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Wookey set to be MD at Hazlewood Sandwiches

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Simon Wookey, managing director of Hazlewood Chilled Meals, is being prepared to replace Mike Upton as MD of Hazlewood Sandwiches, according to parent company Greencore Group.Upton retires in 2005, but in the interim period Wookey is moving...
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Parfetts hires Oxley to negotiate

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Parfetts Cash and Carry has appointed Matthew Oxley group trading negotiator responsible for impulse, foodservice and key grocery areas of the business.He will join the head office buying team based in Aintree and will also represent...
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No one in the JS wings yet

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Sainsbury has denied that it has chosen a successor to Sir Peter Davis as group chief executive when he steps up to become chairman in March 2004. Speaking at its agm, current chairman Sir George Bull said there was no preliminary list of...
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MRG takes in Spar own label

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Spar is broadening the scope of its Multiple Retail Group to include Spar own label products for the first time.The scheme, which pays quarterly retrospective discounts to retailers that stock an agreed range of products, had paid out more...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

As the beef crisis continues, the magic phrase "action to restore consumer confidence" has become the cliche of the moment. The apparent good news was supermarket decisions to halve the price of beef, which cleared the shelves. Unfortunately most of...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

The problems of BSE appear mainly political. But if by some divine intervention all the European governments decided that British beef is supreme, and they agreed publicly that no tests have proved a connection between mad cows and dying diners,...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Last week it was banking. This week it is 24-hour trading not to mention healthcare, insurance, estate agencies, home delivery and even concessionary departments selling tropical fish. The multiples' armoury of services to be used in the struggle...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

The meat industry s nightmares continue. By raising the BSE and lamb issue this week Brussels has once again shown its ability to turn ineptitude into an art form. The massive public relations fiasco exploded across a shell-shocked industry and...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

The humble baked bean the most famous of all convenience foods has been thrust back into the media spotlight this week as the battle to develop sufficient quantities of a commercially viable home grown product intensifies. For the innovative...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

The shrapnel holes on the ramparts of MAFF's beleaguered Whitehall fortress are multiplying. The pressure on Her Majesty's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is mounting and the collapse of the dated edifice is near. Whether it be Major or...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

It's been a mixed week on the food and farming front for the slick PR machine that is New Labour. The Government's refusal to oppose EU fish conservation measures upset our trawlermen and Dr Jack Cunningham's "break the ice" trip to the European...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

It was no surprise when BSE this week became the central issue in the opening rounds of the General Election campaign. Despite encouraging signs in the shops and, later, in Brussels, the beef market is still in disarray and farmers face ruin. It...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

The Co-op won more than a few friends this week when it jumped the gun and began to put health warnings on 240 of its own brand wines, spirits and beers. As the Government debates the voluntary drinks labelling issue with industry bodies, the...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Anyone who believed the slanging match in the Commons on Monday would do anything to finally lift the worldwide ban on British beef was living in cloud-cuckoo-land. Douglas Hogg, the most beleaguered cabinet minister since John Profumo, may have...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Disciples of organic food have won recognition. No longer are the so-called Roman sandalled, lentil soup sippers classified in the same category as the Flat Earth Society and those who think England has a world class cricket team. As the healthy ...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

There's often a mealy mouthed feel about accusations, denials, court proceedings, judgements, fines, public disdain and moral high ground taken by litigants and public observers. The York-Sainsbury case is a fine example. Suppliers invent an alcohol...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

"To compete effectively you need the best people and you can't say the best people are always male and white." That is how Sainsbury's corporate personnel director Judith Evans sums up the business case for diversity in the workplace. She...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

The banner headlines said it all. When Sainsbury announced its profits warning last weekend, there was never a doubt the issue would make a rapid transfer from the business columns to the front pages of the broadsheets. And while the fortunes of...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

We'll buy British but not at any price. That was the message barely concealed between the lines of IGD president Tom Vyner's speech at the final flag-waving conference of the Strathclyde Food Project last week. You might say the Sainsbury deputy...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

The calls for unity which have coloured the Co-op's vocabulary since Andrew Regan's aborted attempt to take over the CWS will ring out again this weekend. But before they are heard, the roof of the national concert hall in Cardiff will be raised by...