All The Grocer articles in 16 December 2000 – Page 3
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The Grocer top products survey: sauces
Shaun Quinton Senior trading manager, proprietary brands Spar UK Central Office Our stores are more for destination top-up as opposed to planned purchase so we tend to do well on standard variants such as Chicken Tonight, Ragú and Uncle Ben's,...
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The Grocer top products survey: paper
Procter & Gamble has enjoyed a very successful year in paper products and nowhere more so than in bathroom tissues. Charmin put the wind up the fiercely competitive bathroom tissue sector. And in kitchen towels, P&G stole a march on the opposition...
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The Grocer top products survey: sauces
New products have helped to swell sales of liquid cooking sauces and stir-fry is emerging from pasta's shadow On the face of it, cooking sauces might not appear to be the most likely candidate for fastest growing category. But, as we have seen...
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The Grocer top products survey: laundry
After all the excitement and growth in the market following the hugely successful launch of Persil Tablets, this year has been relatively uneventful. Sales are down, mainly because manufacturers have been phasing out the more expensive concentrated...
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The Grocer top products survey: soups
With feverish NPD, soup is now a category of its own Soup appears as a separate category in this year's Top Brands survey for the first time, following lift off of the sector in the last 12 months. Convenience and snacking are the key drivers for...
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The Grocer top products survey: toiletries
The big news of 1999 continues to be big news in 2000. Gillette’s Mach3 has grown by 17.4% to give it annual sales of nearly £59m. Closest rival Wilkinson Sword sold £21m of razors and blades in the same period and new product launches such as the…
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The Grocer top products survey: household
In an almost completely static market, the bathroom sector is enjoying a boom time. Specifically, it is the shower cleaning products that are causing the upsurge in sales. Mr Muscle Shower Shine is leading the way with a revolutionary new...
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The Grocer top products survey: petfood
While a number of developments in the petfood market have been made for the benefit of the animals, more have been for purposes of convenience for those who actually buy the products. Overall sales have fallen although, as with many of the "staple"...
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Middleditch hits out at Verdict
Sir; I am not generally given to commenting upon issues through the letters page, but feel that the most recent Verdict Research on Neighbourhood Retailing paints a very gloomy view of the c-store sector. Using, as it does, an expanded view of the...
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Internet shopping: Migration nightmare
A "nightmare scenario" could face grocery retailers as their most profitable customers migrate to their internet shopping arms. This would leave the least profitable casual buyers and bargain hunters to shop in their stores, according to the...
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Staff on a mission
Employees from across the Bass brewing business will be experiencing the sharp end of take home retailing over the next two weeks. In a repeat of a successful exercise last year, it is inviting its workers from head office through to the breweries...
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Talking point: A stand on news
Ian Locks, PPA chief executive, and Robin Dickie, md of WH Smith UK Retail Channels, go head to head for readers of The Grocer over the wholesaler's proposals for a national distribution system for magazines Locks: Newspapers and magazines are just...
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