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In a stew over shelved British beef
Sir; I wish to take umbrage about a story on beef exports to Holland (The Grocer, January 15, p14). The fourth paragraph refers to "the fight to return British beef to supermarket shelves on the continent". This phrase crops up in nearly every...
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Wal-Mart boasts best figures yet
The global dominance of Wal-Mart was underlined this week with its 29th consecutive year of record sales and earnings growth. Net sales for the year ended January 31, 2000, were $165.013bn, a rise of 20% over the previous year. Net income for the...
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Son of Bestway chief targeted in pilot's kidnapping threats
The heir to the Bestway cash and carry fortune was the subject of ransom threats, it emerged this week. Dawood Pervez was the target for a bizarre kidnap plan hatched by British Regional Airways pilot Peter Shadwell. Dawood is the son of Bestway...
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Trade body set to launch in NI
A trade association is to be launched to look after the affairs of the independent grocery trade in Northern Ireland. With a mid-March launch pencilled in, the search is also in hand for a chief executive for the Northern Ireland Independent Retail...
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Booker has made an impressive recovery under the guidance of
Stuart Rose has nurtured cash and carry chain Booker through a rough transition period and come up smelling sweet. At this time last year, the company was in serious trouble but, after 18 months of his careful nurturing, the end of the financial...
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Industry must play to its strengths to boost market share
Gala growers praised for quality of this year’s crop
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BRC to name DG in six weeks
The British Retail Consortium hopes to announce the identity of its new director general within six weeks. Staff have been told that a shortlist of several strong candidates has now been drawn up for the £150,000-a-year job. BRC sources denied...
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Lever Brothers is introducing a Persil Tea Tree and Peppermi
Benecol launches a new TV ad campaign this week featuring Carol Vorderman and real life' Benecol consumers discussing how it has reduced their cholesterol levels. Memory Lane Cakes has launched its Toy Story 2 Cake Bars this week. Rsp £1.09...
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Gloom as bulk butter prices stay weak
Bulk butter prices are still very soft, with little prospect of firmer trading while sterling remains as high as a kite. Parcels have been changing hands at prices as low as £1,700/t and very little over the £1,800/t mark. It is not hard to see...
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Byers on tissue-thin ground
If you're a regularly coiffeured, dog loving, computer games and music buff, who suffers from frequent calls of nature after swigging gallons of coffee, Coca-Cola and lager, then New Labour has news for you. You're feeling the effects of Rip-off...
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Byers defies his report
Tony Brown and Clive Beddall Food industry hopes that the government's controversial Rip-off Britain campaign had suffered terminal damage following publication of the DTI's international price survey are premature, claim Whitehall insiders. 0n...
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Campaign calls for fruit for cooking' fixture
Bramley apple growers want multiples to reposition their fruit in produce departments away from varieties such as Granny Smith
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New health food chain throws off hippy image
Exclusive Nicola Gordon-Seymour A new organic store opening in London next month is aiming to shake off the "hippy image" of health food stores. The chain, to be called Greenways, is co-founded by Whistlestop's joint md Karim Lalarni and organics...
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Lesson in changes to trading relationships
The buzz words Efficient Consumer Response migrated into the UK management vocabulary some years ago, but the incentive to apply ECR principles in daily life got a shot in the arm when Wal-Mart acquired Asda last year. The US giant was the driving...
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Esme Johnstone, owner of Chateau de Sours,has launched a web
Walter Siegel has been appointed UK agent of Margan Family Winegrowers in the Hunter Valley, Australia and will be bringing in limited quantities of its wines. Whitbread is planning a new draught lager for the on trade called GB which will be...
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fPC conference
Scrutiny of internet selling The impact of the internet on fruit and vegetable trading will be one of the central discussion points at the Fresh Produce Consortium's annual conference on March 19 -22. Speakers will include Professor F Lachotski,...
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Cow & Gate looks to cosset with organics and GM free
Nutricia aims to drive its share of the babyfood market with the relaunch of its Cow & Gate Jars and Olvarit range and the introduction of a new product in the follow on milk category. To satisfy increasing consumer demand for organic products,...
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Crippling legacy of overexpansion
Changes in consumer spending and weaker demand for some goods in Japan is wreaking havoc on the country's supermarket sector. This week, the Nagasakiya chain, a medium-sized company running 95 food and non-food stores in Japan employing more than...
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SALVESEN DEPOT OPENS
Christian Salvesen has officially opened its £2.3m shared user produce depot in Evesham, Worcester. Among its customers are Asda, the Co-op, Fyffes, Marks and Spencer, Safeway, Somerfield, and Tesco. It has the capacity to handle more than a...
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With all the muck being flung in the soap wars James Hill has come out whiter than white. Hill is the man behind the launch of Persil Tablets across Europe the product that put Lever Brothers back at the top of the washing pile and since...