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French warm to regions' stand
Kit Davies, Paris The Scottish and Welsh drove the revival of British meat exports hard this week at France's showcase food show. Quality Meat Scotland and Welsh Lamb & Beef Promotions were buoyed up by a positive response from visitors to...
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shop and go stops
Safeway has halted a roll out of its self scanning service. It offers its Shop and Go device from 150 stores, but has no plans to introduce it at further sites said a spokeswoman. big scots deal The Big Food Group has awarded logistics...
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Thresher's PPS launch
Thresher has extended its own label range of spirits with a PPS brand to take on rival drinks suppliers. The off-licence chain has introduced Imperial Ice at £1.29 for a 275ml bottle and £3.19 for a larger 70cl serving. The company said the...
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They're in the money
Winner or loser, the price of entering Safeway's bidding war will be a multi-million pound bill. Glynn Davis reveals where the money goes While the outcome of the bid battle for Safeway remains unknown, what is a racing certainty is that the...
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Red Navel for M&S
A little known variety of pigmented Navel orange has gone on sale in Marks and Spencer. The orange, called Cara Cara, is being sold in pre-packs of five fruit for £2.49. The red fleshed variety was first discovered in Venezuela some 30 years...
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savacentre opens
Sainsbury has opened its 19th Savacentre store, on East Prescot Road, Knotty Ash, Liverpool, following an investment of £7.2m. It will be followed by one in Stoke on Trent, opening on March 18, then Bolton and Grimsby on March 27. exel...
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Lebanese manufacturer buys British bakeries
Lebanese manufacturer of food processing equipment Averda has purchased two bakeries as part of its strategy to build a food-on-the-move business in the UK.Devon-based Abbey Vale Bakery and Speciality Foods were both purchased while in...
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Reckitt to launch new products
Dettol and Lemsip maker Reckitt Benckiser will be launching a raft of new products into the UK this year under the Vanish, Calgonit, Veet and Airwick brands.Reckitt posted a 9% rise in pre-tax profit to £545m on sales up 3% to 3.5bn. But...
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Marriott joins Tesco’s Clubcard
Tesco has signed up Marriott Hotels to its Clubcard scheme, which will allow loyalty card members to collect Clubcard points in all of Marriott hotels around the world.Marriott Hotels has 2,300 hotels worldwide, with 69 in England, 58 of...
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Seriously Strong gets first TV ads
Cheesemaker McLelland & Son is to follow its Seriously Strong Cheddar’s controversial ‘Safe sex, dangerous cheese’ poster and press campaign with the brand’s first TV commercials. A total of £2m has been earmarked for the ads, a substantial...
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Sacked St Peter’s md is compensated
An employment tribunal has awarded compensation to the former MD of St Peter’s brewery George Wortley, after finding he had been wrongfully dismissed. Wortley was sacked from his £61,000-a-year job at the Suffolk-based company on the grounds...
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call for action, not red herrings
from Lionel Stanbrook, director, Food Advertising Unit Sir; Obesity is of growing concern and the food industry agrees that it is an issue that needs to be tackled. However, the Saturday Essay by Annie Seeley of the Food Commission (15 February...
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Rosenborg ad rapped by asa
Arla Foods has been rapped by advertising watchdogs for claiming its Rosenborg Danish Blue cheese is Britain's favourite blue cheese brand'. The Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint from the Stilton Cheese Makers Association that...
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Whittles must beat the ad ban
Imperial Tobacco has appointed Kate Whittles trade marketing controller to help drive brand sales in the wake of the ban on consumer tobacco advertising. She will be responsible for channel development, point of purchase, trade communications...
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Rowse wakes up to ads
Oxfordshire honey maker Rowse is to buzz into new territory with its first ever consumer advertising campaign.
The company, which celebrates its 50th year in business in 2004, is currently riding high as Britain’s biggest honey producer, having… -
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The contribution alcohol sales make to the profitability of
ACNielsen's business manager, Gavin Humphreys, says: "There were certainly a lot more deals on offer. Grocers are definitely using liquor to drive sales because it's outperforming all the other categories. Core staple items are at best flat so...
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Rappor helicopter alert
Simon Mowbray Kenco Rappor is to be given a £5m round of backing, including a promotion like something out of a Bond movie. Two million special jars of the instant coffee brand will go out to the trade early next month, of which five will...
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Wrigley had big ambitions for X-Cite at its launch in April
According to figures from Information Resources, the brand had achieved sales of just over £9m across all grocery and impulse outlets by December 1, 2002, a figure which equates to around 3.5% share of the chewing gum market. Jo Hartop,...
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BP's c-store ambitions
Siân Harrington BP has set its sights on Tesco and Sainsbury in convenience as its begins a strategy to persuade consumers it is the c-store of choice. Retail director Graham Sims said the oil giant was leading the convenience revolution in...
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Cereals is one of those product areas that any store manager
In the cereals category this week the two highest promoters were Sainsbury and Safeway, with a promoted to non-promoted sku ratio of 28%. The average ratio is just 18%. The results are interesting for a number of reasons. The average out of...