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JS rolls out dual branding
The names of former independent chains Jacksons and Bells look set to live on indefinitely under new plans by Sainsbury to make them a core plank of its c-store business.Sainsbury’s Convenience managing director Jim McCarthy has for the first...
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Crisp case for defence
Golden Wonder has hit back at complaints over its poster campaign for its Golden Skins.The Advertising Standards Authority is investigating the adverts after receiving 12 complaints about the posters.One depicts a young boy, naked from the...
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Goodwill cash for Superquinn staff
The 4,500 employees of the Superquinn chain, which was recently sold to an Irish business consortium for E420m, are to share a goodwill bonus worth E9m.The payout, which is described as a goodwill gesture to staff for their role in building...
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Chains eye MG Rover site
Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury are all eyeing up the MG Rover plant at Longbridge for a new supermarket development, which could end up as a hypermarket megastore.The initial plans for a supermarket are part of a 40-acre science and technology park,...
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Consumer Insight
Age profile of shellfish consumersnThere were 79 million shellfish meals last year, 3% more than in the previous year nPrawns account for two thirds of shellfish...
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Co-op deal for Dungannon
Dungannon Meats Group has won a contract to supply additional fresh beef to the Co-operative Group.The deal will create 30 new jobs involved in added-value work in Dungannon’s Northern Ireland factories.Dungannon has now won £55m of new...
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Suppliers tear strips off retailer demands
No-one disputes that shelf-ready packaging works. But who should pay and are retailers asking too much of suppliers? Ronan Hegarty reportsNo-one is disputing that shelf-ready packaging (SRP) works. Suppliers and retailers agree that...
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Diarrhoea remedies
Research shows Brits miss at least one day out of seven on holiday through sunstroke, upset tummy or hangoverMost Brits will miss at least one day out of seven on holiday through sunstroke, upset tummy or hangover, according to health...
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The Saturday Essay
>>Brian Cotter, Liberal Democrat spokesman on small business and MP for Weston-Super-MareAs Tesco becomes the first UK retailer to announce profits of more than £2 billion, the debate about whether increasing supermarket...
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Fanta Z mixes up new juice flavour
Fanta Z Summer Fruits is the latest addition to Coca-Cola Enterprises’ new Z (zero added sugar) range. CCE has rebranded all light variants of its carbonates (apart from Coke and Diet Coke), so that the range now comprises Fanta Z Orange, Fanta...
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Vimto keeps purple focus
Vimto is showing it still has a sense of humour after Purple Ronnie’s departure.Its Shlurple the Purple TV campaign kicks off on May 1 with a 20-second ad which shows the effect the drink has on a male consumer. After just a couple of sips, the...
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Sainsbury labels GI
Sainsbury is set to follow in Tesco’s footsteps by putting a glycaemic index (GI) logo on its packaging from next month.The move is part of the supermarket’s pledge to make health a key differentiator in its offer. However, Tesco was first on...
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Hart leaves Weetabix
One of the most well-known faces in grocery is retiring from the industry at the age of 50.Trevor Hart leaves Weetabix next week after 18 years with the cereals company – 14 of them as its sales director. Hart, a 30-year veteran of...
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Pomegreat plans a hearty summer
Pomegranate juice drink brand Pomegreat is sporting a new look for summer 2005 to encourage more consumers to choose pomegranate over alternative juice flavours and to enable the company to bring out new variants.The company has dropped its...
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Pernod in high spirits
Allied deal could give Diageo a nasty hangover. Sonya Hook reportsIn the biggest deal in the drinks industry since the break-up of Seagram five years ago, the second and third largest drinks groups in the world have joined forces to...
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Hit or Miss?
>>A natural, traditional premier bread sauce mixProduct: Gourmet Bread Sauce MixCompany: TheShropshire Spice CompanyLaunch date: March 2005The idea for Gourmet Bread Sauce...
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New snack sticks its neck out
Asda will next week begin to stock a meat-based snack product that its suppliers believe will create a £20m-a-year sub-category.PMM Foods, established in November, has won exclusive UK rights to market Snakstix, a low-fat poultry protein...
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Own label scores with suncare
The sunprep market ended last season down in value but up in volume as own-label products came into their ownIRI figures for the summer period [52 w/e October 2, 2004] reveal that the poor summer, aggressive volume promotions on...
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In Profile: Q&A with Mantinga MD Steven Mackintosh
Rural business consultant Steven Mackintosh found himself harking on at food producers time and again that the only way to get new business ventures off the ground was to be fully...