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BRITISH PORK AND BACON
Fully costed 13-point action plan over five years looks to greater competitiveness BPEX unveils a recovery plan for British pigmeat A recovery strategy for the British pig industry was unveiled by the British Pig Executive last week at the...
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Bambos Charalambous has been doing his books and finds that
Bambos gets his fruit and veg from Spitalfields market and has great expectations of the summer season. He always makes a big display of watermelons which customers love. "I expect we'll sell piles we always do." He doesn't intend to stock...
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M&S tech offers to cut the cost of bank chargebacks
Marks and Spencer has tied up with technology provider Retail Decisions to market a system to help retailers cut the cost of bank chargebacks resulting from fraud or error. When a transaction is queried by a card issuer or consumer because of a...
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Fresco turns into cafe bar
Safeway has abandoned plans for a chain of Cafe Fresco restaurants and instead will convert the concept into a cafe bar after piloting a compact version in Welywn Garden City in Hertfordshire last December. The smaller cafe format is licensed, but...
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Ian Deste has been replaced as marketing director of Coca-Co
Morrisons sales during the first 15 weeks of its current year show an increase of 10.4% and are up like-for-like 6.5%. Receivers have sold the bakery division of Aberdeen-based McIntosh of Dyce to specialist pie and cake supplier Bell Bakers,...
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Name: Simon Bell
Position: Retail director Company: Leathams The job: Bell will lead a fresh sales and marketing strategy for the Merchant Gourmet brand as part of a sales team restructure. He said: "Backed by an increased marketing investment, Merchant...
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New benefits help ESL speed round the globe
There has been a surge of interest in electronic shelf edge labels this month with a burst of activity in Europe and the Middle East. French retailer Casino is trialling the technology with NCR in two stores in Lyon, Dutch group Van Eerd is rolling...
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Big cash prizes will help to boost German wines in UK
Efforts to improve the reputation of German wines in the UK were boosted this week when £35,000 prize money was shared between three new German wines The cash comes from the German Wine Institute's Marketing Initiative, a competition designed to...
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M&S seeks out bigger stores for its Simply Food format
Anne Bruce Marks and Spencer is to continue putting its Simply Food format into bigger stores. This is because the M&S food range does not fit comfortably with a convenience store footprint. Food business unit director Justin King said a number...
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Blueridge blends
Boyar Estates is raising the profile of its Bulgarian heritage with the introduction of two local grape varieties. It has blended Dimiat with Chardonnay and Gamza with Merlot to create two new wines in its Blueridge range. Each retails at under £4...
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n Mary Carmichael meets a European boss who is modernising
Stephen Thorpe rarely wears a white suit or a panama hat and there's little of the colonial plantation owner about him. Nevertheless, Cirio Del Monte's managing director for Northern Europe does have a few things in common with his company's...
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Roles for both Scotch and British
Sir; I was interested to read recent articles about branding in the agri-food sector, including a call for an all-Britain brand and concern about fragmentation. There's a great deal of passion in Scotland about the Scotch beef brand, but it's not a...
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VNU extends Computeractive brand with a web guide and worksh
VNU is publishing two brand extensions to its flagship computer title Computeractive this month. Computeractive Web Guide is a directory of the most interesting web sites sorted by different categories, from art and literature to homes and...
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Fruity goings on as Nestlé Rowntree pushes brand into cereal
Nestlé Rowntree is taking its Rowntree fruit confectionery brand into unusual territory with two new products aimed at adults, including a cereal bar. Off the blocks on June 3, the new yogurt-coated fruit and cereal bar, called Fruitsome, and Fruit...
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Brands display chart mobility but Coca-Cola hangs on to that
Safeway has moved up the chart to second place, reducing Morrisons lead in the top spot to 13 percentage points and forcing Asda down to number three. The rest of the chart remains stable. Activity in Safeway focuses most heavily on the household...
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Major brands caught out by rise in Queen's popularity
Seven of Britain's top 10 fmcg brands are ignoring the Queen's Jubilee, a survey by The Grocer has revealed. Only three of Britain's best selling brands, Walkers, Kit Kat and Nescafé, have planned marketing activity. The results have shocked some...
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french chain seeks russian buy
Casino is planning to enter the Russian market with the purchase of one of the major local supermarket chains. International marketing manager Jean-Marc Susatte was reported as saying he would set up offices in Moscow in September to prepare the...
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New wine buyer for Co-op Group
The Co-operative Group has named Elizabeth Pay as wine buyer. She will be responsible for developing the group's range of 435 wines from South Africa, Spain, Portugal and Germany which serves the whole of CRTG. Pay commented: "I am delighted with...
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Countdown to the management buyout at P&H
l This is not the first MBO at P&H. In the late 1980s, the Stone family was looking to sell the business it had founded back in 1925. The family settled on an open auction which resulted in the then managment team buying the business in 1988 l...
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VITAMIN C MESSAGE FOR CRANBERRY
Ocean Spray is putting a £6m wave of support behind its cranberry juice this summer. A national TV burst of advertising begins on June 9 and will run until the end of July. The 30-second commercial will carry the message that cranberries carry as...