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E-auction fury mounts
Elaine Watson A growing number of suppliers are refusing to participate in online auctions amid concerns that the buying tool is unfair and open to abuse. Almost three quarters (71%) of supermarket buyers in our reader panel this week...
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Northern rewards Green Isle staff endeavours
Billy O'Regan, managing director of Northern Foods subsidiary Green Isle Food Group, is to replace David Baines as group executive of Northern Foods' grocery business when Baines retires in May. O'Regan will oversee Northern Foods' Irish...
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Let's be provocative. The really innovative and exciting new
The dominance of the major food manufacturers is leading us all to a grey world of sameness. This is a world where the great traditions and skills of the artisan are being lost to large scale manufacturing techniques and where chemistry takes the...
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Five-figure fee rekindles rage
As the OFT ended its consultation with industry over the effectiveness of the Supermarket Code of Practice, The Grocer has discovered that suppliers have been sent letters demanding a £10,000 fee to secure a place on an approved vendor list'....
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UK is ripe for growth
A Brazilian company targeting the UK market is set to become its nation's biggest lime producer. According to Heiko Freitag, European agent for grower/packers Ita Citrus, the company has invested in 2,000 hectares of new land in the fast...
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Welsh on the march
Considering it took seventh place in The Grocer Top 50 and will shortly acquire its 100th store, Waynes Foods is curiously under recognised within the industry. Indeed, after the latest Top 50 was published (The Grocer, February 15) one symbol group...
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Ready for a new term
Leaf UK is putting £3m behind its kids' confectionery brand Chewits, with activity set to include new TV and cinema ads. The commercials will feature brand character Chewie the Chewitsaurus in a new adventure. Due to hit screens in late...
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Saintly seduction
St Dalfour followed up a product debut at this month's Convenience Retailing Show in Birmingham, where it launched Gourmet to Go canned salads, with another at IFE. This time it was drumming up interest for a new range of cooking oils called...
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Taste of success
The True Taste Wales Food and Drink Awards 2003/4 were launched last week by Rachel Rowland, co-founder of Rachel's Organic Dairy. Rowland, who was chosen as the Ambassador of the year in last year's awards, told a reception at London's...
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Express Dairies and Arla merge
Express Dairies and the UK arm of Arla Foods are to merge with the enlarged group to be called Arla Foods UK.Arla is the fourth largest liquid milk supplier in the UK and distributes products such as Lurpak and Anchor butter through its...
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NW boost from Asda
Asda is planning to build a £30m distribution centre at Skelmersdale, in Lancashire, to distribute chilled and frozen food to stores in north west England.The 347,000 sq ft depot is to be operated in conjunction with Asda’s existing centre...
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New chairman for Reckitt Benckiser
Reckitt Benckiser has appointed Adrian Bellamy as chairman designate effective from May 7.Bellamy will takeover from Dr Håkan Mogren who will retire both as chairman and director of the company for “personal reasons”.Bellamy was...
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Long life juice as healthy as fresh
Long life orange juice is just as healthy and nutritional as its freshly squeezed counterpart.According to a Spanish study which compared the levels of antioxidants in fresh orange juice with pasteurised supermarket juices, it has the same...
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Executive moves at Carlsberg
Carlsberg has appointed Bjørn Sønderskov as managing director of its Carlsberg Brewery Malaysia with effect from April 1.Sønderskov, who is currently a member of the board of Carlsberg Breweries’ German subsidiary Hannen, takes over from...
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Heinz to close pizza operation
Heinz is pulling out of pizza manufacturing and ditching its Main Street Bistro frozen ready meal range only a year after its launch because, it says, both areas “failed to meet expectations”.The closure of the company’s Grimsby pizza plant...
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Coors to support Welsh FA
Coors Brewers has struck a deal with the Football Association of Wales for its Carling lager to become an official supporter of the Welsh national team.Head of sponsorship at Coors, Stuart Cain, said the £500,000 package kicks in on June 1...
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British lamb springs into Carrefour
French supermarket giant Carrefour has started selling specially produced packs of British lamb.Carrefour is to sell packs of six different cuts including a stir fry, leg steaks and noisettes under the Selectine d’Agneau brand.Three...
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Safeway opens up Vanilla Coke
Safeway has today exclusively started selling Vanilla Coke and Diet Coke one week ahead of other retailers.According to Safeway this is Coke’s biggest launch this year with some £5m of advertising support.The retailer said that the...
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New property director for Sainsbury
Sainsbury has appointed Desmond Taljaard as property director and as a member of the board effective from May 7.Taljaard joins from the Hilton Group where he is senior vice president, real estate and a member of the Hilton International...
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Sir; re: Prawn waste blasted' The Grocer, February 22
In the UK more than 90% of the prawns used in the classic prawn sandwich are from coldwater prawns and the main supplying country has been Iceland. In a recent statement issued by Iceland's ministry of fisheries about the policies and...