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Diana margarine stays Van den Bergh is pressing ahead with its Thanks packs of Flora margarine endorsed with the name of Diana, Princess of Wales, despite the public outcry, and claims it is a tacky initiative. A limited number of packs have been...
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Promotions pour vast amounts of money down the drain. How can they be made more efficient? Continual evaluation is one answer, as Helen Feary of IRI reports More than 60% of some grocery lines are now sold on promotion, with millions of pounds...
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Promote what sells not what doesn't! Independent retailers could be losing customer footfall by promoting the wrong lines and some of the blame must lie with the UK's cash and carry wholesalers. While a number of C&C trade press advertisements...
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Promote what sells not what doesn't! Independent retailers could be losing customer footfall by promoting the wrong lines and some of the blame must lie with the UK's cash and carry wholesalers. While a number of C&C trade press advertisements...
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SUPERMARKET style
Huge car supersites have brought supermarket practices to car buying in the UK where a vast selection of piled high sold cheap' vehicles represents massive savings on UK list prices. And now vans and pick-ups are being sold in the same way....
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Two for tea
Speciality tea and coffee company, Twinings, has made two appointments to its marketing team. Kathryn Gorin has become product manager responsible for the new product development and marketing of the Twinings speciality tea and gift ranges. She...
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Foot and mouth crisis week 14: Finnie calls for rethink of c
Exclusive Julian Hunt Ross Finnie, Scotland's high profile rural affairs minister, is urging his colleagues in Whitehall and Brussels to rethink their cull policy for tackling foot and mouth and says they should look again at the issue of...
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Election 2001: Top of my wish list: Graham White, James Walk
Each week in the run up to polling day on June 7, The Grocer will be asking leading figures from across the food and drink industry to identify the one issue they think the newly elected government should tackle first Graham White Chief...
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Interbrew's analysis points to £34m drain caused by out of
Exclusive Tim Palmer A scientific approach to the reasons for out of stocks has been undertaken by Interbrew UK. The problem is well known as a cause for lost sales. Suppliers have blamed retailers for mismanaging stock replenishment, while...
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Five more wines get £50k boost as German drive enters year t
Five new German wines will between them be getting a £50,000 marketing boost this year as part of the German Wine Institute's plans to develop UK sales. This is part of a concerted effort to rejuvenate the franchise for the wines in this country....
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That was the year that was 50
August 26, 1950. The formation of Craigmillar Creamery Co. Ltd. and British Creameries Ltd. was announced by Mr. Clive Van den Bergh, chairman of the newly formed company, at a meeting at Unilever House on August 18. Mr. Van den Bergh also announced...
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Careers: Tesco offers internet access to jobseekers with DoE
Tesco is extending its thrust in the personnel arena to cater for customers shopping for a new career. It has started trials of a free government sponsored internet point for jobseekers. It partnered with the Department of Education and Employment...
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Association of Convenience Stores: Rae to be ACS chief
Key Lekkerland managing director David Rae will be the next chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores. Rae will join the ACS on August 31 as chief executive designate, and will take over from current ACS chief executive Trevor Dixon...
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New product development: Cranswick confidently adds value in
The proof it is possible for a meat product manufacturer to profit by adding value Pork processor Cranswick's confident launch of a range of premium sausages using entirely home-produced raw material highlights the unreliability of common...
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Adkin becomes operations director for AF Blakemore's Tates
Stuart Adkin is the new operations director of Tates, the company owned stores division of Spar wholesaler AF Blakemore. He replaces Geoff Hallam, who became managing director following the retirement of Colin Ellis. Adkin has been with the…
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Jac Roper's advice centre: Universal Bank brings post office
Card transactions are now the way of the world and it's good to see the Post Office is finally catching up, by virtue of the lifeline it is being thrown by the government. Around 500 sub post offices are closing each year, and at a rate of around...
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New Zealand: Lorneville does it again
Criticism of the loss of hundreds of small abattoirs and their replacement by giant slaughterhouses in the UK is put into perspective by record throughput at New Zealand exporter Alliance Group's flagship plant at Lorneville. Lorneville, (where...
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ECR Europe annual conference: Alive but not kicking
Europe's grocery industry has come a long way since the days of the corner shop. ECR Europe claims to know how to take the industry forward from here. Or does it? Julian Hunt reports Those wandering around the ECR Europe gathering in Glasgow last...
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The Grocer focus on deli and food to go: It's all go at Spar
Spar is fully committed to the food to go concept. "It's highly successful, provided you have the right products, in the right location, at the right time," says trading controller Robert Neal. Spar began with a pilot scheme two years ago in a...
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Newstrade: Retailer fury at ANMW carriage charges hike
The Association of Newspaper and Magazine Wholesalers has provoked furious reactions across the industry with proposals to increase carriage charges on weekend newspapers. The proposals come as publishers, wholesalers and retailers continue to...