Archive of all supplier articles – Page 229
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NewsUnilever and P&G fined €315m over EU detergent cartel
Two giants of fmcg manufacturing have been fined hundreds of millions of euros for anti-competitive activities across a host of European countries. Unilever and Procter & Gamble were fined a combined €315.2m (£280.85m) for their part in a three-year cartel that fixed the price of washing powder in eight European Union nations.
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Arla in UK brand debut with squeezy yoghurt
Arla Foods is making its long-awaited UK debut as a consumer brand in its own right with the launch of an innovative new yoghurt product targeted specifically at teenagers.
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Davenport heads new Wiseman trading team
Robert Wiseman Dairies has announced the creation of a new trading department as well as a raft of new appointments to its operational board.Patrick Davenport who has worked for Wiseman for the past 12 years has been appointed as...
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Warburtons rolls on to Royal shopping list
Warburtons is rolling out its first-ever burger buns and hot dog rolls in time for the bank holiday and Royal Wedding.The company said it expected to grow the £238m wrapped rolls category [Nielsen 52w/e 19 February 2011] with the launch...
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NewsP&G quits food trade after selling Pringles to Kettle Chips owner
Procter & Gamble has exited the food business after selling its Pringles crisp brand. Diamond Foods, the US snacks group that owns Kettle Chips, has bought the brand in a deal worth $2.35bn (£1.44bn).
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NewsMolson Coors to target women with new beer
Molson Coors is to launch a raft of new products designed to make beer more appealing to women, The Grocer can reveal. Much of the innovation focuses on making drinkers feel less bloated, a factor identified as a concern for women by the...
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Dairy Crest: price dispute behind Co-operative Group contract loss
The recent loss of Dairy Crest's milk contract with The Co-operative Group was down to its inability to agree the right price, the company has revealed.
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Dairy Crest website pushes up milk price
Dairy Crest has increased the price of a pint of milk sold through its Milk & More doorstop delivery service by 3p.The move, announced last weekend, means one pint of semi-skimmed Countrylife milk in a glass bottle bought through...
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NewsWalkers is accused of ‘cloning’ rival brands with Crinkles launch
The launch of a crinkle-cut range by Walkers has prompted a claim that the brand “clones” rival crisp products. Walkers is to roll out Walkers Crinkles in April, a move it claimed would be the biggest category launch of the past five…
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It’s Amanda’s world: an interview with Unilever's Amanda Sourry
A relative unknown when she landed the top job at Unilever last year, Amanda Sourry has been quietly putting her stamp on the business since taking on the role, finds Liz Hamson
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NewsFFA threatens cheesemakers with protests
Cheese producers have become the latest target for Farmers For Action, which has threatened protests at the cheesemaking factories of Dairy Crest and Lactalis McLelland. The protest group which two weeks ago announced plans to build its...
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NewsUnilever swaps Sanex for Colgate’s laundry business
Unilever has agreed to sell the global Sanex business to Colgate-Palmolive and acquire the company's laundry detergent brands.
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NewsWalkers hails Crinkles launch as ‘biggest in five years’
Walkers is launching a range of crinkle-cut crisps next month, in a move the PepsiCo brand claimed was the biggest category launch of the past five years.
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NewsUnilever: ‘expecting great things’ from its chilled cooking oil
Unilever is hoping to inject a bit of cool into the cooking oil category with Flora Cuisine, the UK's first major chilled oil launch. The oil, which is rolling out now, is made from a blend of linseed, rapeseed and sunflower oils and...
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Unilever, Kraft and Dr Oetker fined millions by cartel watchdog
Unilever, Kraft Foods and Dr Oetker have been fined €38m (£33m) by German competition regulators over allegations they illicitly shared commercially sensitive information.
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NewsRobert Wiseman squeezes out Dairy Crest in milk deal with The Co-op
The Co-operative Group has handed a two-year deal to supply all its own-label milk to Robert Wiseman Dairies. The mutual had previously sourced 25% of its own-label milk from Dairy Crest, with Wiseman providing the remaining 75%.
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Hearts and Krafts
It’s fair to say Kraft hasn’t won the battle for hearts and minds since its takeover of Cadbury last year – although its new toy hasn’t fared too badly, as you’ll see from Britain’s 100 Biggest Brands.
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Britain's 100 Biggest Brands 2011: Coca-Cola to Warburtons
On 8 May, Coca-Cola will be 125 years old: and it’s still growing. In fact, it’s going like a train. Sales rose 8.3% during 2010, to almost £1.1bn, and during the all-important four-week Christmas period, Coca-Cola’s share of the total market was its highest in three years.
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Britain's 100 Biggest Brands 2011: Bakers to Chicago Town
Even a Mission Impossible-style ad that replaced Tom Cruise with some four-legged friends failed to boost sales of Bakers last year, as shoppers increasingly turned to premium products to treat their pampered pets.
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NewsBritain's 100 Biggest Brands 2011: Deep pockets not the only key to delivering growth
How did it become a universal truth that big brands can’t do innovation? Perhaps it was the fact that so many multinationals swallowed up fast-growth companies all too literally.