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Chicago Town rolls out microwaveable snack range
Schwan’s is expanding its Chicago Town offering with the launch of a new snacking range.
Chicago Town Wraps are rolling out to freezers in Iceland filled with one of four flavours – chilli beef, fajita chicken, roast vegetable and ham & cheese… -
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Tesco in china
Tesco has entered the Chinese market in a joint venture,as predicted in The Grocer (March 6, p16) The 50:50 agreement is between Tesco and Ting Hsin, for its subsidiary Hymall stores. Tesco will acquire 50% of the equity for Hymall for...
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Tesco in china
Tesco has entered the Chinese market in a joint venture,as predicted in The Grocer (March 6, p16) The 50:50 agreement is between Tesco and Ting Hsin, for its subsidiary Hymall stores. Tesco will acquire 50% of the equity for Hymall for...
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Merrydown closing down its East Sussex plant
Merrydown is to close its cider and soft drinks manufacturing plant in Sussex and contract out production to focus on brand management.The site, in Horam, East Sussex, will stop operating by the end of the year with the loss of around 35...
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Competition gets scary
The kids’ frozen meals market is to become a brand battleground with two additions to Oriental Express Frozen Food’s Scooby-Doo range.The move follows last week’s announcement from Birds Eye that it is to launch four kids’ frozen meals under...
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Food standalones will continue
Marks and Spencer will unveil a radical new look for its food offer in its Basingstoke store this autumn as part of a series of initiatives to revive food sales.This will be followed in January by a new dieting concept and developments in...
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Food standalones will continue
Marks and Spencer will unveil a radical new look for its food offer in its Basingstoke store this autumn as part of a series of initiatives to revive food sales.This will be followed in January by a new dieting concept and developments in...
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Lambrini creates a dieting version
Halewood International is launching new diet and cherry versions of its supermarket blockbuster brand, Lambrini, and consolidating its RTD range as part of a changing strategy.The new Diet Lambrini, which contains half the calories of the...
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Lambrini creates a dieting version
Halewood International is launching new diet and cherry versions of its supermarket blockbuster brand, Lambrini, and consolidating its RTD range as part of a changing strategy.The new Diet Lambrini, which contains half the calories of the...
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Listening to customers is vital
Natco’s Sarwar Mughal believes in a broad range of skills for his teamDeveloping a team where every member can turn their hand to a range of jobs in the depot is one of the keys to success, says Natco Cash & Carry trading director...
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Listening to customers is vital
Natco’s Sarwar Mughal believes in a broad range of skills for his teamDeveloping a team where every member can turn their hand to a range of jobs in the depot is one of the keys to success, says Natco Cash & Carry trading director...
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A Danone a day...
MD Marc Gosselin tells Liz Hamson that health needs a hard sellLast year, a Morgan Stanley survey into obesity showed Danone had a whopping 80% of its portfolio in health. Putting all your eggs in one basket has its risks and not...
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Unwins set for deal by October
A deal to sell Unwins could be on the table within three months after “significant” interest from more than 50 parties, according to chairman Michael Lunn.The family-owned wine merchant has issued an information memorandum containing...
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The Saturday Essay
>>Tim Lord, chief executive of the tobacco manufacturers association, argues against a smoking banAbout 30% of people over the age of 16 are regular smokers, mostly of cigarettes. Some would have us believe that the 70% who are ...
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Joint venture for exclusivity
Two companies have launched a joint venture to provide fresh produce exclusively to Asda.International Produce, a business combining the import activities of Geest’s English Village Salads and Thames Fruit, began trading this week. It will...
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How Grimsey will tackle sales falls
Big Food Group has pledged to drive up operational efficiency at Iceland after another quarter of negative like-for-like sales growth.Posting a 1.7% drop in like-for-like sales at Iceland and a 1.1% drop at Booker in the 13 weeks to July 2,...
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How Grimsey will tackle sales falls
Big Food Group has pledged to drive up operational efficiency at Iceland after another quarter of negative like-for-like sales growth.Posting a 1.7% drop in like-for-like sales at Iceland and a 1.1% drop at Booker in the 13 weeks to July 2,...
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food science studies need our support
from Allen Townsend, sales and marketing director, The Seafood Company/Anchor Seafoods/Cromer Crab CoSir; I read with interest Professor Blanchfield’s letter ‘This mad scientist advert is offensive’ (The Grocer, July 10, p23). While...
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food science studies need our support
from Allen Townsend, sales and marketing director, The Seafood Company/Anchor Seafoods/Cromer Crab CoSir; I read with interest Professor Blanchfield’s letter ‘This mad scientist advert is offensive’ (The Grocer, July 10, p23). While...
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Informationtechnologybridging the gap or widening the gulf?
Big retailers have many natural advantages over their smaller counterparts.Take Tesco, which pays 10-15% less for its goods than smaller rivals, according to the Competition Commission in 2000. From haulage to photocopier paper,...