Archive of all category reports – Page 85
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Category ReportOC&C Top 150 Suppliers: Land of the giants
The fight for survival rages on in food & drink. And this year’s OC&C Top 150 reveals that the UK’s biggest manufacturers are standing tall. By Catherine Wheatley.
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Category ReportAnuga 2011: A showcase to the world
With exports of British food at record levels, exhibitors at this year’s Anuga Trade Fair have a lot to smile about. What do they want to get out of the experience, asks Virginia Matthews
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Category ReportThe Dairymen 2011
Despite the potential cost of failure in a tough economic climate, our Dairymen supplement is full to the brim with examples of how the industry has responded to changing consumer needs with innovative new products.
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Category ReportFocus On Male Grooming: The rise of the retrosexual
Male grooming has hit a plateau recently. Recession-driven economising is partly to blame – but is the decline of Metrosexual Man also having an effect? Daniel Selwood investigates
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Category ReportOC&C Global 50 Suppliers
As growth slows in the ‘Old West’, global suppliers are venturing into new territories. But they’re facing stiff competition from domestic players.
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Category ReportMeat & Fish Supplement 2011
Hardly any brands have managed to crack fresh meat, fish or poultry. Julia Glotz investigates why – and finds out where future opportunities might lieFresh food has traditionally been a tricky hunting ground for brands.The highly commoditised nature of many fresh food staples, after all, means adding value and delivering ...
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Category ReportGrocery Retail Structure 2011
Tesco and Booker have increased their estates this year, while The Co-op and Spar were among those reducing numbers. Beth Phillips reports
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Category ReportThe Grocer Power 100
From retail barons to celebrity chefs, who are the most powerful figures in the grocery industry today?
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Technology & Supply Chain 2011
Don’t be fooled by appearances. Today, hackers pose perhaps the greatest threat to business, stealing customer data on behalf of their highly organised criminal paymasters. So what can businesses do to protect themselves? Rob Brown reports They used to wear masks and tote shotguns. Today they sit in darkened ...
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Focus On Beauty & Suncare
Cleansers experienced a setback in 2010, with poor sales of medicated facial cleansers. Anti-ageing products declined in both value and volume.
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Top 100 Advertisers 2011
The battle for customer loyalty reached a turning point in 2010, with supermarkets splashing out unprecedented sums on advertising. Rob Gray analyses The Grocer’s first-ever survey into advertising’s biggest spenders There is a war raging. It’s being fought over the hearts, minds and wallets of shoppers on our TV screens ...
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IFE 2011 Preview
The appetite for locally produced products has overtaken organic to become the number one food sustainability issue, and will be a key theme at the IFE11 show, says Virginia MatthewsIf the unveiling of a working English Regional Kitchen at next month’s IFE11 – the first such innovation at a major ...
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The Dairymen 2010
A pint of milk for 12.5p? It’s the kind of Back to the Future price Gene Hunt would be used to paying – though he’d probably rather have a pint of Scotch. Promotional prices in the dairy aisle have reached dizzying lows over the past year, leaving many producers desperate ...
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The OC&C Top 150 Food & Drink Suppliers 2010
It’s been a bruising year for food and drink suppliers but the winners were those who attacked their cost base and packed a punch with ads and NPD, reports Ivan CastanoProfit warnings, hostile takeover bids, restructures, layoffs and a constant clamour for bigger promotions and lower prices – last year ...
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The OC&C Global 50 2010
After the storm of recession, dead calm. Sales have flattened for the top 50 fmcg giants of today but a few are speeding along, writes James BallAs recession battered global markets, the world’s biggest fmcg companies proved their mettle.Huge, efficient and diverse, they ploughed through 2008’s economic storm – as ...
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Grocery Retail Structure 2010
The focus is back on the c-store sector in the battle for market share in grocery, with the multiples circling all sites on the market, says Michelle PerrettThe recession may have battered retailers, but grocery has emerged from the storm in pretty good shape with c-stores particularly resilient.C-store sales grew ...
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Anuga 2009 preview: The show with real brio
The Anuga trade show is quite simply the biggest international food and drink fair around. For visitors, the biennial event is a chance to check out the latest branding, innovation and marketing from around the world. For exhibitors, Anuga is an opportunity to catch up with current buyers and make ...
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The Dairymen 2009
So, another quiet year in the dairy industry then. Price volatility, farmer discontent and the collapse of one of the sector’s biggest players have kept the industry in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, while impressive brand performance, creative marketing and imaginative NPD have brought much more ...
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The Power List 2009
It's war. The recession has upped the stakes in the battle for the hearts and pounds of shoppers and only the canniest generals are enjoying the taste of victory. Even the veterans of the grocery industry can’t afford to get complacent, with many new recruits filling the ranks of The ...