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Walkers: No more Mr Nice Guy' series
Created by: BMP Launched: January 1995 The choice of Gary Lineker football's goody two shoes as brand ambassador in the twilight of his playing career was risky, even though he shared a Leicester background with Walkers. However, focusing on...
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SUNCARE: IT'S A HOT TOPIC
Sales are soaring with the trend to higher factors says Sarah Hardcastle. Consumers are finally starting to get the message about the importance of protecting themselves from the sun's harmful rays. This can be seen in the massive 21.8% rise in...
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T&T turns Red Hot
T&T Beverages, the company which rocketed to prominence last year through its sponsorship of TV programme PopStars, has added another flavour to its burgeoning range of fizzy drinks. Red Hot Orange is the latest flavour to get the T&T treatment,...
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Private investment
Lionbrook Property Partnership has sold two industrial units at the Middlemarch Business Park, Coventry, to private investors managed by Scottish Widows Investment Partnership for a combined figure of £8.26m. The price reflects an initial yield of...
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Name: Neil Jardine
Position: Take-home director Company: Greene King The job: Jardine will take up his position on May 1. He will be responsible for driving sales of Greene King's ...
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Kumala in the pink
Western Wines is adding a pink and a red to Kumala, its leading South African wine range. Its new rosé (rsp: £4.49) will be going into the trade from next week and has been listed by Waitrose. A new Reserve Shiraz (rsp: £8.99) will be released in...
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The total toiletries markets as a whole has shown year-on-ye
The £652m market is largely made up of cleansers (32.3%) with facial moisturisers (26.1%) and general purpose products like Vaseline Intensive Care and E45 making up the rest. Anti-ageing is a concept keenly sought by consumers and recent advances...
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The £400,000 state-of-the-art stock control system at David
Three years ago Scottish independent David Sands put the family's store acquisition programme on hold and ploughed the resultant funds into rebuilding IT infrastructure. Almost £400,000 later, Sands' state-of-the-art voice-based VIOTEQ stock...
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2000 was a vintage port year
The port industry is celebrating the millennium again with the news that wines produced in 2000 are good enough to be declared as vintage port. Leading company Symington's has announced that all its major brands will be offering a vintage style...
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Heinz waves its 5-A-Day credentials
Heinz is bidding to woo even more health-conscious consumers with a new healthy-eating initiative and an organic version of salad cream. The tinned foods giant yesterday launched a 5-A-Day' scheme, aiming to persuade consumers that more than 70 of...
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Iceland rethinks web service to grab more ABC shoppers
Exclusive Ed Bedington Iceland has completely revamped its online shopping service to attract more sales from ABC consumers. The company has launched an improved home shopping web site, which also supports offline shopping via CD as well as...
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n Patak's may now be a food empire but it remains absolutely
Silhouetted against a massive orange sun, the elegant, sari-clad figure paces the spice merchant's yard, peering critically at the sacks of raw ginger stacked neatly along its white walled perimeter. Eager-eyed locals nudge each other. The...
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Baxters rejects flotation but looks to acquisition
Anne Bruce Family owned soups and pickles company Baxters is on the acquisition trail after shaking up its senior management. Chairman and chief executive Audrey Baxter said the business was "on a firm footing", and would remain "100% in control...
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Health message wheeled out as Quorn turns up the activity
Quorn is getting a £5m marketing injection to support a relaunch. Ads hit TV screens on Wednesday, while press ads start in newspapers nationwide from Monday (April 22). It is a major push for the meat substitute brand which Marlow Foods, its...
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Asda is advertising for a writer of jokes to come up with so
I saw in the papers Asda is looking for a joke writer. I'd like to audition OK. Well what you have to do is post your jokes on a web site I'll just try a joke out on you and see what you think. Knock knock ...
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India up against challenge of reducing massive food waste
Clive Beddall Bombay India's massive agrifood sector has been urged to put more investment into food processing in a bid to reduce the massive quantities of produce wasted every year. Because of inadequacies in storage, transport and supply chain...
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Aggressive Lidl keeps up cracking new store pace
Anne Bruce Secretive hard discounter Lidl has doubled its UK portfolio since 2001, bucking declining numbers in the UK discount sector and leaving longer established competitors Aldi and Netto behind. A source said Lidl was "approaching 350 stores...
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AN AGGRESSIVE SOCIETY
Mal Hussein and partner Linda Livingstone live their life feeling constantly under threat. As the owner of a convenience store on the Ryelands Estate in Lancaster, Hussein has suffered 11 years of racial abuse and attacks which have resulted in...
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Alcoholic drinks brands top the chart and give Morrisons a l
Morrisons again leads the fascia chart with alcoholic drink promotions still highly prominent. Price promotions and bogof offers have been used extensively by Morrisons although its lead in the chart has been cut to under 10%. Tesco's rise up the...