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Heinz’s fresh approach to soup
Heinz is to pitch its soup brand into fresh territory by testing a new range of chilled offerings in Tesco.The move will put it head-to-head for the first time with New Covent Garden Soup, which is the leading chilled brand in the category and...
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Price moving to role atJohn Lewis Partnership
Mark Price, Waitrose’s director of selling and marketing, is leaving the upmarket food retail chain to join the main board of parent the John Lewis Partnership as development director.In light of the continued expansion of Waitrose, Price’s...
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Somerfield rolls out budget back catalogue DVDs
Somerfield is rolling out a permanent budget range of back catalogue DVDs in larger Somerfield and Kwik Save stores.The budget range occupies a standalone spinner unit in the DVD sales area with three facings holding 45 titles. It will be...
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Bartlett steps into the shoes of Neal at S&N
Scottish & Newcastle has appointed Paul Bartlett as UK consumer marketing director.Bartlett has been working with Scottish & Newcastle as UK commercial director for the past two years and now reports to UK marketing director Tim Seager. ...
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Berry sales ‘going the right way’
Berry fruit sales grew overall this summer in spite of variable weather, according to figures revealed at the industry’s annual conference this week.KG Fruits MD Nick Marsden said strawberry production had risen from 37,000 to 44,900 tonnes...
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Tesco's NPD blast
The head of alcohol buying at the country’s biggest supermarket has described 2004 as “possibly the poorest year on record” for innovation.Mark Murphy, category director at Tesco, is calling for new life to be injected into the...
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Stronger bonds of desire
Are the multiples doing a better job at hanging on to shopfloor staff? Siân Harrington reports on the findings of our latest annual labour surveyFood retailers may finally be getting the message across about the benefits of working on...
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Lang sale boosts Lowrie’s
Scottish wholesaler CJ Lang has sold its business in Penrith to fellow Landmark Cash & Carry member Peter Lowrie & Co for an undisclosed sum.Lowrie’s operates as a cash and carry and delivered wholesaler from depots at Killingworth,...
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In Profile: Q&A with Roy Edleston, Food from Britain Germany
Where the brits do it better than anyone else Food from Britain was founded 21 years ago to boost exports and now helps British food and drink suppliers reach foreign markets as far away as China. One of the original...
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Welsh urged to play quality ‘trump card’
Patchwork MD and now True Taste ambassador Rufus Carter headed the line-up of stars in the Wales Food & Drink AwardsIf you don’t already know Rufus Carter, then you can expect to hear a lot more about him – and the issues concerning...
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Lang’s new sales chief
CJ Lang & Son has announced that Claire Smith will become its sales director from January. She takes over the role handled by MD Ed Ferguson, who is leaving for family reasons (The Grocer, November 20, p18).Smith joined CJ Lang, the regional...
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New type of clementine
Clementine fans will be offered a new early variety this Christmas – the Rishon. Israeli grower and importer Mehadrin Tnuport Export (MTEX) has begun marketing the fruit. MD Dov Warmen said: “Our new early clementine is unique by flavour and...
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Nestlé closes Mallow
Nestlé Rowntree is to close its Mallow factory in Ireland with the loss of 57 jobs.The closure is part of a move to streamline production of chocolate crumb, used in chocolate manufacture, and output of the ingredient will be doubled at Girvan,...
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Ditch corporate masks
Letting people be themselves might well work wonders. Steve Crabb provides evidenceAn interesting piece of research landed on my desk. Commissioned by HR consultancy DDI, the study found that a worryingly large number of employees...
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Scottish Courage’s Lamb to direct sales at Vimto
Vimto Soft Drinks has appointed Steve Lamb to the new role of sales director, following the re-positioning of the company from a production-led to a brand-led business.Lamb has been recruited from Scottish Courage, where he held a number of...
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DoH makes an unhealthy link
Does the DoH really think a 9pm watershed alone can alter kids’ food preferences? Simon Mowbray tries to find outAt least one conclusion came out of the Public Health White Paper – that it seemed to pose more questions about the...
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DoH solution misses a simple point
from Gordon Storey, Biscuit Cake Chocolate and Confectionery AssnSir; During the period in which the government has been formulating its obesity policy, we have made clear our intention to work with it and other groups to reduce...
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Industry set for end of OTMS
Government ministers will announce plans next week to end the Over Thirty Months Scheme, according to sources in the British and Northern Irish red meat sector.They believe the scheme – designed to prevent older cattle most at risk from BSE...
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The Saturday Essay
>>traceability rules may give local suppliers competitive advantage. Mark Duddridge, md, GinstersAs of next January, traceability requirements in EU General Food Law will come into force. It will require every individual link in...
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Do we need a Portman for food?
It could be one way of meeting the challenges in the Health White Paper, says Julian HuntThe dust has barely had time to settle on the government’s Public Health White Paper and already the food industry is having to address the...