All news articles – Page 4301
-
News
SKB gives Night Nurse a tonic
The Night Nurse TV advert with its reggae theme tune returns to screens this week as the winter sniffle season begins. SmithKline Beecham is targeting the core Night Nurse market of women aged 25 to 44 shopping for the household with the £2.4m...
-
News
Peggy's going
Peggy's, on the Hotwells Road in Hotwells, Bristol, is a newsagent on a main commuter route. Run by the current owner for 24 years, there is scope to convert the 600 sq ft sales space into a c-store with development potential into the rear...
-
News
Scotland: They're great neighbours
Retailers in Kilmarnock and West Cumbria scooped the top prizes in this year's Robert Wiseman Dairies Neighbourhood Shop of the Year awards ceremony in Glasgow. Margaret Low, who manages a Spar store in Munro Avenue, Kilmarnock, received the...
-
News
Young's grows stouthearted
Young's hopes to double sales of its Double Chocolate Stout over the festive period with promotional activities in three major multiples. Its key bottled brand is Sainsbury's Beer of the Month for December, and features on a recipe card for...
-
News
ONIONS: Holus looks to wider horizons
Specialist onion importer/ exporter and distributor The Holus Bureau, which last year sold £17m worth of bulbs from its offices near Ely, Cambs, is branching out to embrace other crops. It has set up a two way office in Antwerp and will launch a...
-
News
Liquid milk: Let's talk more urges Waitrose
Better communications with supermarkets can help farmers to increase the shelf space their products occupy, according to Richard Sadler, Waitrose head of buying for meat, poultry, fish and dairy. He was talking to 50 Waitrose Select Farm milk...
-
News
Multiples: Waitrose says Sainsbury main victim as quality m
Waitrose claims to have taken £34.7m worth of business from Sainsbury in a year. The upmarket chain says its quality and value message encouraged hordes of Sainsbury shoppers to defect in the 12 months up until March 2000. Waitrose also claims to...
-
News
T&T uses Popstars to target teens
Drinks manufacturer T&T is to use new teen TV docusoap Popstars as a platform for the launch of its range of fruit based soft drinks. It wants to "catapult the brand into the everyday drinking repertoire of the ever fickle teen market" with the...
-
News
Symbol Groups: Londis breaks 2,000 barrier
Londis membership has broken through the 2,000 store barrier, including 60 Scottish retailers who have joined the symbol group since May. Sales director Terry Bedford said: "We have already made a net gain of 75 members during the first nine months...
-
News
Dairy: New contract breaks the mould of 80:20 rule
The current calendar year still shows every sign of finishing with Milk Group average auction prices for December running at 27.7ppl. But whether the quota year will finish on such a high note is not guaranteed. The present physical shortages of...
-
News
Games: Aboard the Playstation
Pole Star Journals is to launch two monthly Playstation titles, Station 2 and Station 2 Solutions. Station 2, which launched on November 23, carries up-to-date news, previews, reviews and tests on Playstation 2 and its latest games. Cover price is...
-
News
Nonsense about real' food
Sir; re Retailers called on to push real', The Grocer, November 18, p12, which reported on The Campaign for Real Food's call to government to promote fresh "real" food. Founder Tom Findlay said: "There's so much improperly cooked processed food...
-
News
Wholesale: Adam Cunningham will find buyer without breakup'
Scottish wholesaler Adam Cunningham has gone into receivership following cashflow problems and the breakdown of talks over the sale of the business. The company, which has been supplying confectionery, soft drinks and snacks to independent...
-
News
Insider dealing for new Tango adverts
Tango's quest to be the epitome of cutting edge cool among its target 16 to 20 year old audience has taken a new direction with the unveiling of its new £5m advertising campaign. Following in the footsteps of the Tango man and the Tango megaphone,...
-
News
Sainsbury: Shares fall after dip
An unexpected dip in second quarter like for like sales has been shrugged off by Sainsbury. But the company's share price which has soared since Sir Peter Davis took over as CEO slid 3514p to 396p on the news. Like for like sales growth was...
-
News
Spar: Chiefs sound alert over need for keener pricing
Spar must adopt "keener pricing" on key brands to tackle the perception that convenience stores are expensive places to shop, delegates were told at this year's Central Meridian Guild Spar retail conference in Harrogate. Urging independents to join...
-
News
Table Talk: Antony Worral Thompson, chef and TV personality
In an age when convenience food rules our diet, we tend to forget the oldest convenience food available on our shelves, and that is canned food. I have been helping Canned Food UK to tell consumers about the relevance of these foods to today's...
-
News
Staff retention: The workplace can be the best arena for sta
The food industry is notorious for high staff turnover, according to Heath Roberts, marketing manager for Parkhouse Personnel. Employees are now unlikely to stay in the same job for more than five years. "The food industry is often blamed for...
-
News
Art of organic enjoyment
Enjoy Organic has added frozen ready meals to its organic portfolio. A five strong range, with mainly meat based recipes, launches into freezers this month. It includes Mediterranean Vegetable Pasta Bake, Chilli Con Carne, Cumberland Pie, Chicken...
-
News
Potatoes: ASDA BOOSTS SHARE OF THE MARKET
Asda is now selling traditionally higher priced new potatoes at the same price as old ware, making it unique among multiples which still try to use a retail ticket to make a point of difference. "Taylor Nelson Sofres research shows that it has...