All The Grocer articles in 3 June 2006 – Page 3
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Premium injection for meat snack category
The Black Farmer is diversifying into the savoury snacking category with the launch of a high meat-content sausage roll. The company, which is best known for its sausages as well as a range of sauces, is making its first entry into...
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Calf prices double as exports build up pace
UK calf prices have doubled since the resumption of normal beef exports. Live calf exports began just a month ago, yet already some dairy producers have seen the value of their calves reaching a level that is twice what it was just...
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"Brown has pledged retailers will not screw farmers with price cuts on meat. Perhaps retailers should do the same"
Sabotage, extortion, allotments. What an eventful week it's been. As The Grocer was going to press, Philip McHugh was due in court yesterday (Friday) charged with two counts of blackmail and bomb hoaxing against Tesco following the closure of 14...
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Brewer slams retailers over World Cup deals
One of the UK&'s top brewers has slammed retailers for slashing in-store beer prices for the World Cup. Mark Gerken, off-trade sales director of Scottish & Newcastle, said retailers were wrong to cut prices at a time when...
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Pace and Malthurst opt for Spar brand
Two of the UK&'s biggest forecourt operators, Pace Petroleum and Malthurst, are set to widen a Spar store conversion programme after unveiling plans to ditch Budgens in favour of the symbol group at 22 Pace sites this...
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"Food miles is a great phrase for earnest environmentalists. But a bottle of Boots shampoo tells a different story"
Food miles. The phrase that captured the imagination of the nation. Or so the media thought, as thousands of column inches were devoted to Kenyan beans, New Zealand wine, Fiji water, and other new no-nos. But food miles, it emerged from...
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Bogof's week
To the Sainsbury trade briefing where head honcho Justin King was first up. The room was packed to the rafters with suppliers, but you could have heard a pin drop when the floor was thrown open to questions. Is Sainsbury keeping its...
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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...
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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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"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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"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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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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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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"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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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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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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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...