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New chocolate bars get into ring
Booker and Comic Relief are taking on the big chocolate brands with the launch of their own (separate) chocolate countlines. Booker has entered the ring with four new own label impulse bars. Caramel Choc-Full is soft nougat, caramel and milk...
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Bass goes for goals in English push but hits a different not
Bass has developed a two pronged attack in its efforts to take the lion's share of beer sales this summer. The emphasis is on two key brands, Carling in England and Wales, and Tennent's in Scotland. The brewer will be capitalising on its...
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Major supermarket chains rally behind new code for fair prac
Clive Beddall Six top multiples are responding to a plea from agriculture minister Nick Brown and introducing an industry code of best practice for doing business with farmers and small producers. Asda, Morrisons, Safeway, Sainsbury, Somerfield...
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Bizarre couplings
Mars is leaving behind the Break from the Norm' ad campaign for Twix and is positioning the product as a quirky snack for 16 to 34 year olds with a £1.5m TV advertising campaign which kicks off this week. The six 10 second ads feature bizarre...
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Stamp duty hikes blamed for falling returns
The chancellor's decision to increase stamp duty on properties worth more than £250,000 by 0.5% has wiped £1.5bn off the value of UK property, reckons Mathew Ryall at Jones Lang LaSalle. Taking the average time between selling properties into...
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Blow for M&S as directors quit
Marks & Spencer suffered another setback this week when the head of its food business unit quit. Roger Whiteside is leaving to join LM Solutions, a company set up to seek internet opportunities in the European food markets. M&S said no sucessor...
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Co-op bomb hoaxer gets jail
A Co-op worker was jailed this week for 18 months after being convicted of making four hoax bomb calls to his own store.
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JS boosts its e-business
Exclusive Camilla Palmer Sainsbury has confirmed expectations it is making e-commerce a priority with news it is to invest millions in its flagging Orderline home shopping service in the next few months. New director of e-commerce Patrick McHugh...
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Somerfield boss hopes to trade out of the gloom
Somerfield's new chief executive Alan Smith arrives this week amid a commitment from the group that its focus on neighbourhood retailing and home delivery will remain unchanged. Smith will be charged with improving the trading performance of the...
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A BRAVE-WORLD
The internet revolution is happening, and The Grocer will be watching and forecasting all the way. In the first of a new monthly feature tracking the future as it unfolds Belinda Gannaway assesses just how radically relationships up and down...
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California crop gets makeover
Matthew Clark is planning to take the Californian wine market by storm with the launch of an all-encompassing range from the US. The company is making use of the resources of its new parent company Canadaigua to introduce a collection covering all...
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The challenge of keeping c-store staff
The clock is already ticking in the search for this year's ACS Scholars the convenience sector's prestigious training award. The challenge this year is to develop a strategic plan to attract, develop and keep staff in a c-store environment. The...
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Dairy Crest marketing chief joins Duchy Originals as md
The Prince of Wales' food brand Duchy Originals has appointed Belinda Gooding as its new managing director. She takes up the post in June. Currently the group marketing director at Dairy Crest, Gooding has worked on the launch of its organic cheese...
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Tulip closure
Tulip International is to close its Wellingborough cooked sliced meat factory. Production will be transferred to Kings Lynn and Brøndby, in Denmark. The move is a setback for added value meat lines. Output is 80 tonnes a week of retail product ...
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Cracking the code
There were wry smiles among traders with long memories when the agrifood folk filed out of Tony Blair's farm crisis summit on Thursday. For the announcement that the farmers and high street chains were, at Nick Brown's suggestion, developing a code...