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Brandwatch profile: washing up/ dishwasher products
Top 11 brands advertised (by media) £k Mar '00 - Feb '01 Total Press Radio Outdoor TV ...
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BRITISH MEAT FEDERATION: Scott rejects calls for return to l
Logic points to producers and plants having to follow the market trend' Further expensive and politically unpopular restructuring of the slaughtering industry, involving closing many more plants, is an essential and inevitable consequence of...
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Major success in growing wine business for independent trade
Sir; After the most successful FWD Drinksummit ever in wholesalers' and suppliers' view, I was disappointed to read your headline Blueprint "useless" in the face of hefty discounting of wines' (The Grocer, May 19, p10). The article did a grave...
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Profile: Dianne Thompson, Camelot
She's just the ticket Dianne Thompson has secured both a sympathetic image and a second franchise for Camelot. Anne Bruce finds out how Reflecting on a career which has just brought her the accolade of Business Woman of the Year, Dianne Thompson...
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Camelot: National Lottery
The Dream Machine The lottery operator has set the balls rolling for the next seven years and come up with plenty of ideas to hlep retailers hit the jackpot. Anne Bruce reports As Camelot prepares for a second seven year stint in office, its...
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Camelot: National Lottery: Reselection period is critical
Eddie Thompson, chief executive, Morning Noon & Night and chairman of the Scottish Retail Consortium said: "Retailers are pleased with Camelot. It is an efficient supplier of a successful lottery. But I don't see the lottery as a social health...
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Looney Tunes give cartoon strip and name strip fun on Highla
Karen Dempsey Highland Spring is enlisting the help of Bugs Bunny and Tweety Pie in an ambitious drive to get kids to drink bottled mineral water. The licensing deal with Looney Tunes will also use the images of Sylvester and Tasmanian Devil on...
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Foot and mouth disease: Supply chain fears now focus on medi
More obstacles have been removed from the supply chain but blockages due to FMD are still causing problems for wholesalers and retailers. As The Grocer went to press the MLC was cautiously optimistic it would be able to announce the first of the...
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CHERRIES: Setback for Picota
The Spanish stalkless Picota crop grown in the designated Valle de Jerte region west of Madrid has been badly hit by poor fruit set which may ultimately reduce production by 60% of its full potential. With Picota harvesting due to start between...
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Shrinkage: a costly game
The fmcg sector has neglected the growing problem of shrinkage. It's time they started to act, says a new study. Julian Hunt reports If you had 18bn euros to spend, what would you buy? Colin Peacock, Gillette's customer development director, has a...
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Waitrose: Costs dent profits but Felwick expects record
Waitrose md David Felwick is predicting record profits this year, despite profits for the year to January 27 dropping 11% to £57m. Sales for the same period were up 13% at £2,095m. Felwick said: "Profits during the first half of last year were...
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Executive moves: Craft moves on from Interbrew
Former Spar UK md Garry Craft has left his job as category development director at Interbrew. Craft left Spar two years ago and later joined the drinks side of Bass, taken over by Interbrew late last year. He said: "When I joined Bass it was on the...
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Spray's wave crashes in
Ocean Spray's £7m summer advertising deluge is to include TV, women's magazines, posters, PoS and sampling. The TV campaign, which features a swimmer ploughing through a pool full of cranberries, airs on June 1 and runs until August. The strapline...
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The Grocer focus on deli and food to go: service with a fax
Safeway's store at St Katharine Docks, London, is the most evolved meals to go operation in the UK. The store received a £2m refit last year to inject fun and excitement into shopping chief executive Carlos Criado-Perez calls it...
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The Grocer focus on deli and food to go: home meal replaceme
Sales growth has spiralled as retailers take up an effective weapon against foodservice A mere infant in retail terms, home meal replacement (HMR), or "food to go" has seen phenomenal growth in the two years or so since it was introduced to the...
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The Grocer focus on deli and food to go
analysis by Sarah Hardcastle - innovate your way out of deli decline - pre-pack banishes counter queues - food to go builds the margins The choice of TV chef Jamie Oliver to front Sainsbury's Try Before You Buy TV and in store campaign is more...
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The Grocer focus on deli and food to go: Trends and developm
Retailers who fail to stock chilled ox and lunch tongues on the deli counter are missing out on an excellent sales opportunity, according to Richard Burdekin, managing director of Rea Valley which specialises in these products with its First Grade...
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Despatches: Poland
Taking the long view Forcing the pace of change in Poland, where a daily shop at the corner store is the norm, is not as easy as the global giants first thought. Hélène Aubrée reports Polish people still remember what shopping used to be like in...
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Magazines: Eye Spy dives into the subterranean world of esp
Eye Spy!, a magazine dedicated to subjects such as intelligence, espionage and terrorism, was launched on Thursday from Eye Spy Publishing. Priced £2.99, it aims to capitalise on what the publisher calls "the recent explosion of interest in the...
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Scottish Food and Drink Industry Strategy Group: John urges
Scotland's food and drink manufacturers have been told they must not be distracted by the short-term issues created by the foot and mouth disaster. Geoffrey John, chairman of the Scottish Food and Drink Industry Strategy Group, said the industry...