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Sainsbury's signs up Tesco property head
Gaelle WalkerSainsbury's has appointed current Tesco property services director Neil Sachdev to the newly created role of commercial director. Sachdev's appointment is the fourth senior defection from Tesco to Sainsbury's in the past two...
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Q&A with Jennifer McCusker Manager of the Week
Are you surprised to hear that you have won the award? Yes. Obviously we are pleased as it is a team effort. I am the duty manager. Unfortunately, our store manager David Lundie is away today for a training course, but he will be very pleased to...
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Quick! Launch that self-heating soup
Food Brands Group has come up with a way to helptime-poor consumers - a self-heating soup. Called Mini Quick, the soup is available in spicy lentil and tomato flavours and offers consumers a hot product in just 40 seconds. It is in Tesco...
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Meat tackles the lean times
Big brands such as Princes and Premier Foods-owned Fray Bentos have made major efforts to capitalise on convenience trends, but own label continues to dominate canned meat, in both volume and value, and this has resulted in a period of decline...
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School winners... and losers
Jamie Oliver's School Dinners campaign may have sounded the death knell for Bernard Matthews' Turkey Twizzlers but as kids went back to school this week, that wasn't the only thing off the menu.Burgers, chips and fizzy drinks have all...
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'Multiples not toblame'
Critics who say the big supermarkets' enormous buying power is putting suppliers out of business are barking up the wrong tree, according to British Retail Consortium boss Kevin Hawkins. In a staunch defence of his members, the BRC...
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Research Notes
Canned foods, worth £1.7bn, is growing at less than 1%. Leading growth sectors are fish, soup and baked beans, but hot meats, fruit and tomatoes are underperforming. Growth is due to increasing average prices this year - a 0.8% increase...
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Price Survey
Asda is the cheapest supermarket for the fourth time in as many weeks, with a basket price of £55.08. Our results also show that while Somerfield has fallen back down to sixth place on our table, Tesco has still not been able to claw...
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Profile Revisited
Don't be surprised if you haven't heard the name Nutrinnovator in a while. The company that was born in February 2003 as the brainchild of Stephen Moon, formerly a director at GlaxoSmithKline's nutritional healthcare division, and which brought...
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Roys of Wroxham store under threat
Roys of Wroxham is preparing to abandon its store in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, if plans to bulldoze the site are approved.In July, the town council revealed it was considering a wider property development scheme that would...
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Soundbites
?"With value sales increasing by 9.9% year-on-year, sweetcorn is emerging as the major contributor to growth in canned vegetables. In fact, sweetcorn has delivered more actual value growth (£5m year-on-year) than the rest of the canned...
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Two sentenced over turkey 'baseball'
Two men filmed playing a game of baseball with live turkeys at a farm owned by Bernard Matthews were yesterday sentenced to 200 hours community service each.Both men, who admitted animal cruelty, were also banned by magistrates from looking...
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Tate & Lyle to give £4.5m to college
Tate & Lyle to give £4.5m to collegeSugar group Tate & Lyle is giving £4.5m to the college whose scientists helped develop its successful sweetener product, Splenda.The money will be contributed to King's College London over a...
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Asda evicts clothing recyclers from car parks
Asda evicts clothing recyclers from car parksAsda has evicted a network of clothing recyclers from its car parks following allegations that they were not registered charities.The retailer's solicitors wrote to Planet Aid, a...