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Brandwatch profile: Frozen ready meals
Top 15 brands advertised (by media) £k Jan '00 - Dec '00 Total Press Radio Outdoor TV Total ...
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Multiples: Waitrose: We're catching our breath'
Sales at Waitrose stores jumped 13% last year to £2.1bn, but extra costs look likely to make profits at the chain less impressive. Waitrose announced its preliminary estimate of annual results with like-for-like sales up 3% a trend which...
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Diet Coke's diary includes a date with Bridget Jones
A tie up between Diet Coke and Bridget Jones is the highlight of Coca-Cola Enterprises' £37m support package for its brands this year. Coke, Diet Coke, Fanta and Dr Pepper take the lion's share of the spend. The £16.6m on Coke includes support for...
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Sheerness: Capespan builds major prepack facility
Capespan is building a massive £1.5m packhouse in the heart of Sheerness Docks as part of its distribution and short-term storage complex. Although only the steelwork is in place, marketing director Martin Dunnett says the 22,000 sq ft facility...
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Bulmers gets kick from Sidekick
Bulmers believes it could have the next big thing with its single shot schnapps Sidekick. It launched the brand in the on-trade at the end of last year. Customer marketing director Keith Wishart said: "We seem to have really latched on to...
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Canada wins dispensation
Much-prized access to Europe for its ice wine has been won by the Canadians as a result of the latest talks on a wine and spirits agreement. The EU's wine management committee has approved a proposal to allow Canadian ice wine into the EU despite...
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Canned meat: Importers face chaos as retail demand doubles
Hot packs such as minced beef and stewed steak show biggest increases Importers of canned meats report an increase in demand of over 120% as consumers clear the shelves of fresh product in the wake of foot and mouth disease. A survey among the...
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Canned fish: Princes prepares to pack new punch in tuna war
ExclusiveKaren Dempsey Princes is firing another salvo in its battle with Heinz for supremacy in the canned tuna market by racing to be the first to bring pouch pack product to the UK. Princes Ready to Go Tuna is set to launch in May, with a July...
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M&S's centre move
Marks & Spencer is set to open a store in Peel Holdings' £880m retail and leisure park,Trafford Centre, Manchester. M&S will move onto the site of the 36,000 sq ft C&A store, which is closing, after initially rejecting the idea of a site at the...
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Mini Cheddars turn smokey and tangy
KP is taking Mini Cheddars beyond their cheesy homeland into non-cheese-based territory. Two new flavours Smokey BBQ and Tangy Salsa join the range from March 26, replacing Cheese and Onion and Cheese and Ham which will be delisted. This...
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Coca-Cola: Shake-up leaves Stahl stymied
The departure of Coca-Cola president and chief operating officer Jack Stahl just 11 months after he took up the high profile post has taken analysts by surprise. Stahl resigned after a top level shake-up at the soft drinks giant divided Coke into...
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Tasting panel: COLLAGE ZINFANEL-SHIRAZ
From Kendal-Jackson. Part of the first wave in this Californian's efforts to grab a slice of the UK premium wine market. Abv: 13.5% Price: £6.99 ...
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Extra comedy
Batchelors is running a Comedy Challenge across the UK this month to raise awareness of its male-oriented Cup a Soup Extra brand. Local heats take place during March, in conjunction with pub chain Yates's Wine Lodge, to find the best...
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Magazines: Supermarkets sustain sales rise as CTNs continue
The supermarket groups continue to expand their share of the magazines market. The latest Monthly Monitor from Seymour Marketing shows that between September and November, Tesco gained 0.2% of the market and Sainsbury 0.1%, compared with August to...
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The Grocer focus on ice cream: just one Wall's Cornetto for
Birds Eye Wall's claims a technologyfirst with soft ice cream while smaller companies are adding vitamins or yogurt or going organic Smaller companies are keeping the ice cream industry on its toes with their innovative products. Unusual flavours,...
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The Grocer focus on ice cream
analysis by Sheila Eggleston - Cabinets get all-industry ranges - Birds Eye Wall's volumes up 7% - Emphasis on building brands - Smaller tubs arrive The DTI and Competition Commission ruling on freezer exclusivity and a lacklustre summer made...
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The Grocer focus on ice cream: New Product Monitor
In the first of a new series, ACNielsen identifies the top 10 performers among newly launched products. The table below shows the top 10 four-weekly average performances (by value) of ice creams that were launched last season. From April until...
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Seafood: Irish supply dearer but long-term surplus looms
Walsh persuades Brussels to extend PFD and keep prices in Republic underpinned British buyers seeking alternative supplies will find Irish beef slightly more expensive than they had hoped thanks to a tactical victory claimed by Irish agriculture...
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Definitely no, prime minister
An isolated case of foot in mouth disease, which can be laid squarely at Downing Street's door, has signalled another clobbering of the multiples. It was a routine evening with West Country Labour Party supporters. Yet the Prime Minister's off the...
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The Grocer focus on fish & seafood: trends and developments
The UK relies heavily on Nordic countries for supplies of cod, taking just 7% of its 170,000 tonnes/year requirement from the depleted stocks of the North and Irish Seas. The WWF has placed cod on its list of endangered species and the EU recently...