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Noddy drives organic vehicle
Highgrove Foods hopes to entice more kids into organics by putting Noddy on its new range of organic yogurts. The organic four-pack launched on May 28 has four flavours: strawberry, raspberry, apricot and banana (rsp: £1.29). Highgrove claims...
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Medium dry white for Talamanca
Nisa-Today's is adding another boxed wine to its Talamanca range. A Medium Dry White will join the Red which was launched last summer. Talamanca is Cellars International's biggest selling brand. The range is available in four styles in 75cl and...
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Magazine scene: home entertainment
Riding a revolution While many established sectors of the magazine market struggle to maintain readers, one area that is showing strong growth is the home entertainment segment. The market is divided largely between three publishers WVip,...
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MP's fisticuffs were a folly
Readers of The Grocer have condemned Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott for his swift punch at an egg-throwing protester, saying his actions will encourage violence in their communities. A straw poll taken last week showed that a large majority...
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Marks and Spencer: Vandevelde sees food as key to M&S reviva
We need to extend in food, home and beauty as well as financial services' An extended food operation is to be the lynchpin of M&S's recovery strategy. Chief executive and chairman Luc Vandevelde said: "Food is the best example of where we are...
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Yazoo gets really Swinging
Mary Carmichael Dairy company Campina is squaring up to children's juice drink giants Sunny Delight and Juice Up with the latest extension of its Yazoo children's brand, chilled fruit juice drink Yazoo Swing. The company is highlighting the...
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JOB OF THE WEEK: Name: Martin Graham
Position: Managing director- UK and Ireland Company: Tibbett & Britten Group The job: Graham has assumed overall responsibility for logistics group Tibbett & Britten's fmcg, manufacturing, technology and e-commerce divisions in the UK and...
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Hall mark of quality
Bulmers has signed up Mick Jagger's former wife Jerry Hall for its latest TV campaign for Strongbow cider. She joins the brand's champion Johnny Vaughan for the latest commercial where she is seen downing a pint of cider. This is Hall's first...
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Republic of Ireland: Order under pressure as prices soar
An unexpected surge in food inflation in the Irish Republic has brought trade union calls for price controls, with economists recommending an urgent government rethink on retaining the Groceries Order, which bans below-cost selling. According to...
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KWV keeps up the work
KWV is planning to spend £2m this year marketing and advertising its key brands. Most will be spent on its KWV and Robert's Rock ranges with some cash set aside to support its red blend Roodeberg. MD Vernon Davis said this was the second phase in...
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Opinion: Yes, but can we trust them?
You don't need to read between the lies to know that, whoever wins on June 7, Britain's troubled rural scene will be churned up by a political bulldozer. Indeed, even business giants chewing guinea fowl at the CBI's Park Lane love-in this week...
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Scope for wholesaling
Startime Patisserie is located on a main shopping street in Torquay on the south Devon coast. Established in 1976, the business is highly regarded for the quality of its pastries and cakes, prepared on site by a full-time baker, plus fresh breads ...
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Foot & mouth crisis week13: News analysis: meat sales
Meat: is it time to go over the top? Foot and mouth is yet another PR disaster for a meat chain still shadowed by BSE and CJD, so many trade figures have been puzzled by a low key response from the MLC to date. Marketing director Richard Lowe...
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Multiples: JS says it's no 2 in online race
Sainsbury claims it has leapfrogged over Asda, Iceland and Waitrose to become the UK's number two online grocery retailer and the fourth biggest in the world. Jennifer Baker-Hirst, new business development director, said the Sainsbury's To You...
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Netherlands: Non food will occupy 20% of Ahold's 70 new mega
Ahold is planning to open 70 "mega-supermarkets" in the Netherlands over the next three to five years trading under its Albert Heijn fascia. The detailed design of the format is still being finalised, but about 20% of the selling space will be...
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New special election 2001: Top of my wish list, Graham Melmo
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 Melmoth, Chief...
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Obituary: Tesco's Hyman Kreitman dies at 86
Former Tesco joint chairman Hyman Kreitman has died at the age of 86. A son-in-law of the multiple's founder, the late Sir John Cohen, he joined Tesco in 1946 as an executive director when the chain had 95 open-fronted shops. He played a major role...
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Abolition of Resale Price Maintenance: The multiples get sla
Within hours of the abolition of RPM, the major multiple grocers had unveiled plans to slash a selection of healthcare prices by up to 50%. At Asda, Anadin regular 16s were down from £1.75 to 87p, while other cuts included Rennie 24s reduced from...
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SHEEPMEAT: How the diverted export volume could be absorbed
Avoidance of price-crushing oversupply in the UK sheepmeat market this year depends upon domestic output, imports and consumption together changing in ways sufficient to eradicate or absorb the usual export volume of at least 100,000 tonnes. The...
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Walker makes tortilla accounts her Mission in life
Mission Foods, manufacturer of tortilla products, has appointed Clare Walker as UK business manager. She will develop own label and brand business, and Mission's retail listings in the UK. Prior to joining Mission Foods, Walker worked as territory...