All news articles – Page 4051
-
News
ÂAnd where the rest fell down
Waitrose Date of shopping trip: 25.10.02 Time taken in store: 45 minsMonmouth Time of shopping trip: 11.46 Time taken at checkout: 5 mins ...
-
News
ÂAnd where the rest fell down
Tesco Date of shopping trip: 20.09.02 Time taken in store: 55 minsWhaley Bridge Time of shopping trip: 08.58 Time taken at checkout: ...
-
News
Abbot gets it up with a saucy ad
Rosie Davenport Greene King has found it pays to push advertising boundaries after sales of Abbot Ale surged following a saucy £500,000 advertising push. Sales of the beer rose by 22.2% in the first quarter of 2002 to the end of July...
-
News
what comes after sex, shock & horror?
from Paul Cowper, senior consultant, Brandsmiths Sir; It's the oldest adage in the marketing world  "sex sells" (The Grocer, August 31). Manufacturers have long used sex to promote and market products. Yet still, every once in a while, the...
-
News
Butter flies high again
After years of slow decline, it looks as though butter is biting back. The joint venture between the manufacturers of the two leading brands, Lurpack and Anchor, and the popularity of spreadable butters among consumers, have increased hope that...
-
News
Flavour of the alternative
Anew set of players is muscling in on the dairy sector but there's not a drop of milk involved. Dairy alternative producers, making everything from substitute milk to butter-style spreads and ice cream, are making healthy returns on growing sales...
-
News
ASA sides with anti-Quorn set
The American consumer group leading a smear campaign against Quorn is claiming its first victory over the meat substitute brand. It has persuaded advertising watchdogs to force Quorn producer Marlow Foods to either clarify the label mushroom...
-
News
NEWS BY ANYONE'S STANDARDSÂ
from John Maxwell-Jones, Burgess Stores, Goudhurst, Kent Sir; I was interested to read two news items in the latest edition of The Grocer (August 31) Â Marks and Spencer actively switching to free range eggs for its prepared meals and the story...
-
News
The next big event for Arla is the move to its Stourton site
It currently houses a brand new £10m, 100,000 sq ft distribution centre and work is about to start on a £50m state-of-the-art dairy. Plans to relocate head office to the site are also being considered. Salkeld says the aim is to complete building...
-
News
Packs that can talk back
Don't panic, but packaging is starting to answer back. It may seem a bit like something out of Minority Report, but the day when food and drink packs start talking to shoppers isn't far off. In fact, we're already taking for granted those clever...
-
News
What is backhauling?
Essentially, this is a method of moving goods through a supply chain by fully utilising transport during its downtime. In its most simplest form, it is the collection of goods from local suppliers using vehicles returning from store deliveries....
-
News
Bag levy carries its own disadvantages
The introduction of the 15c levy on plastic bags in the Irish Republic has brought an unexpected bonanza for environmental projects, which the tax has been put aside for. But according to Ailish Forde, director general of the grocers'...
-
News
Balancing the books
Express has now switched its focus from consolidation to concentrating on reducing debt and reversing a long-term proft decline. Net debt was high at £168.8m for the year to March 31 2002, but that figure was actually a reduction of £34.6m,...
-
News
Suppliers replenish our basket
In the current depressed financial climate, The Grocer's basket of shares has taken an upward turn - we've made a whole £4m this month.Despite most of our companies recording a loss, gains by Somerfield, Associated British Foods, Dairy Crest,...
-
News
Driving big brand value...and keeping up with the pace inNPD
In the last year it recorded double digit growth for its hugely popular Cathedral City and Davidstow cheeses, top-selling dairy spread Clover and its Frijj and Yoplait drinks. Cathedral City, in particular, has seen sales double in the last five...
-
News
The Stuff That Blockades Are Made Off
Successive price rises in autumn 2000 and spring 2001 took the price farmers were paid from around 16-17p per litre, where most were making a loss, up to 20-21p. There was a new spirit of understanding, with retailers in particular showing an...
-
News
A case of the blues...which means NPD, and hands on fun
But retailer behaviour is also crucial. Glanbia supplies to most of the major multiples in the UK, including Asda, Safeway, Somerfield, Kwik Save, Iceland, Sainsbury and Marks & Spencer. Development work at its groundbreaking Malpas Centre of Cheese...
-
News
Reader poll reveals open book concerns
Senior executives in grocery manufacturing companies are growing increasingly concerned about moves by some multiples to implement open book costing strategies, according to a survey by The Grocer. Of those quizzed in our reader panel this week,...
-
News
Top Ten Butter Brands
1 Lurpak Spreadable Butter2 Flora Pro-activ Light Spread 3 Flora Light Spread 4 Clover Std Dairy Spread 5 Anchor Butter 6 St Ivel Utterly Butterly D/Sp 7 Olivio 8 ...
-
News
New quartet shakes up brands
Morrisons has pulled further ahead of the other retailers in the chart this week and now stands six percentage points ahead of Tesco which has moved up to number two. Sainsbury has shown improvement, moving up from fifth place to number four...