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It’s the ‘new cranberry’ – POM
POM Wonderful is literally targeting consumers’ hearts in the hope that pomegranate will become the next cranberry juice in the UK.The Californian pomegranate juice will initially be available in three chilled varieties – 100% pomegranate,...
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Kettle recovers from crisp fire
Kettle Chips maker Kettle Foods has said a fire at its Norwich factory should not significantly affect supplies to customers.The fire, which broke out last Thursday night, gutted one of the factory’s two cookrooms where the crisps are fried,...
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Guaber sees the future in crystals
Deodorant manufacturer Guaber has launched a new concept in body odour control in the UK market. The all-over body anti-odourant, called Bionsen Deo Total Body Active Minerals, contains 20g of odourising mineral crystals inside a 50ml pump...
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JS cuts Farm Fed out of UK
Northern Ireland poultry meat processor Farm Fed Chickens is set to make scores of redundancies at its Coleraine factory after Sainsbury cut back its fresh chicken contract with the company.The retailer will still source whole chickens and...
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diageo price hikes
Diageo has implemented inflation-busting price increases on a number of its biggest brands, including a 3% hike on Gordon’s Gin, in a bid to claw back margin.Retailers are also being hit by a 2.5% increase across Coors brands and are waiting to...
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The high plains drifter
Sainsbury is trying it, but a large financial bonus may well not motivate senior staff. They are more likely to be galvanised by continuing professional development says Christine HayhurstSainsbury has just outlined a new management...
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The Saturday Essay
>>How to keep a diverse high street – CLIFF GOODMAN, former trading director OF BUDGENSTaking the decision to change career path has made me think of how the market has altered since I first started pedalling the butcher’s...
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Family pack for Haribo
Haribo is extending its range of pre-packed gums and jellies by throwing its number one countline, Giant Strawbs, into a family-size bag.The strawberry-shaped jelly sweets, which contain real strawberry juice, have been downsized and rebranded...
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Foodservice is a power partner
Foodservice operators and retailers need to work in partnership – not competition with each other – if they are to exploit the opportunities in each other’s territories.This was the key message at a conference organised by The Grocer, called...
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Unilever UK gets its house in order
Unilever UK Foods will hike up its marketing spend by at least 15% in a bid to claw back the initiative after a lacklustre year.Speaking as the parent company posted a 36% drop in full-year pre-tax profit to €2.9bn on sales down 2% to €42bn,...
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Mumm goes upmarket
Mumm Champagne is undergoing a radical relaunch in a bid to reverse falling sales and regain its upmarket image.Plans include new packaging from the autumn, PR deals with record breaking yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur and chef Gordon Ramsay, two...
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Scooby on a health kick
Oriental Express Frozen Food is encouraging kids to get active by adding a new sporty range to its £10m Scooby-Doo frozen ready meals line-up.The new Scooby-Doo Sporty Meals, which roll out in April, all feature Scooby enjoying different...
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Mission impossible
The Public Health White Paper is “astonishingly green” and nutrient profiling won’t work, leading health experts claim. At a round table debate organised by the Snack, Nut & Crisp Manufacturers Association, there was consensus that the...
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Irish retailers reel at new wage rates
The retail trade in the Irish Republic, already under fire over high food prices, will be hit with an added cost from May when the minimum wage is set to rise by 9% to E7.65 an hour.The Labour Court has recommended the increase, following...
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Polo has Wrigley in its orbit
Nestlé Rowntree is moving in on Wrigley territory with a new assault on the breath-freshening category.Following a trial with Colgate branded chewing gum last year, it has launched two new products – Polo Liquid Orbs and Polo +...
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Market Monitor
EU dairy product prices have at last responded to the cuts in intervention price made on July 1 last year.For many months, dairy markets were strong and prices defied Brussels’ best efforts to bring internal market levels lower. Cuts in export...
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oils for princes
Unilever UK has dumped a host of famous oil and cooking fat brands from its portfolio as it continues its gameplan of concentrating on global megabrand offerings.The food giant has sold the Crisp ‘n Dry, Mazola, Cookeen and Spry brands in the...
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Waitrose opens state-of-the-art store as sales soar
Waitrose is to open a 22,000 sq ft store in Droitwich, replacing its Kidderminster site.The outlet, a “state-of-the-art food store”, will open in July when the Kidderminster shop in the Swan Centre will close.Waitrose had looked for a new...
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To sleep, perchance
Lenor has launched a fabric conditioner which aims to make sheets smell sweet and help consumers sleep through progressive fragrance-release.Lenor Sleep Sensations is the latest fabric conditioner variant from Procter & Gamble and contains...