All The Grocer articles in 4 November 2006 – Page 3
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Cereal promotions take centre stage in stores
Of the top five brands in the grocery category chart for the week ending 23 October, two were cereal brands - Kellogg's and Weetabix - with the third, Heinz, also having cereals on promotion.Activity across these three brands for...
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CC: reveal yourterms
Suppliers have been told by the Competition Commission to reveal the terms they offer their customers - including any payments they make to them - and have been warned that if they do not comply they could be forced to do so.In a...
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Campaign trail: Wagg
Wagg Complete Budget: Undisclosed Manufacturer: Wagg Foods Wagg embarked on a follow-up campaign for its dogfood in September with an advert airing in HTV West and Wales, Anglia and Central TV regions. The 30-second creative for its...
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Cadbury: is it up queer street then?
The world's largest confectionery company has been having a rough ride over here. Since the beginning of July year-on-year profits in the UK were 5% lower than expected and sales in the Q3 were sluggish. Four week figures from ACNielsen...
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Daniels buys Farmhouse Fare puds
Farmhouse Fare, the award-winning premium pudding supplier that was formed in a Lancashire kitchen in 1998 with a £250 overdraft, has been snapped up by Daniels Chilled Foods, owner of New Covent Garden Food Company, for an undisclosed...
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buyers forum
What buyers say:"Despite consumers wanting to spend more time preparing main meals and to feel good about eating better, they are still pressed for time. A ready-to-eat yoghurt saves time as a dessert, or acts as a replacement...
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In Brief: Buttercup petition; U-turn on hygiene; Wiseman will fight
Buttercup petition Tesco took delivery of a petition from Farmers for Action last week, calling for a milk price rise. It was presented by about 30 activists and a Jersey cow called Buttercup. U-turn on...
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In Brief: Candyking in mix; Campus coffee; Food miles slashed
Candyking in mix Woolworths has signed a four-year deal with Swedish sweets firm Candyking to supply a new pick 'n' mix concept to its 821 high street stores between now and May 2007. Campus coffee Fairtrade...
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In Brief: Weetos movie deal; Naturally sparkling; Cereal update; Mustard promotion
Weetos movie deal Weetabix has joined forces with Warner Bros for an on-pack promotion featuring new blockbuster movie Happy Feet. Until next month, packs of Weetos will include a Happy Feet movie card, featuring a dancer from the...
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"It was a blessed relief from the endless cardboard-flavoured cereals and terrible customer service in other supermarkets"
Whole Foods Market, the US health/organic chain that's heading for these shores next March, is the talk of the town right now. It seems to have captured the imagination of the (middle-class) public, the media, City analysts and brand owners, not...
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The Big Picture
Prunella Scales helped make Tesco great - but now she has defected to the cause of the small shopkeeper.Scales, who played domineering mother Dotty in a series of TV adverts for Tesco that ran for nearly ten years from 1995, is...
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Jordans takes on big names in wholesome
Jordans is going up against the likes of Kellogg's Fruit & Fibre and All Bran Flakes in the 'wholesome' section of the breakfast cereal aisle, with the launch of a new range called 3 in one. The name comes from the products' combination...
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Why star ratings, not GDAs or traffic lights, are better
Choosing Health, the White Paper on public health published two years' ago this month, stated the government's goal of "a clear, straightforward coding system so that busy people can understand at a glance which foods can make a positive...
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Man's best friend. And how
More pets, especially cats. And more being lavished on them than ever before. Together that means boomtime for the petcare sector.Pets have it good these days, with many owners happy to pay high prices. And consumers' nutritional...
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what became of our great new café culture?
A Continental café culture. Sipping sophisticated drinks at all hours in the manner of Montmartre. That, the government hoped, would be life under the new alcohol regime introduced last year. Twenty-four hour licences arrived. Councils...
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A dumbed down beauty contest
Sir; It is a pity the Harris research commissioned by The Grocer ('GDAs are ahead in race to appeal', 28 October, p7) did not appear to test how the different front-of-pack labelling schemes perform in enabling consumers to make healthier...
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Palestinian strawberry exports still available
Strawberries from Palestinian growers will be on sale as usual in the UK during the next couple of weeks, according to Israeli exporter Agrexco.The security fence that separates Palestinian-controlled areas from Israel has effectively...
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Giants jostling to gain wholefoods authority
Sainsbury's and Waitrose are the latest supermarkets to set their focus on the lucrative but niche wholefoods category in a bid to cash in on ever-increasing demand for healthier lines.Waitrose is planning a new range in the sector after...
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Reluctantly, I am impressed by Lidl
I have been watching the activities of the hard discounters - Aldi, Lidl and Netto - with mixed emotions. A few years back, catalysed by a friend who enthused over his spectacularly cheap purchase of extra virgin olive oil, I popped into...
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