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Consumer feedback
>>Taste and texture remain driversThe butters and spreads market is a fascinating barometer of our volatile attitudes to health and the role played by diet. Our database reflects significant new product activity in the mid-1980s...
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Consumer feedback
>>when health demands no compromisesThe yogurt and chilled pot desserts markets found form again in 2003 as new owners put life into ailing brands. We tested 26 new products in this category last year of which 10 made it into...
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C-store sector motors on
The convenience sector has grown at more than double the rate of the total grocery market in the past year and is set to smash through the £30bn mark by 2008, predicts the latest IGD Convenience Retailing report.The report reveals that the...
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A sorry tale of delisting in shetland
from Rita Mcnab, Mcnabs Kippers, Lerwick, ShetlandSir; I have been trading as a retail and wholesale fishmonger for 20 years in Shetland. I have built up this business from scratch, building up good relations with retail and wholesale...
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Herbal elixir for kids
New Zealand Natural Food Co has adapted its adult cold treatment elixir into a version especially for kids.Comvita Children’s Propolis Herbal Elixir (rsp: £8.65 for 200ml) is going on sale now with the natural lemon and honey treatment using...
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Fickstart to Euro
Carlsberg hopes to kickstart drinkers’ enthusiasm for Euro 2004 with a £10m marketing support package. The investment includes a heavyweight television advertising push.Mums with babies who are just learning to feed themselves have...
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Holsten records a history that is pure fiction
Holsten is forging ahead with its advertising plans as its new owner Carlsberg continues to plot the brand’s future in the UK.A fresh push behind the German beer kicks off today as part of a £12m investment this year. The campaign focuses on...
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Retail Strategy forum gets green light
The government is to set up a forum so retailers can feed into the formulation of policy at the earliest stage of development.The forum will comprise senior figures from government and the retail sector, and was recommended by the Retail...
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Tobacco giants fuming
Irish health minister Michael Martin, architect of the smoking ban in the Republic’s pubs, is now taking on the cigarette companies with similar curbs on instore tobacco promotion.The minister is promising “a robust defence” of the measures,...
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Pink Lady gets rowing
Apple growers are hoping to raise their profile with a sponsored row.Pink Lady apples is sponsoring a group of four men’s attempts to row the Atlantic in a shocking pink boat called the Pink Lady.The attempt, from Newfoundland, to England,...
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Getting tough on RTDs
Asda and Somerfield are following in Sainsbury’s footsteps by revamping their RTD ranges. Less than a month after Sainsbury cut back on the number of lines it stocks (The Grocer, April 3, p68), rivals are also preparing to unveil plans to simplify...
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Giants motor with RFID
Wal-Mart has revealed it plans to start rolling out RFID technology in its European operations from 2006.Wal-Mart manager of RFID strategy Simon Langford told a conference in London this week it would have rolled out the radio barcoding...
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Is home where work is?
I’m often asked how a regular columnist comes up with ideas (I’m often asked why, come to that) and the answer for this month’s column is startlingly easy: all I have to do is look around me because I’m writing this at home or, to be precise, in the...
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Time to put the house in order
Leading figures from Britain, the US and France debated the future of the world’s food and drinks industry at the American Food Revolution. Liz Hamson reportsAre consumers being duped into thinking they get good quality food when they...
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Singular indulgences
Premium is dominated by individual pots as consumers demand their proper treatsThere’s a steady stream of newcomers to the yogurts and pot desserts fixture. It’s a sexy, healthy, indulgent category and one where consumers demand a...
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Nestlé sends love and kisses
Nestlé is to unwrap a £28m three-year support programme for the autumn launch of premium newcomer Baci, its biggest confectionery activity this year.Sales communications manager Graham Walker boldly predicted that the Italian-inspired brand...
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Making a mint from own label
Tesco has torn a further strip off Wrigley – by becoming the first brand to put breath-freshening strips into multipacks.The supermarket giant first caused a stir in the sector at the end of last year when The Grocer revealed its plans to take...
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At Le Riche’s the price is still right
Morrisons’ acquisition of Safeway has not yet had an impact on pricing in the Channel Islands, said the islands’ largest food retailer, Le Riche’s Stores. Safeway has one store in Jersey and one in Guernsey, and Morrisons has not yet cut...
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Show time for M&S
Marks and Spencer’s fruit and vegetable growers will be taking to the stand this summer during the retailer’s £1m agricultural promotion campaign.Paul Willgoss, head of agriculture, said the seven agricultural shows throughout the UK would...
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Pimm’s mixes an RTD
Diageo is extending its summer stalwart Pimm’s into the premixed sector with a series of new launches.The gin-based spirit, which supermarkets already sell in cans mixed with lemonade, is making its debut in the RTD arena with a similar...