Tony Rowse, founder of Rowse Honey, has died aged 86. He established Rowse Honey in 1954 as a bee-keeping operation with 1,000 hives. He steadily grew the business into £23m company, employing over 100 people in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.

Gist's £100m deal
Logistics provider Gist has signed a new contract with Carlsberg-Tetley worth £100m over five years. Gist will deliver product from Carlsberg-Tetley's breweries in Leeds and Northampton to its retail depot network for onward delivery to the on-trade, and direct to larger customers.

unilever upbeat
Unilever said it expected underlying sales of its leading brands to have grown by 5.4% in 2002, ahead of its previous forecast of 4.5% to 5%, due to "strong innovation and market place activity". The group added that its Path to Growth restructuring and Bestfoods integration programme had delivered savings.

tesco vindicated
A complaint that Tesco's press advertising for its motor insurance was misleading has been dismissed by the Advertising Standards Authority.

news sales rise
Like-for-like sales at WHSmith News were up 1% in the 20 weeks to January 18. Newspaper sales were up 1%, magazines sales up 5%, but this was partly offset by a fall in the sales of phonecards.

signed up to harris
The BP/Safeway partnership and Budgens have joined Harris International Marketing's Convenience Tracking Programme.

c-market forecast
IGD predicts the convenience market will be worth up to £25.6bn by 2006.

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