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American staff for Tesco's US venture
Tesco is to lure US professionals to its planned stateside convenience venture through a careers web site, which includes a surprise ad for a non food buyer.Within the list of jobs on offer, it gives details of the non food role, with...
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Gillette ups the ante in the best a man can get
Gillette has upped the ante in the male grooming category with the launch of a five-blade razor as well as a range of pre and post-shave products from next week. Fusion is the world's first disposable razor to feature blades on both its...
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Asda vies for top spot with Kids Home range
Asda is jostling with Tesco for the number one spot in non food with the launch of a range of homewares specifically for the kids' market. Kids Home, which will sit alongside the newly rebranded George Home, will include a range of...
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Availability
Asda Handsworth Road, Sheffield1Asda's Handsworth Road store won our Top Store award, providing 32 out of 33 items on our shopping list this week. The cheapest Australian red wine was priced at £2.32, reduced from £2.82. However, it was...
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Creative winners chosen in this year's GRAMIA awards
The winners of the 11 creative categories in the GRAMIAs - The Grocery Advertising and Marketing Industry Awards - have been decided. Smirnoff Ice, Jacob's Creek, Ginsters and Pampers are to be congratulated for winning awards in the...
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Irish sharpen the axe over meat processing
Consumers and livestock farmers are both hoping to benefit from a plan to close up to 25% of Ireland's meat processing capacity. The plan was mooted four years ago but has only just been given the green light by the High Court in Dublin,...
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Not a bad return for Nisa-Today's members
Sir; While I cannot disagree with the facts in Julian Hunt's editorial on the Interflora situation, I do feel that the analogy between that and the proposed merger of Nisa-Today's and Costcutter could...
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Reward for 'green' shoppers who use fewer plastic bags
Tesco is to reward customers for using fewer plastic bags by giving them extra Clubcard points. The retailer will launch the initiative to customers later this month with a prime-time TV advertisement featuring a host of celebrities,...
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Flour and baking mixes
Mainstream flour is looking a bit dusty these days as time-strapped home bakers turn to mixes. However, specialised lines offer some hope. Self-raising flour, which accounts for half the market, is showing a drop of 2.4%, but speciality...
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'It's just a storm in vegetable basket'
Supplies of common British vegetables will run short this autumn as the extended dry spell takes its toll on crops, growers have warned. Even household staples such as potatoes will be in short supply, but buyers appear unconcerned by...
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Overseas buyers have hunger for British beef
British beef exports have shrugged off the heatwave to put in a strong EU performance, according to the first official figures since exports resumed.The statistics published by the Meat and Livestock Commission only cover the year to May...
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Cider sales increase at higher rate than beer
Sales of cider through independent retailers increased at a higher rate than beer during the World Cup event, according to data from a major buying group. Year-on-year sales of cider showed significant growth throughout England's...
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Ben & Jerry's ups the ethical stakes
Given Ben & Jerry's vocal ethical standpoint since its humble beginnings in 1978 consumers would be excused for thinking that the ice cream supplier had been making Fairtrade products for years. Yet the company's Fairtrade vanilla ice...
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Tesco growth prompts big new depot
Tesco plans to open one of its biggest distribution centres in the UK next year to cope with its increasing growth. A spokesman for Tesco said the £65m development in Goole, near Hull, would provide extra capacity and was not being built...
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Hot books Summer Reads
Blind Willow, Sleeping WomanNorwegian Wood raised the cult Japanese writer Haruki Murakami's international profile. But it is his latest selection of short stories translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel that looks set to...
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Morrisons bows to palm oil pressure
Morrisons has bowed to pressure from environmental charity Friends of the Earth and joined its Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). Last month Friends of the Earth ran an advert in The Independent newspaper slamming the supermarket...
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Britvic's keeping up the promotional pace
The soft drinks category was last looked at in detail by the Promotrack analysis in the 17 June issue of The Grocer when we looked at the correlation between sponsorship of the World Cup and in-store promotional activity by its...
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Q&A with Derek Bucknall Manager of the Week
Congratulations. What does winning this week's Top Store award mean to you? It is a big achievement for the store. We have not won it in the time I have been working here, and I have been working here for 14 months. So we are very excited to...
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Cadbury takes wrap off new innovations
As the fallout from its salmonella scare dies down, Cadbury Trebor Bassett has taken the wrapper off new confectionery lines targeted at the growing areas of indulgence, dark chocolate and calorie control. The company is also putting...
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'This ruthless cartel needs to be stopped'
Political support for the dairy industry surged in the days before Parliament closed for the summer recess, with allegations of an illegal cartel in milk levelled against four multiples by the MP for Penrith. David Maclean, former Tory...