All The Grocer articles in 12 October 2002 – Page 3
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Hit or miss? Persil Black Velvet
Brand owner Lever Faberge does not seem enthusiastic about the peformance of Persil Black Velvet, but perhaps it should be, because at least one of the major multiles has been impressed enough to launch a me-too version.A Sainsbury spokesman...
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Beef gets a foot in the door
With British Beef allowed back into the French meat market, the lorries will be jostling for space on the ferries. Won't they? Well, perhaps not, if the reaction of Richard Cracknell, MD of Anglo Beef Processors, is anything to go by. "We're...
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Despite overall market value decline because of price cuttin
The best performances have come from garlic and single supplements  B vitamins, vitamin C and antioxidant vitamin E  as customers more judiciously buy into supplements seen as building blocks of nutrition. Phil Brand, corporate communications...
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Beauty and the bogof a fine pair
Competition within the retailer chart has increased this week. Morrisons remains at the top of the chart but just two percentage points ahead of Safeway at number two. Tesco also moves up the chart to take third place and this, along with...
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Sauces get Barilla livery
Pasta specialist Barilla has revealed the final phase of its worldwide packaging initiative. The company, which repackaged its entire range of 16 pasta products into blue earlier this year, has extended the initiative to its range of sauces....
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SQS hits back over lice
Kit Davies Evidence that wild fish are being infected by sea lice from farmed salmon has been presented to a conference in Denmark. The evidence was contained in a Fisheries Research Services paper delivered at the International Council for...
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Somerfield takes Back
Rod Addy Somerfield group finance director Martin Gatto is resigning as a director next week after nine years working for the multiple. Somerfield has recruited Budgens' group finance director Steven Back to replace him. Gatto worked...
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Asda will go live with a new reverse logistics system to han
The chain has taken over 50,000 sq ft of space at a site in Lutterworth where it will co-ordinate the return of goods to manufacturers, or sell them on  usually to overseas buyers. Asda general manager for electronics Ged Taylor said it was...
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Cottage Publishing's Puzzle Annual's Stocking Filler
The Buffy Yearbook  a new annual title featuring the top stars of the hit television programmes Buffy and Angel  goes on sale on October 31 with a cover price of £4.99. Distribution will be by Comag. Emap's celebrity weekly magazine...
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Shamwari from Hardy alliance
BRL Hardy is launching its first South African branded wine. The result of Hardy's joint venture with Stellenbosch Vineyards, Shamwari will be unveiled next week. The range comprises a Robertson Chardonnay and a Stellenbosch Merlot Cabernet...
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Ahead with headsets
The North Eastern and Cumbrian Co-op is to roll out a communications headset in all its 140 c-stores to improve security and customer service. The Quail Digital wireless and hands-free headset is voice activated and enables staff on the shop...
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Points that add up
A new survey sheds fresh light on the priorities, aspirations and role models of industry chiefs Tesco, Asda and Procter & Gamble are the three companies most admired by the UK's top retail and manufacturing bosses. When asked which companies...
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Multiples pass the acid test in the weekly shop
Multiples are the fastest growing trade channel for remedies for overindulgence or a sensitive stomach. The fourth largest OTC sector, stomach remedies makes up 11% of all OTC sales, accounting for around £50m in grocery [Information...
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poor focus on sector's achievements
from James Ensor, managing director, Strategic Vision, London Sir; Andrew Fowler's view (The Grocer, Saturday Essay, October 5) that the City looks for growth is well founded. Food retailers have grown fast. Our research shows that over the...
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Bon Bon Buddies is confident about its launch of a Princes
n St Ivel claims to have one of strongest girl properties with Bang on the Door. Its choice was to appeal to girls aged six to 10 and drive its yogurts and drinking yogurts with an on-pack design. n Cereal Partners' and Kinnerton's...
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ABF beverages buy includes Ovaltine
Associated British Foods surprised the City with a £171m deal to buy Ovaltine and a clutch of other hot beverage brands from Novartis. The brands will combine with ABF's Twinings tea operation to create a £350m international hot beverages...
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November 1986
The disease Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy  BSE  is first identified by the government's Central Veterinary Laboratory December 1988 BSE is designated a zoonosis, a disease that could be passed from animals to humans May...
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Budgens goes for £1bn
Elaine Watson Budgens' new owner Musgrave has pledged to double the size of the business in five years to take turnover beyond the £1bn mark. Growth will come from a two-pronged strategy of injecting more resources into the Budgens Local...
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