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Home loans and purchase guide
Crimson Publishing is launching Home Buyer, a new magazine aimed at consumers choosing and buying a home. Issue one of the monthly consumer title hits the news stands on November 16, with a cover price of £2.99. Home Buyer aims to provide its...
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Shake up for Hazlewood Pizza
Convenience foods specialist Hazlewood Foods has made two new appointments in its pizza division. Angus Raynard, former project director at the new pizza factory in Deeside, succeeds David McLaughlin as Hazlewood Pizza managing director. Adrian...
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Zest Organic Tomato & Herb Pasta Sauce
Rsp: £1.99 for 355g The Zest range, distributed by G Costa, comprises six pasta sauces, four pestos and one sun dried tomato paste. All are free from artificial additives. The organic tomato and herb variant was launched in May 2001 and achieved...
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Partners have major role in turnaround
Discount chain Kwik Save has launched it first national promotion of meat and fresh produce. Three deals are featured in the chain's latest leaflets and press ads. Consumers in England and Wales are being offered bone-in legs of pork for 99p/lb,...
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Village newsagent
Denby Dale is an affluent, village in West Yorkshire, with easy access to the motorway network. Denby Dale Newsagents fronts a busy high street and is an established business with a healthy trade. It is surrounded by housing including new...
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Unified responses are vital
Given, at the last count, there were 10 separate government investigations, commissions or inquiries, all spotlighting issues across the chain, you could be forgiven for thinking that grocery will never be the same again. So no apologies for...
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Switch to central distribution threatens 6,000 jobs
The switch to central distribution by multiples in the Irish Republic threatens 6,000 jobs among suppliers in the I£5bn grocery trade, according to a report by an Irish parliamentary committee. The report, prepared by the state-funded National...
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See it in store says Asda: we are 15% better value
Asda is between 10% and 15% better value than its competitors, according to the chain's new boss Tony DeNunzio. Speaking at an industry briefing on Wednesday, DeNunzio said Asda had already invested £150m in reducing prices this year, but was not...
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MN&N profit to soar 15%
Scottish convenience chain Morning Noon & Night was looking Back to the Future at its tenth anniversary conference at the weekend. Predicting a 15% rise in profits for the year to March 2002, chairman Eddie Thompson said Morning Noon & Night's...
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Budgens has opened its 26th Budgens Local at a petrol foreco
Monkhill Confectionery will assume responsibility for sales and marketing of the Butterkist brand from Cadbury Trebor Bassett from January 1, 2002. Barclaycard Merchant Services is extending its pre-pay service to include the mobile phone network...
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Morrisons goes for £4.99 Bordeaux
Morrisons has dropped its £2.99 own label Claret in favour of a £4.99 wine which will be the chain's only own label Bordeaux red. The chain is one of the first to abandon the sub £3 price point for own label Bordeaux and the move is part of an...
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n It's 50 years since the first full size self-service super
Shoppers were just getting used to the new concept of self-service in 1951 when Express Dairies opened arguably the first such full-offer supermarket in Streatham Hill. The Grocer reported: "Fifteen hundred South London housewives performed their...
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Palmer aims to keep innovation on a roll at Whole Earth Food
Whole Earth Foods has appointed Mark Palmer as its new marketing controller. Palmer joins from Burger King where he was senior marketing manager for the UK and Ireland. Before that he worked on brands that included Hula Hoops and Go Ahead at...
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Momentum behind PASS scheme builds with all-party MP backing
A new national accreditation scheme for proof of age cards could be up and running as early as next summer. Bill Moyes, British Retail Consortium director general, said 17 industry bodies and companies including the Association of Convenience...
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M&S anchor by Thames
Marks and Spencer has exchanged on the agreement for a lease at developer St George's Imperial Wharf project in London. The M&S deal and another for a major hotel are the first transactions at the 32-acre brownfield site by the River Thames next to...
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The coming together of arch rivals Anchor and Lurpak astoni
The merger of the New Zealand Dairy Board's EU dairy products business into Arla Foods is still subject to regulatory approval. But now the dust has settled on the initial announcement, many industry insiders think the move is a sensible one in the...
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Whitty regret over anuga
Sir; I was disappointed to read your editorial (Germany 1, DEFRA 0,) in The Grocer on October 20. I was also disappointed not to be at Anuga. I had intended to speak at the British Meat dinner and then spend a whole day there. Like you, I feel that...
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Mars merges UK food and petcare arms
Mars' food and petcare businesses in the UK, Mars Confectionery and Pedigree Masterfoods, are merging to form Masterfoods (Division of Mars UK Ltd). The new trading identity, it was revealed on Thursday, is effective from January. MD of the merged...
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Sushi sarnies arrive at JS
The first sushi sandwich to go on sale outside Japan is being showcased at Sainsbury this week as the chain develops its partnership with restaurant chain Yo! Sushi. The sushi sandwiches' will come in packs of two or three, featuring rice instead...