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Price Survey
Welcome to what looks set to be another turbulent year for grocery prices at the top six supermarkets. A number of significant changes have already taken place since our last report on 16 December, with the price of loose apples tumbling...
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Eat in Colour to kick off gastronomic pleasure
After more than a year of delays, the Eat in Colour campaign is finally getting off the ground. The generic promotion for the fruit and veg sector will take its first steps into the public domain on 1 January, with the launch of...
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Talking shop
A profusion of healthy eating campaigns, from the government's five-a-day to Jamie Oliver's school meals odyssey, means we all know what we should be eating.But what is missing is a campaign to make shoppers want to choose, prepare and serve...
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Parripak goes to Jackson
Vegetable preparation business Parripak has been acquired by William Jackson & Son for an undisclosed sum. Bedfordshire-based Parripak started out packing shallots and onions grown on the farm. It has since grown to fill a 52,000 sq ft...
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Rhubarb short as crops stay dormant
A rhubarb shortage is looming because the bulk of UK supplies won't be pulled until after Christmas. Yorkshire's forced rhubarb crop represents the main UK source and is running late, according to one of the largest growers, David...
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In Brief: Juicy £1m spend; Bars for the ladies; Guilt-free mousse
Juicy £1m spend Coca-Cola Enterprises is backing its Capri Sun 100% Pure Juice with a £1m TV, internet and outdoor campaign to highlight the drink's fruit content and its suitability for lunchboxes. Bars for the...
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Olins appointed as Poupart group MD
BerryWorld managing director Adam Olins is set to become group managing director of fresh produce company, the Poupart Group. Olins has been managing director of BerryWorld, the soft fruit trading division of the Poupart Group, since it...
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'Tesco was very naughty. So it needed a smack'
Who's afraid of the big bad Tesco? Not Will Chase, owner of snack foods company Tyrrells Potato Chips. He became the little pig who took on Tesco's wolf when he threatened the retailer with legal action for stocking his crisps without...
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Star Product: walkers baked will make the men happy
How could PepsiCo top last year's star product Walkers Potato Heads? By taking the principle of the healthier crisps and creating a brand that targets men, that's how. Walkers Baked lines, launched in the summer, demonstrate the...
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Top campaign: a drink unlike any other
Diageo has positioned its Quinn's fermented fruit newcomer as a drink unlike any other and its advertising also fitted this unique role. Set in an animated tropical rainforest, the lively TV ad showed a plant that grew and eventually produced...
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Price Survey
To say 2006 has been a turbulent year for pricing at the top six supermarkets would be putting it mildly. Rising energy prices, feed costs, poor harvests, and lower yields of certain fresh fruit and vegetables have caused the rate of food price...
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First GM potato trials in UK set to go ahead
Genetically modified potatoes that resist blight will be planted in England, after Defra gave the go-ahead for trials next year. BASF will plant in Derbyshire and Cambridgeshire to see how the crop performs in British conditions, but it...
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First GM potato trials in UK set to go ahead
Genetically modified potatoes that resist blight will be planted in England, after Defra gave the go-ahead for trials next year.BASF will plant in Derbyshire and Cambridgeshire to see how the crop performs in British conditions, but it...
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Banana growers' plea bearing fruit
Banana producers in the Windward Islands say trade is improving after their emotional plea for support.In the summer, the Windward Islands' Banana Development and Exporting Company (Wibdeco) said the region's economy risked collapse...
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Fairtrade fans boosting nuts
Tesco is extending its Fairtrade nut offer. It claims more than 13,000 farmers in Malawi, Mozambique and India will benefit from the decision to launch a 200g Fairtrade peanut and raisin mix and Fairtrade natural cashews in 150g...
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CCE adds zest to drinks to refresh key brands
Coca-Cola Enterprises is ringing the changes with its Diet Coke and Minute Maid Froot Refresh brands as part of a wave of activity planned for the next 12 months. From February, its Diet Coke with Lemon and Diet Coke with Lime variants...
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Making kids wild with a health kick
Britvic has responded to new government standards for food and drink sold in schools with a range of healthy fruit juice drinks for schoolchildren. The Really Wild Drinks Company range will be available in 250ml cans for vending machines...
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CCE adds zest to drinks to refresh key brands
Coca-Cola Enterprises is ringing the changes with its Diet Coke and Minute Maid Froot Refresh brands as part of a wave of activity planned for the next 12 months.From February, its Diet Coke with Lemon and Diet Coke with Lime variants...