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SAUCE TRAIL
- Perfect for barbecues is Discovery Foods' spicy, hot and fruity marinades from the Americas. Flavours include Cajun, Texan, Caribbean and Hawaiian, all made with natural ingredients. - Trustin Unimerchants' sauces include Dan T Inferno in a...
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Tasting panel 1
This the sixth of a regular series of tasting panels which will give a snapshot impression of new and interesting brands on the market or about to be launched. It is not definitive, but will provide a reaction from a cross-section of amateurs' and ...
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T ASTING PANEL 2
THE EXPERT Arabella Woodrow Master of Wine and wine buyer for Forth Wines This has a medium orange/gold colour and a rancid nose. It has a sweet rather woolly flavour. Perhaps a Golden Delicious apple flavour, but the sweetness dominates...
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Talking tough about a better deal
The News Retailers Association set its sights high at its inaugural meeting when it demanded a choice of wholesalers, the scrapping of carriage charges and 25% terms on national papers. The NRA a joint venture between the National Federation of...
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Bowen voted ACS head
Mace chief executive Mike Bowen is the new chairman of the Association of Convenience Stores. Bowen was elected at the ACS's National Council meeting held at the NEC during the Convenience Retailing Show. He takes over from Steven Bell, md of...
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ACS' internet revolution
Visitors to the Convenience Retailing Show got their first glimpse of the Store 2000 web project being developed by the Association of Convenience Stores. Due for launch at the ACS conference, Store 2000 will allow the trade association to use the...
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Zwanenberg adds UK arm
Dutch meat company Zwanenberg launched its UK arm at Food & Drink Expo. Zwanenberg Food Group UK comprises the company's UK operations Rea Valley Speciality Foods and Puredrive Fine Foods, with a combined turnover of £80m. UK md Richard Burdekin...
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Islay malt spend against the trend
Despite pressure to cut prices, Morrison Bowmore is maintaining its level of support behind Bowmore its flagship Islay malt. UK sales and marketing director Steve Webb said: "We have stuck to our three year strategy of investment. "We advertised...
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Alldays Correction
A recent article about Alldays (The Grocer, March 4, p33) referred to Amin Kassam being ousted as sales director. This may have created an inaccurate impression. We would like to point out that Mr Kassam left Alldays on his own instigation and on...
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Bat returns to boost spring Bacardi campaign
Bacardi is bringing out its bat again for a spring advertising push behind its leading white spirit. The company is spending £3m on TV and posters. It is bringing back the Boxer ad launched in November and this will run until the middle of next...
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Belgian platform for better for you boom
Better for you and functional foods got a luxury lift this week at Tavola 2000, the deli and chilled foods fair in Belgium. Half of the products which scooped prizes in the Golden Tavola awards were from the value added, better for you category....
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Benefits from Bulgarian wine
Bulgarian wine is good for you, according to the results of a research project at Glasgow University. This took 16 red wines from Chile, California, France, Spain and Bulgaria and measured the amount of anti-oxidants they contained. Antioxidants...
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How brits could do better
Akihiro Sawada is clearly a big fan of Britain and its food and drink products. As a senior buyer at Jusco, one of Japan's top supermarket chains, it is his job to scour the world looking for interesting stuff to offer customers. He says Jusco...
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Heinz bids for cooler image with new look Salad Cream
Exclusive Karen Dempsey Heinz is dolloping £10m into a major campaign to relaunch its Salad Cream six months after threatening to dump it. As well as reassuring those who protested about the potential loss when the story broke last October,...
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Big in Japan
Recovery of the economy means more reason than ever for British companies to build business in Japan. Don't let that high buggeration factor' put you off, says Julian Hunt The mayhem caused in downtown Tokyo by the launch of Sony's PlayStation2...
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Biting the bullet
Sainsbury has shot itself in the foot, so to speak. It received a severe ticking off and a substantial fine this week for unfairly dismissing six former managers. An industrial tribunal heard that an internal memo was circulated saying individual...
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Glass has the bottle in branding
Plastics may have revolutionised packaging, but as far as consumers are concerned, glass is still their favourite packaging material. They like glass so much, 72% believe food and drink tastes better out of it than plastic. 70% say it suggests...
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The same old story' as Brown hits cigarettes
The traditional targets of cigarettes and booze were hit hard in the Budget. While tax cuts for small businesses were welcome, the industry was rocked with a massive 25p increase in the price of a packet of 20 cigarettes. And the issue of...
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Campino candy can-do on tv
Bendicks (Mayfair) is backing the launch of its new sugar confectionery brand Campino with a £6m TV ad campaign. Campino, which blends fruit ingredients with cream in a hard candy, comes in two variants: strawberries and cream and oranges and...
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CARDBOARD: CUT OUT TO SURVIVE?
Ingenious new plastic crates pose a serious threat to the traditional one trip cardboard containers, says Sarah Hardcastle Will plastic or card/fibreboard win the battle to become the favoured material for transit packaging in the future? This...