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Strawberries: Masters of faster Dutch soft fruit season
Fruit Masters, the Dutch soft fruit grower marketing organisation, has opened a new packhouse at Geldermalsen to allow a faster reaction to supermarket requirements. As the glasshouse season gets under…
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SPEARHEADING SPAR EXPANSION
Spar has formed a project team to spearhead its expansion with the aim of adding 750 shops. The team includes some of Spar's regional "hard-hitters" including AF Blakemore's Elwyn Davis, Ian Connell from Appleby Westward, John Hodgson from James...
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St Ivel trifles with low fat pots as Shape gets improved tas
St Ivel and Eden Vale are putting more promotional weight behind low fat brands St Ivel Shape and Ski Light. St Ivel is spending £10m promoting the relaunch of its low fat Shape brand three times last year's budget. This includes £5m of TV...
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Newshops tries out three new formats
Newshops, the Bristol-based CTN chain, is accelerating its move into convenience with trials of three new store formats. Director Jerry Marwood told The Grocer that one trial would involve the remodelling of an existing city centre site and...
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Fuel for men
Cadbury has brought out a limited edition peanut based bar aimed at the 16-44 male "refuelling" category. It is a wafer based product and is lighter than its peanut based rival Snickers. Promotional support for P'Nut has only been on the internet....
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Heinz targets functional and organics
Heinz is so keen to grow its presence in organic and functional foods it has restructured its core businesses. It has set up a new category, to run parallel to its other core areas, that will focus on organic and functional foods, which it sees as...
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Safeway works to get premixes right
An over cautious approach to the emerging premixed spirits sector cost Safeway millions according to research it carried out with Bacardi-Martini. Like the other major multiples it took heed of public outrage over alcopops three years ago, curbed...
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Shopping on the go
n Home shopping is just the beginning. Grocery may learn to become as mobile as the consumer with convenience taking on a multiplicity of hi-tech assisted formats says Belinda Gannaway Forget food on the hoof. The next big Convenience with a...
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By gum now it's a wine!
The latest in the long line of weird and wonderful names used for Australian wine brands is Up a Gum Tree. This is an own brand created for Vinoceros by McGuigan brothers of South East Australia. The name is the inspiration of Vinoceros md Nick...
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Habib Hachem is store manager at Whistlestop's Store at Wate
What dream food product would you like to sell that they don't make? Non-fattening food Which product do you sell the success of which you find inexplicable? Cigarettes Are you looking forward to the euro? No Farmers victims or...
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Hot potato and TV Thomas
Activity is hotting up in the children's market with the Redan Company extending its Fun to Learn comic range and Egmont Fleetway launching a new TV campaign for its Thomas the Tank Engine titles. Fun to Learn Friends from Redan will make its debut...
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safe scent for kitchens
A new air freshener that claims to be safe to use in kitchens is being launched by Sinclair Animal and Household Care. Nice'N'Fresh Kitchen air freshener which has lemon fresh and lime fresh variants has been developed to ensure it won't...
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legal updates
Do you know who is covered by the National Minimum Wage or what fathers' entitlements are under the new parental leave legislation? A new edition of Essentials of Employment Law answers questions like these on recent changes in the law. It is...
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Lounge Lizard
Mars is putting £2m behind a new tv ad campaign for Snickers, breaking this week and running until April 22. The new ad shows a Mutant Lizard rampaging through a city looking for an on-the-move snack and grabs a bus rather than a chocolate bar to...
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A month with strong Sundays
Most national newspapers saw encouraging starts to the new century with January sales bouncing back from the traditional Christmas slump. Sunday Business outperformed the market with an impressive 9.3% gain and there were strong performances from...
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A Norfolk tradition
A first-time family business opportunity is how agent Dowling Kerr describes Fairland Dairies at Hingham, Norfolk. Close to Wymondham and Watton on the B1108, Hingham remains a traditional Norfolk village. The village stores and off licence trades...
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What's on TV stays on top
What's on TV has fought off competition from new TV listings title TV Choice and remains the bestselling magazine in the UK. Although sales were down both year on year (1.4%) and period on period (4%), it is still selling an impressive 1,741,157...
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strawberries
New Christine variety produces 86% Class I fruit; AFI also impressed by Nicola Season set to be one of the earliest on record The main English strawberry crop is running ahead of last year and will be one of the earliest on record according to...
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traceability
Growers get Food Trak tech A group of six soft fruit growers supplying fruit to Berryworld has won a MAFF agricultural develoment scheme grant to install integrated traceability throughout their supply chain. The system provided by Food Trak will...