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What will they do for you...
...on the big issues that impact on the industry? We have identified five key areas – the national minimum wage, retail crime, red tape, business rates and health – where a new government could change things for better or for worse. As the...
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Ice-cream stimulates happiness
Ice-cream has been found to warm up the pleasure centres of the brain, according to research.A study by the Centre of Neuroimaging Sciences at the Institute of Psychiatry in London showed that ice-cream had an immediate effect on parts of...
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PayPoint told to reconsider
The row between PayPoint, the utility payment network, and independent retailers over margins is blowing up again.The furore has been sparked by the introduction of new services from PayPoint utility clients with retailers complaining about...
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Morrisons looks set to sell in Northern Ireland
Morrisons look closer than ever to selling its 13 Safeway stores in Northern Ireland.Its annual report, which gives details of when it will convert a significant proportion of its remaining Safeway branded stores, makes no mention of when or...
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Wholesalers open to OFT
Wholesalers are throwing their weight behind the Federation of Wholesale Distributors’ proposal that the Office of Fair Trading should examine their books as it investigates supermarket trading practices.The FWD wrote to the OFT last month...
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Russian retailer set to float
Pyaterochka, Russia’s biggest grocery retailer is to launch a £312m flotation on the London stock exchange today.David Noble, Pyaterochka’s chairman and a former Somerfield director said that the flotation would raise monies for continued...
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M&S boardroom rift
A boardroom rift had broken out at Marks & Spencer over the future of interim chairman Paul Myners.Myners who became interim chairman last May agreed to stay on until July of this year. However he is believed to be keen on taking on the role...
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Cheddar sales maturing
Sales of mature Cheddar are growing faster than milder varieties.Cheese experts believe that exposure to spicy, exotic food has meant a greater demand for more pungent flavours.Sales of mature Cheddar at Tesco grew by 21% last year...
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11th hour plea for evidence
Suppliers and independent retailers have launched a last ditch attempt to uncover the evidence needed to prove growing supermarket power is damaging competition and limiting consumer choice.With the OFT’s May 31 deadline for the submission of...
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Britons taking 44m holidays
The grocery sector is becoming a key outlet for holiday health shopping, with grocers outstripping pharmacies in the four key summer health markets. Ailsa Colquhoun reportsWith the war in Iraq, the SARS epidemic and the ongoing threat...
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The Acid Test
>>consumers and buyers give their views on the latest launches1698From: Shepherd Neame1698, a premium bottle-conditioned ale from Shepherd Neame, is brewed from Kentish pale ale malt. The...
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Legal action threat over pork pie protection bid
Northern Foods has written to Defra threatening it with High Court action for supporting an application to the EU to protect the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie name. The bid for protected geographical indication was made by the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie...
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The working mum with a ruthless price agenda
Asda’s trading and marketing director Angela Spindler is the driving force behind its low price agenda says Fiona McLellandAvailability is something of an obsession. In the 12 months to June 12, 2004, Asda achieved 98.25% in The...
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Tesco a step ahead on labelling
Tesco is to make a radical change to its food packaging by moving nutritional labelling from the back to the front of packs.The new look – which will work along the same lines as Sainsbury’s front-of-pack ‘Wheel of Health’ system – is set to...
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Buyers: ‘price is not all’
The majority of buyers do not believe that price is the number one factor driving consumer demand, according to research by The Grocer.While Asda and Tesco raised the heat in the supermarket price war at the start of this month by rolling out...
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Who made all the pies?
The Grocer’s Richard Clarke spent a day on the shop floor at independent butcher and deli store Dennis of Bexley in Kent and discovered there’s more to making pies than meets the eyeThe omens aren’t good when I roll up at The Firs, a...
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Longer season for asparagus
English asparagus will soon be available for far longer into the summer and yields will be much heavier, according to Victor Aveling, chairman of the Asparagus Growers’ Association.Historically, asparagus cutting in England finishes on June 21...
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The battle lines are drawn up
Independent retailers and wholesalers are drawing up the next battle lines in their ongoing fight with the major supermarkets after receiving some stark wake up calls at this week’s Federation of Wholesale Distributors conference.Competition...
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Irish crackdown on below-cost selling
Multiples in the Irish Republic will face hugely increased fines in future if convicted of breaching the controversial groceries order, which bans below-cost selling.New legislation being introduced by the Trade and Enterprise Department will...
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The best possible taste
Union Coffee Roasters has a way with beans, says Stefan ChomkaAsk Jeremy Torz, director of Union Coffee Roasters, to describe his coffee and words such as “strong” and “smooth” are conspicuous by their absence.Torz instead likes...