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Local's Cornish Factor
With a name like that he could have been a rock 'n roll star. But then Rick Stein, current king of ITV's celebrity chef circuit, and the guy who has, in recent years, become a one-man British fish promotion board, probably has more fans than your...
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Patching up the damage
Four million people will attempt to quit smoking on January 1 and many will turn to replacement therapy According to Quit, the charity founded to help smokers give up their habit, more and more people have turned to nicotine replacement products...
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Tissue tie-in for Diomed
Paper giant Georgia-Pacific is tackling another sales opportunity after a tie in with a major decongestant brand. It has joined forces with Diomed Developments, which launched the Happinose brand into the grocery and pharmacy trade two years...
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Will a freezer pop help the medicine go down?
Warner Lambert has extended the Benylin cough medicine brand in Ontario, Canada, into medicated freezer pops - a novel product targeted at children.Sold at ambient temperature and intended for home-freezing, the freezer pops are designed to...
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Tesco has everything going for it
from John Gallanders, Hermitage Consultancy Services Sir; There appear to be certain sectors of the trade that are giving a negative view of the impending takeover of T&S by Tesco. Any business that expands will always have a major impact...
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Lynx fragrance has finger on the Pulse
Lever Fabergé aims to emphasise the Lynx effect' with a £3.5m media campaign welcoming a new Pulse variant to the portfolio in the new year. TV advertising, which takes up the bulk of the budget, will include a collaboration between the company...
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Fitting the fixtures for self-help
OTC sleep aids is a market that's beginning to win consumer trust. Festive advertising is planned and retailers are expanding fixtures as a sign of confidence in their future Over the counter sleep aids are a key market for retailers at...
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Stella's flying start to yuletide
The fascia chart remains stable this week in terms of positioning, with Morrisons, Safeway and Tesco making up the top three. Morrisons has pulled further ahead with a wide range of beers and lager on price promotion on floor stacks....
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Gadhia oversees sandwich site
Greencore Group has recruited Jerry Gadhia as Hazlewood Sandwiches' Manton Wood site director. Gadhia will be responsible for all operational aspects of the plant, from engineering to distribution and logistics. He was previously operations...
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Shopping visits grow shorter
It is no surprise that Tesco and the other big supermarket retailers are keen to increase their presence in the convenience market when you analyse recent trends in shopping visits.Our survey, compiled exclusively for The Grocer from research we...
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In profile: John Howells
Operations Manager, West Midlands Co-op.How would you describe your role?I manage a team of group managers who are each responsible for a number of stores. I work with them to help develop the team and the strategy for the food division. ...
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Up there with the luvvies
I daren't tell my mother I'm in sales, she thinks I play the piano in a whorehouse. Okay, that's not exactly trueI didn't tell her the bit about the piano. But it's true enough that I did once keep from her and my dad that I had applied to become ...
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Stores unite over T&S takeover
John Wood Pressure is being piled on the Office of Fair Trading to refer Tesco's takeover offer for T&S Stores to the Competition Commission. This week two more major players in the c-store sector made representations to the OFT and the...
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Nestlé shakes up milk operations
Nestlé is to close its canned milk products factory in Ashbourne, Derbyshire and is scaling down production at factories at Girvan and Dalston as part of a major shake-up of its UK milk business.Some branded products such as Simply Double...
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The Best is made better
Safeway has become the latest retailer to raise the stakes in premium own label, claiming to have improved its The Best range and committing £2m support over the next year.Britain’s fourth largest supermarket chain also aims to double the...
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Multiples to monitor taint
Tesco, Sainsbury and Waitrose are planning to take part in an ambitious project to trial a new cork designed to limit wine taint. Sabaté, the French cork manufacturer, has produced 100,000 corks which are guaranteed to have half the amount of...
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Hibernia hit by rival’s ad campaign
Hibernia Foods posted a 5% drop in second quarter sales hurt by higher operating expenses and weakness at its branded desserts unit.The Irish-based food manufacture said the decline in sales was due to intense competition in frozen desserts...
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Safeway to be clear on offers
Safeway has been rapped over the knuckles by advertising watchdogs for making misleading availability claims in a leaflet promoting French Boules.The leaflet in question promoted an offer on a French Boules 2 pack at two of the supermarket’s...
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Shloer core to Merrydown’s sales
Merrydown, the cidermaker and producer Shloer said sales of the soft drink had risen 17% to help narrow first half losses.To September 30, the company posted a pre-tax loss of £329,000 compared with £425,000 last year. Turnover rose 3% to...
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Anchor brings a blend of Christmas cheer
Anchor is reintroducing its Extra Thick Cream dual-branded with Courvoisier, Drambuie and Tia Maria, in time for Christmas. Anchor Cream brand manager Gretel Edward said the three were "significant in value" in spite of the fact they would only...