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Berkeley Scott wants an ongoing dialogue
How regularly do you talk to recruitment agencies? The Berkeley Scott Group is developing a plan to build ongoing relationships with the people it recruits as well as the companies it serves. It has undertaken a root and branch review of its...
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The big chance for unity
You would hardly believe it, given the dairy farmers' protest in London this week, but there's been a supreme effort recently by the more enlightened folk in grocery and farming to unite the food chain. Their task was never going to be easy. Nick...
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C-stores look for bigger share of the e-tail boom
Julian Hunt, Tokyo Japan's c-store chains are stepping up their efforts to dominate the country's booming e-tail sector. The chains have established themselves as convenient points at which consumers pay for the goods they order through online or...
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Ireland blamed for stress from discounted imports of forequa
Multiples keep the lid on Prime cattle prices are rising again after a brief period when the market was unsettled by traditional seasonal demand and supply pressures prevailing over the influence of an anticipated cyclical scarcity. But in this...
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Boom for fresh prepared
Geest claims to have gained market share as a result of retailer and manufacturer consolidation and is bucking the trend of most UK food producers. Chief executive Ian Menzies-Gow said the prepared food sector is growing so fast that Geest opened...
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Nun and Tower bring in reds
The hard work put in by the German wine industry to revive its fortunes in the UK is beginning to pay off. The steep declines of the '90s have been arrested. Last year the sector in the UK grew 1% by volume, although its share of the total UK ...
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No shrinking from the right choices with cool new lines
Britvic Soft Drinks is launching two new products aimed at kids in the next phase of its Right Choice category management programme. The first one comes from Robinsons, which is extending its brand with the launch of Fruit Shoot. This is a fruit...
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Colourful Natives
A new brand based on a range of world recipes is poised to launch into the premium snacking and lunch market. Going Native is a range of wraps and soups based on food from Thailand, India and China. The wraps (rsp £1.99 to £2.49) come in six...
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Complaints
Sales managers have three frequent and recurrent complaints about sales training in the UK. They are fed up with hearing that the latest "fad" was the answer to all their sales problems. They are just as fed up with training that quickly "wore...
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New IT system for Co-op
Exclusive Julian Hunt United Norwest Co-op has started the roll out of a sales based ordering system as part of a major investment in IT systems. Paul Griffiths, who heads the society's food division, said the initial focus for the perpetual...
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RETURN FROM CUBA
A lager originally brewed by Bacardi in Cuba is returning to the UK market. Hatuey Beer is now brewed in the US and Puerto Rico and is being imported to the UK by the Cuban Beer Company. The brand has, in the past, been listed by Safeway and ...
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Wall's Direct delivery is off the road
Birds Eye Wall's is scaling down its controversial Wall's Direct delivery network for impulse ice cream. The company said it was cutting its contracted out distribution operation in light of the changes ordered by trade and industry secretary...
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Evolution of a whole new look
Marks and Spencer will revamp its branding and packaging across its entire food and non food product range by the end of the year. The company announced this week that the St Michael brand would disappear from some goods and feature only on the...
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Expansive Morrisons says it's fit for streetfighting
Morrisons has called on the Competition Commission to change the focus of its investigation and concentrate on liberalising the planning laws so the industry can be opened up to greater competition. Managing director John Dowd said the company was...
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UK's yellow fats are NZ priority
The UK's days of cosy dairy trading relationship with New Zealand as an offshore farm' are set to change over the next five years as the antipodean dairy industry moves from an exclusively manufacturing based business to a trading one. Part of the...
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Milk price fixing' issue
UK multiples say they could face the wrath of government competition officials if they step in to help British dairy farmers by fixing the price of milk. Safeway and Waitrose say they would keep their prices stable in the wake of a demonstration in...