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Octopus grabs six
Prinz Gourmetline of Bressanone, Italy won six out of seven prizes in the third annual Seafood Prix d'Elite new products competition at the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels. Octopus Carpaccio received awards for best new retail product...
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The hard line will stay
Liz Hamson Safeway's chief executive Carlos Criado-Perez defended the company's tough negotiating stance with suppliers this week as the group reported a £20m slump in pre-tax profit in its full-year results. In an exclusive interview with...
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Trade must tackle image problem'
A UK retailer with 100,000 employees could save E90-100m a year if it halved employee turnover. According to a study by the Coca-Cola Retailing Research Group Europe, unveiled this week at the ECR Europe Conference in Berlin, the typical...
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Kwik Save reshapes regions
Kwik Save has reshaped its operational field structure as it moves into the next phase of regeneration. The discounter has consolidated operations from four to three regions. John Pattison has moved from working on an internal project to...
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Retailers target low utility margins
Growing concerns about the low margins being offered to retailers operating terminals such as PayPoint and PayZone were discussed this week at a meeting attended by leading figures from the independent sector. Those at the meeting included...
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The measure of a medium
Tesco's much awaited instore digital advertising trial, Tesco TV, kicks off this month. Its main aim is to test customer acceptance of brand advertising on screens dotted around the store. Two more stores come on stream next month and, if...
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no pet move
Holsten has ruled out a move from cans into PET bottles, despite investing 17m in a new plant to produce the bottles in Germany. The brewer said although it currently has no plans to change packaging across the range, the capability is there to...
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Peppers from UK
A new range of locally grown peppers is being stocked by Roys of Wroxham, one of The Grocer Top 50 independent chains. The East Anglian-based retailer is now stocking Ramiro Peppers grown by the Garden House in south Norfolk. The producer is...
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P&G speeds up at Thurrock
Rod Addy Procter & Gamble has pumped £28m into a new UK service centre at Thurrock, Essex, to improve its service to retailers. P&G's UK MD Christopher de Lapuente claimed the depot would slash two million miles a year off the distance...
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More fall-out at Ahold
Two more executives at Ahold’s US Foodservice unit Stateside have resigned in the wake of the Dutch retailer having to restate profits by $880m due to accounting irregularities.Ahold said that US Foodservice’s chief financial officer Michael...
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Quorn for the barbecue
Marlow Foods is adding two new products to its Quorn range in time for the summer barbecue season.The manufacturer, which claims a market-leading 16.6% share of the meat-free arena, is introducing Quorn Ribsters and Quorn Balls.‘Pork...
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Unilever sells oils unit
Unilever is to sell its Van den Bergh Oils business in the UK to Pura Foods, a subsidiary of ADM International, as part of its strategy to focus on its top 400 brands.The refinery based in Purfleet has third party sales of £40m and employs...
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Safeway 'stable'
Safeway said that amid all the uncertainty surrounding its future and possible takeover sales were “stable” in first six weeks of its new year and fourth quarter. On a like-for-like basis, adjusting for the different timing of Easter, annual...
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Asda boost for Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart singled Asda out for praise as it reported “disappointing” overall sales in the first quarter of 2003.Asda’s like-for-like sales growth for the quarter was in the upper mid-single digits, excluding petrol, and in the mid-single...
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Tropicana to expand production in Europe
Fresh fruit juice giant Tropicana has unveiled a major new production site in Zeebrugge, Belgium.Tropicana, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, said the expansion was a response to the fast growth in demand in Europe for fresh-pressed fruit...
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NEW RECRUITS
Booker Wholesale Foods' commercial director Mike Glavin told The Grocer that he expects the Select & Save symbol group will have a membership of between 90 and 100 by the end of the year. The latest recruit, Birmingham-based Kam Sanghera, claims...
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C-store sector value grows 4.1%
The c-store sector is outperforming the rest of the grocery industry, according to the IGD’s annual Convenience Retailing report published this week.It valued the UK c-store market at £21.5bn at December 2002, up 4.1% on the previous year,...
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South Caernarfon Creameries opens new £2.5m milk processing
South Caernarfon Creameries will officially open its new £2.5m milk processing plant next week. The new state-of-the-art plant at Chwilog, near Pwllheli, has been funded with a 40% processing and marketing grant delivered by the Welsh...
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Tea brands battle comes to a £20m boil
Simon Mowbray Britain's £1bn hot beverages market looks set for one of grocery's biggest brand battles of the year. More than £20m is to be poured into new rounds of backing for the nation's two biggest tea brands PG Tips and Tetley with...