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Head office jobs axed as Booker is simplified
Wholesaler Booker is laying off almost 20% of its head office staff less than two months after the business was decoupled from Iceland following the acquisition of Big Food Group by Icelandic group Baugur. In an interview with The Grocer,...
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Multiples move back to basics
Supermarkets see budget own-label offerings as a necessity, but playing the low-price card and at the same time avoiding the downmarket image is a tricky balancing act. Stefan Chomka reportsWith all the effort that the retailers have...
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Campaign milks beauty benefits
The Milk Development Council is linking the consumption of milk with physical beauty in a bid to convince teenage girls they should drink more of the white stuff.A two-year, EU-backed £3m marketing campaign, launched this week, focuses on the...
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A clean bill of health?
We have picked through the OFT’s report into its supermarkets code of practice to bring you a chain-by-chain guide to how they perform in six key trading areasTucked away within the 136 pages of the OFT’s report into the supermarkets...
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Dairy UK forms board to identify priorities for Scottish industry
Dairy UK has formed a new board to look after the interests of members north of the border.Dairy UK Scotland was set up to identify priorities and promote policy developments. It comprises representatives of producer co-ops, processors and...
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Petty, Wood bolsters sales team with two new recruits
Petty, Wood – the food and drink sales, marketing and distribution company – has made two new sales team appointments.Marlene Godwin returns to the company, where she was previously trade marketing manager, to take up the post of marketing...
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Brahma launch
Interbrew is continuing its focus on imported bottled beers with the UK launch of a South American brand.Brazilian lager Brahma is being imported and will be available to the off-trade from the autumn after an on-trade trial in...
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Schwan’s merges pizza brands
Schwan’s is merging its two pizza brands, launching products under the Chicago Town label and investing £2m in television advertising to further its goal of becoming one of the top frozen food suppliers.From April, premium offering Freschetta,...
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Rates rise shock for business
This week’s rise in business rates has been a postcode lottery for convenience stores, with some reporting rises of up to 80%.Roger Higgins, MD of RNS Holdings,which has 14 stores in the south and south west, said one outlet in Portsmouth had...
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Star Buyer: Melissa Draycott
>>spirits and fortified wine buyer, SainsburyDraycott has worked at Sainsbury for 15 years. She joined the supermarket as a beers, wines and spirits manager in the Bury St Edmunds store. After four years, Draycott started her climb up...
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Irish call on chains to disclose profits
Tesco may be among a number of retailers forced to disclose how much profit they make in the Irish Republic, under new proposals aimed at finding out if consumers get a fair deal.In a report to government, a parliamentary committee...
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Multiples cash in on office supplies
Tesco and Asda are vying with specialist stationers in supplying home and basic office supplies, finds Rod AddyIt may be smaller than some non-food categories, but sales of home office supplies are growing rapidly in supermarkets....
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Soft cheese in a cylinder
Port Salut aims to jazz up the traditional cheese board with its unusually shaped Crémeux variety.The cylindrically shaped semi-soft French cheese with an orange rind is designed to be cut into small slices for snacking or as a topping for...
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Child-friendly sweets
Nestlé Rowntree aims to appeal to health-conscious mums by moving to real fruit juice and no artificial colours or flavours across its Rowntree brands.The company is the latest manufacturer to make its products healthier and more...
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Lloyd Maunder gets the chop
Sainsbury is to ditch fresh, retail packed lamb supplier Lloyd Maunder from October – but it is unclear whether this marks a step by the retailer towards single sourcing in the category.Sainsbury refused to say which company would be handed the...
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No merit given to mix-up claim
The Food Standards Agency has rubbished claims by the Spices Board of India that the Sudan 1 crisis was caused by a harmless naturally occurring pigment.CJ Jose, chairman of the government body responsible for production development and export...
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JS to close Meadowhall
Sainsbury is closing a 15-year-old store at the heart of a top fashion retail centre in Sheffield due to lack of prime customers.The 37,000 sq ft Meadowhall store employs 323 staff and will close on July 9, but the supermarket has applied for...
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Late Jersey potato crop
Weather conditions in Jersey have improved markedly, but the island’s potato harvest will still begin later than usual.Agriculture officials said temperatures last weekend reached 20C, with a small amount of rainfall, which was proving...
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JS ends junket culture
The surprise finding in the detail of the OFT’s report into the supermarkets code of practice? That Sainsbury traders emerged as the industry’s junket junkies. The OFT’s auditors found 42 instances where Sainsbury staff had accepted hospitality...
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Tax cuts will not reduce smuggling
from Amanda Sandford, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)suppliers must blaze a new csr trailfrom Nicky Amos, CSR director, Corporate CultureSir; Audrey Wales of the tobacco-front group Retailers against...