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The Grocer guide to wine (an advertising supplement): Out wi
Forget John Major's warm beer and village greens, we Brits are a nation of socially acceptable free thinkers, largely thanks to the spectacular growth in New World wines Drink too many spirits and you're a liability; drink too much beer and you're...
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The Grocer guide to wine (an advertising supplement): Caxton
The red wine wizard of Oz Caxton Wines 8-10 Hampton Road Hounslow Middlesex TW3 1JL Tel: 020 8538 4500 Fax: 020 8538 4545 Key contacts Marketing manager Charles Marshall KEY BRANDS · Jacob's Creek ...
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The Grocer guide to wine (an advertising supplement): Seagra
Heard it on the grape vine... Seagram UK Ltd The Ark 201 Talgarth Rd London W6 8BN Tel: 020 8250 1018 Fax: 020 8250 1913 E-mail: jenny_stewart@seagram.com Key contacts Commercial manager, wine Matthew Stubbs MW ...
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The Grocer guide to wine (an advertising supplement): Freixe
Freixenet (DWS) Ltd Freixenet House Wellington Business Park Dukes Ride Crowthorne Berkshire RG45 6LS Tel: 01344 758500 Fax: 01344 758509 E-mail: enquires@freixenet.co.uk Website: www.freixenet.com KEY CONTACTS Managing director...
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The Grocer guide to wine (an advertising supplement): Percy
Percy Fox & Co Templefields House River Way Harlow Essex CM20 2EA Tel: 01279 633542 Fax: 01279 633827 E-mail: percyfox@udv.co.uk KEY CONTACTS Agency director Simon Lawson Marketing manager Mark Fells Trade marketing manager ...
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The Grocer guide to wine (an advertising supplement): Edward
Edward Cavendish & Sons Unit 8 Gatwick House Peeks Brook Lane Horley Surrey RH6 9ST Tel: 01293 874110 Fax: 01293 874119 Email: kb@ecavendish.co.uk Web: www.kwv-international.co.uk Key contacts Managing director Gary Proctor Board...
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First impressions: Knorr South African sauces
I was looking forward to testing Knorr's South African sauces. I'd tasted a similar range called Something South African and loved them. I'd also heard that South Africa, with its great local ingredients "fused with European and Asian influences",...
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Delhaize US: Against the Wal
Delhaize America paid a high price for Hannaford and is constantly being battered by Wal-Mart. Just how rough a ride is it in for asks Dave McCarthy Delhaize America recently acquired Hannaford Brothers for US$3.6bn and is now the number two player...
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PG Tips turned all tea-lovey dovey by VdBF
Van den Bergh Foods is pouring £5m into a new through the line "tea lovers" promotion for PG Tips. The theme behind the campaign is If you are a tea lover, then drink PG'. William Brown, business group director for beverages at VdBF, said the aim...
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Organic variant for new look Ambrosia
Bestfoods is targeting convenience and health food outlets with an organic version of traditional dessert Ambrosia Organic Creamed Rice. The ambient canned dessert sells at 65p, which, according to Bestfoods senior brand manager Sandrine Pirovano,...
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News analysis: newstrade distribution
Bagging the mags Will the Tesco/WH Smith distribution deal prove bad news for many small retailers? John Wood reports This week the row over Tesco's national deal for magazine supplies intensified when the Newspaper Publishers' Association...
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Distribution: Delivery times initiative includes right of ap
The Focus on Distribution Initiative is gaining momentum as the second phase of the delivery time project draws to a close. To date, 50,000 retailers have been issued with proposed delivery times based on their business requirements. Eighty two...
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Plans for Arndale extension
Prudential has unveiled plans for a 300,000 sq ft extension to its 1.1 million sq ft Arndale Centre in Manchester. Anchored by a new four level department store of 160,000 sq ft, there will also be morel than 60 new shops including five large...
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Scottish Grocers' Federation: ATM rates trap blowing hole in
Scottish retailers have been warned cash machines may not be the moneyspinner they seem as rates are going through the roof when the hole goes in the wall. The Scottish Grocers Federation is investigating "exorbitant" business rates charged to...
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Recruitment: Why not go back to school this summer?
There is still time to check on last minute places in the British Shops and Stores Association's Oxford Summer School for Retail Management, which will be held from August 19 to 25. Key speakers at the event will include John Lewis chairman Sir...
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Convenience stores: Balfour buying stores this year
The new team in charge of the Balfour chain of stores is hitting the acquisitions trail earlier than planned. When the former One Stop management team bought the 120 store chain in March it believed its first year would be spent reshaping the...
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BANANA FRAUD EXPOSED
The scale of the recently discovered EU banana fraud appears to be vast according to Alessandro Buttice representing the anti fraud office (OLAF). A spot check revealed a single cargo of 4,000 tonnes of Ecuador bananas to be an unlicensed import....
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Baxters unveils a haggis soup first
Baxters unveils some unusual additions to its soup ranges at the end of August, including what it claims are the first canned haggis and canned butternut squash soups on the market. The range has also been repackaged and now sports purple tartan...
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Lang's beef: Tim Lang, professor of food policy at Thames Va
We threw out our televisions 20 years ago first one, then the other of my partner's children left home! And now, this Christmas we stayed with them all in the north and had a great time. But after watching their TVs, we came home glad not to have...
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Lang's beef: Tim Lang, professor of food policy at Thames Va
Last week I was in Rio de Janeiro at a gathering on food and agriculture. An astonishing city alongside 610 favela immensely dense shanty towns with dwellings ranging from hardboard construction to brick built. I visited one in the city's...