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In Profile: Q&A with Paula Entwistle, Associate National Brand Manager, Freschetta US
What are your responsibilities? The main areas are very similar to those in the UK: to drive profitable, consumer-focused strategies that deliver growth...
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Industry urged to back Caravan target
Retailers and suppliers are being asked to dig deep this year and support the grocery industry’s welfare charity Caravan as it looks to raise £2m. The charity’s president Jack Sinclair, Safeway’s marketing and trading director, admitted...
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In Profile: John White, Director of the Federation of Bakers
John White, director of the federation of bakers With so much talk about the importance of a healthy diet, John White, director of the Federation of Bakers, will seize any opportunity to spread the word about the nutritional...
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The wrong kind of PIN proves a barrier
Banks need to speed up the upgrade of cash machines to combat customers forgetting new PINs, according to retailers involved in the three-month chip and PIN trial in Northampton which ended this week.The proportion of customers that had to...
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FILIPPO BERIO TUB
Matthews Foods has teamed up with leading olive oil brand Filippo Berio to launch a spread containing almost twice as much olive oil as rival products. n The move will pit the Yorkshire-based company, which is...
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Why the bidding may go soft
Morrisons still has to wait a month to hear whether it has got the green light from the Competition Commission to bid for Safeway. But the indications are that, if given clearance, it will lower the price of its takeover offer on the back of the...
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Life outside the big four
Exclusive research for The Grocer looks at what drives shoppers to use alternatives to the big four. Liz Hamson reportsJackie Vaughan, senior analyst at Claritas, says: “It’s interesting that non-food is such a low priority....
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In Profile: Q&A with Douglas Gurr, Chief Executive, Blueheath
What is your career background? I worked for McKinsey consultants as head of retail for more than five years. My job was divided between the UK, France, Germany and...
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Campbell UK sales boss
Campbell UK, maker of brands such as Homepride, Oxo, Batchelors and Campbell’s soups, has recruited Trevor Stevens as UK sales director.Stevens will take over from former sales director Peter Ellis who after four years in the post has been...
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In Profile: Q&A with Dominic Box, General Manager, Premier Foods
How did you make the transition into marketing for a career? My first job was in an advertising agency working with businesses like Panasonic, Scottish and Newcastle...
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In Profile: Q& A with Praveen Vijh, brand manager for Eat Natural
Praveen Vijh is consumed by a single vision: to take the healthy eating market by storm. As brand manager of cereal bar Eat Natural, he’s chipped away at the sector...
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In Profile: Q&A with Mike Estlea, Format Manager, Budgens
What is your career background? I joined Budgens eight years ago on the franchise side and have been in my current role for 18 months. Prior to Budgens, I worked for Pizza Hut. I...
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In Profile: Q&A with Geoff Burgess, Sales and Marketing Director, Daloon UK
Describe your career to date For most of my early career I was employed by Smiths Foods. The last position I held was sales planning and promotions manager – helping...
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In Profile: Q&A with Jenny Clarke, category buyer, ice cream and frozen confectionery, The Co-operative Group
How did you break into buying? I worked as an administrator in the department of Mike Goulthorp, who is now chief general...
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Buyers expect price hikes from suppliersReader Panel: Buyers
Nearly three-quarters of buyers in our Reader Panel believe suppliers will try to push up cost prices in the next six months. Confectionery, soft drinks, bread, beers, wines and spirits and frozen are among the categories in which suppliers...
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In Profile: Q& A with Steve Lucas, UK Sales Director, Camelot
What is the biggest challenge you have faced in your career? Leaving Walt Disney for Camelot, which had been seeing sales decline for five years, and being charged with...
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In Profile: Q&A: Julian Twaites, Nisa CBC trading controller for wine
Julian twaites is a real character who knows how to rock Anyone who spends even a short time talking to Julian Twaites realises that he is a passionate and dynamic personality. Described by his own colleagues as “a real...
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What motivates shoppers outside the major chains
The 30% of shoppers that do not do their main shop at the big four just want grocery – not add-ons, reveals research for The Grocer.The exclusive survey, which presents the first in-depth profile of shoppers who do their main weekly shop at...
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Summerfield in chair at Hilton Food Group
Gordon Summerfield, chairman of Food from Britain, has been appointed to the new position of chairman of Hilton Food Group, which supplies meat to supermarkets and foodservice.Summerfield, who was awarded a CBE in the Millennium New Year’s...
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In Profile: Q&A with Melvin Glynn, Commercial Director, Ilchester Cheese Co
What is your career background? I started work in the cheese industry as a production manager for Western Cheese in Corsham, Wiltshire. From there I moved to...