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Heinz falls
Heinz said first-quarter profit fell 11% due to higher marketing spend and costs from spinning-off its Starkist tuna and 9-Lives petfood brands to shareholders and Del Monte. Net profit at the food and ketchup maker fell to $177.8m from...
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Fruit boost for lemonade
Princes Soft Drinks is bidding to put the sparkle back into lemonade with a new twist on the old favourite. Twistade, from Princes' new Sunsip brand, is a mixture of lemonade with fruit flavours. Billed as "no ordinary lemonade", Princes...
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John West sets Shark on Bear's track
Simon Mowbray John West has given The Grocer a sneak preview of the long-awaited sequel to its award-winning Bear' television advertising campaign. A new ad, Shark', hits screens next week, aiming to build on the success of its...
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Profile-hungry Heinz steps up hunt for European acquisitions
Siân Harrington Heinz Europe is aggressively seeking acquisitions as it embarks on a strategy to position itself as more innovative with a stable of pan European products. It also plans a double-digit year-on-year increase in marketing investment. ...
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A character called Steve Threlfall is the unlikely star of H
Good food, made simply great' is the strapline of a new press campaign for Heinz sauces, which runs in women's titles throughout the summer Panadol Actifast is back on TV screens with a second burst of ads showing a busy young woman who...
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Spam's got balls
Monty Python's favourite canned meat, Spam, is limbering up for the new football season with an instant win, spot-the-ball promotion. Winning cans will carry one, two or three footballs on the underside of lids to win either a branded football,...
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Ariel 1.1kg 3 for 2 Gondola end Morrisons
Ariel Tablets 32 Price promotion £2.41 Gondola end Sainsbury Carlsberg 4 x 500ml 2 for £5 Floor stack Morrisons Coca-Cola 2l 2 for £2.09 ...
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Job of the week
Name: Antonio Spagnolo Position: managing director Company: Heinz Infant Feeding, Europe The job: Spagnolo is promoted from managing director, infant feeding, southern Europe and has been given the task of developing and...
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Bogof's week
Dragged myself over to Stockley Park last Friday as Heinz opened its doors to us press types to give us the lowdown on what its plans are for its newly acquired frozen food division. But what transpired over lunch was most interesting. A Heinz...
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IN THE BAG
The Prudential is still bagging shops for its investment portfolio. In Scotland it has agreed to pay £26m for the Princes Square Shopping Centre in East Kilbride with 850,000 sq ft, Scotland's largest covered shopping centre. Seller of the newly...
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Heinz will spin off its North American petfoods, StarKist tu
David Lidington has succeeded Peter Ainsworth as Conservative environment, food and rural affairs spokesman. Ainsworth has stepped down because his wife is suffering from cancer. Lidington was appointed shadow minister for agriculture and fisheries...
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Jolly moves in Princes' reshuffle
Princes, the international foods and soft drinks group, has promoted Tim Jolly to chief executive of Princes Food Manufacturing Group. Jolly was previously md of Princes' trading division. His appointment forms part of the final wave of a...
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For the first time in a while, there are signs of optimism r
Private equity interest remains high: BC Partners is buying Galbani from Danone, and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst is the purchaser of a variety of ambient brands from Nestlé, adding the likes of Crosse & Blackwell, Branston and Sarson's to existing...
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Dealing with the emotions
Heinz Tomato Ketchup is back on TV this weekend with the first of two bursts of new ads boasting You can't eat without it'. Heinz's general manager, sauces, Steven Turner, said the new theme, which represented a switch in strategy, targeted...
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n Mary Carmichael meets a European boss who is modernising
Stephen Thorpe rarely wears a white suit or a panama hat and there's little of the colonial plantation owner about him. Nevertheless, Cirio Del Monte's managing director for Northern Europe does have a few things in common with his company's...
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Heinz goes Deeply into frozen with major cheesecake spend
Mary Carmichael The Heinz brand is making its debut in frozen desserts with a Deeply Delicious range of cheesecakes. And the food giant, which already produces cheesecake under the Devonshire brand as well as own label products, is backing the new...
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Heinz gets into Jubilee mode with a touch of 1952
Heinz is aiming to fuel the Queen's Golden Jubilee this summer by bringing out special commemorative packs of Baked Beans. The packs are set to retail at four cans for the price of three and feature a cue from the 1952 label design. An on-pack...
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Napolina cleans up
Enduring Italian brand Napolina has been given a major packaging overhaul. New owner Princes, which bought the brand from Unilever Bestfoods last May following a period of decline, has also committed a £7.8m marketing spend to the brand over the...
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Heinz waves its 5-A-Day credentials
Heinz is bidding to woo even more health-conscious consumers with a new healthy-eating initiative and an organic version of salad cream. The tinned foods giant yesterday launched a 5-A-Day' scheme, aiming to persuade consumers that more than 70 of...