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BUTTER PRICES
bulk home produced £ per tonne 80% Salted 1,890 1,960 82% Unsalted 1,930 2,000 danish Lactic Salted (82%) No longer quoted Unsalted ...
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Butter prices
bulk home produced £ per tonne 80% Salted 2,010 2,090 82% Unsalted 2,050 2,120 danish Lactic Salted (82%) No longer quoted Unsalted ...
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Butter Prices
bulk home produced £ per tonne 80% Salted 2,450 2,500 82% Unsalted 2,500 2,550 danish Lactic Salted (82%) No longer quoted Unsalted ...
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Butter prices
Butter Prices bulk home produced £ per tonne 80% Salted 2,370 2,450 82% Unsalted 2,380 2,450 danish Lactic Salted (82%) No longer quoted Unsalted ...
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Easter edge by Cadbury
Cadbury is squaring up to the competition in the run up to Easter with the launch of the first square hollow Easter egg. The Cadbury Squegg aims to bring a trendier edge to the Easter egg market and tempt back lapsed users such as fashion conscious...
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Tesco staff get SAYE cash
Staff at Tesco are in line for an £83m payout this month from the company's Save As You Earn scheme. Savers have invested between £5 and £250 every month in three and five year savings plans. They are due to receive news of payouts in the coming...
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Marne et Champagne, the second largest champagne house, is p
Vinopolis is hoping to raise £5m on the Stock Exchange with a flotation. Attendances at the wine attraction in London have been lower than expected since its launch last summer. Ian Macleod is introducing a 50 year old malt whisky. There are...
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The trade needs its champions
It was naive to expect the sensational when St Tony beamed his way around the West Country farming stage in incongruous lounge suit and shining black brogues. After all, his earlier condescending speech to the NFU conference in London, while strong...
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SPECIALITY CHEESE
Are major UK multiples missing out on a chance to add some sparkle to their customers' shop? Many shoppers view good cheese as an indulgent treat for which they are prepared to pay good money. British Cheese Board secretary Nigel White says:...
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GLOBAL OPERATION WITH MORE CHOICE
IGD's Global Retailing Conference last month heard how globalisation of retailer power is proceeding apace but bringing with it the creation of new market niches and much greater diversity for the industry and the customer. Sarah Dowding reports...
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Fresh combinations
Almost all the UK's additive cheese volumes are sold through supermarkets, nearly two thirds of it at counters. The final consumer will almost certainly be an adult the sector does not attract many children. White Stilton has been used as a base...
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Game on for crimson's pc strategy magazine
Newly formed Crimson Publishing has announced the launch of a 100 page specialist monthly computer title, PC Strategy Games. The magazine, which will be making its debut on February 18, is targeted at 25-45 year old males and will provide reviews...
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Dalepak revamps vegetarian range
Frozen food company Dalepak Foods has revamped its vegetarian range in a bid to revitalise its share of this static market. It is also launching Veg Sausages to add to a range that includes Cauliflower Cheese Grills, Vegetable Grills and Crunchy...
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U-turn indicated over date marked packs
Exclusive Tony Brown Customs & Excise officials could be about to bow to pressures to scrap the date marked scheme for cigarette packaging. Industry insiders have told The Grocer intense behind the scenes pressure is forcing a change of mind at...
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There is no doubt supermarkets are making giant strides in i
1999 saw customers taking a far greater interest in the provenance of their food. People power saw the demise (whether temporary or permanent) of genetically modified foods. More and more customers declared their wish to buy Freedom meats; Lion...
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Exceedingly lunchboxy
Manor Bakeries has added three products to its Mr Kipling range and revamped old favourites as cake wrestles with biscuits and confectionery for domination of the nation's lunchboxes. The new arrivals comprise Butterfly Cakes, packs of individually...
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Offshoot for Ground Force
Popular BBC TV gardening programme Ground Force, which stars Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock, is transferring to print format and will appear as a fortnightly partwork from February 16. Appearing in 60 parts, the Ground Force magazine will be...
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Spar launches new format for larger stores
Exclusive Nicola Gordon-Seymour A new format for large stores is about to be unveiled in the UK by symbol group Spar. Dubbed EuroSpar, the format is intended for stores in which family shoppers can do a full weekly shop. And the country's first...
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Fresh fury unleashed on salt
Food suppliers and retailers stand accused of causing hypertension, high blood pressure and strokes by putting too much salt in products. The launch of Salt Awareness Day this week by pressure group Consensus Action on Salt and Hypertension was...
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Wall's sausages go north of the Wall
Wall's is launching its sausage brand into the Scottish market this month as, incredibly, it has never had a firm footing north of the border. Kerry Foods which bought the brand from Unilever in 1994 has identified Scotland as a region that...