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Salad’s great unwashed
Making a convenience product less convenient might seem a strange thing to do, but that is what Tesco has done with the introduction of fresh, unwashed bagged salad. In the range are rocket and lambs’ lettuce varieties (rsp: 59p) and two...
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Asda’s ‘lifeline’ for UK growers
Asda has awarded Leeds-based frozen food supplier Fullers Foods International a multi-million pound contract to source UK frozen vegetables for all its 274 stores throughout Britain.The multiple said several thousand extra acres of UK veg would...
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Dairy Crest waiting on Morrisons
Continuing post-takeover woes at Morrisons are creating uncertainties at Dairy Crest.The processor has been hoping the retailer would be the last of the major supermarkets to undertake a review of its milk sourcing arrangements, and award new...
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UHT milk price rises
The price of the major supermarkets’ UHT milk is following its fresh counterpart upwards. Tesco and Sainsbury this week increased the price of cheapest own-label UHT milk from 32p to 35p, though Asda had not followed suit as we went to...
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Indian-style ready meals
An extensive range of ethnic ready meals that do not need to be refrigerated have been launched by newly established company Thali Foods.Available in Tesco, Thali is a 17-strong range of authentic meals that include dishes previously not found...
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The Acid Test
>>consumers and buyers give their views on the latest launchesPremium White RumFrom: The Co-operative GroupLaunched under the Co-op’s own Fair Trade label, Premium White Rum is the first spirit in...
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Tesco hits 30% share of total till
The slowdown in consumer spending is beginning to impact on food retailing. The topline market growths for food, drink and non-foods in supermarkets in the four weeks to March 19 were a strong 5.6%. However, other than the hypermarket channel,...
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Tesco gives brands a rough ride
Supermarket own-label smoothies are outdoing market pioneers such as PJ and Innocent. But, by focusing on innovation and new product development, the big names are hitting backOwn label continues to be king of the castle within the...
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Asda awards new frozen veg contract
Asda has changed its frozen vegetable supplier in order to save food miles.The grocery retailer has awarded Leeds-based frozen food supplier, Fullers Foods International, a multi-million pound contract to source UK frozen vegetables for all...
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Sainsbury sees faster growth than Asda
Sainsbury’s market share has recently increased faster than Asda’s for the first time in a decade, according to the latest UK food market share data by TNS.Sainsbury’s market share grew 4.1% during the 12 weeks to 27 March, while Asda’s...
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Morrisons-BP partnership comes to an end
UK oil company BP, and supermarket group Morrisons have announced that they have reached an agreement to end their eight-year old partnership.The companies plan to divide their assets between them with 31 partnership stores to be taken over...
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Bakery group up for sale
Rathbones Bakeries, the bakery group with 1,550 employees, went into administration yesterday after weak sales following a fire at one of its factories in February this year.The company, which had sales of £100m last year and supplies Tesco...
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Iceland to abandon home shopping service
Iceland has announced that it will close its loss-making home shopping service later this month.The internet and telephone service will close on April 22, with last deliveries to customers being made on April 23.Closure of the service is...
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Lloyd Maunder gets the chop
Sainsbury is to ditch fresh, retail packed lamb supplier Lloyd Maunder from October – but it is unclear whether this marks a step by the retailer towards single sourcing in the category.Sainsbury refused to say which company would be handed the...
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JS ends junket culture
The surprise finding in the detail of the OFT’s report into the supermarkets code of practice? That Sainsbury traders emerged as the industry’s junket junkies. The OFT’s auditors found 42 instances where Sainsbury staff had accepted hospitality...
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Head office jobs axed as Booker is simplified
Wholesaler Booker is laying off almost 20% of its head office staff less than two months after the business was decoupled from Iceland following the acquisition of Big Food Group by Icelandic group Baugur. In an interview with The Grocer,...
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Morrisons to pull out of Isle of Man
Morrisons is to pull out of the Isle of Man as it continues to sell off its non-mainland stores.The £3m sale of its Safeway Compact store in Douglas to Shoprite was followed by confirmation that it intended to sell its other island Safeway...
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JS to close Meadowhall
Sainsbury is closing a 15-year-old store at the heart of a top fashion retail centre in Sheffield due to lack of prime customers.The 37,000 sq ft Meadowhall store employs 323 staff and will close on July 9, but the supermarket has applied for...
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Asda fights false alarms
Asda is set to extend a scheme to combat false fire alarms following a successful trial using pager technology in-store.During one six-week period, the 10-store trial in Greater Manchester was so successful that the retailer recorded a 90%...