All The Grocer articles in 17 November 2001
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A record £100,000 was raised by 800 diners at the annual lun
Tesco says it will soon be opening a number of standalone Express convenience stores around the country. Dairy Crest CEO John Houliston is to retire after 11 years when the company holds its annual meeting on July 18, 2002. He will be replaced by...
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The terrorist attacks on the US on September 11 and the subs
The latest economic view from PricewaterhouseCoopers' Macroeconomics unit is that a slowdown is more likely in the UK than an outright recession. Consumer spending is forecast to grow by 3.75% for 2001 as a whole, before dropping to 2.75% in 2002,...
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n From a very naive start up' with an £18K kitchen and a ti
For many, the words frozen food conjure up images of cheap and cheerful products such as peas, pizza and fish fingers. Given that, and the fact that the sector is dominated by the supermarkets and specialists such as Iceland, what potential is...
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Oh, my God. Not Bin Laden again!" The Boston c-store owner g
Two months on from the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, an American Airlines Airbus had crashed shortly after take-off from John F Kennedy airport. A hush descended on the downtown shop as staff and Monday morning customers gathered...
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Scandia lager grows feisty with age
Landmark has launched a collection of offers on Scandia, its own label lager range. The 21-year-old brand has also been given a new look to help it compete with the keen pricing from the major brands. A spokesman said: "It competes on quality and...
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Bass brings an ale icon back home for trial in Sainsbury
Tim Palmer The UK's leading beer export Bass Pale Ale is being sold in the UK for the first time in over 200 years. The beer that has been doing very well over there it sells a total of 330,000 pints a day in more than 50 ...
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Appleby FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS
South west Spar wholesaler Appleby Westward has moved from sixth to fifth place in terms of turnover in the rankings of Spar wholesalers, said Wessex Guild of Spar chairman John Hart. Almost a third of the stores converting to the Millennium Store...
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PC Answers has them all
PC Answers magazine's 101st edition comes packaged as a special purple and gold boxed set. On sale on November 25, the special edition of the Future Publishing title focuses on how to protect your PC from viruses and hackers. A free pocket...
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Spar must amass stores to defeat multiple c-force
Spar must acquire more stores if it is to eliminate the price advantage suppliers give to multiple competitors, who are now entering the convenience arena in force, said Spar UK chairman Peter Blakemore. Speaking at the Central Meridian Spar Guild...
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Safeway has announced plans to become the first retailer to
As part of Safeway's support for local sourcing, customers in the north east of England will be able to buy branded Northumbrian lamb from this week. Northumbria was particularly badly hit by foot and mouth. By sourcing Northumberland lamb...
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Paterson Arran has re-packaged its range of Oatcakes with a
Bernard Matthews' range of cooked meats has taken top spot in Slimming Magazine's Light & Low Awards for the second time. Its range of sliced cooked poultry product was voted top meat product for the second time in two years. Vitabiotics'...
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Odds are on Asda's Beaujolais
The race to offer the cheapest Beaujolais Nouveau this week was almost certainly won by Asda which was selling the new vintage at £2.98 a bottle. This year's wines are similar in style to last year's according to Patriarche, which launched its...
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asda's secret deli
counter weapon Asda's deli pizza counter sells an astounding 21 million pizzas annually, according to pizza buying manager Tim Cullum. "We call it our secret weapon," says Cullum. Renowned for its value for money, the deli counter's cornerstone...
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From Boston's streets: Blair fare back in favour
Clive Beddall, Boston American shoppers' fears about the safety of British food in the wake of the foot and mouth crisis are diminishing. And Tony Blair's backing for the US bombing raids on Afghanistan is bringing a reciprocal barrage of support...
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Dutch bacon to get boost from round two of piggy smashing
Bacon fans will have a chance to smash their way to a cool million pounds next year in a national promotion being run by the Dutch Meat Board. Dubbed smash the million pound piggy', the on-pack promotion is a repeat of a hugely successful...
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M&S wheels in mobile bakeries
Marks and Spencer is experimenting with wheel-in convenience solutions in its foodhalls now they are proving popular in its Simply Food c-stores. M&S started to introduce modular in-store bakeoffs on wheels in its key stores in September and now...
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Cherry-picking kills instore bank
The first instore bank in the Irish Republic, a joint venture between the Superquinn chain and the Trustee Savings Bank, is closing down at the end of the year with losses of around I£6m. 75 staff will be made redundant. Tusa was set up two years...
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Pizza is one of the nation's most popular and best-loved f
Why then has the £580m market slowed in the last year, dropping back from double digit growth in 2000 to a meagre 3% rise in the 52 weeks to the end of September? The culprit is frozen pizza, traditionally the market's driver, which has taken a 3%...
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Haskins plans consultancies as Blackburn prepares to take ov
Lord Haskins who has been doing "a lot of work for the government" will focus on these consultancy roles as he steps down as chairman of Northern Foods and Express Dairies. Northern Foods chairman designate Peter Blackburn has already been...
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What is the land for? The British famously love their garden
But what about the rest of the population? What and whom is the land for? Houses? Food? Recreation? Wildlife? Carbon sinks (soaking up pollution from industrial living)? I was born in Lincoln on the edge of the fens, prime agricultural land, but...