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Job of the week
Name: David Jones Position: Operations director Company: Petty, Wood The job: Jones heads up operations and its related functions, including customer service, order fulfilment, warehousing, distribution and quality assurance. He also heads...
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Name: Peter Patkowski Position: Managing director, Europe Company: Ocean Spray The job: Patkowski will be responsible for all Ocean Spray's pan European grocery trade interests. His remit is to formulate and implement strategies that will...
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Name: John Beadle Position: President and chief operating officer, global consumer brands Company: Schwan's The job: To develop and implement Schwan's global brand strategy in response to the changing and evolving trends ...
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Name: Helen Garlick Position: Managing director Company: Watson & Philip The job: Garlick has been acting managing director of Watson & Philip the grocery division of Brake Bros Foodservice since November. She said that taking on the...
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Name: Simon Laffin Position: Store manager Company: Safeway The job: Safeway finance director Simon Laffin is heading off to the retail frontline to spend four months in charge of a store in the south east. He follows in the footsteps of...
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Name: Julie Roche Position: National account manager Company: Baxters The job: Roche has joined Baxters' grocery multiples sales team as it expands its operations in ...
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Name: Ian Farish Position: South Elmsall RDC general manager Company: Londis The job: The £14.73m regional distribution centre at South Elmsall, near Wakefield, is a spring board for Londis' long-awaited growth into Scotland. It started...
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Job of the week
Name: Sean Toal Position: Group manager, Food Markets Company: United Norwest The job: Toal will be running United Norwest Co-op's Food Markets. Reporting to Austin Waterworth, the general manager of the large stores group, Toal...
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Name: John Fitzgerald Position: Chief general manager Company: Midlands Co-op The job: Fitzgerald has been promoted to chief general manager of Midlands ...
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Summer listings for Spirito
Bacardi-Martini has given the thumbs up to its latest new premium packaged spirit, Spirito, following an extensive test in Sainsbury. The launch of the Martini-based pair of products was revealed in The Grocer at the end of last year (November...
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stability a priority
Uniq chief executive Bill Ronald is under no illusions about the enormity of the task ahead, but insists Uniq is on a far firmer footing than it was even six months ago. "There has been a lot of turbulence at the company and I want to see a...
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Seaside sensuality
Wall's has unwrapped a summer marketing blitz behind its impulse ice creams. New sensuality-themed' TV and press ads for megastar brand Magnum run through to August and include executions for new bitesize Magnum Moments. Magnum Yogurt Fresh...
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TABLE TALK
Marks and Spencer is a national institution, a business that as a Brit I always felt proud of. It seemed not that long ago that M&S led the way, certainly in the food and wine stakes. Thank goodness it has decided to remedy some of its most...
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Backing Britain seems to be the right thing to do at the moment, especially with the French cancer that is eating into our beef industry. Of all the major high street retailers, Marks and Spencer in my mind conjures up everything British. And yet...
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I busily dish out advice to the public, but what would I like to say to the supermarkets? Well, I'll tackle my real bugbear first. Your fish counters. There seems to be no training, no knowledge, just poor quality fish lacklustre, with sunken...
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Under new European food safety regulations every food outlet in the country will have to be licensed. From a personal standpoint this can only be good news for the public. For far too long various establishments whether they are food shops,...
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We need a little dirt in our systems. Common sense tells me we have become too hygienic. After all, refrigeration has improved enormously, packaging is totally sterile, antibacterial agents are more effective and yet we continue to suffer from an...
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Antony Worral Thompson, chef and tv personality A recent survey carried out by Liverpool University discovered that more and more youngsters, and even babies are fat or clinically obese. The report recommended that parents take more notice of the...
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Some supermarkets and food associations have been getting a little upset over this column. Allegedly one supermarket won't allow me on to their stand at the BBC Good Food Show in November; I must have touched a raw nerve! But remember guys, this...
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The hospitality industry totally misjudged its approach to the celebrations over the millennium. Rip-off prices in the restaurant and hotel sectors will have created a stay-at-home' experience for most of the British public. The winners will be the...