All The Grocer articles in 25 November 2000
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Symbol Groups: Londis breaks 2,000 barrier
Londis membership has broken through the 2,000 store barrier, including 60 Scottish retailers who have joined the symbol group since May. Sales director Terry Bedford said: "We have already made a net gain of 75 members during the first nine months...
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Dairy: New contract breaks the mould of 80:20 rule
The current calendar year still shows every sign of finishing with Milk Group average auction prices for December running at 27.7ppl. But whether the quota year will finish on such a high note is not guaranteed. The present physical shortages of...
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Games: Aboard the Playstation
Pole Star Journals is to launch two monthly Playstation titles, Station 2 and Station 2 Solutions. Station 2, which launched on November 23, carries up-to-date news, previews, reviews and tests on Playstation 2 and its latest games. Cover price is...
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Nonsense about real' food
Sir; re Retailers called on to push real', The Grocer, November 18, p12, which reported on The Campaign for Real Food's call to government to promote fresh "real" food. Founder Tom Findlay said: "There's so much improperly cooked processed food...
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Wholesale: Adam Cunningham will find buyer without breakup'
Scottish wholesaler Adam Cunningham has gone into receivership following cashflow problems and the breakdown of talks over the sale of the business. The company, which has been supplying confectionery, soft drinks and snacks to independent...
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Insider dealing for new Tango adverts
Tango's quest to be the epitome of cutting edge cool among its target 16 to 20 year old audience has taken a new direction with the unveiling of its new £5m advertising campaign. Following in the footsteps of the Tango man and the Tango megaphone,...
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Sainsbury: Shares fall after dip
An unexpected dip in second quarter like for like sales has been shrugged off by Sainsbury. But the company's share price which has soared since Sir Peter Davis took over as CEO slid 3514p to 396p on the news. Like for like sales growth was...
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Spar: Chiefs sound alert over need for keener pricing
Spar must adopt "keener pricing" on key brands to tackle the perception that convenience stores are expensive places to shop, delegates were told at this year's Central Meridian Guild Spar retail conference in Harrogate. Urging independents to join...
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Table Talk: Antony Worral Thompson, chef and TV personality
In an age when convenience food rules our diet, we tend to forget the oldest convenience food available on our shelves, and that is canned food. I have been helping Canned Food UK to tell consumers about the relevance of these foods to today's...
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Staff retention: The workplace can be the best arena for sta
The food industry is notorious for high staff turnover, according to Heath Roberts, marketing manager for Parkhouse Personnel. Employees are now unlikely to stay in the same job for more than five years. "The food industry is often blamed for...
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Art of organic enjoyment
Enjoy Organic has added frozen ready meals to its organic portfolio. A five strong range, with mainly meat based recipes, launches into freezers this month. It includes Mediterranean Vegetable Pasta Bake, Chilli Con Carne, Cumberland Pie, Chicken...
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Potatoes: ASDA BOOSTS SHARE OF THE MARKET
Asda is now selling traditionally higher priced new potatoes at the same price as old ware, making it unique among multiples which still try to use a retail ticket to make a point of difference. "Taylor Nelson Sofres research shows that it has...
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The Grocer focus on bacon
analysis by Peter Crosskey It used to be the jewel in the crown of the British bacon industry, and its boss Max Hilliard is regarded as a young manager of outstanding talent. But even Hilliard has found himself swamped by the crisis facing the...
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The Grocer focus on bacon: Retail: in need of a makeover
Like Cinderella, this category languishes in the parlour, while consumers are asking to take it to the ball Bacon has an aspirational element and is seen as healthier than steak or fast food. Yet in store the fixture fails because it is dull....
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The Grocer focus on bacon: storming the fixture
Tulip International is using brand loyal Scotland as a test bed for a £150,000 investment in category management. Working with Safeway's marketing and retailing agency Storm at the Gyle Avenue store in Edinburgh, the first Bacon Zone opened for...
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The Grocer focus on bacon
NPD: TULIP GETS CREATIVE Tulip is trailblazing development of bacon meal centres and innovative products at its new Vejle factory The bacon fixture is dogged by inherent conservatism. Range reviews usually mean redesigning labels or packaging...
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The Grocer focus on bacon: UK: Fever keeps pulses racing in
Weekly slaughter figures have dropped 20% and created a tough marketplace for the curers R etailers will continue to face growing pressure to pay more for British back rashers because supplies of British pork backs are becoming increasingly tight....
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The Grocer focus on bacon: the raw and the cooked
From being a food service sandwich ingredient, cooked bacon has developed very strongly as a retail sector in its own right over the last 12 months. The retail quantities remain small, but last year saw the rival launches of Streakers by Tulip...
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The Grocer focus on bacon
DENMARK: seeking an equitable life The Danes expect the UK to take a bigger slice of their pigmeat, but believe the market here is working against them. Peter Crosskey reports T he Danish industry's frustration with the climate of the British...
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The Grocer focus on bacon: what's in store
- Sainsbury Sainsbury has launched a new range of bacon on its delicatessen fixture, @west Country Premium Bacon, sourced in the West Country. "It is traditionally cured for a fuller flavour and thicker cut for a meatier texture," says category...