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Competition squeezes Scottish growth
Scottish food retailers are having a tight year, according to the latest monthly Scottish Retail Consortium sales monitor.Director Fiona Moriarty said food sales and margins were suffering due to intense competition. She said: “We don’t expect...
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Seaside cool from M&M’s
Masterfoods will be spending £2.7m on an outdoor ad campaign that promotes the heat-resistant properties of its M& M’s chocolate. The poster campaign, which has just started and will run until the end of August, uses the strapline ‘chocolates...
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Prices crash at Sainsbury
New evidence has emerged to suggest Sainsbury is moving down prices as part of a plan to become more competitive with its bigger rivals. In the first check conducted as part of the newly-revamped Grocer 33 shopping survey, Sainsbury has scored...
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The culture is second to none
Adrian Nicholls, manager, Blakemore depot, LyeWhen The Grocer caught up with Adrian Nicholls it was his first day in charge at the Lye depot following Andy Dennis’s departure for Blakemore’s Walsall depot.Adrian said his...
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Grampian looks to cutting edge
Cutting edge technology sourced worldwide will give a boost to leading food producer Grampian. UK giant Grampian had employed incubator companies inVentaBrand and the Brand Engine to scour the globe for the latest innovations and...
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Oven Pride proves a hit in US following QVC debut
Milton Keynes-based Home Pride has successfully taken its home-cleaning portfolio to the other side of the Atlantic.
The company claims to have gone “coast to coast” with its Oven Pride brand following a successful debut on the QVC shopping… -
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M&S marketing director departs
Marks and Spencer marketing director Alice Avis has left the company following the appointment of Steven Sharp to head up marketing.Sharp was a colleague of M& S’s newly-appointed chief executive Stuart Rose when they were on the board at...
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education could dispel simplistic view
from Martin Kingdon, director general, POPAI UK and Ireland
Co-sourcing offers greater stability
from Gary Armstrong-Smith, director, Plan-Net
Sir; James Bedford in his Saturday Essay (June 5, p30) speaks… -
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a dry summer?
n Brewers and retailers are confident they can avoid a repeat of last summer’s beer shortages as Euro 2004 gets underway.n A sweltering summer has been forecast and supermarkets are...
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Electrical sales stolen from specialists
Consumers shopping for DVD players, kettles and TVs are increasingly spurning established names such as Comet and Currys in favour of the supermarkets, according to new research. The grocery multiples grew their share of the £21.4bn electricals...
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The missing element…
Supplier support in the form of strong promotions must be part of Independents’ Day next yearThousands of independent retailers were encouraged by their wholesalers to get involved in the first Independents’ Day on June 1, to...
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Stella still reassuringly expensive
aStella Artois says its continued use of the “Reassuringly Expensive” catchline in a new television ad is still relevant to the brand.The two minute ad, which breaks on Channel 4 this weekend, is part of Interbrew UK’s £38m marketing support...
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Fairtrade first at Waitrose
Waitrose is set to help South African farmers with the launch of a Fairtrade avocado.The retailer is the first to sell the Fuerte Large avocado, grown near the Kruger national park. The fruit will be available until June 27 when it will be...
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Morrisons’ fresh plan
Morrisons’ ambitions to ramp up its vertically integrated supply operation to the Safeway stores took a step forward with the acquisition of a fruit packhouse this week.The retailer has bought a 14 acre site in Thrapston, Northamptonshire, from...
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Lipton Ice Tea has uncool fun
Unilever is to spend millions of pounds having a laugh with Lipton Ice Tea for a second year.A £3.5m spend is headed by a new TV ads set to run until September which follow the success of last year’s ‘Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it’...
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It’s game on for the summer
Euro 2004 represents a massive sales opportunity, in spite of England’s shaky start against France, and Deepak Patel has been gearing up to ensure he can cash in.“Everyone in our business is buying loads of beer,” says Patel, who runs three...
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Greens mean Heinz
Stefan Barden tells Liz Hamson how Heinz plans to enhance the nation’s healthHenry J Heinz’s role in establishing the first food standards legislation in the US in the form of the Pure Food Laws back in 1904 has gone down in company...
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Hailing the industry heroes
Asda was named Britain’s favourite supermarket for the second year running at The Grocer Gold Awards this week while Tesco was clear winner in the grocer of the year category. Asda president and CEO Tony DeNunzio said he was delighted to...
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It’s a revolution in wine tasting
The Phillips Newman off-licence concept is encouraging consumers to trade up. Claire Hu takes a lookMany wine retailers would say placing a tasting table near the exit and asking customers to help themselves is asking for trouble. Yet...
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jacob’s secret
n Jacob’s has begun testing a Club sub-brand, Secret Club Boogie Bars, in the UK.n The new biscuits are sold in France under the LU brand, which, like Jacob’s, is a subsidiary of the Danone...