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Tesco set for 75% FGP target
Tesco plans to increase its volumes through factory gate pricing from 66% to 75% within the next 12 months.Supply chain director Stuart Ross told suppliers at the IGD Supply Chain Transformation conference that he expected 15 million cases per...
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Forced to look abroad
A leading food producer has hit out at the government for failing to “maintain a food supply base in the UK”.Fred Duncan, founder and chairman of Grampian Country Food Group, in an interview with the Sunday Herald, said the government’s...
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PoS timing is ‘absurd’
Retailers could have to make major changes to tobacco fixtures days before the peak Christmas trading period after a government clampdown on instore advertising.New regulations restricting instore PoS to A5 ads on gantries come into force on...
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Spar aims to up standards
Spar is to clamp down on store standards as competition in the convenience sector intensifies.In June it will launch a scheme to cover minimum legal requirements, millennium store compliance and standards. The scheme will have two strands...
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Coomira Coast is all washed up
Bacardi-Martini has axed its most recent innovation in the RTD sector after less than a year. Ready-to-drink spritzer Coomira Coast has hit the rocks after launching last July with a £2.4m investment.The 5% abv drink, a combination of...
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Is there any future for independents?
Last week yet another independent bit the dust with Somerfield’s acquisition of Aberness, which owns or distributes to some 170 c-stores in Scotland under the Mace fascia.Signalling the first aggressive move by one of the smaller...
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Shortsighted attitude to flexibility
from Lindsey Hannant, director, the Talent Partnership, Berkeley Scott GroupSir; An earlier correspondent wrote of the difficulty of finding an employer willing to allow job sharing or flexi-working (The Grocer, March 20, p33)....
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It’s crunch time for availability
The crisps category is a destination aisle. Omnipresent ad campaigns coupled with NPD, such as organic or premium varieties, have created something for all. The average multiple offers 122 skus, with 18% on some form of promotion in March.For a...
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Finely balanced rights
There is a middleground where employers and legislators could jettison their polarised views on employment legislation and strike a balance between enforcement and encouragement, says Duncan BrownHow are you placed on the legislation...
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UB strengthens better for you
United Biscuits is boosting its ‘better for you’ portfolio with three new products as the company endeavours to counterbalance sales falls across key biscuit lines.The company, which has seen sales of stalwart brands such as McV Homewheat and...
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A better view of stocks
Retailers and suppliers will get a definitive picture of how the multiples fare with on-shelf availability when the results of a new ECR UK survey appear next month, IGD has promised.The survey, initiated by ECR UK and managed by IGD, will...
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Blanc calls on industry to rebuild public trust
Consumers do not trust the food they eat and are no longer prepared to sacrifice quality for low prices, outspoken Michelin-star chef Raymond Blanc has warned the industry. Speaking to The Grocer prior to his American Food Revolution food...
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Spar blitz looks to women
Spar is upping the ante as it seeks to become the biggest and best convenience brand in the UK and to stay one step ahead of its multiple rivals.A series of initiatives has been designed to help improve customer perceptions of the Spar brand...
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Bold moves in laundry
Two major laundry brands are scrubbing up for spring with new look packaging and advertising. Procter & Gamble is relaunching Bold 2in1 in a multi-million pound marketing programme covering new packaging, fabric conditioner variants, TV...
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A million prize booty from Kellogg
Kellogg is aiming to squeeze some extra sales out of its fruit snacks range with its biggest ever promotion across Screamin’ Fruit Winders and Screamin’ Fruit Spurters.New special packs will feature a Fruity Booty instant-win promotion offering...
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Brands prepare for a seat at the top table
No one ever said that launching a new brand into the market was going to be easy. Last July, The Grocer kicked off a unique experiment to chart five new brands as they attempted to find a foothold in the cut-throat world of fmcg. Signalling the...
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Viennetta Brownie tops list of consumers’ favourite launches
A new variant of freezer stalwart Wall’s Viennetta was the best new product launch of the last year, according to research published by The Grocer today.The surprise finding put the old favourite’s new Brownie offering at the head of a list of...
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NFU calms brucellosis fears
Farming leaders are playing down fears as investigations and testings continue following a confirmed outbreak of brucellosis in a beef suckler herd in Cornwall.DEFRA has imposed movement restrictions on seven neighbouring livestock holdings in...
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JLP unveils credit card
The John Lewis Partnership has launched a credit card for John Lewis and Waitrose. The HSBC-backed card offers six months interest-free credit on balance transfers and rewards of up to 1% of spend issued as vouchers. JLP card director Caspar...
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Tropicana employs a chorus line
A trio of singing and dancing parrots are the stars of a new £5m TV advertising campaign for Tropicana fruit juice.Kicking off this weekend, the executions are the brand’s first to be made specifically for the UK market and mark the start of a...