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Gummer's view
John Selwyn Gummer MP Former farm minister and environment secretary For two short days, I am in the heart of Normandy. Nearer to England than my home in Suffolk is to London, yet so wonderfully different, France retains its determination to remain...
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M&S in marketing reshuffle
Marks & Spencer is reorganising its marketing group in a reshuffle that will create at least three new senior posts. Baker Street has already stated that the necessary skills will be found externally. Group marketing director Alan McWalter will run...
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Starburst in mousse
Eden Vale is adding Starburst Juicy Mousse to its portfolio of Mars confectionery branded chilled desserts. The mousse comes in strawberry, orange or lemon flavours, with fruity stripes. All three are packaged together (rsp £1.29) with bright...
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UNITED NORWEST PLAYS SAFE
United Norwest Co-op is keeping the deli counter closed at its store in Hazel Grove, Stockport, as environmental health officers continue to investigate possible sources of last week's E.coli 0157 outbreak in the area. There are nine confirmed...
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The Grocer Focus on character licensing: top 10 characters (
0-4 years 5-9 years 10-15 years 1. Teletubbies Simpsons Simpsons 2. Winnie the Pooh Rugrats South Park 3. Thomas the ...
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United Norwest: Co-op grabs 14 c-stores
A 14 strong chain of c-stores has been bought by United Norwest Co-op for an undisclosed sum. United Norwest has bought the AM/PM stores from Wrexham based wholesaler CG Paletta. The stores are in Wrexham in North Wales, the Wirral on Merseyside,...
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e-commerce: 24-7
The hours and days ahead What lessons will grocery e-tailers learn from Somerfield's axing of its 24-7 operation? Belinda Gannaway reports Somerfield's abandonment of online shopping speaks more of the state of its business than the future of...
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Brakspear boosts capacity by 25%
Growing demand for Brakspear's beers has led the Henley company to spend £750,000 on expanding its capacity. While elsewhere in the industry there is overcapacity and breweries face closure, demand for Brakspear's ales continues to increase. It...
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Jac Roper's advice centre: Lots of inspectors at the door
Here's another one of my frightening statistics to kick off with. Did you know that more than 300 different kinds of inspections carry the right of entry to private premises. According to a report Inspector at the Door', published by the...
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Intervention: UK stores are open again
Intervention has re-opened in the UK for butter. Declared prices for June 3 and June 10 fell to £180.70 and £177.27 per 100kg respectively for salted butter. Unsalted declared prices were £178.92 and £178.24 per 100kg for the same dates, while the...
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Food Standards Agency: FSA aims to probe novel foods' impact
The Food Standards Agency is assessing the feasibility of establishing a review of the sort of impact novel foods including GM and certain functional foods have on the health of the nation once they come to market. In the first ever work...
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Tasting panel: Landlord Pale Ale
THE EXPERT Arabella Woodrow Master of Wine and wine buyer for Forth Wine This has a pale tawny brown colour and has a good froth to it. The beer has quite a strong hoppy aroma with a firm bite. It is clean and powerful with a grassy ...
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C-store chains: Debt ridden Alldays puts brave face on RDC c
Alldays posted another huge loss in its interims which were released this week. For the 26 weeks to April 30 Alldays made an operating profit of £0.6m, compared with a loss of £1.8m last time. But interest charges of £5.7m and exceptionals of...
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News analysis: Seagram auction gets under way
Out for Oddbins Allied Domecq looks to be the favourite to buy Seagram's drinks business. But it is likely to cast Oddbin's aside. So who might take over the off licence chain? Julian Hunt reports Poor old Oddbins. After spending all those years...
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Annoyed by reps from Londis
Sir; Two items in your June 17 issue particularly caught my eye. On the one hand, there was the item on p11 entitled Londis retailers line up in Scotland', and on the other, the letter on p17 A symbol of excess'. I am an unaffiliated independent...
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Food from Scotland Excellence Awards: Brown and Gill tackle
High level talks were taking place behind the scenes at the Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh as The Grocer went to press on Thursday in a bid to persuade more Scottish producers to promote the new Farm Standard Mark. As reported in our last issue,...
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Drinks: Grey spirits: distillers hit back
Distillers have shrugged off claims by Tesco that it had to mount top secret import operations because they are ripping off UK customers. Tesco made the accusations when it revealed it had sourced brands such as Teacher's, Bacardi and The Famous...
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Dairy: Sterling rise pushes back hopes of dairy recovery
This week's 1p strengthening of sterling against the euro means any dairy producer hopes for an improvement are receding again. From 64.02p to the euro last week, the rate on Wednesday was 63.07, taking the intervention manufacturing price...
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Beef: Don't help French! Gill
NFU president Ben Gill has slammed the promotion of French markets in Britain as "indefensible" while the country maintains its illegal ban on British beef. And Gill has also questioned the right of the French government to hold the presidency of...
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P&G seeking successor to Bennett
Procter & Gamble is searching for a new marketing director for its food and beverages division following John Bennett's decision to take early retirement. Bennett, 56, retires from his post at the end of September. He said he had taken the decision...