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First impressions: Bertolli Olive Oil
Unilever Bestfoods wants consumers to regard its Bertolli olive oils like wine. Our guinea pigs try the Jilly Goolden approach. Teacher Tina Garnham and engineer Riccardo Meldoles live in Hove, East Sussex My partner does most of the cooking at...
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Booker Prize for Excellence: Essex gold mine scoops Booker'
David and Veronica Tubby, whose c-store has thrived despite the close proximity of an Asda, were crowned Best Retailers at the Booker Prize for Excellence this week. Judges described the store Country Produce, Cold Norton, Essex as "the only...
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Sainsbury tests price elasticity with a premium wine box sel
Tim Palmer The most expensive wine box in the business is being launched by Sainsbury. It believes there is a new breed of wine box consumer which is prepared to pay a high price for top quality wine in bulk. The multiple is bringing out a £20...
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Brandwatch profile: spirits
Top 15 brands advertised (by media) £k Mar '00 - Feb '01 Total Press Cinema Radio Outdoor TV Total 30,961 ...
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Patak's freshens up Indian bread with teardrop naans
Sheila Eggleston Patak's hopes to bridge the gap between "supermarket best" standard and restaurant quality naans by introducing traditional teardrop shaped ambient naans. Four varieties plain, peshwari, garlic and coriander, and sun-dried...
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UK Brewing: Splitting headache
Courtroom drama will mark the end of Interbrew's run-in with the government. But it will take more than legal minds to ease the pain in the UK brewing industry says Tim Palmer Interbrew has little chance of overturning the government's decision...
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Bringmywine.com sustainable'
Following its offline launch in December, bringmywine.com launched its online wine e-tail site this week. Wine director Kim Tidy said: "Our extensive market research showed the market for fine wine is increasing year on year and there is a customer...
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FISH: Organic prawns debut at Brussels seafood exhibition
Key themes of the seafood industry thrown up at the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels last week were sustainability, added value to tempt consumers away from traditional species, and bringing an "organic feel" to products. Food from Britain...
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COLLIN & HOBSON BUILDS POMONA
Tamworth based yogurt producer Collin & Hobson plans to build up its Pomona brand with a clutch of new products, including a four-pack chocolate dessert and an ACE multivitamin juice drink. Current Pomona products include a range of Very Low Fat and...
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Fish: NZ exporters gearing up for Hoki business in UK
Waitrose currently the only buyer, and marketing questions remain Seafood exporters in New Zealand are hoping to kickstart their Hoki business in the UK after finally winning Marine Stewardship Council accreditation for their fishery. It has taken...
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The Grocer focus on soft drinks: flavoured carbonates: this
Traditional flavours are fighting for space in the chiller with exotic newcomers that don't depend purely on price. Karen Dempsey reports The forecast for flavoured carbonates in 2001 is upbeat but only if the sun shines often enough and long...
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Table talk: Dierdre Hutton, chair, National Consumer Council
Consumer confidence in food production and farming is in crisis. A recent survey of ours showed that, in the light of the foot and mouth crisis, almost two-thirds of consumers believe their health could be at risk from the way in which animals are...
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Pigmeat; Cheaper Danish on way as herd grows
Other countries likely to grow capacity and push EU market into surplus Cheaper pork and bacon next year is the message to UK buyers from Denmark, where latest farm census results show an astonishing increase in pig numbers. Although the Danes...
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Ramsden's chills out
Young's Bluecrest aims to do for chilled fish what it's done for frozen with a new product drive under the Harry Ramsden banner. Two new products about to hit the chiller cabinet are the dual branded Young's Harry Ramsden's Cod Fillets and Haddock...
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Jersey milk: Graham's Dairy Company
Graham's Dairy Company has secured a £1m contract to supply Jersey milk to more than 400 Sainsbury supermarkets across the UK. The Bridge of Allan based company will supply Sainsbury with premium milk under the Gold Top Jersey and Guernsey Milk...
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DAIRY: Record rain hits milk compositional quality
In past 12 months average butterfat content of milk fell The compositional quality of milk has fallen as a result of the rainfall Britain is enduring. As every good dairy farmer knows, cows are just like humans in that they prefer sun on their...
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Meat Consumption data: Public FMD fear confirmed
Sharp reductions in household meat purchases in March were due in part to consumers eating from the freezer, after buying heavily in response to warnings of shortages due to FMD. However, MLC research confirms traders' belief that demand has also...
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Convenience store multiples: Nisa-Today's takes over T&S fro
T&S Stores has dropped Palmer & Harvey McLane subsidiary Snowking as its frozen foods supplier and signed up with Nisa-Today's in a £75m deal. T&S buying and marketing director Geoff Purdy would not comment on the specific reasons for the switch,...
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Convenience stores: No standalones for Shell
Shell has finally pulled the plug on its stalled bid to develop a chain of standalone Shell Select stores, and will close the only one, on The Strand in London, at the end of the month. A spokesman denied its first foray into pure convenience...
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The Grocer focus on soft drinks: Still, cool water keeps the
ACNielsen MMS Summer is the indisputable peak selling period for soft drinks. But what do consumers buy? What factors make them purchase more of one type of product than another. And by how much do sales rise? ACNielsen Homescan has evaluated...