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?"Speciality foods have moved from being regarded as niche products to now sit on the edge of mainstream food and drink. When it eventually goes mainstream it will be because the supermarkets have got their heads round it, but I don't think this...
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Six of the Best - Sauces
Sauces have lost their sticky image and found sophistication while condiments have also managed to stay clear of the health agenda thanks to the fact that they're used in small quantities.Sauces is a dynamic arena. Manufacturers have given...
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How rapid is buyer churn?
How long a buyer should stay in one role is akin to querying the length of a piece of string. On one side, there's an argument for bringing fresh approaches to new arenas and having a short-term commercial impact, while on the other, there's...
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Wincanton awarded Somerfield contract
Logistics firm Wincanton has won a £900m contract to be the sole provider of logistics services for Somerfield.Wincanton already manages nine sites for Somerfield, but under the new contract, it will also manage the supermarket group's...
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Asda to build timber frame store
Asda has announced plans to build a timber frame store in Shaw, Oldham.Asda said that the 35,000 sq ft store, which is expected to open in February 2007, would also have a 'saw-tooth' roof designed to capture light and heat from the...
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RHM shares fall
Shares in food giant RHM fell 12.25p to finish on 271.75p yesterday after the company warned in a trading statement that its profits would be skewed to the second-half of the year.Its culinary brands division, RHM said, had been affected by...
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Dairy Crest to sell cheese operations
Dairy Crest has announced plans to sell the majority of its retailer brand cheese operations to First Milk for £61.9m.The proposed sale, which is subject to approval from First Milk's members, includes the cheddar creameries at Haverfordwest...
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Pesticide residue levels unsafe
Pesticide residue levels in foods are unsafe, the Pesticide Action Network has claimed.In a survey, the Network found that more than 5% of fruit, vegetables and other foods had pesticide residues that posed “appreciable” health risks to...
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Waitrose ready meals recalled
Waitrose has recalled two of its own-label Oriental ready meals due to incorrect allergen labelling information.The affected products are Waitrose Oriental Banquet for two with two starters and crispy duck, 1,215g and Waitrose Oriental...
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looking back What we said in 2000
The top ten confectionery bars may have been around for ?years, but their age hasn't precluded a lot of comings and goings. It's a category where companies are eager to please and stretch their brands into new areas. A look back ?at six...
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looking back What we said in 2001
Heinz was hitting the headlines when we covered the sauces and condiments category back in 2001 (The Grocer, 6 October), thanks to its rather strange launch of a green tomato ketchup.The limited edition green variant, which tasted the...
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World News - 23rd September 2006
United States. American supermarkets are pulling all bagged spinach from their shelves and urging consumers to stop eating spinach and spinach-containing products following an e-coli outbreak that has claimed one life and left...
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boogie back to the 70s!
We've already seen 21st century revivals of 1970s classics Starsky & Hutch, The Dukes of Hazzard and Shaft and heard most of the fresh-faced young bands of the moment plunder the sounds of chart-toppers from the decade such as the Bee Gees, The...
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Salmon producers hail 95% signing up to code
The Scottish Salmon Producers' Organisation is calling for 100% of farmed salmon producers to sign up to the code of practice to provide a robust answer to the industry's critics. The SSPO has announced that 95% of the salmon farming...
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All aboard the Tesco Express
Last week a new daily train service started running from Daventry in the Midlands to Grangemouth in Scotland. But though the 6.31am service was packed to the rafters and took a painful eight and a half hours to arrive, there wasn't a word of...
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Traffic lights steal march on GDAs with TV salt ad debut
Traffic light labelling will receive a boost to its profile this weekend with its first television airing, as part of the Food Standards Agency's multi-million-pound salt levels campaign. The agency will sign off its latest ads - which...
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In Brief: Stahl resigns; Kraft's new VPs; ADM Milling recruits; FSA chair moves on
Stahl resigns Revlon's chief executive officer Jack Stahl resigned from his post this week in the wake of disappointing second quarter financial results. He has been replaced by former chief financial officer David Kennedy. Stahl...
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Cobra TV ads work for an effortlessly cool lift
Cobra Beer has planned a big push to position its lager as unusual but excellent with the launch of its biggest national TV campaign yet. The £10m campaign, which targets 25 to 34-year-old lager drinkers, breaks on 26 September before the...
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Advertising's not kids' stuff
Thanks to a certain TV chef, what we feed our children has never been in such sharp focus. But does Jamie Oliver's crusade against junk food spell disaster for the kids' confectionery market? Although there is no measure of the...