All Booths articles – Page 39
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Profiles and QandAs
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How did you get to where you are today? I established Empire Food Brokers in 1997 as an importer of high quality health foods. At the time it was part of Adminstore, which had a chain of 60 convenience stores across London that traded...
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News
Inquiry is a 'huge ask' say retailers
Retailers are creaking under the sheer weight of information that the Competition Commission is calling for by next month, with some describing it as onerous and unworkable. Twenty one of the biggest retailers and buying groups, as well...
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Gü gears up for 'phase two' of growth plan
Premium dessert specialist Gü Chocolate Puds is entering what it describes as "phase two" of its operations, with increased marketing support and extensions to the Frü fruit brand it launched last year.Next month it is adding a two-pack...
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In Brief: Falfish wins award; Booths..no catch; Trout disease
Falfish wins award Cornish seafood specialist Falfish, supplier of fresh and frozen seafood to the UK and Europe, has won the Queen's Award for Enterprise after notching up £7.7m worth of exports of sustainably caught Cornish...
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Inquiry looks atc-stores
Officials leading the Competition Commission's inquiry into the grocery market are considering ways to extract commercial information from small retailers who own as little as one store.The inquiry team believes that it will not be able...
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"How much longer is there going to be wild cod on store shelves?"
ohnson Seafarms, Europe's only organic cod farming business, began with a breakthrough in cod rearing techniques at the North Atlantic Fisheries College in 2002.The family-owned company was offered the college's 5,000 cod when it wound...
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Price Survey
Asda's decision to join Tesco and Waitrose in raising the price of its own label milk has had little impact on its position as the UK's cheapest supermarket, according to The Grocer 33's latest survey. Both Asda and Morrisons have...
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Michael Brooks
What is your career background?I was a chartered accountant but joined forces with my old school friend Angus Cameron to launch a coffee company that supplied coffee beans and machines to London restaurants. In 1992 we decided to...
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Booths' seasons to be cheerful
It could be argued that Northern supermarket chain Booths has set the benchmark for local and regional sourcing among retailers within the UK, with Waitrose not far behind it. Right from the word go the retailer has attempted to sustain...
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Rebels say they can block merger
The proposed merger of Costcutter and Nisa-Today's can now be blocked due to the weight of opposition to it, according to the rebel faction known as the Nisa Members Association. The organisation has written to Nisa-Today's chairman...
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Once in a lifetime opportunity for independents
We are perhaps fortunate to be able to read regularly of FSA chief executive John Fingleton and Booths Supermarkets chairman Edwin Booth's latest thoughts in The Grocer. The other week Fingleton's message was that small retailers would be...
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Analysis and Features
What do these fourhave in common ?
What do furniture and cars have to do with efficient consumer response? Good question and one that the most lateral-thinking ECR Europe conference to date gamely attempted to answer in Stockholm last week. Smoke machines, flashy graphics...
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A Dr who travels in retail space
Peter Franks wants to run a £200m business by 2011. Siân Harrington hears about his plan to make it big in frozen, ambient and chilled. There's not much to connect Peter Franks and David Tennant - no sidekick in the form of...
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Ramsden bows out in wake of failed merger
Dudley Ramsden, joint founder and executive chairman of Nisa-Today's, is to retire this month.Ramsden, who formed the company with Peter Garvin nearly 30 years ago, will retire at the company's annual general meeting on 28...
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You just mind the shop
Smaller retailers should not get involved in the Competition Commission's inquiry into the grocery industry but concentrate on more immediate issues such as serving customers, OFT chief executive John Fingleton warned this...
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Profiles and QandAs
Working week: Helen Colley, MD, Farmhouse Fare
Helen Colley, MD and owner of premium pudding company Farmhouse Fare, based in rural Lancashire, says that she is not just in her dream job, but also in her dream company. "It's my...
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The Omega-3 factor nourishes St Ivel Advance with MDC award
Dairy Crest's St Ivel Advance Omega-3 enriched milk was named best dairy beverage at the Milk Development Council's Awards for Dairy Innovation. The company beat off competition from OMSCo, whose Altogether Better organic fresh...