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Waitrose snaps up Morrisons stores
Morrisons has sold six stores and a non-operational distribution site to Waitrose. The stores are situated at Eastbourne, Formby, Hexham, Lymington, Parkstone and Portswood, while the distribution site is located in...
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Boschendal returns to 1985 for revamp
South African wine brand Boschendal hopes to encourage drinkers to trade up by launching a revamped range of more premium vintages. It has produced five wines under the 1685 label, adding to the Sauvignon Blanc currently under the...
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Leffe relishes ad prospects
Relaxed conversation over a glass of Leffe is the theme of a new ten-week print advertising campaign, designed to reinforce the brand's positioning as a beer to relish. Breaking this weekend, the four executions form the third phase in a...
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In Brief: Morrisons' new look, Age of robotics, Give us Respect
Morrisons' new look Morrisons is set to unveil a new store design. The new look will be an "evolutionary change from the existing format". The first of the new stores will be a renovated Safeway that will open in Crowborough, East...
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Wine and local foods rise up the agenda
Dave Proudlock, the manager of Lowries' Cash and Carry depot in Killingworth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is a Newcastle FC supporter. However, watching the team play recently has been agonising given their run of bad form so it's just...
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Cinzano's alternative for a new generation
Cinzano, the brand made famous by ads starring Reggie Perrin actor Leonard Rossiter and small screen icon Joan Collins, is bringing out its first brand extension in 144 years. The wine-based drink, called Spritzz Up, is aimed at the RTD...
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Fell is appointed top marketer at SABMiller
SABMiller has appointed Nick Fell as group marketing director from 1 August. Fell joins the brewer from Cadbury Schweppes where he was director of marketing for Cadbury Trebor Bassett and president of global commercial strategy....
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Premium Spanish beer arrives in UK
Beer importer Pierhead is launching a super-premium Alhambra Reserva 1925 beer into the UK. The 6.4% abv beer is brewed with Spanish spring water sourced from the Sierra Nevada mountains to a traditional batch fermentation process that...
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the art of A Perfect handover
So meticulous has been the forward planning by Christopher Oughtred that he will soon have eased himself out of his dual role of chairman and managing director of the family business - food manufacturer William Jackson & Son. He has...
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Beware tipping point warns Aussie competition expert
The former head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned regulators they should take a "great deal of caution" when investigating the activities of grocery retailers, particularly when it comes to market power....
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How can we wash away the bland shopping experience?
Call it what you will - sleep-shopping, range blindness or, as Asda's ?Andy Bond rightly put it, "bland, amorphous, sameness" - retailers and manufacturers face a clear and present danger. Shoppers want to spend less time in store than ten years...
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Baked beans are out in a healthy rethink
Hovis is ditching its wacky packaging to focus on health and better quality. The baked beans, tomatoes and cucumbers, featured on-pack since 2001, will make way for a more sophisticated look as part of a huge investment. RHM is...
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JS claims lead in Fairtrade bananas
One in four bananas sold in Sainsbury is now Fairtrade, according to the retailer, and sales of Fairtrade bananas are growing faster than non-Fairtrade at a rate of 27% year on year compared with 10% for conventional fruit. Sainsbury has...
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In Brief: Barton does it big; A super meat;
Barton does it big The Barton Meat Company has opened the largest butchers operation for caterers in the UK located in Gorton, Greater Manchester. The new £5.5m facility supplies fresh meat and value added meat products through...
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Beef prices level off for summer holiday
The recovery of UK beef values is showing signs of reaching a plateau, as consumer demand takes its usual summer holiday. Beef prices continued to rise in June, but at just 2p/kg deadweight, the growth rate has halved compared to the...
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Beer/lager
Brewer's have responded to buyers' calls for innovation over the past 12 months. Whether in the speciality segment, packaging, brand extensions or technology, brewers have injected life back into the beer category.Darran Britton,...
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Sector lags behind in gangmaster licensing
Growers saw the issue of ethical labour return to the spotlight again this week, amid worrying signs that the fresh produce sector may not be gearing up to deal with new rules on gangmasters that will come in later this year. With three...
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Second opinion Waitrose is being praised for its initiative to sell ugly fruit as a sideline for makers of jam. Great! But hang on a minute...
Waitrose must be delighted by the favourable publicity generated by its decision to put a small range of Grade II fruit on its shelves. Of course the idea of 'ugly fruit' was a straight lift from the National Trust. It came up with the original...
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The big bucksbeckon
Tesco expects to make a profit within a year or two of its grand entry into the United States next summer and is on its way to building up a 200-strong team to lead its venture on to Wal-Mart's home turf. US chief executive Tim Mason,...
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making bigleaps
There's a story doing the rounds in the US at the moment. Wal-Mart puts out a call for a supplier of detergent - the main requirements are that the packaging fits its six inch shelves and that it can be supplied within three days.The...