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Smile grabs JCR News
Anne Bruce West Country convenience chain Smile Newshops has acquired the JCR News group, boosting its portfolio to 79 stores. The 15 JCR stores supplied by T&A Symonds will be rebranded under the Smile Local fascia, with all 230 staff retained....
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Green light at Twinings
Twinings is refreshing its green tea offering with an updated pack design and two new products. The newcomers, Early Grey Green Tea and a Green Tea Selection pack, are the first product extensions since the Twinings green range was launched three...
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An international melting pot
New countries continue to discover the attractions of Sial Sial continues to increase its global sweep and this year 94 nations are due to exhibit in its international pavilions. That roll call includes South Korea, Mexico and the US, along with...
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Sales kick
Pernod Ricard posted an 18% jump in total half-year sales driven by Jacob's Creek and the addition of Seagram's brands such as Chivas Regal and Martell. Seagram, bought jointly with Diageo for #5.7bn in February, contributed sales of E605m while...
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Krug for the present
Krug Champagne has launched its first advertising campaign for 15 years. The producer commissioned four artists to interpret the Krug K' which will form the basis of its print media drive. Company director Remi Krug said: "Our aim with this...
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A pour man's paradise
Diversity is fuelling growth in the buoyant sauces and condiments market but there are fears that quality could suffer at the cheaper end due to price competition says Tracy Kelly Sauces and condiments add more than just a touch of flavour to...
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McCain's Micro marketing
Frozen food specialist McCain is aiming to expand the microwaveable snacking sector by adding two new products to its Micro repertoire and backing them with a £4m marketing campaign. New Micro Toasties a convenience version of the classic toasted...
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Thirty years of that pup
Kimberly-Clark is offering Andrex customers the chance to win thousands of prizes in an on-pack promotion to celebrate 30 years of the brand's iconic puppy. Rolling out to stores now until the end of December, the Finders Keepers promotion features...
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The ways to ruin small retailers
Technology is meant to make life easier for us all but for many independent retailers recent developments are only serving to make it worse. As we report this week (p4), long gone are the days when the humble ATM was just a place to get your cash....
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Athif Sarwar
“I’ve never seen so many white vans – well, apart from at Dover docks,” one retailer quips as he loads up his trolley at the United Wholesale Scotland depot.And it is no exaggeration. The queues have been been getting longer by the day since...
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ATM blow for c-stores
Anne Bruce Independent retailers could lose thousands of pounds of income as the mobile phone networks and Lottery operator Camelot prepare to deliver products through cash machines. Camelot is to start feasibility studies to see if ATMs will...
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Heineken buys in Panama
Heineken has followed up its expansion into Egypt and the Lebanon with a $56m offer for Panamanian brewery group, Cervecerias Baru-Panama.Baru is 52% owned by Coca-Cola Panama with the other 48% traded on the Panamanian stock exchange,...
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Raj Chatha
Considered “highly intelligent” and someone who “really knows the market” by his peers, the European Food Brokers MD is certainly not afraid to go out on a limb. First it was 1Stop4, the retail club for independents that he launched in 2001 and now...
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Pradip Dhamecha
Dhamecha Cash and Carry is the second largest supplier to independent retailers in the capital, behind Bestway, and is the largest member of the Today’s Group. It has five depots, all within the M25, employs 300 people and turned over £225m in the...
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Lee Furness
“Lee tells it like it is. He’s very honest and honesty isn’t always something that you can attribute to your supplier.” Nigel Mills, MD of the 55-store chain Mills Group, doesn’t have a bad word to say about Lee Furness, the man in the driving...
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Gino Paletta
Last year’s £3.5m investment in a 63,000 sq ft depot in Wrexham has already paid off for CTM Wholesale managing director Gino Paletta.The founder of North Wales-based CTM, a member of Today’s Group and Sugro, says the delivered wholesale and...
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Robert Lowe
Complete with piped music and illuminated bays, Hyperama sounds like a trendy nightclub chain. It is, in fact, a West Midlands-based cash and carry group – one that is proud to stand out of the crowd. As general manager Robert Lowe explains: “We are...
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Steve Parfett
Steve Parfett is not one to follow the herd. While everyone else is going down the delivered wholesale route, the AG Parfett MD is staying put. “We run big cash and carries. It takes all our effort to do that,” reasons the man whose reputation...
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Dairy Crest sell Westway site
Chilled foods group Dairy Crest has sold its former milk processing plant Westway in London for £18m in cash.CGNU and Commercial Union have bought the site which Dairy Crest vacated in January. The approved developer is Helical...