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Drambuie Cream arrives
The Drambuie Liqueur Company is looking for a new consumer base for its product through the introduction of a cream liqueur version. The key Drambuie drinkers tend to be 35 plus. The cream style is aimed at a younger market. The product has been...
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Bass's NPD in overdrive as it seeks tomorrow's successes
Bass is testing a raft of new products in its efforts to replicate the runaway successes of Caffrey's and Hooch. The Bass new product development team has five products out on limited test: Mojo, Kasteel Cru, Fat Apple, Twisted Vine and Arc. Mojo...
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Teenager titles: October launch planned for BBC's Project G
BBC Worldwide's new magazine for teenagers will be a fortnightly entertainment and celebrity title. The £2m launch, codenamed Project G', will be the biggest in the teen market for six years, according to the publisher. Taking inspiration from...
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Beef: Supplies set to stay tight
MLC seeking FSA support for phasing out Over Thirty Month Scheme Supplies of home produced beef for the growing markets in manufactured meat products appear likely to remain fairly tight, contrary to press reports suggesting one of the Government's...
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Lang's beef - Tim Lang professor of food policy at Thames Va
At the end of September, chief medical officers from all 15 EU states meet in Lyons to approve a health strategy. It might have immense implications for Europe's policy giant, the Common Agricultural Policy. CAP accounts for half of the EU's total...
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Corned beef boosts your sperm count
Princes is about to embark on a PR campaign to promote the potential male fertility benefits of corned beef. This is on the back of a study that suggests that vitamin B3 and zinc which are both prominent in corned beef can help boost fertility....
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Profile: Stanley Bernard
Scotland,the world Stanley Bernard doesn't like to overplay the Scottish' card at Sco-Fro. A sharp eye for opportunity and adding value is far more his style as Gillian Law discovers There's an irrepressible bounce in Stanley Bernard's step and a...
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The Grocer focus on hot beverages: ORGANICS: PURITY FOR THE
The buoyant organic tea and coffee market has the makings of becoming mainstream as bigger players are tempted in says Sheila Eggleston There's enormous potential in organic tea and coffee with affluent, discerning and health conscious consumers...
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The Grocer focus on hot beverages:
ADULT COOL: BEVERAGES FEEL THE CHILL Coffee and tea are turning into hip cold drinks in a bid to recruit younger drinkers Turning hot drinks into cold, could be described as a kind of alchemy, as manufacturers wise up to the opportunities it...
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The Grocer focus on hot beverages.
Analysis by Sheila Eggleston Declining consumption and an unhealthy dose of Every Day Low Pricing has taken its toll on the hot beverages market, now worth £1.1bn, but down year on year 7% [52 w/e July 23 2000 TNS Superpanel]. "EDLP can work for...
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Booker MHV flagged up
Booker is making the most of the various awards won by its Malt House Vintners wines by flagging them up in a range of special deals. The collection won 25 medals at the International Wine Challenge in the spring. Among the offers which will be...
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Cash and carry: Booker offers e-prepayment
Booker has launched a cash-based electronic pre-payment system for retailers selling mobile phone top-up cards. The system is to be operated though a network of computers at Booker and store countertop terminals. Retailers will be able to pay in...
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Retail spotlight: Bringing a Smile
Its easy to get around the newest store in the Newshops estate. Julian Hunt went to Street in Somerset to take a look The residents of Street in Somerset were the first in the south west to get a taste of the new Smile brand being developed by...
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Developing Sainsbury business
Webbs Country Foods has appointed two senior executives to develop its business with Sainsbury. Paul Savage, a former national accounts manager with Dairy Crest, becomes account director, reporting on progress with the £45m account directly to...
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Training: Do you have the fundamental business growth skills
Over 90% of UK managers have never been exposed to the fundamental principles and practices of how to lead, manage and grow a business, according to Chester based Sewells Training and Consultancy. "In fact, managers and owners are probably the...
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Carte D'Or gets into pots
Wall's Carte D'Or ice cream has metamorphosised into a more portable format with the introduction of Mini Pots in four packs. Each pack (rsp £2.49) contain two 120g pots of the brand's bestselling flavours Stracciatella and Spagnola. They feature...
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THE CHALLENGES OF FOSTERING
Sir; I just wondered if your readers know that this year there's a national campaign going on to recruit 7,000 new foster carers? My wife and I have been fostering for 10 years. She does most of the day to day care while I run our grocery business,...
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Citrus easy peelers: Spain expecting less fruit
Previous heavy crops last season could reduce the volume of Spanish soft citrus available, according to cooperatives in the major Valencia region. Last year Spain produced some 1.2 million tonnes of all varieties. Easy peeler main crop varieties...
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Learning: how to climb the ladder
No degree but ambitious? Leading Edge Member of the Year Michelle Wilkinson rose from warehouse clerk to buyer thanks to her determination to put in hard work and learn many new skills across a wide spectrum of supply chain management The story of…
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Packaging design: eye for detail
Is it getting easier for the elderly to get into things? The Grocer sent a team in store to find out. Anne Bruce reports Ill thought-out grocery packaging and poor supermarket design were identified as bugbears for elderly consumers by IGD...