All Non-food articles – Page 32
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Imperial rolls out additive-free Drum
Imperial Tobacco has launched an additive-free version of roll-your-own brand Drum.
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Compeed signs up Wozniacki for new plaster
Footcare brand Compeed has joined forces with Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki to launch a blister plaster.
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UK Vita launch: mults hope for a strong start
Supermarkets are gearing up for the UK launch of Sony’s new handheld games console.
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All to play for: The Grocer visits UK Toy Fair 2012
For three days this week, many of the biggest names in toys gathered at Olympia to see, and buy, the latest products the industry has to offer.
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Tesco targets Saudi Arabia as F&F goes global
Tesco has signed a deal to open 19 F&F clothing stores in Saudi Arabia in a franchise deal with Fawaz Abdulaziz Al Hokair & Co.
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Smaller games make way for blockbusters
The growth of blockbuster video game franchises such as Fifa and Call of Duty has prompted some supermarkets to carry fewer individual titles.
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LAUNDRY: Powders regain their power as economy falters
Liquid and gel products may be the future of laundry, but - at a time when shoppers’ budgets…
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Budgens ‘will double Christmas tree sales’
Musgrave Retail Partners GB is planning to double Christmas tree sales in Budgens stores this year.
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Tesco offers free streaming to in-store DVD buyers
Tesco is boosting its entertainment offering with a new service that gives shoppers who buy DVDs and Blu-Rays in-store free online access to the film.
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JTI and BAT rolling out two-in-one cigarettes
Typical – you wait decades for a cigarette that can change flavour at the touch of a button and then two come along at once…
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Boots goes global with Coke-branded cosmetics
Coca-Cola branded cosmetics feature in a new collection of international beauty products launched at Boots.
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Gok Wan clothing range arrives at Sainsbury’s
Style guru Gok Wan has launched his first clothing range into Sainsbury’s. The Gok for Tu range of 13 items launched into 200 Sainsbury’s stores this morning, with prices starting at £20.
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Focus On Newspapers & Magazines: The dilemma posed by NotW demise
On 10 July, the News of the World the UK's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper ran its final issue.
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Asda offers back to basics mobile
Asda has become the latest supermarket to offer customers a new back to basics mobile phone.
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Focus On Toys: It’s all to play for
When Woolworths went, the supermarkets took advantage by broadening their range of pocket-money toys. Now they’re looking to raise their games again, says Vince Bamford
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Tesco unveils £3.60 school uniforms
Tesco has kicked off the new back-to-school season with the launch of its cheapest school uniform yet.
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Sainsbury’s signs exclusive book deal with publisher Avon
Sainsbury’s has linked up with publisher Avon as the exclusive stockist for three of its novels this summer. The publisher, a division of HarperCollins, will make available two romantic fiction books, Trisha Ashley’s Sowing Secrets and Beverly Barton’s Amnesia, exclusively to Sainsbury’s from 15 July.
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Focus On Back To School: The kids smarten up
A bargain basement approach to uniforms has depressed sales value but now Mintel is forecasting a return to growth as schools demand better quality, as Sonya Hook reports
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Focus On Back To School: Innovations
According to Pritt producer Henkel, the glue stick category is worth more than £13m and in 2010 just under 25% of that was driven through the two months of back to school (August and September).
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Focus On Back To School: Shopper ethics can’t be ignored
Ethical uniforms hit the headlines in 2009, when a state school in Hampshire insisted that all students wear a compulsory 'eco-friendly' uniform.