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Discovery warning
As the early season gets under way, Adrian Barlow, chief executive of English Apples and Pears, has warned that volumes of Discovery are so low that a replacement must be found.Discovery is the main English apple available for the next month...
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Relaunch for Guinness Draught
Diageo is to advertise its canned Guinness Draught for the first time in five years to support a revamp of the take-home format.Guinness Draught in a can will be relaunched on September 1 with a smoother and creamier taste – thanks to brewing...
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The Saturday Essay
>>supermarkets must cater for teenagers – Simon Marshall, customer development director, Lever FabergéAs a father of a 13 and a 15-year-old and a local school governor, I know only too well the stress of the school holidays....
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Nisa win for Exel
Exel has won a multi-million pound contract with Nisa-Today’s to provide a temperature-controlled distribution service to 3,500 stores in southern England and to manage the buying group’s new multi-temperature distribution centre in Harlow.The...
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uniq factory sale
Uniq has sold the former St Ivel plant at Wootton Bassett to Barratt subsidiary Kingsoak Homes in a £19m deal. The plant produced Shape yogurt before the brand was acquired by Danone in 2002.Separately, Uniq has revealed plans to close its...
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Superquinn feeling the squeeze as Hanan quits
Peter Hanan has resigned as chief operating officer of one of the Irish Republic’s leading multiples, Superquinn.Hanan, who joined the 19-store chain five years ago, had been promoted to operations chief just two years ago and given a seat on...
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Kit Kat’s two fingers to a wafer
Nestlé is to follow a slogan change for Kit Kat with a raft of new products and a £5m TV campaign.The confectionery giant became the latest brand owner to axe an iconic catchphrase this week when it announced that time was being called on its...
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Moldovan Firebird rises at Waitrose
Moldova is set to make its mark in the wine fixture with the launch of a new range of branded wines from the former Soviet Union enclave.Firebird Legend has been developed with the wine consultancy Cellarwood specifically for the UK market....
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Sales growth is in the slow lane
Sales growth in the major supermarkets and health and beauty retailers has slowed to just 2%, according to the IRI supermarket review.The figures for the second quarter of the year compared badly to the 5% growth in the same period last year...
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a healthier wagon
Burton’s Foods is relaunching Wagon Wheels, covering them with real chocolate and adding a chocolate sauce filling.The biscuit stalwart will also be made with chocolate biscuit instead of the cinnamon flavoured offering currently used....
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Organic is a hit at Tesco
Tesco says sales of its organic British pork sausages have risen by 70% – thanks to Brits’ love of the barbeque and improved meat availability.The multiple claimed it was now selling 70,000 organic pork sausages every week. Meanwhile, sales of...
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NI sale hitches looming
Competition issues could thwart Morrisons’ attempt to raise cash from a quick sale of Safeway stores in Northern Ireland, new research by CACI suggests.Morrisons is understood to have sent out information packs on the 12 Safeway stores in...
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Pye is Tops in Hong Kong
Tops Supermarket in Hong Kong has appointed former Safeway director Ian Pye as its new president.Pye moved to Asia after a 30-year career with Safeway, where he started out as store manager and rose up through the ranks to become a director of...
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Living to trial non-food ideas
Asda has revealed that its pilot food-free supermarket, which it will be opening in Walsall in the autumn, will be called Asda Living, and has launched several initatives in non-food.A spokesman said the name was intended to reflect that the...
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Lynx picks up the trail
Lever Fabergé is launching a new TV campaign for its Lynx Body spray. Hitting screens from the middle of this month, the ad features the strapline ‘Because you never know when’ and reinforces the product’s 24-7 message.Focusing on a boy...
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New mark for pork
A revised quality standard mark for pork, bacon and ham has been given the go-ahead by the European Union.The new mark, which will soon be appearing on shelves, has come about following negotiations between the British Pig Executive and the...
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n Marsh upMarsh Supermarkets in the US has reported a 28.6% growth in net profit for the 12 weeks to to June 19. Operating profit grew 14.1% compared to the period last year, making this the third quarter in a row to see improved operating...
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Young and a menace
Claire Hu joins a sting operation to find out how retailers deal with underage teens and their growing demand for alcoholIt’s Thursday night at Hove police station. Two 15-year-olds who will take part in test-purchasing at local ...
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Ring rot spotted at potato plant
Defra experts are investigating a discovery of the potato disease ring rot at a packing plant in Cambridgeshire.Workers at the undisclosed plant spotted two Santé variety potatoes that were carrying signs of infection.The potatoes had come...