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Daily dose of virtuous dairy
Chilled yoghurts are coming into their own as convenient, healthy snacks. Household penetration of premium products has doubled in the past year, while virtually fat-free is also experiencing growth. Helen Gregory reportsYoghurts have...
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Early Days
>>a look at how new brands are performing in the marketProduct: Highlights wafers and mallowsCompany: Cadbury and burton’s foodsLaunch date: January 2005Cadbury made its first foray into better-for-you biscuits at the...
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Winders double the fun
Kellogg is revamping its Fruit Winders brand in June by rebranding it as Fruit Winder Doubles.Fruit Winder Doubles will be available in six variants.There will be three standard flavours – strawberry, blackcurrant and raspberry; as well...
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Drinks: the fashionable option
The liquid or drinking yoghurt sector has gone crazy in the past six months as time-pressed consumers start to see such products as an easy way to get their daily nutrients all in one goFashionably speaking, yoghurt drinks are the new...
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The Saturday Essay
>>Tim yeo, shadow secretary for environment, food and agriculture, outlines tory thinking on food labellingMy New Year’s resolution was to buy more locally produced food. Last Christmas I was aware of just how much of what we...
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Tesco eyes Guernsey
Tesco has announced its intentions to build a retail estate on the Channel Islands, starting with Guernsey.The multiple revealed its plans to a Guernsey newspaper. A spokesman told the paper: “It is not really a secret that we would like to...
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Shopkeepers in a fine spot
New legislation to crack down on shoplifters and under-age drinkers is impractical, say independent retailers. Glynn Davis reportsOn a busy Friday night, a 16-year-old attempts to buy alcohol illegally from an independent grocer, so...
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vittel paddles in flavoured water
Vittel has waded into the flavoured water market with the launch of a raspberry and a lemon variant that will compete with Volvic’s Touch of Fruit range.Vittel predicts that the new offerings will add £10m to the flavoured water category in...
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Para Red sparks food scare
General Mills, the owner of the Old El Paso brand that has become the latest product to fall victim to an illegal chemical dye, has warned other manufacturers that they could be sitting on a contamination time-bomb.The company instigated a...
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Simply ideal food for UK travel hubs
M&S can take comfort from what SSP is achieving with Simply Food. Liz Hamson speaks to chief executive Andrew LynchSSP operates 27 of the UK’s 129 Simply Food stores, 18 at railway stations, seven at motorway service stations...
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Mailshot sparks fresh fury
Tesco has ploughed headlong into another row over alleged anti-competitive practices after reigniting a controversial vouchers scheme that was previously at the centre of an OFT probe.The supermarket giant is running the gauntlet of local...
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Redbridge scheme to supply fruit to over-sevens
Redbridge Produce and Flowers has launched a scheme to bring fresh fruit to schoolchildren aged over seven years.The initiative, called 7+, is designed to build on the Department of Health’s school fruit and vegetable scheme, which...
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Spar goes for prime time
Spar has signed a deal with outdoor advertising firm Primesight to create hundreds of media sites in front of stores to drive up sales of fmcg goods.Primesight, part of SMG, is surveying 1,500 stores to assess the viability of the six-sheet...
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Green-friendly organic
Organic brands are offering fruit and fruit juice yoghurts in a bid to infect kids with the environmentally friendly bugMany yoghurt fans have embraced organic varieties, but manufacturers reckon that it’s time for kids to get the...
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Labour has not helped shopkeepers
from Nick Hammond, Londis retailer, St Agnes, CornwallSir; What a load of propaganda rubbish from Jacqui Smith, minister for trade & industry, in The Saturday Essay (April 16, p34). Despite her claims to the contrary, the simple...
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Unwins hit by supply row
Unwins is embroiled in a supply row with one its biggest wholesale suppliers. The chain, acquired by DM Private Equity last month, is at loggerheads with Palmer & Harvey McLane.Poor relations between the two parties are hitting tobacco and...
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Profit-poor SA pins hope on pre-packs
South Africa’s biggest exporter of avocados to the UK multiples is developing technology to supply pre-prepared portions of the fruit, as the industry looks to add value in the face of a strong rand, soaring production costs and falling profit...
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Hull to shut as Rank Hovis invests
Rank Hovis, the RHM-owned flour miller, is planning a multi-million pound investment in four of its sites, while announcing proposals to close its Hull facility. The Selby, Manchester, Southampton and Gainsborough mill investment is in addition to...
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Hunter moves to a key new marketing role at Northern
Former Jacobs marketing director Graham Hunter has been appointed as Northern Foods’ group marketing director.The company said that this newly created role supports its objective of enhancing key skills across the group, notably in...
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Morrisons looks set to sell in Northern Ireland
Morrisons looks closer than ever to selling its 13 Safeway stores in Northern Ireland.Its annual report, which details when it will convert a significant proportion of its remaining Safeway stores, makes no mention of when or if the Northern...