All The Grocer articles in 19 March 2011
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Hovis rolls out Union Jack loaf packaging
Hovis is to roll out a Union Jack pack design to highlight its use of flour milled from British wheat. From the end of March, the brand's Soft White range will carry bold Union Jack packaging and the tagline '100% British Wheat'. The new...
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Tesco closes pricing loophole exposed by mystery website
Tesco has been forced to put a cap on its Double the Difference price pledge after super-savvy shoppers exploited the deal to actually make money while doing the weekly shop. Consumers were guided by a new and anonymous website,...
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Grocer 33
Morrisons Banbury
The Grocer 33 is a weekly mystery shopping survey, tracking price, service and availability at the five leading grocery retailers: Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose. Each week the winning store manager is interviewed by The Grocer.
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Comment & Opinion
Buried alive
'Sainsburied’ screams the headline in today’s edition of The Sun. It’s a nice line. Just as pleasingly, though less dramatically, the Financial Times notes that ‘Good shares cost less at Sainsbury’s’.
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Unilever swaps Sanex for Colgate’s laundry business
Unilever has agreed to sell the global Sanex business to Colgate-Palmolive and acquire the company's laundry detergent brands.
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Private equity group swoops for pet food maker Provimi
Private equity group Advent International has bought Provimi Pet Food in a deal worth €188m (£163.8m). The own-label pet food maker is based in Budapest and employs 1,000 staff across eight sites around Europe.
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Comment & Opinion
The Irish example
These days Ireland’s economy resembles not so much the Celtic tiger of yore as a rather mangy tabby that’s gone through the spin cycle one too many times. So it’s novel for a commentator to look in that direction for an example of sound economic management.
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Budget 2011: Tobacco duty rise 'a boon to black marketeers’
Legitimate retailers will suffer at the hands of the tobacco duty rise announced in today’s Budget while black marketeers prosper, industry chiefs have warned.
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M&S adds Jamie Redknapp to spring campaign
Marks & Spencer has unveiled details of its spring advertising campaign, with football pundit Jamie Redknapp making his TV debut for the chain alongside the likes of Lisa Snowdon and Twiggy.
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Binned food uses 6% of UK’s water
Retailers have been urged to do more to cut water use and household food waste following the publication of a major new report. More than six million cubic metres of water are used to produce food that is thrown away – nearly double the UK’s annual household water usage.
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People’s Supermarket to appeal after tax bombshell
The People’s Supermarket is appealing a council decision not to grant it tax relief after it was landed with a £78,000 bill.
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Responsibility Deal slammed by experts as ‘oversimplistic’
Experts have attacked the calorie-counting logic underpinning the government's Responsibility Deal. This week, the Department of Health finally unveiled the pledges food and drink retailers and manufacturers would be encouraged to sign...
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Walkers hails Crinkles launch as ‘biggest in five years’
Walkers is launching a range of crinkle-cut crisps next month, in a move the PepsiCo brand claimed was the biggest category launch of the past five years.
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Greencore ‘must act fast or it will become a target’
Greencore will need to strike a deal swiftly after failing to secure Northern Foods or risk becoming a takeover target itself, City experts have warned. M&A experts have cited Bakkavör and Uniq as potential targets. "Greencore...
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Tesco turns patriotic with UK-sourced Yoo yoghurts
Tesco has thrown down the gauntlet to yoghurt giants Danone and Müller with the launch of a new 'patriotic' tertiary yoghurt brand that promises to be 100% British and 20% cheaper than "foreign" yoghurts.
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Sharwood’s reveals a mega-fiery sauce
Sharwood’s is unleashing a cooking sauce made from one of the world’s hottest chillies. Each jar of the company’s Bhut Jolokia curry sauce (rsp: £1.55) contains one Bhut Jolokia chilli which is 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce,…
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Local shop is ‘an oasis of sanity’ - MP
A Nisa Local store in Worcestershire has received the first My Shop Is Your Shop Gold Award for Community Retailing from the FWD. Local MP Peter Luff, who presented the award to staff at the Broadway store, called Rav Garcha's shop "an...
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Rowntree’s joins the sour sweet ranks
Nestlé is extending the Rowntree’s brand next month with the launch of Sour Pastilles. The sweets, aimed at 25 to 35-year-olds, will join products from Haribo and Barratt in the sours confectionery category. Sales of sour singles have…
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Vanilla Ice raps while he wraps
We've had Lionel Richie singing about Walkers crisps. Now another icon of times past is has been waxing lyrical for tone-deaf foodies this time on behalf of Warburtons wraps. Vanilla Ice who shot to fame 20 years ago with hits like Ice...
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Rustlers kicks off NPD with Hot Wraps
Kepak Convenience Foods has added wraps to its Rustlers portfolio in a bid to double sales to £140m. The Rustlers Hot Wraps duo, rolling out now, consists of a Chicken Salsa with Cheese and a BBQ Chicken with Cheese variant (rsp:...