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Bumper homegrown crop
The Brits will be out in force at Sial and new products are plentiful Britain is set for a bumper turnout at Sial 2002, with nearly 100 homegrown exhibitors on duty and Margaret Beckett, DEFRA secretary of state, due to visit. Food from Britain is...
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Milk businesses taken on
Longslow Food Group and Creamline Dairies have picked up the fresh milk businesses of Lancashire Dairies, which called in the receivers last month. Creamline has bought the doorstep business and Longslow, based in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, has bought...
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Collar for a cool cat
Cat food brand Classic has clawed itself a deal with Bacardi Breezer for a consumer giveaway based on the drink brand's advertising icon, Tom. Starting on October 16, cat owners will get the chance to make their pets the best-dressed moggies in town...
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Christmas starts to make a show
The retailer chart is stable this week, with Asda forcing the only change in positioning down to second place after sharing the top spot with Morrisons last week. Although Safeway remains in the same position it has increased its share of...
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Import controls woeful'
Ed Bedington Government controls on illegal meat imports have been branded "woefully inadequate" by the National Farmers' Union. To mark the first anniversary of the end of the foot and mouth epidemic the union surveyed 10,000 visitors to the UK....
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Dairy Crest now leads in taste'
Elaine Watson Dairy Crest has moved into second place in the butters and spreads market behind Unilever Bestfoods after snapping up Uniq's branded spreads division in an #86.5m deal. Chief executive Drummond Hall claimed the deal, adding Utterly...
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Returns crisis targeted
Elaine Watson UK grocery retailers are losing hundreds of millions of pounds every year on returned products, logistics experts have warned. And that figure is likely to grow as the multiples move further into the non-food arena, with high value...
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Salad days for the dressings market
Adding that something extra to a plate of leaves has launched consumers on a new love affair with salads, says Tracy Kelly Pre-packed salads have revolutionised consumer attitudes, so it should be no surprise to learn that there has been a step...
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Standalones hit by delays
Tesco has been forced to delay the openings of its first two standalone Tesco Express convenience stores. The first site, due to open in Southborough near Tunbridge Wells this month (The Grocer, June 15) will not now open until December 9. A...
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Dried fruit panic
Rain in Turkey and Greece has triggered near panic in the dried fruit markets and caused a sharp rise in prices. Uncertainty surrounds the Turkish sultana crop both in size and quality. Some in the trade are not discounting a volume below 200,000...
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The frustration of margin erosion
from Kevin Hunt, managing director, Lawrence Hunt & Co Sir; The mobile phone companies are using their enormous power to manipulate margins down on top-up cards. We sell over #50,000 in top-ups each week, an enormous amount for a company such as...
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This isn't just me being sentimental (for I like food retailing) or showing more evidence of my penchant for supporting lost causes (I'm also a lifelong supporter of Bradford City FC). No. Such gulfs can be dangerous. In the TMT boom in 1999 you...
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Solanum looks to excellence
A special centre has been set up by potato packer Solanum to strengthen relations with growers and retailers. The company, one of the UK's largest potato packers and distributors, annually handling more than 220,000 tonnes valued at #60m, has...
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Traditionalists take to hot and exotic
Classical accompaniments are thriving when they might have been expected to fade along with the Sunday roast, reports Tracy Kelly The Sunday roast may be an English institution but it has never been a particularly convenient one and consumers are...
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France finally relents
Ed Bedington British beef could be back on the menu in France following this week's lifting of the long standing illegal ban on UK product. However the announcement by French PM Jean-Pierre Raffarin on Wednesday received a mixed response from the UK...
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Fishmonger of the year
Andrew Wilcox of Safeway has become the Scottish Quality Salmon Champion 2002. Andrew scored the most points in the salmon craftsmanship round at this year's 50th National Federation of Fishmongers Golden Jubilee craftsmanship competition held at...
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Ocean Spray gets splashing out
Ocean Spray is putting more than £1m behind its premium chilled juice drinks portfolio as part of a relaunch and expansion of the range. It is also launching two new variants Cranberry & Blackberry and Cranberry & Cherry which it claims will help...
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GM: lobbyists must put up or shut up
from Kenneth F Mitchell, Euro Fine Foods 2000 Sir; So Pete Riley says there is a massive public opinion against GM products (Letters, September 28). Sorry, Pete, that is not how we read the same articles you read or are you being as inventive as...