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the food chain
Ammo for militants as February price spreads come in wider than 12 months ago Farmers again receiving smaller cut from shopper The livestock farmer's share of the pound spent from the shopper's purse is shrinking again, according to the latest...
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the food chain
Almost daily announcements of price cuts by processors and supply co-ops Farmer alarm over cuts Having seen average farm gate milk prices rise 14% in 2001, UK dairy farmers are becoming increasingly concerned at the almost daily announcements of...
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the food chain
Most serious attempt so far to solve supply chain problems Safeway builds regional with Northumbria line Safeway has launched another regional lamb promotion, aiming to match the success of its West Country brand which went into stores last month....
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Thanks to a rise in retail prices and the industry's concen
The volume of wrapped bread may be down but the value of this sector rose by 2% and is now worth more than £1bn [Taylor Nelson Sofres]. Reflecting on the past 12 months, the Federation of Baker's director John White says there has been a...
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LIWSF: what impact from docklands connections?
The organisers are promising bigger, better and cooler things but how will visitors take to the new ExCel venue for this year's London International Wine and Spirits Fair? Tim Palmer reports Wine is one of the fastest growing and most rapidly...
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Margin erosion set to continue for pressured US c-store sect
Elaine Watson The most comprehensive analysis of the US convenience store industry to date reveals an alarming drop in profitability during 2001. A new study from the National Association of Convenience Stores revealed pre-tax profit across the...
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Datum, the Milk Development Council's (MDC) market informati
Historical prices, milk production figures and quotas are just some of the historical figures now available in Excel format. The figures can be manipulated online or downloaded from the web site www.mdcdatum.org.uk. Work will be ongoing in this…
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Observer and Guardian kick up a dust with their World Cup sq
The Guardian and the Observer have announced a raft of editorial, marketing and sponsorship activity for this year's World Cup. Tomorrow (Sunday, May 19), in addition to the regular Observer Sport Monthly, the Observer will produce an Observer...
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Oliver (and Sven) front Sainsbury's Cup tackle
Elaine Watson Jamie Oliver will dominate TV screens and airwaves this month as Sainsbury's launches an aggressive round of advertising to coincide with the World Cup. The chef is fronting regional TV ads plugging Sainsbury's online shopping...
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Evidence of loss leaders' damage - FoB
"Compelling" new evidence of the damage inflicted by persistent below cost selling should force the OFT to launch a fresh investigation into the practice, claimed the Federation of Bakers. Research by Professor Paul Dobson at Loughborough...
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We may be on the verge of an economic slowdown with prophesi
While managers' basic pay across the range of formats may not have risen greatly an average of 5% in most cases bigger bonuses and incentives have swollen pay packets. Including these performance-related bonuses means hypermarket managers...
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NATIONAL PIG AND POULTRY FAIR
The greater the lean meat percentage, the higher the value of the carcase' Lean tools offer hope for UK's pigmeat producers The hard pressed British pig industry has been offered two new tools to help it compete against imports. The first,...
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Let's just say IGD's fame is going north
Eagle-eyed readers will have spotted that something strange was afoot at IGD judging by our story last week. The piece on the rebranding of IGD placed the organisation's HQ in Lutterworth. That, of course, was news to its staff who thought they...
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Sold to first-timers
The Pitlessie Village Store and Post Office has been sold through Christie & Co to first time buyers from Essex. The business occupies a monopoly position in the village, which was voted Best Kept Village for seven years running. Offers in the...
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THEY MIGHT BE FLAT BUT
SALES SURE ARE SWELL A sign of the times is highlighted in Taylor Nelson Sofres' top five morning goods suppliers where Mothers Pride and Sunblest rubs shoulders with the likes of Sharwood's and Pride Valley's ethnic bread. Usage of ethnic bread...
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Ready meal/sausage focus for McIntosh MBO team
McIntosh of Dyce will focus on premium and licensed ready meals under a new management team which brought parts of the business out of receivership this week. Receivers hived off McIntosh's ready meals and sausage interests to a management team led...
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morning goods
Sweet-toothed consumers have helped push up the value of morning goods to £440m, up 3% year-on-year [Taylor Nelson Sofres]. According to Cuisine de France, flavoured doughnuts have been an unbelievable success. It has launched 24 ready-to-eat...
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Name: Stephen Hall
Position: Senior operations manager Company: United Co-op Food Group The job: Hall will take on responsibility for the management of 107 stores, mainly ...
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New Wal-Martian invasion?
Second only to the size of Sir Terry Leahy's pay packet, Wal-Mart's UK ambitions rate highly in the media's interest in UK Grocery plc. And this week, after a couple of barren years, the fertile shoots of a new crop of rumours surfaced to the...
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Mike Sully, Kwik Save
senior projects manager for franchise developments Something totally new for us is that we are hoping to install 300 instore bakeries into Kwik Save. We are working with three companies Country Choice, Cuisine de France and Speedibake ...