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The Grocer Focus on fruit juices and juice drinks: Packaging
Tetra Brik has put a whole new spin on product opening with its Aseptic Square resealable SpinCap. Del Monte's UK marketing controller Angela Ellis says: "The SpinCap has proved a driver for the market, particularly for products such as tomato...
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The Grocer Focus on fruit juices and juice drinks: research
CATEGORY COMPOSITION The market is made up of four sectors. The largest of these is pure juices, followed by the juice drinks sector (any product with a juice content below 100%), then tomato juice and, finally, the tiny frozen and instant juice...
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Republic of Ireland: Dunnes Stores moves to match Tesco's ex
Dunnes Stores upstaged a major investment announcement for the Irish market this week from its main rival, Tesco, by offering details of its own expansion plans. As Tesco promised four new stores and 1,000 extra jobs over the next 12 months,...
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Today's launches new Everyday Value range
Tracy West, Barcelona Members of the Today's cash and carry group are introducing a new price fighting brand for independent retailers to replace Right Price in the wholesale sector. The new 20 strong Everyday Value range will be available in the...
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Organics: M&S set for exclusive ranges
Marks and Spencer has announced a joint organic farming venture with the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service. Through the venture, a range of brassica crops and some root vegetables could also be tested for sale on an exclusive basis....
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Safeway service fails to please
Sir; What is it with Safeway? Don't they want to keep their customers? When I read in The Grocer about Safeway preaching how crucial an issue availability is for them even to the point of charging their suppliers to help keep their shelves...
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Fasta food Italian style
RVP Foods is aiming to carve the frozen category a bigger share of the snack trend with the launch of Ross Pasta Fasta - three microwaveable frozen Italian snacks. The range comprises pasta twists in a bolognaise sauce, pasta quills in a carbonara...
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Wall's freezers prized open
The ice cream freezer exclusivity war ends this week. From April 15 retailers with Wall's freezers can use half the space to sell products from other companies. The decision brings the investigation by trade and industry secretary Stephen Byers and...
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Future is what it used to be
Britvic Soft Drinks is targeting 30-somethings with the revival of retro ranges Idris and R.Whites. The Idris range is relaunching as The Idris Drinks Company and there is new, brighter packaging for the three flavours in the range Smooth Cream...
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Supermarket giant
Acquisitions and new stores add to an already impressive portfolio and sales hike Ahold's end goals reflect present pitch Dutch company Ahold expects its sales and operating earnings in 2000 to rise in all trade areas, reflecting healthy growth in...
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Market watch: retail meat prices
Retail meat prices week ending July 29 2000 Average price p/kg Change on week Price range BEEF Topside 605 -1 491 - 719 ...
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United Norwest on a roll
United Norwest Co-op has reported its sixth successive year of rising profits. The society the country's second biggest after CWS reported a 65% jump in pre-tax profit in the 12 months ending January 22. Excluding exceptionals, profit was up...
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Seriously profitable
The Bentonville gang's eagerness to conquer the world received a massive jolt from our side of the Atlantic this week. For it won't have gone unnoticed deep in Wal-Mart's Arkansas bunker that Britain's class act on the supermarket front has chalked...
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Treat us the same!
Sir, I note with interest Alan Toft's assessment of the marketplace as "an inferno" (The Grocer, April 8, p10). As an independent grocer/convenience retailer of some 20 years' standing, I would like to back up his war-cry! My van sales terms from...
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Page 52 briefs
Nestlé has brought back Ian Botham as Shredded Wheat spokesman in an updated version of the Can you eat three?' ad. Bernard Matthews is launching fresh versions of children's frozen turkey products Dinosaurs and Drummers this month. Mixed...
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What about the seafood barbie?
Sir; In your April 1 issue Janet Kelly and Nicola Gordon-Seymour wrote no fewer than four pages of Focus on Barbecues, and all this, to my very great surprise and no small consternation, without a mention of fish or shellfish. Most major UK...
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CAP must cover acceding states
The European Commission has given way to east European states preparing to join the EU, who want similar treatment to EU food producers for their farmers. They want direct subsidies similar to those already costing the European taxpayer more than...
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Bacardi-Martini aims for Metz to emulate Breezer success
Bacardi-Martini is raising the stakes in the fast growing premium packaged spirits market with a £9.4m support package for Metz. The company has dominated the sector with Bacardi Breezer and was quick to launch Metz, V2 and Rigo to support it. Of...
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E-commerce: Internet alarm sounds
UK supermarkets are due to lose more than £100m in their ventures into online trading this year alone, say internet consultants E-Insight. The net will only serve to intensify competition in home shopping and drive down margins in a sector yet to...