All The Grocer articles in 3 June 2006 – Page 2
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Ireland aims to raise its game in organics
The Irish Department of Agriculture is cracking down on sales of bogus organic produce in farmers' markets across the Republic. An additional inspector has been appointed with special responsibility for policing the rapidly...
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Nut-free cereal for allergy sufferers
Nut allergy sufferers can now sit down to breakfast without worrying about the content of their muesli.It&'s Nut Free has launched four new cereal varieties in 700g plastic tubs that are completely free of nuts and nut traces:...
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"Foot and mouth may be the least of its challenges. The Year of Food & Farming must also overcome vaulting ambition"
A plague rides roughshod over everything, and so it has proved again with the latest outbreak of foot and mouth this week: supply has been plunged into turmoil, processors and packers stand idly by, and farmers gnash their teeth. (Editors, too,...
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Comment & Opinion
Second opinionTelling kids they can't always have the food they want marks a step change in our attitudes to food and retailing, says Tim Lang
Less choice means habits will change Behind the new, tougher school food standards announced by the government earlier this month (May 19) lay an important shift. While it is certainly not the slaying of the Great Emperor Choice, it is...
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"Suppliers watch out - Andy Bond has no intention of dropping Asda's combative price stance"
It's been a tough year for Asda's head honcho Andy Bond. What with those pesky members of the GMB union, widespread criticism over price-cutting tactics that saw £100m wiped off the value of the banana sector alone, suppliers unhappy over...
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Cognac set to appeal to a new generation of lovers
A Cognac that has been designed to offer an alternative to the category's traditional image has been launched into the UK off-trade. ABK6 Cognac is the brainchild of producer Francis Abécassis Vineyards, and was created to...
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"The appointment of Tim Smith and an FSA rethink on natural sugars - a little sanity is at last emerging"
I would love to have been a fly on the wall at Tim Smith's interview for the CEO role at the Food Standards Agency. How does the ex-chief executive of Arla Foods UK, a purveyor of precisely the kind of products the FSA would like us to consume...
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Climbing the ladder: Susie Willis, Founder of Plum Baby
How did you get to where you are today? Research, research, research. But having balls of steel, the courage of a lion and understanding the customers' needs first have also helped. What was the best decision you have made...
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Ice-cream Frubes back for summer
Yoplait Dairy Crest (YDC) is reintroducing its ice-cream-style limited edition flavours to its Frubes fromage frais tubes range in anticipation of a hot summer. Three limited edition flavours, Vanilla Scoop, Banana Blast and...
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Irish face crackdown on use of plastic bags
Retail plastic bag consumption in Ireland is on the increase - despite the introduction of a controversial levy four years ago. Smaller plastic bags used to carry fresh meat, fish, fruit and vegetables are exempt from the...
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"We should not underestimate the sophistication of the consumer," said the EU health boss, straighter than a banana
Dawn Primarolo was decided. Traffic lights were better, the public health minister told MPs, food industry execs, and pressure groups at a CASH event in the House of Commons this week. Dr Ian Reynolds, deputy chair at the Food Standards...
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Editors comment: Banking on Tesco to make its latest Big Idea work
With the Competition Commission unable to conclude its inquiry into the grocery supermarket industry, we’ve been kept waiting for Tesco’s next ‘Big Idea’, the masterstroke we’ve all come to expect that will see Tesco disappear away from the...
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Wild Bean Café set for broader future?
Wild Bean Café, BP&'s coffee counter, will eventually appear outside the company&'s forecourt stores, a senior executive has predicted. Andrew Davis, trading manager at BP Retail, claimed research showed few customers...
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"Have the supermarkets been profiteering from food price inflation? Here are three factors in their defence"
The numbers don't lie. There's been a lot of speculation that supermarkets have been profiteering from food price inflation. Here, in The Grocer/OC&C survey of the top 150 manufacturers (see pp4, 30-37), is strong evidence that they have. Of the...
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"Crash diets will be followed by binge-induced weight gain - once the handout has been pocketed, of course"
'Fatties to get cash for losing weight?' I suppose we should not be surprised by the government's latest wheeze, contained in the £372m Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives report, out this week. Apparently inspired by successful trials in...
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"What concerns me most, as Fingleton points the finger, is the confusing message that has been sent to the public"
He would never ask for it but I'm feeling a little sorry for Peter Freeman. The chairman of the Competition Commission has just spent two years investigating the grocery sector. But events have overtaken him. First, the OFT announced a...
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"Are the supermarkets finally relaxing their grip on food prices? Or is oil still the main culprit behind inflation?"
Back in March, our price tracking showed food inflation at 3.1%. This was in marked contrast to one particular and highly selective study, but tallied almost exactly - indeed spookily - with figures from the major multiples. In the past...
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"The government could face a tobacco tax shortfall as big as the bill from Northern Rock - and face it every year"
Let's give this government credit for its media relations. We all remember the spin doctor who chose "the right day" to bury bad news back in September 2001. But choosing Easter Monday to propose a ban on in-store tobacco displays was smart....
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Kit Kat wins big with Big Bro ticket promo
One lucky member of the public may have managed to land a place in the Big Brother house by getting their hands on the correct golden ticket, but the real winner has been Nestlé Rowntree. According to the company, sales of...
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"Convenience is bigger than organic, fair trade, premium. Perhaps that will be the next target for the health police"
Sanity at last. This week's Foresight report on the obesity epidemic included some pretty scary numbers. But underscoring its predictions was the reasoned opinion that our biology is out of synch with our environment: that automation, public...