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Waitrose in Wandsworth
The Arndale Centre in Wandsworth, south London, is undergoing redevelopment and rebranding as Southside by Portfolio Holdings. The £70m programme will involve rebuilding part of the complex. Waitrose is in discussions expected to be tied up...
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Tesco alliance set for 15 Malaysian hypermarkets
Tesco has announced aggressive expansion plans for Malaysia after signing a deal with local joint venture partner Sime Darby. But the multiple also released a trading statement showing a slight slowdown in its global sales growth. The Malaysian...
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Your Local no2 opens
Plymouth and South West Co-operative Society has unveiled its second store to be rebranded under the new Your Local Co-op' format in Torpoint, Plymouth. The society announced plans to axe its traditional Plymco fascia in favour of the new...
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Freshbake boosts image after MBO with £4m tv campaign
Mary Carmichael Frozen pastry specialist Freshbake Foods is to make its TV ad debut next March with a £4m campaign. The move is part of a concerted bid to boost the profile of the Freshbake brand, which was relaunched earlier this year following a...
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Waitrose contributes to probe into accentuating the positive
Waitrose employees are being invited to contribute to a research project designed to identify how people make positive life changes. The supermarket is just one organisation being canvassed by Graham Price, postgraduate student at Birkbeck College's...
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Two TV ads prescribed for Anadin as
big healthcare brands get winter push Simon Mowbray Consumers are to be bombarded with a multimillion pound round of advertising for major healthcare brands in the run-up to Christmas. Four key brands, all featured in these pages this week,...
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Bolton on a wet weekday afternoon is not the prettiest place
From his office window, the chairman of the Warburton family's eponymous 125-year-old bakery business can survey many of the company's landmarks, including the shop where his great grandfather, great uncle and great aunt started baking and selling...
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Shoppers have an uncanny knack of spotting when the head office suits are in a store and have no qualms about approaching and telling them exactly what they think about this or that. That's why we know the shoppers in Camberley and Crawley are...
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Safeway sizes up to weight worriers with Smart alternatives
Safeway is to launch a 150-strong range of low fat products called Eat Smart in time for the New Year dieting panic. Consisting of meals, desserts, sandwiches, snacks and meal accompaniments, the range features low fat, low calorie versions of...
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Posh 'n' Becks in another Somerfield
Regular readers of this page will know that Posh and Becks are big fans of the Somerfield store in Alderley Edge, Cheshire. So a picture of them in one of the multiple's stores should not be too surprising. But wait a minute. This is the...
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Lemsip's outdoor appeal
Popular cold and flu remedy Lemsip is among the brands in the money this winter, getting its own £5 million advertising campaign. The majority of the figure will be spent on TV advertising, although outdoor posters and ads in women's magazines will...
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Vulnerability of Asian stores showcased
The first episode in a new series of the controversial Channel 4 programme Sleepers revealed the vulnerability of Asian c-store operators to racially motivated abuse and attacks. Thursday's show followed undercover reporter Saira Khan who assumed...
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Big time for BBC/Disney
BBC Magazines will be working with Disney Publishing Worldwide on magazine projects that focus on the publication of Disney-branded titles for the pre-teen magazine market in the UK. BBC Magazines will assume the publication of Disney's Big Time ...