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I want that job!
Fancy working for the official beer of the FA Cup? Carlsberg is advertising in this week's issue (p67) for regional sales managers for Bradford and West Yorkshire, the Home Counties and the West Country. It is looking for natural people managers...
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Picking up the pieces
Grocery brand manufacturing is a sector rife with acquisitions and consolidation. Former PepsiCo UK president Martin Glenn is leading the consortium widely tipped as the favourite to buy the Birds Eye brand from Unilever, while Premier Foods...
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Price Survey
Geoff Igharo Asda remains the price leader this week, but Tesco has drawn much closer than it did last week, when it dropped to a suprising fourth place on our pricing table. Tesco's basket came in at £40.81 this week, just 66p...
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Profile Revisited
A year has passed since we last spoke to Alastair Hook, founder and owner of Meantime Brewing Company, and it's been a jam-packed, if somewhat mixed, 12 months. "The main change has been a 30% increase in our own branded range," Hook says. "We...
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Seasonality
Easter, Christmas and wet holidays are the first occasions that spring to mind when home baking is mentioned, and these are certainly the periods when the category sees most consumer activity. However, they still leave great chunks of...
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Talking shop
Steven Tait, head of sales and marketing at Freedom Food, says its take-up to date shows the potential for further growth of the standard in the farmed salmon sectorThe relatively young salmon industry is booming. Yet despite fish being...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visitedCo-OP High St, Highley, ShropshireBOOTHS New Market Street, Chorley, LancashireSCOTMID CO-OP Main Street, Uphall, West LothianSmiLE Kingsway, Little Stoke, South GloucestershireSPAR Bristol...
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World News - 1st August 2006
United States. Whole Foods Market, which is set to open its first UK store in London next year, has pledged to increase its commitment to locally sourced food in the US. On its website, chief executive officer John Mackey said that an annual budget of $10m had...
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Independents hit by big box beer deals
Many independent retailers' sales of alcohol and World Cup merchandise plummeted once the World Cup began as shoppers fell for supermarket offers.One retailer in the Newcastle area said: "We were doing well up until the World Cup...
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World Cup gives a kick to the classier snacks
Sales of gourmet and healthy snacks soared during the World Cup as football fans upgraded their match-day nibbles.TNS Worldpanel figures show that in the four weeks to 18 June, with the World Cup beginning on 9 June, year-on-year value...
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World Cup gives a kick to the classier snacks
Sales of gourmet and healthy snacks soared during the World Cup as football fans upgraded their match-day nibbles.TNS Worldpanel figures show that in the four weeks to 18 June, with the World Cup beginning on 9 June, year-on-year value...
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'Self-timing' eggs introduced
Lion Quality Eggs has introduced a way for people to tell when their eggs have boiled.It is developing an invisible ink logo that appears on the shell in black when the egg is ready. Three types are available - soft, medium and...
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Northern Foods sells NFT Distribution
Northern Foods has sold its chilled distribution business NFT Distribution to a new group formed by a management buyout and backed by private equity group Phoenix Equity Partners for £51.2m.It is the first part of Northern Foods' business to...
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0Kwik Save staff speak out over out-of-stocks shambles
Kwik Save’s availability nightmare is worse than so far portrayed - according to the grocery retailer’s own store managers. Last week The Grocer published data from a survey of six Kwik Saves by Storecheck Marketing, which showed the…
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Smile shopping spree set to take it past 100-store mark
Jeremy Symonds, chief executive of Smile Stores, has outlined the chain's plans to pass the 100-store barrier before 2007. Symonds said that he hoped to be completing negotiations on eight sites in the coming five months. Many of...
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World News - 29th July 2006
United States. Kraft Foods' second-quarter net profit rose 44.5% to $682m (£368.4m) on sales up 3.4% at $8.6bn (£4.65bn). The group said lower restructuring costs and increased sales had offset higher energy costs and sugar prices. Sales in four out of five...
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Cadbury chocolate sales 'fall 25%' after salmonella scare
Leading supermarkets say sales of Cadbury chocolate products have nose-dived dramatically since a product recall prompted by a salmonella scare. A source at one major supermarket, which did not wish to be identified, said its sales of...