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Congestion and elusive stock add up to week of headaches
Hunt the product was a game giving our shoppers the biggest headache this week. At Asda bacon was on offer but the shelf where it should have been was bare. By a sheer fluke, our shopper spotted a whole stack in a completely different area where...
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Cowen's liqueur has added a peel
Distributor Malcolm Cowen is entering the liqueur category with an orange and cognac product produced by French liqueur company Lejay-Lagoute. It has combined peel from oranges grown in Curaçao with 25-year-old cognac to create Extase XO which is...
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Sales improvement push lagging admits Camelot
Anne Bruce Camelot is behind schedule with its sales improvement programme for underperforming retailers and is blaming the pressures of relaunch. Commercial director Phil Smith said that only 520 retailers had actually begun the 24-week...
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Banrock Station extends new style after Tesco trial
Wine drinkers are giving the thumbs up to BRL Hardy's latest single varietal addition to its Banrock Station range. The leading Australian wine company's new Petit Verdot style has been on test in Tesco for the past eight weeks and the results have...
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Alarms bells that hacked off Asda
They say never work with animals, children and, er, journalists. And they are right. If we are around, things are bound to go wrong. Your PowerPoint presentation will not work, for instance, or your food demo will end in disaster. Pity poor old...
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Budgens failed to release its annual results this week as pl
Safeway has dismissed reports it is considering returning to TV advertising in the near future. The supermarket said it was reviewing media planning and buying and was meeting with four agencies, but had not yet taken on anyone new. Greencore has...
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"Booths' policy is to source locally and we apply it to red
"We are now looking to extend local sourcing to white meat. "Quality and customer satisfaction is our primary issue, not pricing. Customers know and appreciate our sourcing policy which supports local business and that's reflected in our sales of...
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vodka Articulates the arctic
The Drinks Company is going to the top of the world for inspiration and using artistic licence for a new line of 25% abv flavoured vodkas it will launch in August. It is introducing the Artic range of 14 styles which combine vodka and fruit juices...
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Moon gets ready to shine on Arkady Craigmillar as new MD
Bakery ingredients and products manufacturer Arkady Craigmillar has promoted Steve Moon to managing director. He replaces Bill Thurston. Moon joined Arkady Craigmillar in 1991 as a management trainee. He moved to Rotterdam in 1996 to work as...
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Asda fanfares million new shoppers a year
Asda is pulling in a million new shoppers through its doors a year as it opens new stores and improves its offer, according to chief operating officer Tony de Nunzio. The chain's stores were so busy, he said, that Asda's biggest challenge was...
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Asda's brief encounter comes to grief as Morrisons stacks 'e
Morrisons reclaims the top spot in the retailer chart, just pushing Asda down to number two. Much of the success of Morrisons is due to the wide variety of promotions featured in store using floor stacks and side stacks to great effect. Promotions...
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Supervalu attacks Save-A-Lot non-perishable decline
Supevalu, the US' largest hard discount grocery retailer, is rolling out a strategy to combat sales decline in non-perishable items in stores bearing its Save-A-Lot fascia. The Center Store strategy is aimed at increasing sales in items such as...
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Supermarkets' "short-term" attitude to the UK's poultry proc
Bradnock is angry that despite the short, safe and traceable food chain of the UK industry, imports have grown from 7% to more than 20% in the past decade, of which an estimated 40% is chicken breast meat. "It's too easy for supermarkets to import...
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Lucozade's synergy with Lara gets a fresh burst of attitude
GlaxoSmithKline is lifting the lid on a raft of marketing activity across its drinks brands in the latest phase of a £62m support strategy. Ribena, Lucozade Energy and Lucozade Sport will all get three-month on-pack promotions. Lucozade Energy's ...
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Wal-Mart now set to take axe to worst German performers
Elaine Watson At least six Wal-Mart stores in Germany are now on the critical list according to trade paper Lebensmittelzeitung. Wal-Mart sources told the paper stores in Ingolstadt, Sigmaringen and Wilhelmshaven face closure, while the future of...
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UK retail sales of bacon rashers were buoyant in the first q
New data provided to the DMB by Taylor Nelson Sofres shows sales up 3% by volume and 3% by value in the 12 weeks to March 31. For the 52 weeks to the end of March, total rasher sales were up 0.5% by volume and 11% by value. ...
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British Bakeries plays Field
Stephen Field has been appointed commercial director of British Bakeries. He moves from his post as sales director of Centura Foods. Both companies are Ranks Hovis McDougall subsidiaries. Field replaces Roger White who has moved to AG Barr as md...
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Sectors battered but not bowed
The stock market slide has driven our basket down but food and drink are tougher than some says Helen Gregory The champagne corks are staying firmly stoppered this month as the value of our share basket has dipped by a whopping £93. All the...
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Sooner the better say independents
Independent retailers have given a unanimous thumbs up to the proposed "entitlement card" saying the sooner a consistent national ID scheme is introduced the better. Ian Hunt, who owns the Filco Foods c-store chain in Wales, said the card would...
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The biggest fear of the organisers of the Industry Forum for
The forum was formed just over a year ago to tackle the long-term problems affecting the red meat industry in the UK and to encourage the development of a world class sector in this country. Three working parties working to this brief came up with...