All The Grocer articles in 19 March 2011 – Page 3
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Douwe Egberts makes debut in refill packs
Douwe Egberts is following the lead of other major coffee brands with the launch of refill packs. Two variants of its Instants Pure range Pure Gold and Pure Indulgence will be in Asda and Morrisons nationwide in refill packs from this...
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Grocer 33Tesco Dunfermline
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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Analysis & FeaturesFarmers take global gamble with plans for powder plant
Is Farmers for Action’s plan to abandon supermarket milk and play the global commodities markets a smart move, ask Richard Ford and Julia Glotz
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NewsFocus On Juices & Smoothies: Keeping the juices flowing
The juices and smoothies market looks poised for recovery, but some sectors are struggling, and the spectre of commodity prices continues to haunt everyone. Elinor Zuke reports
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Focus On Juices & Smoothies: Innovations
Fructose intolerant Mark Walker spotted a gap in the market for a range of chilled pure vegetable juices and, having adapted traditional olive oil-making methods to create a process for extracting juice from beetroot, spinach, celery and carrot, he came up with WB&CO.
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NewsMaxinutrition gets set for sharper focus
Functional food brand Maxinutrition is collaborating with retailers to create a more coherent sports nutrition fixture in store. With parent company GlaxoSmithKline, Maxinutrition is working with Tesco, Sainsbury's and Boots to improve...
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Killer heels and make-believe
I caught a pretend train from a pretend station in the City and headed out to somewhere near the Essex mudflats for this year's IFE (which stands for It's F-ing Exhausting, in case you wondered).
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NewsRustlers 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:...
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NewsVanilla 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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NewsRowntree’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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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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NewsSharwood’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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NewsTesco 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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NewsGreencore ‘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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NewsWalkers 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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NewsResponsibility 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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NewsPeople’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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NewsBinned 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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NewsM&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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NewsBudget 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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