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Marie Melnyk
Deputy md, Morrisons Melnyk began her career stacking shelves. In 1981 she became fresh produce buyer and was appointed produce director six years later. She became trading director in 1988 and in 1993 joined the main board with responsibility...
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Michele Vincent
Marketing director Princes Group retail foods division The beer industry gave Vincent a grounding in the fmcg world with Scottish & Newcastle and Allied Breweries (as was), and as trade marketing director of Matthew Brown plc (part of Scottish...
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Valda Morris
MD, Mr Lazenby's Morris' big ambition was to run a factory. She was taken on as the only female production controller at a TV manufacturing plant when she left school but as promotion was slow in coming she joined another local company as systems...
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New organic products on show in village
Organic products will be everywhere throughout the show, with many new lines making their debut. Main hub of activity will be the Organics Village, a new feature supported by the Soil Association. Here visitors will be able to find fresh sources of...
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TASTING PANELS
THE EXPERT Arabella Woodrow Master of Wine and wine buyer for Forth Wines Looks Australian, tastes Australianand is of course Italian. Dark yellow colour with a creamy grapefruit, melon and hazelnut nose. The oak is slightly less subtle than...
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TASTING PANELS
Oranges and a Caribbean beach did not say rum very clearly to our panel, who gave a mixed reception for the orange colour and flavour. Caribbean Twist From Halewood International The company is spending £1m advertising this 5.4% abv fruit...
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That SALES PRESSURE
The newer breed of consumer is not prepared to put up with stress when shopping. Complacent retailers will lose out, warns David Lewis With his racing heart and rocketing blood pressure, he could have been a fighter pilot flying into combat or a...
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Teresa Wickham
Her career pattern has been unusual. She moved from pressure group, co-founding the Women's Farming Union in 1979, to consultancy in 1986 she was the first senior consultant at Lowe Bell Good Relations responsible for crisis management and...
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CWS/CRS staff set to be cut 1%
CWS and CRS will have to cull 1% of its workforce should its members vote for the long-awaited merger this weekend. It is thought 318 jobs at the head offices of the two co-operatives will be cut. Staff will be informed later in March whether they...
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Virgin moves to put new energy into US activities
The Virgin Group is set to launch a range of "new age" drinks in the US, five years after it was set up to take on the might of Pepsi and Coca-Cola. The new range will include fruit juices and energy beverages and used as a test bed for ...
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What next for alldays?
It drifted away from the original concept' and dark times followed. Now, just how big a task do Alldays' new bosses face? Analysis by Julian Hunt Wb hen David Clapham walked into Alldays' hq in Eastleigh for the first time last November, he saw...
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Gung Ho approach from multiple
Plenty of folk had been poking fun at Asda this week for its decision to model its training on the American management bestseller Gung Ho. The book sounds bizarre, given that it is all about the spirit of the squirrel, way of the beaver and gift of...
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Snack-a-Dip arrives with the Pringles style treatment...
Exclusive: Karen Dempsey A new snack and dip product capitalising on the popularity of Pringles tube-type packaging will launch to the trade later this month. Snack-a-Dip comes with white corn tortilla chips and ambient dip in a tube. The three...
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sa avocado forecast
Harvests escape flooding Avocado harvesting about to get under way has escaped any possible side effects from the torrential rains flooding nearby Mozambique, confirmed Louis Vorster, chairman of the South African Avocado Growers' Association...
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HARDING BACK AT THE PARTNERSHIP
Richard Harding is back at the helm as the new operations director of the BP/Safeway partnership. Harding has 12 years' experience at BP and was part of the launch team for the partnership back in 1996. It currently has 40 mini supermarket and...
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Trade backs campaign protecting fish
Exclusive Tony Brown Food manufacturers and supermarkets have fully endorsed a product labelling scheme designed to protect the world's fish species. From this week, the Marine Stewardship Council is launching Fish Forever, a campaign to...
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Dull' presentation of bacon blasted by DMB
Retailers came under fire from the Dutch Meat Board this week for "not communicating positive images of the product instore." The allegation came in the DMB's annual market review which declared: "For too long, the retailer has largely ignored the...
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Cadbury ... is poised to launch a new Wispa chocolate bar ca
Also coming soon from Cadbury are Pina Colada, Marguerita and Velvet Cream chocolate bars. Bendicks ... Campino boiled sweets will be launched in May. The sweets are made with cream and will initially come in two flavours: strawberry and orange....
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KP calls for a big hand as it introduces Hoopy McHula
KP Snacks plans to revitalise the sales and brand image of Hula Hoops with a £7m marketing campaign targeted at teenagers. Central to the marketing activity is a £4.5m advertising campaign featuring a wacky hand puppet character, Hoopy McHula. He...
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BREAKFAST CEREALS
Last March when the multiples began their price slashing bonanzas, no one realised just how far they would go. Traditionally, breakfast cereal brands have enjoyed premium pricing and good margins. But cut-throat pricing is now changing the...