All The Grocer articles in 21 October 2000 – Page 3
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Haribo ropes in cowboy tactics
Haribo's latest countline launch into the £89m other gums and jellies' sector is Lassooos. It is a 30cm long sour fruity strip that comes in three flavours: blueberry, cola and strawberry (rsp 2p). The cartoon character Hariboy this time...
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Digestion + Dalmatians
Dogfood brand Winalot is to run a 102 Dalmatians promotion on its Digestion+ tins this Christmas. The eight week promotion starts on November 1 in the run up to the release of the new Christmas Disney film (on December 8). Over 14 million...
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Germany: Sharp dissent over remedy for Wal-Mart
As Wal-Mart's loss-making German operation remains stuck between a rock and a hard place in an increasingly difficult market, analysts have been looking at the options for the troubled division following chief executive Lee Scott's recent admission...
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Drinks: Lambrini under fire
Halewood International is preparing to go to court to fight for the name of its sparkling perry Lambrini. A writ has been issued against the company by a group of Italian Lambrusco producers who claim it is passing itself off as Lambrusco and...
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Exhibitions: UK sixth largest SIAL participant
Britain will be the sixth largest participant when over 3,500 exhibitors from more than 90 countries go to the SIAL international food exhibition in Paris this weekend. The UK representation will include 102 suppliers of food and drink, 42 of them...
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Symbol groups: Spar finds a partner for local home shopping
Spar has teamed up with neighbourhood online shopping service BeeBeep.com to provide local internet shopping and home delivery services. The scheme involves clusters of local stores within a neighbourhood that will form local BeeBeep networks....
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Multiples: Sainsbury's squares up to Spar with first Local o
Sainsbury is to take on Spar's flagship store in Wylde Green, Birmingham, with the opening of its first Local outside the M25 corridor. The new Local, which is due to open next February, will be in the same precinct as the Blakemore owned Spar....
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Kenya: Flower power grows
An expansion programme is underway through the formation of Flamingo Holdings, a newly-formed international group which began trading this month. It combines the resources of Homegrown, a Kenya producer of vegetables and flowers, with Flamingo UK,...
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Market watch: Fruit and vegetable prices
Wholesale prices (p) FRUIT Origin Variety Packing Apples UK Cox lb 42 55 UK ...
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Rolos swell to Giant size
Nestlé Rowntree is still thinking big with the launch of an outsize Rolo. The upsized caramels are double traditional Rolo proportions, weighing in at 87g (rsp 44p). Graham Walker, Nestlé Rowntree sales communications manager, said: "Rolos are...
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Men's lifestyle magazines: You pays your money and
Esquire has photographed the Spice Girls for four separate covers on its November issue, on sale this week. Baby, Sporty, Scary and Posh Spice each pose for their own edition, with more shots and interviews inside. Esquire has also joined forces...
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Magazine scene: Men's lifestyle magazines
New generation is hot to trot in a sector loaded with potential The men's lifestyle sector is one in which every publisher wants a slice of the action. Nine publishing houses feature in the top 10 best sellers through the newstrade, and the...
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Tasting panel: Triple A
From Young's, canned version of new on-trade beer brand TARGET CONSUMER Murray Abraham, 38, is a litigation executive from Hampshire I don't like the can. I think it is probably meant for 18 to 25 year olds and I prefer more traditional...
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Perry's rebirth
Babycham is now so old it has become trendy. The sparkling perry with the memorable fawn icon made the fortune of the Showerings family in the 1950s and has been in decline ever since. It retained a hard core of fans and owner Matthew Clark is now...
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