All The Grocer articles in 16 November 2002
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Unilever sells Iberia Foods in US
Unilever has agreed to sell its Iberia Foods business Stateside to an affiliate of the Brooklyn Bottling Group in New York.The Anglo-Dutch group said Iberia Foods has annual sales of $43m and caters to the Hispanic-American market through...
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Brown-Forman increases stake in Finlandia
US consumer products group Brown-Forman has acquired a further 35% in Finlandia Vodka Worldwide from Finnish wine and spirits company Altia $70.3m.B-F which makes Jack Daniel’s whisky, Fetzer wines and Lennox china, has now upped its stake...
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Graham’s wins Scottish dairy award
Dairy company Graham’s has been named “Scotland’s Dairy Company of the Year 2002” and received the award at the Scottish Dairy Industry Awards Dinner, held in Glasgow this week.Graham’s MD Robert Graham said: “We have all worked extremely...
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Sainsbury meets expectations
Sainsbury has posted a 10.7% jump in first half pre-tax profit and cited cost savings plus its store refurbishment programme for “this solid performance”.For the 28 weeks to October12 group pre-tax profit rose to £342m from £309m last year...
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Asda pizza is tops
Asda has claimed top spot in the Pizza Retailer of the Year award for the third time.Asda was commended for its consistency, good value and overall performance at the Pizza, Pasta and Italian Food Industry Awards 2002.Pizza marketeer...
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Lion Foods sold
Lion Foods, which processes and packs spices, as well as producing branded and own label sauces, has been sold as a going concern to a group of investors.Lion, which operates two factories in Runcorn employing 185 people, had been in...
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Ahold issues warning
Global retailer Ahold has warned that full-year earnings could fall by upto 8% and announced plans to get rid of non-core businesses after a dismal results from its South American operations.The Dutch-based Ahold posted third quarter pre-tax...
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Krispy Kreme to open in UK
US doughnut manufacturer, Krispy Kreme, is to open its first franchise in Britain, in Harrods, on September 25.The new Harrod’s store – the first of its 25 outlets planned for the UK over the next five years – will feature its...
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Shaw’s buys Ames stores
Shaw’s supermarkets the US arm of Sainsbury’s in the UK has bought 18 Ames stores for $75.5m.Shaw’s boss Paul Gannon said: “This purchase further strengthens Shaw’s position as the second largest food retailer in New England. The properties...
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summer not a turn-off
michael simpson jones, chilled ready meals buyer, sainsbury "The core trend has not really changed in the past two years  consumers are looking for good tasting, good value for money products. But base sales in the summer were considerably...
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That's retailtainment with Reg
Safeway has recruited WHSmith's Reg Curtis as commercial director for grocery to drive the development of its retailtainment concept. His appointment follows the departure of Safeway's commercial director for fresh and frozen foods, Gillian...
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Radio tunes into PoP
The level of sales growth for retailers signed up to Newsagents Radio is silencing critics of c-store radio. Elaine Watson reports If the words instore radio' conjure up distressing recollections of the Bee Gees on panpipes and Coronation...
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no need for t&S to sell out to tesco
from Dudley Ramsden, executive chairman, Nisa-Today's Sir; I read with some scepticism your article in The Grocer last week, Revealed: How Tesco met T&S' (p16). The implications of this article are that T&S Stores simply had no option but to...
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out of memory
Finsbury Food Group, formerly Megalomedia, has appointed Dave Brooks group chief executive. Brooks was MD of Memory Lane Cakes, which was bought by Megalomedia in August. Megalomedia changed its name to Finsbury Food Group on completion of the...
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Soft mango trials by JS
Sainsbury is increasing its programme to develop supplies of a soft yellow-skinned mango with a pink blush called Kensington Pride and grown solely in Australia. The multiple is also conducting exclusive trials with supplier Minor, Weir and...
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Testing instore marketing with Radar
Former bosses of Taylor Nelson Sofres subsidiary TNS Radar, have set up a new company called Retail Testing enabling top manufacturers and retailers to test the impact of instore marketing initiatives. Retail Testing chairman John Burke said...
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Ocado seeks new hubs
Anne Bruce Ocado is looking for satellite distribution centres in the south and a second main depot in the north as demand takes off, according to joint MD Roger Whiteside. The Waitrose supplied online shopping service is now taking up to...
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A marketing holy grail'
Anne Bruce A new TV, supermarket and marketing consortium plans to turn the Channel Islands into a low cost test market for new fmcg products. Bonsai, a collaboration between ITV1, Channel Islands retailer Le Riche, and marketing agency Fast...
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US's Pink Lady and Fuji frozen
David Shapley Washington State apples equating to as many as four million boxes have been frozen on the tree as they were awaiting picking. The Fuji and Pink Lady varieties have been hit the hardest said George Smith, UK marketing director...
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Front runners hold positions
There are no changes in positioning in the retailer chart this week with Morrisons, Safeway and Tesco remaining the top three. Competition has increased with just two percentage points separating them. Safeway remains strong on...