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Backs into it
Supplier of cooked bacon products TMI Foods has appointed Alan Peterson as production director and Nigel Richmond as sales director.Peterson was previously a general manager at Roach Foods. Richmond joins from his position as business...
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Heinz chills beans in a fresh sausage
Heinz is rolling its Baked Beanz brand into fresh sausages as it continues its assault on the chilled sector. The new sausages, branded Heinz Pork & Baked Bean Sausages, are being made under licence by sausage specialist Manor Born and...
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The likeliest of bedfellows
Corporate takeover activity is often fuelled by synergies between former executives and finance vehicles. Glynn Davis looks at the names that are set to pounceFebrile speculation over the future of the legacy retailers Marks and...
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Bovril takes out the beef
Unilever UK Foods has taken the beef out of its Bovril hot food drink and replaced it with a vegetarian-friendly yeast mix.The £9.3m brand has seen volume sales in the UK slump by between 1-2% annually over the past four years. Export markets...
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The people behind Caravan
>>The first of three features on the trade’s welfare charityTwo years ago Gillian Barker was a high flier at Safeway but she made the decision to get out and do some good for the retail industry she has worked in all her...
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Johnson signs with Bic
Budget shaving brand Bic has revamped its packaging, introduced a new twin blade offering and extended its contract with former England rugby captain Martin Johnson to act as brand ambassador.It is also aiming to simplify its offering by...
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Binge drinkers turning to wine
Suppliers have drafted a social responsibility code for marketing and selling wine in response to a growing trend among binge drinkers to consume wine The guidelines have been produced by the Wine Trade Action Group, which has 33 members who...
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Safeway’s NPD director takes on Sainsbury Brand
Safeway new product development director, Judith Batchelar, will join Sainsbury as director of Sainsbury Brand early in the new year. Batchelar joined Safeway in 2001 and was responsible for growing the Safeway brand. In 2002 she headed its...
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Palestinian brew targets the UK
The world’s only Palestinian beer is coming to the UK after winning a wholesale listing.Taybeh Beer is a 5.2% abv hoppy lager brewed in a village near Ramallah. It is produced for the UK market under licence in Belgium because it cannot be...
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Calls for simpler EU regulation
Calls are mounting for the wave of environmenal legislation currently bombarding the UK from Europe to be simplified.The calls come as The Grocer highlights some major problems with the raft of the rules now hitting the industry. Some, such as...
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Taylor chief exec of combined Musgrave
Budgens’ commercial director Mike Taylor has been promoted to chief executive of the newly combined Musgrave/Budgens/ Londis business following a senior management reshuffle.He will take up his new post on January 1, reporting to Musgrave UK...
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Heinz chills soup
Heinz is throwing its soup brand into fridges for the first time with the launch of a range of chilled offerings in Tesco.The new range compromises four varieties, all packed in 500g transparent pots, which will retail at £1.49.The...
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christmas orders
Budgens has launched a festive food ordering service so customers can order seasonal products to collect from their local store in the run-up to Christmas.The range of turkey and savoury foods will be supported by a brochure and...
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Consumer Insight: tomatoes
When fresh tomatoes are eatenIn the last year there were 2.7 billion occasions of fresh tomato consumption in the homeThat represents a 1.5% decrease on last year 2% of all fresh tomatoes consumed are...
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n co-op’s a good eggThe Co-operative Group has won a Good Egg Award for increasing free range egg sales.The British Free Range Egg Producers Association praised the retailer for increasing the free range share of its total egg sales from 11% to 60% in six years....
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Ireland opens up a route for Costco
An urban renewal initiative by Ireland’s environment minister Dick Roche could pave the way for Costco’s entry into the Republic. Roche wants to exempt an economically depressed Dublin suburb, Ballymun, from the 6,000 square metre cap on retail...
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New functionality from Danone
Danone Dairies is planning to extend its healthy yogurt and drink portfolio in the UK into new functional areas, one of which is likely to be energy.At the moment the company’s four key brands – Actimel, Activia, Shape and the recently launched...
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Tisserand ops manager at Délifrance
French bakery and patisserie manufacturer Délifrance UK has announced the promotion of its quality manager Anne-Claire Tisserand to operations manager as the brand moves into the retail sector. Tisserand takes over from Jim Parr, who has moved...
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NI is eating more lamb
Lamb is becoming increasingly popular in Northern Ireland, according to TNS data.Researchers have found that volume purchases have risen by 17% year-on-year to 3,407 tonnes with expenditure on lamb up by 34% to £18.8m. Frequency of...
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essential nutrients, enjoyable form
from Nigel White, secretary, British Cheese BoardSir; The recent White Paper on Health (‘DoH: you act – or we will’, The Grocer, November 20, p4-5) contained some interesting ideas in relation to food labelling upon which it is...