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Grocery aid: The cry for help
Grocery Aid is keeping up the good work distributing store surpluses to the needy. Gillian Law visited three recipients to see just how the trade charity is making a difference Britain throws away 500,000 tonnes of edible food a year. In a country...
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News analysis: Budgens Local
Little buds sprout High quality fresh food could prove a strong selling point as Budgens looks to pull stores into its symbol group says John Wood While some of the major multiples have dabbled with supplying independent retailers, Budgens is the...
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Table talk: Antony Worrall Thompson chef and TV personality
Up at the Royal Show to dish out the Daily Express Farming Awards this week, I was confronted by some angry farmers over the new British Farm Standard tracor logo. They were upset they had found New Zealand lamb with this logo on one of the...
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International apples: Aussie crops set to return to UK
Pink Lady spearheads wider strategy Australian fruit growers plan to reactivate their presence in the UK with a range of apples and stone fruit after years of concentrating on sales to the Pacific Rim. Earmarked are peaches, nectarines, cherries...
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The gristle free sausage arrives
Freshbake Foods claims to have produced the answer to a sausage lover's prayer - the gristle free sausage. The seven strong sausage range is relaunched with new recipes, and packaging has a No gristly bits' guarantee. The move follows Freshbake...
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Convenience market: Home shopping priority for flourishing B
Budgens is in expansive mood, with plans to open 20 new outlets in the coming year, extend its trials of home shopping, and complete its store conversion programme by 2002. Chief executive Martin Hyson, who took over earlier this year when John von...
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The Grocer Focus on bananas
Analysis by David Shapley It's not surprising that bananas have always had one of the highest profiles in the fruit and vegetable sector. The fruit has its idiosyncrasies. It is classed biologically as a herb and can grow year round in the...
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Food chain: Industry code of practice beginning to take shap
The industry's plan to develop a code of practice for buyers and sellers moved a step closer to fruition this week. The idea was given the thumbs up at the first industry forum hosted by Agriculture Minister Nick Brown as part of the government's...
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New kid on the block
As grocery's greatest sipped warm Chardonnay with the farmers and watched rain soak the Royal Show on Monday, a new kid on the block tramped the marquees on a networking circuit of his own. Enter, stage left, the latest player in the cast of...
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Profile: Edwin Booth, EH Booth's chairman
A high flyer..naturally Aviator, thinker, and Sam Walton fan Edwin Booth outlines his philosophy to Belinda Gannaway EH Booth's chairman Edwin Booth may enjoy spending his spare time in the clouds flying small planes, but he is, he says, quite an...
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Meat: Relief as Brussels relaxes labelling rules
Some relief from the pressure of increasing regulatory cost in the beef market appears possible following a vote by the European Parliament to relax new labelling rules due to become EU law from September 1. Processors and producers, with support...
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Careers: Sales has changed and so have the people entering i
The image of the sales profession is changing. The fact that it is even considered a profession is evidence of progress itself. The sharp suit clad salesmen grinning from ear to ear with a good line in patter are a thing of the past. ...
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Global suppliers: Suffering a sea change
Procter & Gamble and Unilever are in the doldrums. With investors grumbling, how do they engineer reinvention wonders Alan Mitchell Which is more painful? A headline grabbing crisis which ousts the CEO and sees the share price sink almost...
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Popcorn could be sold cheaper
Sir; Does The Grocer have any idea if our industry really does want to cooperate with the government in bringing the cost of food down to the consumer? Let me explain. We think we produce the best popcorn in the UK today. I have been in the...
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Three more for Chekov
Booker has extended its own label premium packaged spirit brand Chekov Ice with the addition of three new flavours. Marketing director Steven Sharp said: "It was the first own label pps brand on the market and it has been going down a storm with...
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English wine trade gains new clout as wineries merge
Three of the best known English wineries are joining forces in an effort to gain critical mass. There are very few major players in the industry which battles against high taxes in comparison to its continental counterparts and is overshadowed by...
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Online retailing: Tesco rejects digital interactive TV for h
Exclusive Belinda Gannaway Tesco.com chief executive John Browett has ruled out digital interactive TV as a medium for its store based home shopping service. Speaking exclusively to The Grocer he said: "There are clearly roles for all these...
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RIGHT DIRECTION FOR SNACKHOUSE
Snackhouse is to build on its recent spate of product launches with new developments including Directors Cut, a big bag adult snack, and a range of character snacks based on the forthcoming blockbuster Titan AE. The company, formerly Bensons...
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Own label in the doldrums
Own label products had a difficult time in the UK last year, judging by the latest figures from the Private Label Manufacturers' Association. The new PLMA Yearbook heralds 1998-99 as a year of "impressive growth" for own label in Europe, but the...
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MLC global market forecast: Individualistic eaters set to fr
Supply and consumption of meat will grow strongly over the next decade in many parts of the world, but the main features of the UK market will be segmentation and demand shifts between product and outlet sectors rather than volume expansion. This...