All The Grocer articles in 10 November 2001 – Page 2
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Bertolli Pasta Sauces
Rsp: £1.69 for 500g jar Unilever Bestfoods' authentic Italian pasta sauces containing Bertolli extra virgin olive oil were a surefire hit when they first appeared in February. Launched officially in July, with an £8m support package, they had...
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One of the oldest clichés in the Westminster book is that th
On the surface, this may seem perverse. After all, does she not face an almighty struggle to re-establish Labour's credentials in farming and rural communities? But let's suspend belief for just a brief moment to see how such a conclusion is being...
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Mars boxes clever with its celebrations for Diwali
Mars is using its Celebrations boxed chocolate brand to mark Diwali, next week's Hindu festival of light', The confectioner has produced more than one million Diwali stickers for the occasion which is celebrated on Wednesday (November 14). The...
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Miniature cigar brand Café Creme is getting a price promotio
Clipper has launched a new Organic Decaffeinated Tea. Rsp: £2.59 for 40 bags. The Enjoy Organic Company has brought out 150g bags of tortilla chips in chilli and cheese and onion. Rsp: £1.29. Facial tissue brand Kleenex has activated its...
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Pillsbury now set to take on General Mills brands
US fmcg giant General Mills will use Pillsbury to drive more of its brands into the UK market now regulators have finally rubberstamped its $10.4bn purchase of the business. Pillsbury UK md Jim Moseley said the tie-up with General Mills provided...
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Panadol brings a rapid response to naughty goings on next do
GlaxoSmithKline puts its Panadol ActiFast painkiller on air next week in a £2m TV campaign. The company said the new advert was based on the idea of getting caught out while doing something quite unexpected. Mum is caught out when she dresses up...
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Few categories are so in tune with consumer tastes and tren
This outstanding performance has been bolstered by the huge amount of development that has taken place in the market. The multiples have led the way, with Waitrose and Safeway creating fresh pasta bars, and Tesco, Safeway and Sainsbury extending...
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Superquinn pushes on with centre
Irish supermarket Superquinn will open its first national distribution centre in Co Dublin in January. The centre will enable Superquinn to introduce centralised distribution of ambient and chilled products to 18 outlets. The supermarket...
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Seeds of Change Organic Pasta Sauce
Rsp: £1.59 for 530g Launched in October 2000, sales have steadily grown, gaining momentum this summer, and at their best in September at £87,000. The range has been extended to include two stir-in sauces sun dried tomato and basil, and roasted...
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New chief for Lyndale Group
The board of the Lyndale Group has announced the appointment of Tony Gearty as chief executive. He has been md of the group's core retail bakeries division, trading as Sayers, Hampsons, Mountstevens, Spinks and Burtons, since November 2000. ...
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Haskins dismisses food safety as middle class' envangelism
Northern Foods chairman Lord Haskins ruffled feathers at a public debate on food and farming by suggesting food safety issues preoccupying the audience were not keeping the mass of the population awake at night. Haskins said: "Food safety is a...
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Haskins dismisses food safety as middle class' envangelism
Northern Foods chairman Lord Haskins ruffled feathers at a public debate on food and farming by suggesting food safety issues preoccupying the audience were not keeping the mass of the population awake at night. Haskins said: "Food safety is a...
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issues of control
n The multiples' drive to achieve a least-cost supply chain is set to pile the price pressure on manufacturers, says Belinda Gannaway When backhauling began to make headway in those ECR halcyon days of the mid-1990s, it was good news for all...
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Uniq goes on cost cutting drive
Uniq chairman Nigel Stapleton has announced a package of cost cutting measures and the relaunch of the loss making Shape yoghurt brand in a bid to restore the company's fortunes after a disastrous year. While the prepared foods and northern...
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Vandevelde: glass is definitely half full
Marks and Spencer investigated the possibility of relaxing its policy of only selling own label food but decided against it, chairman Luc Vandevelde revealed this week. Speaking exclusively to The Grocer, he said M&S did some work on the...
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ICL failed to deliver' on IT
The Co-operative Group is taking legal action against ICL to recover "several million pounds" relating to a dispute over the installation of a Globalstore IT package. The dispute dates back to the merger of CWS and CRS in April 2000. Nick Eyre,...
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Kevin Hawkins is struggling for the right words to describe
Despite being uttered with a hint of irony, these are statesmanlike words from Safeway's corporate communications director. But the political tone is not entirely unfounded Hawkins spent many years as a Tory councillor in Bradford and was leader...
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DOUBLING UP FOR LOVE
Swizzels Matlow has combined two of its star products to produce Love Hearts Double Lollies. The 5p treats each contain one of the 20 different Love Hearts messages which have become something of a national institution. The lollies will be available...
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Two Leading Edge members took to the platform at the recent
Grabbing the headlines Having spent a few days writing the presentation, Jon Woolven of IGD came to meet us in York a week before the conference. His feedback was positive, and it was encouraging to know that IGD were confident for us to devise...
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the space enablers
Ed Bedington reports on a service designed to match seekers of short-term warehousing and companies with space to spare Space, once described as the final frontier, is often more like an invisible obstacle course warehouse space, that is, rather...
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