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The Grocer focus on jams, spreads & honey
Head to head: continental drift Bonne Maman Since the arrival in the UK of this French brand in 1986, the range has grown to 26 products covering jams, marmalade and a new reduced sugar brand Light & Fruity, plus a selection pack containing...
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Galaxy launches a raft of specials
Galaxy Publications will release five new titles in its specials series this month. The first, Ravers Clean Shaven, is on sale this week, priced £3.25. It will be in A4 format, carry 116 pages, have a print run of 60,000 and be on sale for eight...
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Working practices: Senior job sharers are outperforming thei
Flexible working and job shares have generally been ignored in the UK as a serious option for senior management. But the results of a three-way research partnership released last week at the British Psychological Society annual conference challenge...
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New products: Kellogg's is on a roll
Kellogg's is taking its first steps beyond the cereal category with the £6m launch of a kids fruit snack product. Real Fruit Winders are long flat strips of fruit based confectionery (containing 50% fruit) that come rolled up. Kids can peel them...
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Tesco takes a long lead in the push for market share
Tesco has emerged as the multiple with the biggest share of the magazines market from July to September. According to Seymour's December Monitor, Tesco had a market share of 7.4%, almost twice that of its nearest rival Sainsbury at 4%. Seymour's...
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Doing the Slamba
Latest entry into the premium packaged spirit market is a tequila and lemon mix from Scottish Courage Brands. Slamba is a 5.5% abv drink sold in a 250ml can inside a 440ml clear plastic container. It was launched in the on-trade at the end of last...
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Tasting panel: Artina Torrontes 1999
Part of the classic collection from the Argentinian wine company, designed to be affordable and distinctive TARGET CONSUMER Anna Lance, 53, is a teacher living near Petersfield in Hampshire This is a nice bottle with a good shape but the label is...
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2001: a retail odyssey
Given the jury's still out on the Vandevelde mission to revive M&S, it's no surprise that the City gave a seasonally cool reception to the Baker Street plan to open c-stores. And, despite some tabloid predictions to the contrary, the news has...
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Multiples: Somerfield reticent about link to Nisa-Today's
Somerfield has shocked the trade, and many of its own staff, by forging an alliance with the major opponent of the supermarket industry Nisa-Today's. After challenges from The Grocer, the two companies put out a low-key joint statement admitting...
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Girls: Barbie gets out and about
Barbie magazine is increasing publication to every three weeks from January 10. One of the most popular magazines in the girls' sector, it has an ABC of 138,462. The annual RSV is reported to be £2.25m and the change in publication frequency is...
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Soft drinks: It's Alive to new trends
Coca-Cola has set out its 2001 stall with the announcement of four UK product launches targeting younger, trendier sectors. Erosion of Coca-Cola's eponymous brand by other drinks sectors energy and still fruit-based drinks in particular has...
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Perkins Foods: Amro eyeing more buys
Perkins Foods' new owner Dutch bank ABN Amro is keen to bolster its latest acquisition with additional purchases in consumer products, said chief executive Ian Taylor. "Obviously our first task will be to bed down Perkins' latest acquisitions...
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Teen entertainment: Attic launch builds on Bafta top team ap
Attic Futura is to launch CD:UK, a new teen magazine which is a spin-off from the popular children's ITV programme SM:tv/cd:uk. The programme is presented by the award-winning team of Ant, Dec and Cat Deeley, who picked up a Bafta honour for the...
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Xpress arrival
Restaurant-style pizza reaches supermarket shelves for the first time this month, as Sainsbury and PizzaExpress join forces on a six product range. This includes four favourite PizzaExpress pizzas in 8" and 12" sizes: Margherita, Sloppy Giuseppe,...
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Wal-Mart: Thirteen new stores planned as Asda pumps in cash
Asda has unveiled a £450m investment plan for 2001 creating 5,000 new jobs and increasing its retail space by 600,000sq ft. The cash will be spent on 13 new stores (including four rebuilds and re-sites), six extensions, renewal and refurbishment...
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Republic of Ireland: Dublin the exception as Irish ban large
The Irish government has rubberstamped temporary planning guidelines banning large retail developments in the Republic, scuppering any lingering hopes harboured by Dunnes and Tesco of building market share through big out of town superstores. ...
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BEEF: Winter scarcity, spring glut?
Subsidy system causes cattle shortage Inadequate supplies of steers and young bulls are causing concern in the processing sector, prompting warnings of upward pressure on British beef prices in the next few weeks despite the normal seasonal...
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Little biscuits, big plans
McVitie's £6m-backed launch of Penguin Flipper Dippers and Mini BN snacks shows it using key brands to harness the booming eat now and kids' snack markets. Single packs (rsp 49p) of Flipper Dippers a pot of Penguin flipper-shaped biscuits with...
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Consumer research: Big brother is watching you
Consumers are under ever closer scrutiny as the industry strives to know exactly what will make them spend more, keeping armies of researchers in business. Helen Gregory reports Ever get the feeling you're being watched? It might not be your...
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Management: Taking sustainability from the meadow to the boa
What can an organic farm teach those who run a a large corporation? A lot, according to Alan Heeks who has published The Natural Advantage, a book which maps out the principles of organic farming and then demonstrates how each of those principles...