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New wine buyer for Co-op Group
The Co-operative Group has named Elizabeth Pay as wine buyer. She will be responsible for developing the group's range of 435 wines from South Africa, Spain, Portugal and Germany which serves the whole of CRTG. Pay commented: "I am delighted with...
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New Wal-Martian invasion?
Second only to the size of Sir Terry Leahy's pay packet, Wal-Mart's UK ambitions rate highly in the media's interest in UK Grocery plc. And this week, after a couple of barren years, the fertile shoots of a new crop of rumours surfaced to the...
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New look labels take in Braille
A new look own label spirits range incorporating Braille on the back labels is being phased in by the Co-operative Group. Marketing manager Mike Veitch said: "Although the range continues to increase market share it was in need of a redesign to...
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Ready rice for Patak's
Rice producer Westmill has teamed up with Patak's to add microwaveable ambient ready-cooked recipe rices to Patak's range. On shelf in Waitrose and Asda from next week and rolling out to other multiples, the new arrivals will give Patak's an extra...
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Good things stack up for alcoholic drinks as categories rema
Morrisons continues to lead the field in the fascia chart this week standing 15 percentage points ahead of Asda at number two. Safeway and Somerfield have each remained in the same positions as last week while Tesco moves up to number four, and...
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Triumph for Castle McLellan with range of Waitrose pâtés
Castle McLellan Foods scooped the Supreme Award in this year's Scottish Food & Drink Excellence Awards. The Kirkcudbright-based supplier was named overall winner at the annual awards ceremony in Glasgow after impressing the judges with its premium...
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Oliver (and Sven) front Sainsbury's Cup tackle
Elaine Watson Jamie Oliver will dominate TV screens and airwaves this month as Sainsbury's launches an aggressive round of advertising to coincide with the World Cup. The chef is fronting regional TV ads plugging Sainsbury's online shopping...
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Name: Stephen Hall
Position: Senior operations manager Company: United Co-op Food Group The job: Hall will take on responsibility for the management of 107 stores, mainly ...
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the food chain
Almost daily announcements of price cuts by processors and supply co-ops Farmer alarm over cuts Having seen average farm gate milk prices rise 14% in 2001, UK dairy farmers are becoming increasingly concerned at the almost daily announcements of...
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Tastylicious frozen portions create new babyfood sector
EXCLUSIVE Sian Harrington A groundbreaking alternative to jarred and canned baby food has been launched under the Tastylicious brand. The brainchild of former Marks and Spencer senior food technologist Sally Preston, Tastylicious is a frozen meal...
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Somerfield and Safeway in mega scrap
Somerfield and Safeway are in a battle over the the use of the word megadeals to flag up promotions. Somerfield is attempting to trademark the word despite the fact Safeway uses the term in store and has used it on promotional literature. A...
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Local sourcing is still preferred option
Forget the hype about global sourcing: food is still very much a local sourcing issue, according to supermarket executives speaking at the IGD global retail conference. Tesco's Paul House, commercial director of its Hungarian operation, said local...
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John Cummings, Asda bakery director
The industry needs to sell the positive side of bread. It's one of the biggest intended purchases in the store and it gets left behind because it's not sexy. To keep the market alive we have to concentrate on quality. We have to get across the...
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the food chain
Most serious attempt so far to solve supply chain problems Safeway builds regional with Northumbria line Safeway has launched another regional lamb promotion, aiming to match the success of its West Country brand which went into stores last month....
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Safeway stresses no big plan' as discount format gets teste
Rod Addy Safeway has confirmed it is "experimenting" with discounting in a Glasgow store. Safeway chief executive Carlos Criado-Perez explained: "We have been trialling the idea, reducing prices, ranges and focus in one store dramatically." He...
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Budgens has received an approach from Irish company Musgrave
Waitrose achieved a record operating profit of £92.7m for the year to January 26, compared with £57m last year. John Lewis Partnership's share of the loss on Ocado, the Waitrose branded online shopping service, was up from £3.8m to £17.8m. Former...
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Morrisons backs up plans to head south with purchase of thir
Elaine Watson Morrisons is negotiating the purchase of a third major distribution centre to support its expansion plans in the south. Joint mds Bob Stott and Marie Melnyk said the new site was "more southerly based" to form a distribution triangle...
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Sacked staff in legal bid
Sixty former store managers are taking legal action against Sainsbury, claiming they were dismissed unfairly. The managers, whose salaries ranged from £33,500 to £54,000, were sacked in January when they were told they did not meet the...
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Jane Hills, Safeway instore bakery buyer
We have done a lot of work with bread in wicker baskets and slatted boxes. We've seen lots of growth not just in instore bakery but in speciality bread, and our treats muffins, doughnuts and pastries are also growing. If you can merchandise them...
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Morrisons storms ahead 13 points and alcohol dominates categ
Though competition has become increasingly close between different fascia in recent weeks, this week Morrisons storms ahead of the field, extending its lead to 13 percentage points. The remainder of the chart remains relatively stable in terms of...