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Roger Waterfield is still smarting from the news he will ha
"We've had a bakery put in and three huge new chiller units and dairy cabinets, as well as triple the amount of lighting, which means demand has gone up considerably." When the system overloaded, the shop was in total darkness for four hours and...
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Iceland hungry for store sites
Iceland has launched a nationwide property search to find sites for 80 new stores it plans to open in the next three years. The company, which has 760 stores, has identified more than 110 towns and cities in the UK, including locations in Scotland...
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Sales through independent stores this month are running at r
The survey showed that 27% of those questioned said sales had improved, compared to 29% who answered that way last month. However, this time round 50% said business was much the same, whereas only 38% responded that way last month. Additionally, 23%...
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Industry leaders yearn for practical measures
The Commission on the Future of Farming and Food is widely expected to back calls for more local sourcing, more robust farm assurance schemes and more farmer co-operatives when it publishes its report next week. The findings of the commission,...
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Label rebuke for Moy Park
Tesco has withdrawn Finest free range chickens after supplier Moy Park was caught using the Freedom Food brand without licence. Spot checks at Tesco stores by RSPCA subsidiary Freedom Food revealed the misuse, caused by what Moy Park is calling an...
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New look for Lypsyl
Chapped lip remedy Lypsyl has been given a facelift to reinforce the brand’s image as the “original lipsalve”. Brand consultancy Design Bridge said it had been commissioned to redesign the Novartis Consumer Health brand to stave off stiff…
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Microwaveable pizza opens the way to recovery'
Lymington based pizza specialist Doughology is confident it can trade its way out of trouble after a management buy out with a "revolutionary" new microwave pizza that tastes as good as pizza baked in an oven. The company has secured a listing at...
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Recognising older people's strengths
Sainsbury is putting its weight behind a campaign designed to fight ageism in the workplace. The campaign, the Business Case for Age Diversity, was launched this week and urges firms not to discount older employees but to recognise their strengths....
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P&G's swipe
Procter & Gamble looks set to add wet wipes to its Swiffer disposable duster range later this year. P&G would not confirm the move, but it is thought to be a bid to dent the Pledge and Dettol brands' dominance of the wipes sector and offset poor...
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SUSTAINABILITY: A SORE POINT
Environmentalists argue sea cage fish farming will not compensate for the decline in wild fisheries because it takes, according to a paper in Nature, three tonnes of wild fish to produce one tonne of farmed salmon. So aquaculture is hardly helping...
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Rugrats Round the World
£1.75 Weekly Comag Build the Titanic £3.99 Weekly DDL Learning Land £3.99 Fortnightly De Agostini Ultimate Real Robots £3.99 Fortnightly Comag Sabrina's Secrets ...
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Carling aims to stay on song with a £20m package that sounds
Tim Palmer Bass is turning the volume up on its music sponsorship programme for Carling with a £20m package of deals over the next three years. The brewer has been looking for an initiative since it backed away from supporting football's Premier...
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£450m savings sought from supply chain
Costs of up to £450m could be stripped from the foodservice supply chain in a major initiative by the leading companies and organisations in the industry. The Federation of Wholesale Distributors and the Food and Drink Federation have teamed up...
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Budgens hits accelerator with aggressive expansion targets
Budgens' new site acquisition team is targeting 20 new sites a year, four times its traditional annual growth rate of about five new stores. Budgens chief executive Martin Hyson said he was confident the company could sustain its aggressive...
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NORPAK ADDS TRAMPING'
United Co-op subsidiary Norpak says the doubling of its coldstore capacity to 14,000 pallets is now starting to pay dividends. Over the Christmas period it found additional capacity was badly needed. Managing director Gerry Finnerty says...
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With parliament just back after the Christmas break, it is o
No Labour minister ever looks good in wellies, but Margaret Beckett in her recent interview with The Grocer seems set to try them for size in the months ahead. The control freaks in Millbank like her sure touch and her direct, no-nonsense approach....
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TESCO: CR steams ahead in phase two
Tesco says it has been delighted by ongoing success with CR as fresh produce joined the fray last year says Sarah Hardcastle T esco has fully implemented the second phase of its continuous replenishment programme, a ground-breaking distribution...
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WKD aims at shots
The success of the shots market has triggered Beverage Brands into extending its WKD premium packaged spirit into the sector. It is bringing out WKD 40 in both Iron Brew and Blue flavours which will be sold in 70cl bottles and have 40% abv. The…
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Seagram deal releases Beringer Blass to go it alone on UK sa
One of the world's leading wine producers, Beringer Blass, is setting up its own sales and distribution operation for the UK off-trade. The company's action follows the conclusion of the sale of its distributor Seagram to Diageo and Pernod Ricard. ...
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Asda, Morrisons the real winners
BY THE GROCER NEWS TEAM Publication of the first of our TradeTrak market share figures, produced by ACNielsen, coincides with the release of Christmas trading statements by many of the retailers included in our table. Our data is for the 12-week...