All The Grocer articles in 9 December 2006 – Page 2
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Comment & Opinion
We're all gonna get reconnected
Cricketing jokes were in the air at Lord’s last week when ministers Miliband, Flint and Dandha launched the Government’s plans for 2007-08 to be Year of Farming and Food in Schools (YFFS). Fronted by Sir Don Curry and the brainchild of the…
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Partners fail to woo Aspatria's farmers
Plans to build the UK's first new commodity cheese plant for more than 40 years look to be crumbling. Partners in Cheese had set its sights on the £50m venture at Workington in Cumbria, but has again failed to raise the support of dairy farming...
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Partners fail to woo Aspatria's farmers
Plans to build the UK's first new commodity cheese plant for more than 40 years look to be crumbling. Partners in Cheese had set its sights on the £50m venture at Workington in Cumbria, but has again failed to raise the support of dairy farming...
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Still holding their ground: Ramsden and Nisa Members Association are unbowed
The group responsible for blocking the proposed merger between Nisa-Today's and Costcutter has refused to bow to calls from Nisa members to disband. A number of members have told The Grocer that the Nisa Members Association, which was...
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Still holding their ground: Ramsden and Nisa Members Association are unbowed
The group responsible for blocking the proposed merger between Nisa-Today's and Costcutter has refused to bow to calls from Nisa members to disband.A number of members have told The Grocer that the Nisa Members Association, which was...
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The autumn of the patriarch
Dudley Ramsden had the final say on nearly every move made by Nisa-Today's for almost 30 years. That all changed when the Costcutter merger was rejected and, on November 28, he stepped down as executive chairman to take on the less hands-on role...
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Availability
Asda Derby Road, Spondon. 0 This Asda Wal-Mart supercentre store provided all 33 items on this week's list, many of which were subject to promotion. The store was clean and tidy but our shopper said narrow aisles and...
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Impartial voices badly needed
SIR; Liz Hamson's piece on planning highlighted a number of serious problems with the UK's planning system. One of the biggest has to be conflict of interests. The article mentioned Darlington, where councillors recently voted against a Tesco...
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Impartial voices badly needed
SIR; Liz Hamson's piece on planning highlighted a number of serious problems with the UK's planning system. One of the biggest has to be conflict of interests. The article mentioned Darlington, where councillors recently voted against a Tesco...
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Injury worries spark store ban on Heelys
Youngsters who whizz around on their 'Heelys' - shoes with wheels fitted to the soles - have been banned from Tesco's 90-plus stores in Ireland. Company bosses took action after receiving customer complaints. Notices alerting people of...
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Banana growers' plea bearing fruit
Banana producers in the Windward Islands say trade is improving after their emotional plea for support.In the summer, the Windward Islands' Banana Development and Exporting Company (Wibdeco) said the region's economy risked collapse...
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Barker: charge for landbanking
Supermarkets could be far less inclined to build up so-called landbanks if proposed radical changes to England's planning regime go ahead. Charges will be heaped upon any empty site or undeveloped brownfield land if the government follows...
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Barker: charge for landbanking
Supermarkets could be far less inclined to build up so-called landbanks if proposed radical changes to England's planning regime go ahead.Charges will be heaped upon any empty site or undeveloped brownfield land if the government follows...
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Price Basket
The price of our basket of meat and fish fell for only the third time this year, recording its biggest change since July and its biggest fall since March. It's now 0.9% cheaper than in the previous survey four weeks ago, but still 9.7% more...
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Price Basket
The price of our basket of meat and fish fell for only the third time this year, recording its biggest change since July and its biggest fall since March. It's now 0.9% cheaper than in the previous survey four weeks ago, but still 9.7% more...
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Battered, yes, but not bowed
The bombardment of southern Lebanon and renewed hostilities in Gaza have dominated the national media for months and fuelled rising fears about instability in the Middle East. Yet for the Israeli companies that produce and import food and drink...
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Battered, yes, but not bowed
The bombardment of southern Lebanon and renewed hostilities in Gaza have dominated the national media for months and fuelled rising fears about instability in the Middle East. Yet for the Israeli companies that produce and import food and drink...
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Scientists battle over organic chicken taste
Organic chicken is fattier and less nutritious than standard chicken, new research claims. The University of Strathclyde's scientists said tests on supermarket-bought chicken breasts showed organic ones contained fewer Omega-3 fatty acids...
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Scientists battle over organic chicken taste
Organic chicken is fattier and less nutritious than standard chicken, new research claims.The University of Strathclyde's scientists said tests on supermarket-bought chicken breasts showed organic ones contained fewer Omega-3 fatty acids...
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Greenpeace guns for beam trawling
Greenpeace ratcheted up the pressure on multiples to improve fish sourcing policies by "displaying" hundreds of dead fish and crabs at store entrances.Tesco, Asda and Morrisons in Oxford were targeted in two days of protest this week and...