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My Favourite Things Robert White, managing director, Beech's Fine Chocolates
What's your favourite restaurant? Lainston House outside Winchester has a relaxed, country-house environment.Do you prefer healthy or junk food? I'm away from home a lot and try to find healthy options, but sometimes fail. What...
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My Favourite Things Robert White, managing director, Beech's Fine Chocolates
What's your favourite restaurant? Lainston House outside Winchester has a relaxed, country-house environment.Do you prefer healthy or junk food? I'm away from home a lot and try to find healthy options, but sometimes fail. What...
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THE Big picture
The grandad may have been consigned to a rest home, but the latest advert for Werther's Original has lost none of the brand's trademark schmaltz.The ad, which breaks on Monday (10 July) as part of a £4m campaign, tackles the bond between...
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Young's speeds up in chase for the big chill
Young's Seafood is casting its net further across the chilled arena by adding four fish recipe ready meals to its repertoire. The move continues the company's ambitious plan to boost its chilled turnover to £100m by 2008, which began with...
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Quorn brand gets set for the big time
Premier Foods plans to turn Quorn into a £200m brand - doubling its value. Chief executive Robert Schofield made the bullish prediction in an exclusive interview with The Grocer. The company has bought a £4m facility in Methwold,...
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Tesco Express tries designs to blend in
Tesco is working on a range of Tesco Express shop fronts to make stores blend in with their locations. The retailer said there would be a contemporary design for urban city Express stores, using modern architecture, open glazing and...
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Tesco Express tries designs to blend in
Tesco is working on a range of Tesco Express shop fronts to make stores blend in with their locations.The retailer said there would be a contemporary design for urban city Express stores, using modern architecture, open glazing and...
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Butter Spreadables up, block sales slide
Butter was something of a dirty word a few years ago. As consumers were encouraged to follow low-fat diets, yellow slabs of butter were viewed by many as at best an indulgence and at worst a short cut to ill health.But with TV chefs...
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Butter Spreadables up, block sales slide
Butter was something of a dirty word a few years ago. As consumers were encouraged to follow low-fat diets, yellow slabs of butter were viewed by many as at best an indulgence and at worst a short cut to ill health.But with TV chefs...
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Young's: we won't touch bluefin tuna
Britain's major seafood supplier Young's Bluecrest stressed this week that it had for some time had a policy with regard to bluefin tuna of "not touching it with a bargepole."Young's spoke out in response to a WWF report that warned that...
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Hot books Reviews
Retailization: Brand survival in the Age of Retailer PowerThe front cover of this authoritative, yet muddled book, co-written by Lars Thomassen, Keith Lincoln and Anthony Aconis, features a gruesome-looking blood transfusion pack, and is...
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Hot books Reviews
Retailization: Brand survival in the Age of Retailer PowerThe front cover of this authoritative, yet muddled book, co-written by Lars Thomassen, Keith Lincoln and Anthony Aconis, features a gruesome-looking blood transfusion pack, and is...
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Staff cross Border to feed the Scots
Waitrose is shipping southern staff north of the border to cope with demand at its two new Scottish stores in Edinburgh. David Lincoln, manager of the Comely Bank branch, which opened last month, said that the number of customers passing...
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Nestlé to do the twist with chocolate brands
Chocolate brands After Eight, Black Magic, Quality Street and Rolo are getting seasonal twists as part of Nestlé Rowntree's push during the key Christmas and Easter periods. The company is showing the lighter side of its After Eight brand...
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In Brief: Elizabeth Shaw; Richmond buy OK; Pasta King MBO
Elizabeth Shaw Chocolate maker Elizabeth Shaw has struck co-manufacturing agreements with Bendicks, Magna Specialist Confectioners and Stollwerck, following the decision to close its Bristol manufacturing facility. Richmond buy...
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Superfood campaign starts to mushroom
A £100,000 campaign has been launched by the Mushroom Bureau focusing on the crop's health benefits as a superfood. The claim is backed by a report from nutritionist Jane Clarke and Professor Robert Beelman from Pennsylvania State...
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Quaker sows more oats in hot cereals
PepsiCo is sowing more oats in the hot cereals sector with a revamp and a £5.8m marketing spend for its Quaker brand, up 134% on last year. Oatso Simple will get the lion's share of the total with £4m, while £1.8m will back the...
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Meet organic hunger chains urge farmers
There is an acute shortage of organic meat produced in the UK, some of Britain's leading retailers have said. Tesco's fresh foods director Steve Murrells urged farmers attending the Royal Show at Stoneleigh in Warwickshire to consider...
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Tony Deep Chairman and founder - East End Foods
I came to the UK from India in 1961. After a number of different jobs, I established East End Foods with three of my four brothers in the mid 1960s. My youngest brother joined the business later, so we say that five brothers formed the company...
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Tony Deep Chairman and founder - East End Foods
I came to the UK from India in 1961. After a number of different jobs, I established East End Foods with three of my four brothers in the mid 1960s. My youngest brother joined the business later, so we say that five brothers formed the company...