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The Grocer focus on tobacco: Let's make with some more posit
- Menthol is one of the most popular cigarette sectors, growing from 2.9% to 3.6% market share in the last four years according to Rothmans which has just added a menthol variant to its premium Marlboro brand. In 10s and 20s, the larger pack of...
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The Grocer focus on tobacco: on your marks
The UK Duty Paid mark is the government's latest weapon in the war against smuggling. It applies only to cigarettes and handrolling tobacco and not to cigars and pipe tobacco. Manufacturers are phasing it in now and are changing barcodes to make...
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The Grocer focus on tobacco
Accessories: They're on a roll Roll-ups are back in fashion and at the heart of a £180m sector. Lisa Riley reports The £180m tobacco accessories sector is booming because of the high tax on ready made cigarettes which makes smokers seek out...
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The Grocer focus on tobacco
Analysis by Sarah Hardcastle If you think things couldn't get any harder in the cigarette and tobacco market, then brace yourself this year they'll be getting even tougher. Advertising could be banned. Forestalling has been quashed, which will...
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IGD report: Foodservice racing up overtaking lane
Foodservice sales could begin to overtake retail by 2025 as more consumers spurn the kitchen in favour of eating out. The IGD report Catering for the Consumer predicts that the foodservice market will grow 17% over the next 10 years and, with price...
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John gets fresh with society
West Midlands Co-op has appointed a new general manager to head up its expanded food division. He is John Toal who was chief executive of the food group at Shrewsbury-based Morris and Co which the society acquired in July. Before working at...
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Go Girl just grows and grows
This month's issue of Go Girl magazine has been increased to a bumper 44-pager. Priced £1.40, Go Girl is described as a lifestyle magazine that bridges the gap between young girls' magazines and the grittier, sexier teen titles. Target readership...
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New Year Honours: Knighthood for O'Reilly
Tony O'Reilly, who resigned as chairman of Heinz in September, gained an honorary knighthood in the New Year Honours. Ian Galloway, chairman of Scotbeef, was made a CBE. Roy Delves, chairman of Harry Tuffin Supermarkets, was made an MBE for...
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Profile: Ian Jones, Kimberley-Clark
Always the firebrand Clones are out at Kimberley-Clark, but Ian Jones personifies its well-defined culture, as Karen Dempsey discovers The headquarters of Kimberly-Clark in Kent are built on an old spitfire site and sometimes the building rumbles...
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The Seagram sale: The new world order
Diageo and Pernod Ricard have gained new global clout. But what now for the rest of the industry, ask Julian Hunt and Helen Gregory The auction of the Seagram spirits and wines business has been a chaotic and messy affair. But it has also been...
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News review 2000: Quotes
It's not just a case of protecting us against over-zealous buyers for the big boys. I have been bullied by smaller chains into making cash contributions for promotions' Midland bakery chain md on the Code of Practice With the benefit of...
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News review 2000: 'I'm sorry but life isn't that simple'
Genetically modified foods remained one of the hottest topics of the year for the grocery industry, thanks partly to an exclusive interview given to The Grocer by the Princess Royal. "Man has been tinkering with food production and plant...
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2000: it's a wrap
Grocery should raise a large glass to itself this Christmas. Despite a turbulent agenda during the first year of the twenty first century, it enters the second year of the new millennium in good heart. For despite unjustified attacks from crackpot...
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News review 2000: Win-win all the way
Multiples popped their corks in the c-store sector in Millennium year, but the major symbol groups carried on partying The multiples' headlong rush into the already crowded c-store sector continued with Sainsbury securing a deal with Shell to...
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News review 2000: Booker's rose basks in the limelight, then
In May, the UK's biggest wholesale company Booker became the junior partner in a "merger" with Iceland, and Booker boss Stuart Rose took over as chief executive of the merged company. Iceland's charismatic founder Malcolm Walker became chairman and...
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News review 2000: Where the big stories broke
The year 2000 was a record breaking time for The Grocer. We broke more exclusive stories than ever before as our team of journalists tracked events in the industry in the throes of a ferocious price war, bullied by the government, relentlessly...
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BEEF: EU to adopt UK-style cull
Cattle disposal scheme clouds supply/price outlook Surprisingly large volumes of beef could be taken out of the EU market through the new scheme for destroying cattle aged over 30 months as an anti-BSE measure. Details announced by the European...
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Jac Roper's advice centre: How to stay at the heart of your
If a week is a long time in politics, what does that make a year in retailing? Answers on a postcard please. Putting aside disputes over when the new millennium began or will begin, as years go, 2000 has seemed an apocryphal one. Floods, fuel...
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Tasting panel: Christmas Ale
From Shepherd Neame. This year's version of the Kent brewer's festive ale, it has national listings in the major multiples. Price £1.99 Abv: 6.7% TARGET CONSUMER Tom Joynson, 33, is a corporate sculptor who lives in south-west London This...
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Cash and carry: Sir Anwar all set on growth despite land pro
Exclusive Julian Hunt At least seven depots will be opened by Bestway next year, as the cash and carry group accelerates its growth programme. Chairman Sir Anwar Pervez believes there could be room for as many as 40 Bestway depots. However, he...