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Spar woos its supplier base
Spar has launched a number of initiatives that will help the symbol group leverage its relationships with suppliers so it can deliver the best ranges at the best prices to its retailers.Group trading director Peter Miller told Spar’s annual...
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Dancing to a new beat
Spar will not be satisfied with anything less than becoming the biggest and best c-store operator. Julian Hunt reports from the Cape Town conferenceThe Spar conference in Cape Town, South Africa, has been described by bosses at the...
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In Profile: Q& A with James Le Bouedec of LB Foods
A happy alliance with a celebrity chef It’s not bad going when a Michelin-starred celebrity chef endorses your first range from your first start-up company. That’s what James Le Bouedec has achieved with a range of cooking...
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Pringles brings the party to life
Pringles is extending its new ‘every party starts with a pop’ tagline to a major pre-Christmas television campaign as part of a £2m spend.The Procter & Gamble brand, which will again be challenging Walkers this Christmas in the party snacking...
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La Réserve buy for Jeroboams
Upmarket food and drink retailer The Jeroboams Group has acquired drinks retailer and wholesaler La Réserve.La Réserve’s four stores, including Milroy’s of Soho, will bring the number of outlets in Jeroboam’s portfolio to 13.La Réserve...
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Campaign trail
OptionsManufacturer TwiningsBrand OptionsBudget part of a £2m spendOptions is back on air with a new TV ad based around female fantasies.The creative features a woman who chooses a cup of the low calorie hot chocolate...
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labour’s pandering to deep pockets
from Steve Parfett, chairman, Landmark Cash and CarrySir; Last week’s decision on Sainsbury’s acquisition of Jacksons demonstrates once again the short-term nature of all New Labour’s policy-making. Much like the pension issue,...
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M&S goes for deli soul
Marks and Spencer is giving its food halls a radical makeover in a bid to create a delicatessen atmosphere for shoppers.Head of retail design Niall Trafford said the refit aimed to represent the “mind of a supermarket but soul of a deli” and...
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Tesco’s McMeikan to be retail director at JS
Tesco’s Ken McMeikan has been appointed retail director for Sainsbury and will join the operating board in early 2005. McMeikan has worked at Tesco for the last 14 years and was in line to take on the role of chief executive of its Japanese...
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Pea shoots into speciality division
A new ‘growing vegetable’, the pea shoot, has made its UK supermarket debut.Packaged in their own miniature greenhouses, pea shoots are young, tender tips of garden peas, said to have the same sweet taste as a pea but when plucked from their...
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More Falklands lamb for UK
The Falkland Islands is gearing up to export 40,000 tonnes of lamb annually to the UK within five years.This year was the first time farmers on the islands have exported meat, successfully shipping 2,000 lamb and 20,000 mutton carcases – all...
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It’s fresh. And fast!
In the second of our Back to the Floor series, Siân Harrington spends a day as a colleague at Somerfield’s thriving Market Fresh store in East Dulwich, and finds the pace relentlessIn a previous life, Somerfield store manager Jason...
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Obese say: it’s our fault
Traffic-light labelling, restricted advertising and tighter food industry regulation will not solve the obesity crisis, according to research conducted among overweight consumers. The study comes as the food industry awaits the long-delayed...
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It’s our fault. We’ll fix it
Amid the baying for regulations to tackle obesity, has anyone asked overweight people what they think? Siân Harrington has new research to handWho can shout louder? Single-issue groups, NGOs, doctors, food suppliers, retailers or...
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Licence fee set to rocket
The cost of selling booze from a chain of 50 stores could rocket from £1,500 to between £8,000 and £47,500 over three years under government plans to revamp the alcohol licensing system in England and Wales.Under the proposed fee structure for...
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Tesco guidance on shelf-ready
Tesco is planning to launch a new shelf-ready packaging toolkit to help suppliers develop more suitable packaging following a night-time replenishment exercise at its Solihull store last week (The Grocer, November 6, p10).Tesco food supply...
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Wise move for Guru
Spice Guru is a new range of curry pastes for fish, vegetables and meat.Based on recipes from the Gujarat region of western India, they come in three varieties – Fabulous Fish, Vibrant Vegetable and Magical Meat – and are free of artificial...
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Trade hails Portman’s ‘sense’
Producers and retailers are to start promoting a new website containing sensible drinking tips in one of the first industry-wide initiatives aimed at reducing alcohol abuse.The Portman Group website is part of a concerted effort by the trade to...
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PepsiCo’s new taste of health
PepsiCo UK is stepping up its innovation programme with plans to bring a raft of new products to market next year.Leading the way will be Quaker Seasons, a crispbread snack which is oven-baked so that it has a fat content of just 10%. Rolling...
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Key Store plans new image
Key Lekkerland is testing a new concept Key Store design to challenge rival symbol group packages such as Londis Genesis and Spar Millennium.Speaking at the annual Key Lekkerland conference, John Liptrot, commercial director for Key Lekkerland,...