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When hot food can be zero VAT
There has always been a bit of confusion about the hot subject of VAT and fast food. Hot food can be zero rated only if it is supplied hot but not necessarily intended to be eaten hot. So if you are installing an instore bakery, then your...
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Front runners hold positions
There are no changes in positioning in the retailer chart this week with Morrisons, Safeway and Tesco remaining the top three. Competition has increased with just two percentage points separating them. Safeway remains strong on...
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US's Pink Lady and Fuji frozen
David Shapley Washington State apples equating to as many as four million boxes have been frozen on the tree as they were awaiting picking. The Fuji and Pink Lady varieties have been hit the hardest said George Smith, UK marketing director...
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A marketing holy grail'
Anne Bruce A new TV, supermarket and marketing consortium plans to turn the Channel Islands into a low cost test market for new fmcg products. Bonsai, a collaboration between ITV1, Channel Islands retailer Le Riche, and marketing agency Fast...
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Ocado seeks new hubs
Anne Bruce Ocado is looking for satellite distribution centres in the south and a second main depot in the north as demand takes off, according to joint MD Roger Whiteside. The Waitrose supplied online shopping service is now taking up to...
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Testing instore marketing with Radar
Former bosses of Taylor Nelson Sofres subsidiary TNS Radar, have set up a new company called Retail Testing enabling top manufacturers and retailers to test the impact of instore marketing initiatives. Retail Testing chairman John Burke said...
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Soft mango trials by JS
Sainsbury is increasing its programme to develop supplies of a soft yellow-skinned mango with a pink blush called Kensington Pride and grown solely in Australia. The multiple is also conducting exclusive trials with supplier Minor, Weir and...
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out of memory
Finsbury Food Group, formerly Megalomedia, has appointed Dave Brooks group chief executive. Brooks was MD of Memory Lane Cakes, which was bought by Megalomedia in August. Megalomedia changed its name to Finsbury Food Group on completion of the...
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no need for t&S to sell out to tesco
from Dudley Ramsden, executive chairman, Nisa-Today's Sir; I read with some scepticism your article in The Grocer last week, Revealed: How Tesco met T&S' (p16). The implications of this article are that T&S Stores simply had no option but to...
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Radio tunes into PoP
The level of sales growth for retailers signed up to Newsagents Radio is silencing critics of c-store radio. Elaine Watson reports If the words instore radio' conjure up distressing recollections of the Bee Gees on panpipes and Coronation...
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That's retailtainment with Reg
Safeway has recruited WHSmith's Reg Curtis as commercial director for grocery to drive the development of its retailtainment concept. His appointment follows the departure of Safeway's commercial director for fresh and frozen foods, Gillian...
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summer not a turn-off
michael simpson jones, chilled ready meals buyer, sainsbury "The core trend has not really changed in the past two years  consumers are looking for good tasting, good value for money products. But base sales in the summer were considerably...
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Wiseman laps up profits
Robert Wiseman Dairies has posted a 38% jump in pre-tax profit which it said was driven by its investment programme and increased contracts with the major supermarkets.To March 29 pre-tax profit rose to £22.8m from £16.5m last year on a 5.4%...
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Asda rings in festive rush
Asda has ramped up the roll out of its jewellery departments to offer shoppers prices up to a third less than in the high street in time for the christmas rush.Eight new departments will be opened by the end of November to bring the total at...
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Licensing laws to be liberalised
The Prime Minister has paved the way for a liberalisation of licensing laws in England and Wales in the Queen's speech at the state opening of Parliament.The Queen announced: “My Government will bring forward legislation to streamline the...
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M&S rolls out RFID tags
Marks and Spencer has begun using radio frequency identification tagged metric trays for delivering produce to its stores to ensure customers “even fresher food”.The tags enable staff and suppliers to read pallet-load information upto six...
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Coke adds flavour to Dasani
Coca-Cola has launched four new vitamin-enhanced flavoured versions of its Dasani bottled water brand Stateside.Coke said Dasani NutriWater now came in mandarin orange, lemon tangerine, wild berry and pear cucumber flavours. It contains no...
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Franco-Italian jv to open new fascia
The joint venture between French retailer Leclerc and Italian co-operative organisation CONAD – has opened its first five hypermarkets in Italy.The E Leclerc-Conad hypermarket chain – formerly under the Planeta banner – is to focus on...
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Somerfield gains sales but loses Maguire
Somerfield’s second quarter like-for-like sales have rallied but also announced another high profile executive casualty with the departure of Kwik Save md, Graham Maguire, from the group.Group like-for-like sales for the 28 weeks to November...
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Numico to sell US vitamin unit
Dutch group Numico is to sell its US vitamin unit Rexall Sundown to switch its focus back to infant food and clinical nutrition after poor third quarter sales hit profits. Numico posted a 3% drop in third quarter net profit of 53m euros on...