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This'll learn 'em
Trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt remember her, she's the lady who sent Ben Gill purple with rage by sitting on the code of practice is promising us a "more businesslike" DTI. Not before time. Of course, cynics, with past experiences...
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Nisa rolls out e-procurement
Nisa is rolling out its e-procurement activities across all of its trading divisions using the reverse auction technology platform from Barclays b2b. The Barclays b2b team has spent several months working with Nisa to incorporate the auction...
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Hazlewood in faster growing sectors
Almost a year after purchasing Hazlewood Foods, Greencore said it had made "substantial progress" in restructuring its business and repositioning itself as a major player in Europeanconvenience foods and ingredients. Despite problems in the ambient...
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New look Kwik Save
Shoppers in Sale, south Manchester, are the first in the country to get a taste of how Kwik Save could look by 2004. Sale High Street has been chosen as the site of the first concept store to be developed as part of a strategy of "changing the ...
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Sauces from Latin start up
Newly formed ethnic foods company Latina Brands is bringing Cuban and South American flavours to the forefront with the launch of five cooking sauces its first product range. The company, headed by former Sharwood's md Elaine Underwood, aims to...
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Santa with a rosey nosey
Batemans has introduced a bit of fun to the Christmas beer fixture by adding a Santa Claus hat to its seasonal Rosey Nosey Ale. The ale comes in a gift pack complete with a deck of cards and retails at £2.49. Sainsbury, Safeway, Booths, Unwins and...
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RECALL FOR
RED SQUARE Halewood International has recalled part of its production of one litre bottles of Red Square vodka following the discovery of glass particles in some bottles. A spokesman said this was isolated to a small number of bottles which were...
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Spitfire's tactical retreat
Shepherd Neame has toned down the controversial nature of its posters in a new round of ads for Spitfire Ale. The Kent brewer recently came under fire for the potentially xenophobic nature of its Bottle of Britain ads which had a World War Two...
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Spirit of the times
n Plans for a duty paid mark now only apply to spirits. And Customssay they are winning the war on smuggling. Simon Mowbray and Tim Palmer report The dispute over whether Britain should get a Duty Paid mark on alcohol advanced this week as Customs...
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Family-run Neish's had humble beginningsit began life 47 ye
Aileen and James Anderson own the store and work there part-time, while their daughter Lara is the manager. Together they decided on a major refit everything is being ripped out and replaced lighting, ceiling, air conditioning, and the floor...
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The total bacon market is valued at £979m in the latest year
However this inflation is solely due to price (up 10% year on year) since March 2001, a result of FMD. Although the buyer base remains very high, frequency has been affected and bacon is now purchased just over once every three weeks. Bacon...
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All Naafi stores to get Bake n' Bite units
Naafi has struck a deal with instore bake-off specialist Country Choice to supply all of its outlets across the UK with Bake n' Bite bake-off units. Country Choice is now the preferred supplier to the 175 Naafi stores in the UK, which include...
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AN AMBITIOUS FLAGSHIP
Steady expansion has been the game plan of the Flagship Foods Group. It consists of Roach Foods, its bacon and cooked meat business, pigmeat processor Dalehead Foods and British Quality Pigs, and its latest buy, foodservice company Wicketts...
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Archers revamp
Archers Schnapps has been redesigned as part of Guinness UDV's multi-milliion pound support for the brand this year. The new look 70cl bottle hits shelves in the multiples next month and will be rolled out in other pack sizes and trade channels...
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Britain: TIME TO CUT BACK
With its acquisition of Malton, Grampian becomes the dominant supplier of bacon in the UK says Elaine Watson Two years ago the jewel in the crown of the British bacon industry was driving growth at parent company Unigate and clocking up annual...
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BACKING BRITISH STRENGTH
Danish Crown's decision to restructure its European processing operations is testimony to the importance it places on the UK market. And the changes are good news for buyers in this country, says international president Carsten Jakobsen. The new...
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So why did you buy that?
Shoppers walking through the meat aisles of their local super-markets in September may have been bemused to find themselves being asked why they bought what they did from the bacon fixture. They were being quizzed as part of a major instore...
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Parkinson heads McVitie's cakes
United Biscuits has made Joy Parkinson director of the McVitie's Cake Company. She replaces Garry Biggs who is taking over as McVitie's marketing director. Parkinson, who will report to Colin Hutchison, UK & Export managing director, will oversee a...
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A case of rejuvenation
The notion that "most" Sainsbury shoppers are poofy southerners with plums in their mouths is almost as daft as the idea that typical Asda patrons wear clogs, breed whippets and hang pictures of Geoffrey Boycott in their outside loos.Yet, that's...
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Remember superb Caters chain
Sir; re your articles on the evolution of the supermarket, The Grocer, November 3. Your omission of Caters Supermarkets, which provided leadership in fresh food supermarketing at that time, needs to be corrected. In the early 1960s we had sales…