliers will stop introducing new products in the UK and go in search of more lucrative and sustainable markets if retailers continue to demand heavy investment at launch, Unilever UK chairman David Lewis claimed this week.Addressing...
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Net sales set todouble
A grocery retailer with sales exceeding those of Waitrose or Somerfield. That will be the size of the internet grocery market in the next five years as its value more than doubles, a new report seen exclusively by The Grocer reveals. The...