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Sainsbury blitzes healthy eating with free from & Five range
Helen Gregory Sainsbury is launching a huge healthy eating campaign labelled Eat your Way to Better Health. As part of the campaign, the chain is bringing out a Free From range for shoppers with food allergies and food intolerances. More...
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BN offers a star turn
McVitie's is bidding to raise the profile of its BN biscuit brand with a new on-pack promotion and revamped pack design. The money-can't-buy' promotion for kids features on 300g chocolate and strawberry flavour packs from next month and will...
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Curry takes cash plea to Boateng
Exclusive Clive Beddall Farming and Food Commission chairman Sir Don Curry will next week make a personal appeal to the Treasury to give financial backing to his radical proposals to transform Britain's rural economy and the agri-food scene....
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Bogof's week
It's hard to imagine Tesco without Terry Leahy. But it could so easily have happened, as one of my colleagues was startled to discover this week. He was attending the Swedish government's Food Chain conference not the sort of place you would...
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Bogof's week
I read in The Sun where else? that Tesco has hired a seven year old boy to explain the Pokémon craze to them. Laurie Sleator for it is he gives his unique briefings in return for Pokémon goodies (and, I assume, a bodyguard to see ...
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Bogof's week
I'm sure I wasn't the only one to enjoy seeing the repeat this week of the infamous BBC tv programme where Sainsbury's Dino Adriano went back to the shopfloor. Who could forget the sight of Dino wrapped up in that extremely snug polyester uniform?...
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Bogof's week
A Tesco love-in at the Marketing Society retail forum came to an abrupt halt last week when a spy was spotted in the crowd. Carolyn Bradley, COO of Tesco.com, had just got on stage, blushing from marketing director Tim Mason's reference to her as...
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Bogof's week
There were a few surprises on the opening day of the ECR Europe conference in Glasgow, not least the shocking sight of Unilever's Antony Burgmans and Marks and Spencer's Luc Vandevelde striding on to the stage in kilts. I am glad to say the kilts ...
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Bogof's week
Further proof of how competitive the multiples are came this week when Sainsbury and Tesco organised summer bashes for the same night, the same time and the same stretch of the Thames. Although one spin doctor admitted to me that the diary clash...
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Bogof's week
Hardened hack I may be, but even I was blushing this week when a Design Bridge trip to Sainsbury's backfired. Designers Peter and David had come up with arty two-tone judging cards to help a group of 12 elderly shoppers pick out examples of good...
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Bogof's week
I return to the office with a spring in my step this week I have realised that I am not the oldest person in grocery. Who is? Look no further than the Co-op. Never mind the thrusting executives of CWS and United Norwest, most of those attending...
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Bogof's week
While on my travels north last week, I was horrified to see that one of the truly great signs of the A1 had disappeared. I had grown quite fond of Morrisons' billboard by the side of the road just as you hit the Midlands in which the ...
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Bogof's week
The Somerfield top brass were in jolly mood when one of my colleagues met up to hear the news on their interim results. The tone for the day was set early in the morning at the company's analysts meeting, when one top pundit congratulated them on...
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BOGOF's Week
Coming out from the official London launch of Ocado, the Waitrose online shopping service, in Portman Square this week, I was concerned to see the Hemel Hempstead based posse had parked one of their distinctive vans in a Westminster residents' only...
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Bogof's week
And so on to the ACS Annual Conference held, not in an exotic seaside location, but Britain's second city Birmingham. The gala dinner was held in the oddly named Council House a sumptuously decorated municipal building with chairman Mike Bowen...
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Bogof's week
Did you know that after five minutes at -28deg C, the hairs in your nostrils start to freeze up, along with anything else that is exposed to the intense cold? I share this detail with you after visiting Christian Salvesen's new automated frozen...
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Bogof's week
Pity the Blair baby didn't arrive on Tuesday evening. That way those of us who crammed into a posh Park Lane hotel for the CBI dinner might have been spared Tony Blair's impression of Rory Bremner impersonating Tony Blair. Given the tabloid and tv...
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Bogof's week
It's official, our esteemed leader is retiring, but not until next June and the eulogies have already started. The first one, 11 months and 21 days before the sad event, was at the Food from Scotland Excellence Awards dinner in Edinburgh. The...
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Bogof's week
While visiting Amsterdam in the interests of research Albert Heijn has some state-of-the-art concept stores there, honest I was told one of the UK's leading drinks buyers was moving on. But Chinese whispers being what they are, I thought it...
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Bogof's week
One enduring image from the foot and mouth crisis has been the sight of grocery spokespersons hurrying in and out of tv and radio studios in a bid to enlighten uninformed broadcasting hacks and manic DJs-turned-almost-serious-presenters about the...