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Booker top-up warning
Big Food Group has written to all the mobile phone companies warning it no longer makes commercial sense for retailers to stock top-up cards because margins have hit rock bottom.Following changes in the Budget, retailers’ margins on...
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Dutch pear yield boost
New intensive growing techniques are leading to much higher yields for Dutch pear growers, results have indicated.The techniques, which have seen yields shoot up by as much as 40% to around 50 tonnes a hectare, were introduced following an...
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Bramley breakfast winner
A young student is celebrating after taking the top prize in the Bramley Campaign’s recent catering competition.Daniel Hills won £1,000 in the New Ways with Bramley event with his Bramley’s Brighter Breakfast entry, marrying the cooking...
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Buxton gets Rusedski cool
British tennis ace Greg Rusedski is back on Centre Court from Monday (July 28) in a TV ad for Buxton Mineral Water which sends up his infamous Wimbledon temper tantrum.The player is the star of the latest part of an £8m support programme...
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Multibuys come good
Morrisons moves one place to reclaim its position at the top of the chart closely followed by Tesco and Safeway, both of which also move up one place. Buy-one-get-one-free offers and other multibuy deals feature heavily across the two...
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Golden ice cream
Tate and Lyle is spreading its Lyle's Golden Syrup brand into new territory with the arrival of a new ice cream. Dairy Ice Cream Made with Lyle's Golden Syrup, produced by Cheshire-based company Granelli-McDermott, is set to hit freezers in...
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Retailers will be pushed to cut space
from John Lennon, MD, Association of News RetailingSIR; re ‘Publishers failing smaller retailers’ (The Grocer, July 19, p10). Many ANR members would support the views expressed by Ian Duncan-Lewis.Indeed one of our multiple...
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Sunny D for sale
Procter & Gamble is seeking a buyer for its Sunny D and Punica juice drink brands in order to focus on its snacks and coffee businesses. The company said it would consider sale or alternative offers for the two businesses as a group or as...
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Early days of a new medium
Tesco has much work to do to create a convincing case to suppliers for its instore digital media, says Siân HarringtonThe jury’s out on Tesco’s screen advertising network trial. This week the Tesco board weighs up the evidence to...
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Gilligan joins Wm Morton in new sales director role
Scottish independent drinks wholesaler William Morton has promoted sales manager John Gilligan to the board in the newly created post of sales director.Reporting to joint MDs Stephen Russell and Bill Armstrong, Gilligan will aim to...
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KP scales down Shoks size/price
KP has been forced to re-think the pack size and price of Hula Hoops Shoks due to poor sales.It has reduced packs from 55g to 40g and marked packs at 39p, down from 47p. A buyer for one major wholesaler said the brand had not...
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No margin for error
The 2003 OC&C Index of the top 150 companies reveals how the retail price war has hit supplier margins, reports Liz HamsonSo they weren’t exaggerating after all. For years, UK food manufacturers’ claims that margins were under...
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The Saturday Essay
>>Why Londis needs a buyer that has clout – Shamus Lehel, Londis retailer, WoottonI’ve been a Londis retailer for seven years and in the convenience sector for 13, cutting my teeth as a raw 14-year-old in my sister’s shop. In...
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The Saturday Essay
>>it’s the fight of our lives… Neil Turton, managing director of Nisa-Today’s Central Buying CompanyAnother week, another acquisition. The dash for consolidation in the independent and convenience market creates many issues for...
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The Saturday Essay
>>Martin Oakes, board director responsible for Somerfield’s development within the c-store sectorOur new business development teams have been busy in recent weeks with the purchase of Aberness, the award-winning convenience...
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The Saturday Essay
>>retailers cannot work alone in improving diets. Susan Bromley, marketing development manager, Co-operative GroupOnly individuals can take the decision to choose to live a healthy lifestyle. However, that doesn’t mean others don’t...
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The Saturday Essay
>>food needs good science – Colin Gutteridge, md, RSSL, provider of science outsourcing to fmcg sectorAmid the media feeding frenzy that accompanies takeover talk such as Morrisons and Safeway, one can almost be persuaded that the...
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The Saturday Essay
>>How can the industry combat deflationary pressure? TONY SMITH, SALES DIRECTOR, UNILEVER BESTFOODS UKAs I’m writing this essay all eyes are on Safeway. After months of wrangling, a decision has at last been made and, as many...
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The Saturday Essay
>>let’s get close to farmers – Paul Willgoss, head of agriculture and technical manager of protein foods, M&SAt Marks & Spencer our customers’ interest in where their food comes from and how it is produced has never been greater. Who...
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The Saturday Essay
A year ago this month, Tesco launched a ground-breaking supply chain initiative. The move towards 'primary distribution' was a major - but logical - next step in the development of the company's supply chain. The aims were to make life simpler for...