All The Grocer articles in 7 October 2006 – Page 4
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Supermarkets hailed for seafood progress
Just months after its protesters took to the roofs of Asda and Morrisons' stores, Greenpeace is hailing British supermarkets for leading a green seafood revolution - but wants further action. During Seafood Week next week, campaigners...
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M&S moves healthy ready meals into the mainstream
Marks and Spencer took healthy eating into the mainstream this week with the launch of a new range of healthy non-diet ready meals designed with government advice on consumption of calories, fat, sugar and salt in mind. Some 100 products...
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Hot Stuff Smart TVs
Modern TVs are constantly pushing the technological frontiers and the Pioneer PDP-5000EX is unquestionably the finest plasma display ever created. It's not cheap - you could buy all three of the others in our review for its £6,000 price...
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Hot Stuff Smart TVs
Modern TVs are constantly pushing the technological frontiers and the Pioneer PDP-5000EX is unquestionably the finest plasma display ever created. It's not cheap - you could buy all three of the others in our review for its £6,000 price...
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Independents lash out over Tesco's small store optimism
A claim by Tesco that the number of convenience retailers is on the up has angered the small store sector, where store numbers have slumped 1.1% year-on-year, according to IGD - including a 3.6% drop among non-affiliated...
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Learning the skills to manage the industry
Congratulations to the students from the food and drink industry who have successfully completed IGD's flagship courses this year: the Postgraduate Certificate in Food and Grocery Industry Management and the Foundation Certificate in Management....
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Comment & Opinion
Inside track
The festive season is no time for promising new bands, critically acclaimed singer-songwriters or artists of a more esoteric bent to be releasing records. Christmas means a flood of blockbuster idols and stocking-filler...
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Price Survey
Asda has picked up where it left off, posting the lowest total in The Grocer 33 price survey again. It was the second victory in a row for Asda, which had a five-week winning streak broken up by Tesco a fortnight ago. Asda's bill for the...
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Profile Revisited
United Wholesale (Scotland), 25th on our most recent The Big 30 wholesaler rankings with a turnover of £97m, this week opened its first dedicated delivered wholesale warehouse in Queenslie, Glasgow. The facility, which holds 1,000 ambient lines,...
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Reader Survey
Ethically sourced products, such as fair trade, free range and organic lines, have grown rapidly in recent years. The Co-operative Bank reported that the ethical food market topped £4bn for the first time last year. There have been some...
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Are you seeing red yet?
Businesses are reeling. On 1 October they were hit by one of the biggest rafts of legislation to come into force on a single day, with new laws relating to age discrimination, the national minimum wage, maternity rights, fire safety and...
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Talking shop
It's time to reconnect the link between producers and wholesale markets, says Helen Evans, communications manager at Covent Garden Market Authority. I challenge any visitor walking through New Covent Garden Market's Buyers Walk not to be...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visited. Budgens, Sycamore Road, Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Midlands Co-operative Society, Shelton Lock, Derbyshire, Costcutter, Gloucester Avenue, Northampton, Spar Hazel Grove, Stockport, Greater...
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Wheat prices rise
The price of a loaf of bread could be on the increase following a rise in wheat prices. Reports suggest that the price of wheat at the Chicago Board of Trade Exchange has increased to $487 a bushel - its highest price in ten...
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Tesco dominates postcode areas
Tesco controls the grocery market in 67% of UK postcode areas, research has revealed.Data from retail consultancy CACI found that Tesco is the dominant supermarket in 81 of the 121 UK postcodes. It added that Tesco's local share was...
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Esselunga denies Tesco talks
Italian supermarket group Esselunga has rubbished reports that it is in talks with Tesco over a possible takeover.Reports in the Italian press had suggested that Tesco was in talks to either buy or form a partnership with...
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Gianni Ciserani wins Grocer Cup
Gianni Ciserani, Procter & Gamble's vice president and managing director for the UK and Ireland, has been awarded The Grocer Cup for Outstanding Business Achievement, as voted for by readers of The Grocer.Ciserani picked up the award, which...
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"The ideal ambassadors for promoting a healthy lifestyle? Our sporting heroes, of course"
That was easy, then. A TV ad featuring Frank Lampard shows the Chelsea and England midfielder playing keepie-uppie with a cauliflower, and sales of the nobbly vegetable double overnight. Need to boost sales of fruit? Get Freddie Flintoff...
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'Buying power leads to better prices? I don't buy that argument' says King
Justin King insisted this week that Sainsbury's would remain competitive, despite a prediction that Tesco's growing buyer power would allow it to open a big price gap with its rival.Analysts at Citigate said it had calculated that...