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Building a Dolls House on the street'
The Dolls House Magazine will be celebrating the New Year with a new editor, a new design and a new outlook on the hobby of miniatures. The January issue, which relaunches on December 1, will feature the longest-running soap, Coronation Street,...
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Multiples: Buoyant Safeway set for a futuristic new format
Half-year pretax profits up 10%; pricing to get sharper; merger not on cards Safeway is to open a raft of "futuristic" hypermarkets in a move which aims to exploit its growing customer base. The chain will convert two superstores into the new...
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Marketing: Kids' business
Kellogg Canada's Apple Jacks breakfast cereal has been marketed for children by children: Helen Gregory reports Kellogg Canada is certain that kids will like their relaunched breakfast cereal Apple Jacks, because kids themselves have relaunched...
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Monsanto: the case for GM
Meet the modifier It's the most vilified development of all time in food science, and has sparked hostility verging on the hysterical among self-appointed defenders of the nation's health. But is there just a chance genetic modification does not...
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Puzzles: New teasers for those grey cells
Beap is to launch Woman's Weekly Puzzles on November 29, with a cover price of £1.50, in its latest franchise agreement with IPC Media. The initial print order will be 250,000. Woman's Weekly Puzzles will be launched as a one shot, with regular...
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Surveys points to central hot spot
The science of selling has turned to analysis of consumer behaviour to improve sales. Two major drinks companies have independently undertaken major pieces of research to find out what shoppers do when they walk down the aisles. And they have come...
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People's Lottery: Retailers must meet certain criteria'
Fears are growing that retailers who fail to sell a required number of lottery tickets would lose their terminals should the People's Lottery win the franchise. Association of Convenience Stores chief executive Trevor Dixon said he was alarmed by...
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US: Sainsbury's US commitment in doubt
Sainsbury's decision to step up its presence in the US with the acquisition of 18 supermarkets from Grand Union (see this page) does not necessarily mean it is in the country for the long haul, said analysts after interim results were announced on...
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Duckstein cross first of its kind'
Holsten is hoping to repeat the success it has had in Germany with a new style of beer called Duckstein following its UK launch. The brewer claims it is a cross between an ale and a lager. Holsten UK marketing director Andrew Edge said:...
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Home delivery: Somerfield extends zones
Somerfield has extended its zoning scheme for home deliveries to two new areas. With the addition of stores within the M25 plus the Essex and East Anglia region, Somerfield now has about 95 vans in the scheme. Deliveries within the Kent, Sussex...
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Loyalty schemes: Sainsbury determined to take Reward forward
A relaunch of Sainsbury's loyalty scheme is on the cards for early next year. Marketing director Sara Weller said the chain was looking to "strengthen and take forward" the Reward scheme. "It's a critical part of our business. We want to make it as...
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Limited edition for skol
A new limited edition packaging of Skol lager cans has been produced by Carlsberg-Tetley. This is in the run up to the brand's flagship sponsorship, the Skol World Darts Championships in December. The deal is now in its fourth year and this is the...
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Pricing: Retailers prefer promotions to EDLP
Every Day Low Pricing has been less obvious in UK stores during the last six months, with only Tesco fully embracing the concept, according to Taylor Nelson Sofres research. TNS Superpanel account director Michael Hawkins said Tesco had halved the...
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Watkins pulls no punches with egg trade
Returning Nuffield scholar Rachel Watkins is urging egg producers to stand up and be counted. "We are still defensive in our communications with the general public so consumer attitudes remain coloured by Edwina Currie," she said. "At the moment...
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Retail spotlight: Living with the enemy
A private passion became a tool for survival when Morrisons opened up across the road from Sub Budwal's c-store. Anne Bruce tells his story Sub and Neelam Budwal, who own this year's Booker prize winning c-store, trade under the nose of one of...
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E-trading: Spar members promised a global intranet next year
Spar International’s priority for 2001 is to set up an intranet to link Spar members across the globe, said group md Gordon Campbell at a Spar retail conference in Harrogate. “The internet will fundamentally change the way we do business over the…
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Pig feed: France now on mbm level
Meat and bone meal will not be banned from pig feed throughout the EU not yet, anyway. Agriculture ministers' decision on Tuesday to turn down a request by the French government for mbm to be prohibited in all member states following its own...
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Iceland: Floods write off Iceland's Lewes store
Iceland will not reopen its existing store in Lewes, East Sussex as repairs to structural damage caused by flooding are not "economically viable". But the company said it had not yet ruled out reopening in the town if suitable premises were...
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Halewood moves up a gear
Liverpool drinks manufacturer, Halewood International, has restructured its sales forces as part of an ongoing programme to provide dedicated account teams for both the on and the off-trade. Former national account controller for the off-trade,...
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Wholesalers must help rural shops
Sir; re Rural alliance a multiples' stooge', Letters, November 18, p18. I was most disappointed to see Steve Parfett's letter demonstrating that once again the wholesalers find time and energy for "friendly fire". Come on Steve, you have many...