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WHAT'S SELLING WELL?
Cook it, pour it, spread it the future is in versatile products Changing trends in eating habits offer challenges and opportunities and if jam and spread manufacturers can fulfil consumer demands for quality, convenience and healthy eating, the...
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Hardy fury at £2.49 Stamp
Deep price cutting by Safeway on the Stamp wine range prior to Christmas forced BRL Hardy to hold back supplies. A spokesman for Hardy said the multiple brought the price of the Stamp Chardonnay Semillon down to £2.49 in some stores. "We had not...
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Partners' 26p premium pinta
Waitrose is launching premium farm assured milk on Monday and pegging the new lines in its 121 stores at its normal retail price of 26p a pint. The range of full fat, semi skim and skimmed milk will be marketed in screw top cartons under the...
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6pm deadline
The effective date for commencement of the cigarette pack date marking scheme is April 2001. Tobacco manufacturers and importers will be able to deliver unmarked cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco to the home market until 6pm on Budget Day 2001….
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We really did splash out after all
Predictions of a bumper millennium season have come true for the drinks industry with early indications showing sales approaching New Year were bigger than those in the week before Christmas. The multiples concentrated their heavyweight price...
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Lurpak aims for the top
MD Foods is increasing marketing spend behind Lurpak butter by more than 30% to £9m this year in a bid to attain market leadership of the entire £2.4bn yellow fats market within 18 months [Information Resources]. Lurpak is the leading spreadable...
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We'll all lose if this goes on
Bacon has always sparked passion across grocery, so why should a new century be any different? It was no surprise, therefore, when UK pigmeat producers' grievances with foreign rivals hit centre stage again this week although this time the heat...
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Shortfall in SA apricots
The South African apricot pack came to an early close this season figures for the likely shortfall are not yet available, but are thought to be significant. This year's peach pack, which is in progress now, was described by one importer as...
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Arise, Sir Ken not bad going for a market lad!
Ken Morrison, the executive chairman of Wm Morrison Supermarkets, joined the ranks of Richard Branson…
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Danish patience running out over British attacks
Julian Hunt British pig farmers have been told to end their “unfair” attacks on the integrity of Danish meat or face a massive counterattack…
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Millennium Babies
Last September Tesco launched a baby and toddler catalogue as part of its mail order home shopping service. It was another strand of Tesco's stategy to provide a complete one stop shopping service covering every facet of the babycare products...
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Looking back
I remember at the FMI retail conference in Chicago in 1995 hearing a US visionary say we'd look back in 2000 and think: "Wasn't life simple five years ago?" I doubt if many of us believed it then, but we have come to realise that food retailing was...
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Baxters enters premium fresh soup with microwaveable lines
Baxters is embarking on its most significant new product development for ten years this month with the launch of a range of premium fresh soups…
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newsforce to be beefed up
Newsagents' promotional group Newsforce Plus hopes to enhance its offering to independent members by taking a minority stake in a regional buying group. Members of Bridewell Newspower Yorkshire were due to vote on the relationship yesterday....
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Booker delays phone card hike
Booker has frozen the price of phone cards despite a nationwide price increase imposed by the mobile phone companies last November…
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Bremner starts fresh shake up
The new boss of Sainsbury’s supermarkets arm is lining up another restructuring of the business…
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not soft on cellulite
Readers of Real Health & Beauty magazine from Attic Futura can get into shape with a little help from its latest covermounted gift. The February/March issue carries a paperback book from fitness guru Leslie Kenton entitled The Cellulite Revolution....
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TIME FOR CHANGE
Somerfield is searching for a new marketing director only five months after a restructure which resulted in the appointment of Richard Smith as head of the department. The announcement follows Smith's move to the group's recently created change...
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Retailers cheer news of minimum wage freeze
The country's small store operators have been cheered by reports the government may freeze the national minimum wage at £3.60 an hour for another year. Trevor Dixon, head of the Association of Convenience Stores, said: "We are delighted. We...
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French picking and choosing' which laws to obey
The French ban on British beef is a dreadful example to set for those countries aspiring to join the EU, says agriculture minister Nick Brown. Blasting Paris, Brown said: "Any country that tries to pick and choose which laws to obey will forfeit...