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Two new marketers to fire up the Blue Dragon brand
G Costa is investing in key personnel to further promote its flagship pan-oriental brand Blue Dragon, with the appointment of an oriental category marketing manager and a trade marketing controller.Emma Hampson is looking forward to driving the...
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Morrisons bolsters buying team
Morrisons has brought two new buyers into the beers, wines and spirits team to improve its range.James Jackson is moving from Tesco to join Morrisons as a wine buyer. He spent the past five years with Tesco, first as a food buyer and later in...
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Multiples set to boost pharmacies
All the leading supermarkets are planning to boost instore pharmacy numbers following government liberalisation of the licensing regime.However, there will not be a sudden rush of applications because licences will only be granted automatically...
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New branches will think local
Waitrose has started talking with regional food groups about introducing local sourcing to the 19 stores it has purchased from Morrisons after the Safeway takeover. A spokeswoman said that Waitrose has the capacity to tailor its assortment...
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New breed of Royals on the way
Jersey’s new potato growers are watching developments in Scotland after details emerged of a new branding exercise by Albert Bartlett & Sons, one of Scotland’s best known packers and distributors.Three new regional potato brands were...
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Buyer sought for Cig
Consultant KPMG says it is seeking a buyer for failed Welsh abattoir and meat processor Cwmni Cig Arfon.The factory, which counted Bookers among its customers, closed with farmer suppliers reportedly owed up to £6,000.All staff have been...
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Taking the café culture home
Nestlé has ordered a £5m relaunch of its Nescafé branded Café Style range of coffees.The company has reformulated the £1.99 offerings – which include three types of Cappuccino, a Mocha and a Latte – to make them more frothy than before.New...
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TV song of praise to Cathedral City
Dairy Crest is embarking on its biggest ever TV campaign behind its Cathedral City brand.As part of a £3.5m campaign, the Cheddar brand will be shown on national TV in September and supported with point-of-sale material.A combination of...
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Tesco’s take-out challenge
Tesco is targeting the high street coffee bar market with a major roll-out of Coffee Nation’s self-service gourmet coffee units.The concessions have already been installed in 30 Tesco Express stores and the multiple aims to roll them out to 150...
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Tobacco smuggling may force retailers to close
A quarter of independent retailers are considering closing up shop because of business lost to tobacco smuggling, according to a report published by the Tobacco Alliance.The 900 independents who took part in the alliance’s annual survey claim...
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Eye contact is the key
How difficult is it to refuse alcohol sales to underage customers? The Grocer questioned retailersA government crackdown on binge drinking and drunkenness among young people has included a wave of test purchasing by the authorities,...
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Creme egg rival
Nestlé is to launch two new products into the filled egg arena, Milky Bar and Smarties filled eggs, in the new year to rival Cadbury’s Creme Egg. Leading Nestlé’s charge for the second year running will be the flow-wrapped Double Cream...
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Somerfield cry Freedom
Somerfield is launching a new range of chicken under the RSPCA’s Freedom Food label.‘So Good’ West Country corn-fed chicken is produced from Devonshire Bronze birds reared by farmer Lloyd Maunder.The chicken is available as a whole bird,...
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Pricing is key for c-store customers
from Keith Webb, Costcutter, Ellesmere Port, CheshireSir; Pricing levels have provided endless opportunities for discussion over recent years – witness recent letters from John Sharpe at Nisa-Today’s and Kevin Hawkins, formerly of...
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Raiders ‘will not dent Nisa’
Defiant Nisa-Today’s has vowed to keep on growing despite constant poaching of its leading members by major multiples.As Jacksons Stores became the seventh Nisa member in The Grocer Top 50 to be taken over this year, Neil Turton, managing...
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Depot offers welcome release
Peter Saunders, general manager, Booker, NorthamptonPeter Saunders has been in the business 35 years starting in grocery retail straight from school, and became part of the Booker empire when he was working for Budgens and it was...
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In Profile: Mauricio Giamellaro, Managing Director, Galbani UK
Giamellaro brings latin passion to UK Italian food firm The charismatic Mauricio Giamellaro has been ringing the changes ever since becoming MD of the traditional Italian food producer and distributor, Galbani UK, in...
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director jailed
Brighton fish merchant Christopher Leonard Bish was sentenced at Hove Crown Court to 21 months in prison after falsely claiming more than £5.5m from a finance company. Bish, a director of Jelfish Ltd, Lower Goods Yard, Trafalgar Street,...
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The Saturday Essay
>>Who will feed the children at lunchtime? Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City UniversityPart of the policy fall-out from the obesity issue has been the re-emergence of school meals as a hot policy issue. Nothing to do with...
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Refit leads to expanded offer
Dharmendra Patel and his wife Snehal are getting used to the new layout at Acre Street Off Licence and Convenience Store in Huddersfield, which has undergone a complete refit since a ram-raid which destroyed the shop front.After the raid sales...