All The Grocer articles in 26 November 2005 – Page 2
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Bringing it home cheaper
Feverish promotional activity has robbed the bacon market of buoyant sales growth. Richard Clarke reports on a far from sizzling pictureIt hasn’t been a great year for bacon. In fact, it wouldn’t be too wide of the mark to say that...
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Buckingham Vintners names trio
Buckingham Vintners has appointed Jon Pepper as marketing manager. Pepper joins Buckingham Vintners from LVMH, where he worked as a brand manager for Guerlain and most recently as retail marketing manager at Thomas Pink. He replaces Kathryn...
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Wizard way to make butter convenient
The days of butter being too hard or too soft could be numbered, thanks to the first fully portable temperature-controlled butter dish.ButterWizard looks like an ordinary butter dish but maintains butter at its optimum spreading temperature of...
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Rol up for Christmas entertaining with canapés
Jus-Rol is entering into the canapés market in time for the Christmas period as part of its attempts to add interest to the frozen pastry category.Launching next week is a canapé range of 12 bites (rsp: £2.49 for 240g) in two contemporary...
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Cowan is new MD of cheese distributor
Speciality cheese importer and distributor Anthony Rowcliffe & Son has appointed Milton Cowan as managing director of the company.Cowan has been at the company for 16 years, joining as general manager before moving up to the position of...
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Chill is good for rhubarb
The sudden drop in temperature over the past week has been good news for English growers of forced rhubarb.Two weeks ago we reported how producers feared mild temperatures would delay their crop into next year, when the cheaper outdoor-grown...
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protect the weak and guarantee choice
from Shamus Lehel, Preferred Alliance of Londis ShopkeepersSir; I was interested to read Keith Wilson’s letter (‘The other side of the high street story’, Readers’ letters, The Grocer, November 19, p32). He makes some interesting...
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Whisky rarities released for Christmas
Drinks giant Diageo is hoping consumers will splash out this Christmas on its latest release of limited edition malt whiskies.The ten new bottlings in the Classic Malts Selection range in age from 12 to 36 years and are stocked at specialist...
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Climbing up UBUK ladder
United Biscuits UK has promoted Mark Sugden to the newly created role of director of customer marketing.In his new job, Sugden will be responsible for spearheading the combined customer marketing, customer planning and sales operations...
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Commodities Update: tomatoes, tuna, ham
Tomatoes in demandItalian export figures show UK volume imports of canned tomatoes grew by a third over the first six months of the year.Promotional activity on four-packs of canned tomatoes seems to have accounted for a large part of the...
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Consumer Insight
When bananas are eatennLast year, bananas were eaten in the home on 2.5 billion occasions, up 2% on the previous yearnA third of bananas are eaten at breakfast, up from a...
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Heartland: the whole country
Morrisons’ directors north and south are confident of winning at all their stores by listening and adapting to local customers, as they explain to Ronan HegartyThis week Morrisons opened four newly converted Safeway stores. When the...
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Demand for cranberries
Demand for fresh cranberries is growing steadily, according to figures released by the Ocean Spray growers co-operative.It claims 3% more fresh cranberries were sold in the UK in 2005 than in 2004, although volumes remain small.The...
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What cure for the evils of salt?
To what extent will bacon suppliers have to tackle salt levels in their products in the light of public health concerns and the targets requested by the Food Standards Agency?Diet and health are high up the political and social...
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Love did not save the day...
Love Saves the Day, one of the innovative retailers identified by The Grocer as One to Watch earlier in the year, has been forced to close its doors after hitting financial difficulties.The Manchester-based wine merchant, fine food retailer and...
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Early Days
How is one of 2004’s top launches faring?Product:Aero BubblesCompany:Nestlé RowntreeLaunch date:April 2005Nestlé Rowntree took the bull by the horns this year when it...
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Deadline stays says Flint
Public health minister Caroline Flint this week said she would not budge on the government’s early 2007 deadline to decide whether to legislate on food promotion to children.The government’s Choosing Health White Paper states this is the date...
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A dearth of skills
Vacancies are at record levels but stores can’t find the right people, with basic skills sorely absent, says Siân HarringtonVacancies at shopfloor level at the biggest food retailers are running at record levels, despite more people...
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Who wants to live without diversity?
from Alan Toft, chairman, My Shop Is Your Shop CampaignSir; Keith Wilson’s letter (Readers’ letters, The Grocer, November 19, p32) put Sainsbury’s case for the power of the giant multiples.If the Office of Fair Trading agrees...
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Time to Revel in Easter egg special
Masterfoods is not forgetting its old favourites by bringing out a luxury Revels Easter egg alongside a variant of its new Galaxy Promises brand. The company said Revels sales had doubled over the past five years, aided inpart by a recent...
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