All The Grocer articles in 28 September 2002 – Page 5
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Hope France will relent
Ed Bedington The British beef industry is hoping for positive news from the French government over the coming weeks. The recent announcement by French food agency AFSSA that British beef is as safe as other beef on the French market is still...
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The whole world gets in the mix
Speciality rice add more interest and flavour than plain counterparts, as well as globaltrotting appeal.It may only make up a small share of the total rice market a small share of the total rice market at just over 5%, but speciality rice is...
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Scrase joins The Greenery
Safeway commercial director Nick Scrase has left the multiple to join Dutch grower-owner produce group The Greenery. Scrase has been appointed managing director of its UK operations, based in Thrapston, Northamptonshire. He has been a...
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Knowing their place
Mike Myers is hamming it up in the latest Austin Powers movie. "Hey! Hey! Hey! Get your hands off my Heiney, baby!" says Myers, seconds before a bottle of Heineken beer appears in shot. Meanwhile, over in Albert Sqaure, Mark Fowler is mixing up a...
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Monster surprise
Walkers is stepping up investment in its Monster Munch brand with the launch of a limited edition Mystery Tongue variant. The savoury snacks giant is also replacing Spicy flavour with an improved version of old favourite Roast Beef....
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A new Vintage
Shepherd Neame has given its Christmas Vintage Ale a new look for 2002. The Kent brewer has produced a festive gift box featuring Father Christmas, containing two 500ml bottles of Christmas Vintage Ale, together with an engraved stemmed beer glass. ...
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Sainsbury in pricing overhaul
Sian Harrington Sainsbury is to beef up its pricing strategy as it prepares for a price war between Asda and Tesco and seeks to reduce the gap in the longer term. The retailer, narrowly hanging on to its number two position, is to increase...
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There's room at the top for two
Morrisons and Asda share top spot in the retailer chart, and stand eight percentage points ahead of the rest. Tesco moves up to third place, pushing Safeway down to number four. The top three are strong on alcoholic drinks and Tesco is...
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A time of transition
Sainsbury has made great progress but the climate is getting tougher, with suppliers under renewed pressure. Siâ® Harrington reports from the annual supplier conference It has been a year of great progress at Sainsbury, but the stakes are rising...
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DEFRA’s plan alarms trade
The food and drink industry has responded with alarm to indications that DEFRA secretary of state Margaret Beckett is looking at new ways of augmenting the ministry’s annual budget.In a letter to Defra stakeholder groups, director of...
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Dairy Farm buys into health and beauty chain
International food and drugstore retailer Dairy Farm has entered the South Korean health and beauty market through a joint venture with Korean food giant CJ to run the Olive Young chain in the region.Dairy Farm said it would invest $5m in...
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Smile gets bigger
West country c-store chain Smile Newshops has boosted its presence in the Bath and Bristol area by acquiring 15 stores from the JCR News group.JCR owners Mark Callaway and John Newman will join Smile as commercial director and non executive...
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Thresher to bottle up price first
Off-licence chain Thresher is to pilot a scheme that arranges bottles according to price and not region or origin or grape.Part of the First Quench group, Thresher is to try the new style of display in 30 stores with a view to rolling out...
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Asda to get down to nuts and bolts
Asda is to launch an inquiry as to how some nuts and bolts got into meat pies sold at two of its stores in the south east.According to The Sun newspaper, two shoppers have complained after one discovered bolts in a mini pork and pickle pie...
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Fyffes gains German distributor
Fresh food group Fyffes is to buy an 80% stake in Internationale Fruchtimport Gesellschaft Weichert & Co for $30m in cash from US-based Del Monte Fresh Produce.The Weichert family will own the remaining 20% of Hamburg-based Inter, which has...
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Dairy Crest sell Westway site
Chilled foods group Dairy Crest has sold its former milk processing plant Westway in London for £18m in cash.CGNU and Commercial Union have bought the site which Dairy Crest vacated in January. The approved developer is Helical...
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Wrigley to unwrap strips
Wrigley is making its first foray into non-gum products with the launch of dissolvable breath-freshening strips called Extra Thin Ice.Launching in the UK in January, and following on-shelf appearances in the US this summer and Ireland from...
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Athif Sarwar
“I’ve never seen so many white vans – well, apart from at Dover docks,” one retailer quips as he loads up his trolley at the United Wholesale Scotland depot.And it is no exaggeration. The queues have been been getting longer by the day since...
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ATM blow for c-stores
Anne Bruce Independent retailers could lose thousands of pounds of income as the mobile phone networks and Lottery operator Camelot prepare to deliver products through cash machines. Camelot is to start feasibility studies to see if ATMs will...
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Heineken buys in Panama
Heineken has followed up its expansion into Egypt and the Lebanon with a $56m offer for Panamanian brewery group, Cervecerias Baru-Panama.Baru is 52% owned by Coca-Cola Panama with the other 48% traded on the Panamanian stock exchange,...