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Cashppoints: Securicor launches ATM service
Securicor Security has launched an ATM service in the UK and aims to develop between 2,500 and 3,000 sites within the next two years. Chief executive Nick Buckles said: "Although it is early days, we already have 250 sites in operation nationwide...
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Invisible strings attached
SCA padded out its Fempro portfolio last week, with the launch of Bodyform Invisible String Towels. The launch spearheads the brand's new marketing strategy which includes a budget of £3.2m an increase of 68% on last year. The tapered towel is...
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Qualification courses available at IGD
- Foundation Certificate in Management, accredited by Manchester Metropolitan University An education programme providing young managers in the food and grocery industry with essential background knowledge and skills that will assist them in their...
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Christmas Day trading: MP seeks Bill for a ban
Legislation to outlaw Christmas Day trading looks set to be in place in time for this year's festive period. Labour MP Gwyneth Dunwoody has agreed to introduce a private member's bill preventing stores over 3,000 sq ft opening for business on...
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Beer battle ends in a consumer KO
The only certain winner of the annual pre-Christmas battle for beer sales is the consumer while the brewers and retailers lick their wounds and count the cost of cutthroat pricing. This year the emphasis shifted away from stubbies and on to key...
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New Zealand: Enza rebuffed in the battle for permits
The lifting of the injunction preventing New Zealand apple and pear growers being granted independent export permits for 2.4 million cartons of fruit this season has led to the resignation of Enza's chief executive David Geor. The Enza board said...
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Intervention: New beef mountain rising
Brussels has begun building a new intervention beef mountain. But first purchases prompted by BSE on the continent have totalled only 12,000 tonnes, mostly in France and Germany. The stockpile will not match the previous mountain in size as...
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Beef: Buyers facing end of cheap Irish supplies?
Irish beef is proving less of a bonanza for British retailers than their critics among home producers believe, as cattle markets in the Republic have stabilised quickly after the BSE crisis on the continent. Farming lobbyists led by the National...
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BEW looks to regenerate image with Enjoy! meals
Karen Dempsey Bird's Eye Walls is stumping up £30m over two years to make Enjoy!, its new range of upmarket ready meals, a regular feature in UK freezers. Enjoy! is pitched as a "meal solution" for adults who choose what to eat at the last...
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It's a bigger and creamier Waistline
Exclusive Karen Dempsey Crosse & Blackwell is revamping its low fat dressings brand Waistline to take a bigger dollop of the salad cream market which was rejuvenated by Heinz last year. Waistline will be made with a creamier recipe and it will now...
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Republic of Ireland: Dunnes personnel procedures blasted by
Thirteen staff dismissed by Dunnes Stores during an industrial dispute in the Irish Republic have been awarded substantial compensation for being unfairly sacked. The awards, made by the Irish Employment Appeals Tribunal, averaged I£5,400, the...
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Wholesaling: I'll take my time over Booker'
A new managing director for Booker will not be appointed for at least 12 weeks, says Bill Grimsey, chief executive of the parent Iceland group. Grimsey, who has just completed his first week at the head of Iceland, said he was prepared to take his...
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Let's make it wider, boys
The news that the OFT and its band of legal eagles will stick to the letter of Stephen Byers' law and only enforce a trading code across the big five multiples, rather than all of them, will disappoint many. It seems ridiculous, particularly to...
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Clicks not bricks: Up close and personal
Undreamed of advertising opportunities are emerging from the plethora of new technologies. Alan Mitchell reports on the revolution There's no doubt about it. Technology is turning the world of advertising upside down. This week, for example,...
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Potatoes: Imports keep lid on British prices
New year assessment of the potato crop has indicated that around 12% either remains in the ground or is affected by waste. Farmgate prices have only increased marginally so far because at present growers are keen to offload middle to lower grade...
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Drinks: Bud Light fails to catch on in UK
US brewing giant Anheuser-Busch has decided to withdraw Bud Light from the UK after drinkers spurned the low calorie alternative to the brewer's best selling Budweiser brand. The current market leader in the light beer sector, Bud Light took the US...
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Pepsico builds salty snacks
PepsiCo has boosted its snack food portfolio in north Africa and the Middle East. A joint venture between Pepsico's Egyptian salty snack operation Tasty and market leader Chipsy will create a new company called Chipsy International. Pepsi will have...
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Canned meat: Stewed steak out of stock
Erratic shipments from Brazil caused by port strikes and shipping diversions have resulted in serious out of stock positions of both hot packs and canned Beef. Hardest hit is stewed steak which was scheduled to arrive in time for post Christmas...
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OBE for King of Castle
Colin Warden, chief executive of Castle MacLellan Foods, capped an award winning year with an OBE in the New Year honours for services to the Scottish food industry. In June last year an innovative range of soups from Castle MacLellan Foods was…
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Iceland chain goes for stability
The new managing director of Iceland is no stranger to the frozen food chain. And the appointment of Andrew Pritchard who joined the chain from Ernst & Young in 1983 gives the Iceland group some much needed stability at a time when the mds of...