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Carrefour expansion will knock profits
French giant Carrefour has shocked investors by warning profits will be at the lower end of expectations for the coming year. Chairman Daniel Bernard said he expected an earnings growth of 20% this year at the company's annual shareholders meeting...
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Celebration time for strawberries
English supermarkets have given their support to the first British Strawberry Day on June 15 planned by the industry's promotional organisation National Summer Fruits. The programme will include instore tastings and more details will be announced...
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In the city: Why are times not as good as they should be for
The London Stock Exchange was not the only thing to suffer downtime this week. Hazlewood Foods warned sales were "running a little below plan" and, as a result, profit would be towards the lower end of market expectations. The own label chilled...
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Creating climates of enterprise and drive
What's the one thing that concerns today's chief executives in the food and drink business? The answer's fairly obvious: generating top line growth. But how do the guys at the top expect their employees help the company achieve that? The answer...
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Graham Norton comes out with a long tube in his hand
Comedian Graham Norton stars in a £4m advertising campaign for McVitie's Tubes. Breaking on April 6 and running until June 24, the theme of the campaign (which features Jaffa Cake tubes and Milk Chocolate Digestive tubes) is to encourage people to...
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Troops rallied for c-store fight
The wholesale sector must bring out its heavy guns if it is to defend its share of the £18bn c-store sector against the incursions being made by major multiples. Director general Alan Toft warned delegates at the Federation of Wholesale...
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Pot Desserts
Chilled pot desserts were worth £1bn in the year to February 6, growing 6.8% in value compared to the Superpanel packaged groceries figure of 2%. Penetration is very high 92.7% of Great Britain's 23.3 million households bought into the category....
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Sainsbury philanthropist dies
Sir Robert Sainsbury, former joint president of the Sainsbury retailing group, died on Sunday aged 93. He was the grandson of John James Sainsbury who founded the company in 1869, and great grandson of Simon Van den Bergh, the founder of Van den...
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Leading Edge
Don’t forget to make the most of Learning at Work Day. It’s a chance to grasp the importance of lifelong learning, the vital approach today if you are to stay ahead of the game or even just keep your job in a constantly changing business environment…
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Leading Edge
Listening to advice and putting it into practice can be crucial for success. The first Leading Edge Member of the Year competition looked for that winning listening quality. Danielle Hart reports Lobbying power wins the day There's never a...
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An end to madness.com?
Dotcom or dotcon? It has always been clear to the sanest among us that there was very little inherent value in many of the new economy stocks floated in recent months. Sadly, we were in the minority. Shares in these sexy firms have soared, while...
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slow progress but they got there in the end
October 1990 Dr David Clark, shadow food minister, promises an independent agency to ensure high standards of hygiene and nutrition in food. Feb 1997 Conservative government appoints food safety supremo and announces intention to establish a...
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Felix Milk
My owner was so astounded by the price of Felix milk 59p for 200ml (the equivalent of £2.95 a litre) that she was tempted first of all to keep it for herself and put it in her tea. "It's outrageous, it's more than 10 times the price per ...
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Party fizz
Gift specialist Sweet Temptations has launched Party Drink a sparkling fruit flavoured mineral water in a champagne style bottle aimed at kids' parties. The drinks (rsp £1.99) are caffeine free and come in apple, white grape and blueberry...
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Typhoo gets rocking with Tommy
Premier International Foods has created Tommy Singh to front the £8m ad push behind Typhoo Tea. The new TV ad campaign breaks on April 10 and is part of a £15m support package to relaunch Typhoo. Tommy Singh is a fictional tea plantation manager...
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Preservation order had to be overcome to give the Hook Norto
Tony Hurren reports A village store at Hook Norton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, where a series of proprietors stayed for only two or three years, has now been run by the same couple for more than a decade and, following a major refit, sales have...
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Organic gold
Sales are romping away for organic chilled pot desserts. Yeo Valley Organic claims organic yogurt grew 73% last year, a performance outstripped by its own 100% growth. Soaring consumer demand has led to a spate of innovations. Yeo Valley Organic...
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More strain on home market
More pressure on the lamb market appears likely as a new entrant into the sheepmeat export trade begins establishing a customer base on the continent. Producer controlled Farmers Fresh announced on Monday it had struck a deal with Claude...
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Name Martin Hyson
Position Chief executive Company Budgens The job A promotion prompted by the imminent departure of John von Spreckelsen who joins struggling Somerfield as executive chairman at the end of the month. Hyson is seen by the Budgens board as the natural...