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Princes buys Crest juice
Dairy Crest has sold its own label chilled juice business in Kidlington to Princes as part of its strategy to focus on added value and branded operations.The £11m deal follows the closure of its butter and powder ingredients business in...
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Troy control of carbonates
Britvic Soft Drinks has promoted Adrian Troy to brand controller for Britvic carbonates and Ruth Beswick to brand controller for core brands. A wide restructure of its brand marketing department includes other, less senior appointments in the...
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Champion of independents
Albert Duesbury, former chairman of the Yorkshire Independent Grocers’ Association and ACS National council member, has died while on holiday in Italy. He was well-known as a passionate and tireless supporter of independent...
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Music to the ears of store chiefs
The music industry has welcomed the volumes generated by the supermarkets and now looks with hope to audio DVDLast year one in every five albums sold in the UK was bought in a supermarket.The grocery multiples’ share of the...
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children’s weight is a lifestyle issue
from Jeremy Preston, director, Food Advertising UnitSir; The vast majority of the media coverage of the Food Standards Agency report on the promotion of food to children (The Grocer, September 27, p29) has been very one-sided. Parents...
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The real console experts
Supermarkets are getting a grip on gaming in the wake of the success of PlayStation 2 and the rise of budget titlesAsda used to employ the services of 11-year old Wigan schoolboy Daniel Willis to advise it on the best computer and...
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Consumer Insight
When canned fruit is eatenn There were 640 million individual canned fruit meal occasions in the past yearn Canned fruit accounts for 6.6% of total fruit...
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Consumer Insight
What is eaten with oranges (% occasions)Oranges feature at 616.2 million meal occasions a year Children under 17 account for just 10% of all consumers, the smallest proportion of consumers Conversely, older...
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Consumer Insight
Who eats haddock and whenn Last year 98.5 million servings of haddock were consumed showing a 17% decline since 1999n Haddock accounts for 3% of total fish...
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% individual meal occasionThere were 852 million individual meal occasions of green beans in 2003Green beans account for 4.7% of all vegetables and 75% of all beansGreen bean consumption has...
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Hofmeister goes in Courage cull
Scottish Courage is axing a raft of well-known brands because it admits they are no longer wanted by consumers. Hofmeister lager is one of the high profile casualties of a brand review that will also see McEwan’s, Kestrel and Courage Light...
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UK facing residue level crisis
UK produce production could soon become impossible and imports illegal unless action is taken to set minimum pesticide residual levels, the Fresh Produce Consortium has warned.Following an EU review of the use of pesticides, the UK has found...
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Phase two for the Danish sizzle
Danish Bacon is pushing ahead with the second phase of its £1m ad campaign this autumn.The campaign, featuring in colour press and radio, continues to focus on the concept of the Danish ‘sizzle’ following research which showed around 92% of...
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Decisive and dependable
Visibility in decision making was one of the attributes most admired in our six best petfood buyers, as chosen by suppliers. Newly married Linda Whitaker, née Groves, at Morrisons was particularly singled out. In her varied retail career she has...
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Waitrose in pole position for disposals
Waitrose is probably in with the best chance of picking up divested stores given the restrictions placed on the big three and the possible barriers facing Marks and Spencer.Before it can table a renewed bid, Morrisons must provide...
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Dylon targets the smalls
Dylon is launching a laundry care product specifically formulated to revitalise white underwear that has turned grey from regular washing.Rolling out now and retailing at £2.59, Fabric Care Lingerie Whitener will be backed by a print...
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FARM RETAIL MERGER
The National Farmers’ Union has backed plans for a merger between the National Association of Farmers’ Markets and the Farm Retail Association. The move would make it Britain’s largest farm retailing representative body. Discussions about a merger...
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Team talk: Hormel Foods
>>SWEN NEUFELDT, SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER, EUROPEHormel Foods’ UK sales and marketing team is preparing for a focused new product development programme next year, says its senior product manager for Europe, Swen Neufeldt: “We are in the...
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Halliwell takes helm of a merged Fox’s/Elkes
Northern Foods is to merge its Fox’s and Elkes biscuit subsidiaries, with Jeff Halliwell, MD of Fox’s, as MD of the newly created company.The new arm will be based at Batley, Yorkshire. Northern Foods stressed that Fox’s would continue to...
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Playing the price game
Getting the price right is critical to the success of a new product. So come on down and find out how it’s done. Helen Gregory reportsIn a climate where eight out of 10 new products fail, how much does price play...