All articles by Guy Montague-Jones – Page 19
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Grocer 33Grocer 33 online star order: Ocado
We’re up to 30,000 SKUs now from the low 20,000s last year, and we’re offering increasingly good value…
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NewsWaitrose names Bishop of Liverpool chair of CSR panel
Waitrose has appointed the Bishop of Liverpool to chair a new advisory group on its CSR activities.
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NewsNestlé loses Kit Kat trademark battle in the UK
Cadbury has blocked Nestlé from registering the distinctive shape of the four-finger Kit Kat as a UK trademark.
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NewsPZ Cussons snaps up babyfood brand Rafferty’s Garden
PZ Cussons has agreed to buy the Australian babyfood brand Rafferty’s Garden from private equity firm Anacacia for £42.2m.
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Comment & OpinionOcado is going places
Amazon often crops up in conversations about Ocado – with recurring speculation that the web behemoth will buy the online grocer. There is also the question of profits…
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NewsFinsbury Foods expands Nicholas & Harris bakery
Finsbury Food Group is expanding its Nicholas & Harris bakery after doubling the size of the specialty bread business over the past five years.
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NewsM&S creates 1,400 work experience places
Marks & Spencer has launched a new work experience scheme to help get more young people into work.
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NewsWaitrose frozen beef range is back on sale
Waitrose has relaunched the frozen beef burgers and meatballs it pulled from shelves during the horsemeat scandal…
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NewsStock market sell-off prompts FTSE All-Share fall
Food suppliers and retailers have taken a pummelling in the recent stock market sell-off…
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NewsBritvic to axe Drench and Pennine Spring water brands
Britvic is planning to axe its Drench and Pennine Spring water brands when the company shuts its Huddersfield factory…
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NewsHotel Chocolat takes slice of café culture
Hotel Chocolat has opened the first of a number of cocoa cafés in Central London – and is celebrating its first-ever expor…
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NewsNBTY Europe ousts sports nutrition brand USN after VAT hike
NBTY Europe’s Holland & Barrett and GNC have pulled fast-growing sports nutrition brand USN…
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NewsWaitrose to source all frozen beef from Dovecote Park
Waitrose has begun sourcing all its frozen beef from a single dedicated supplier.
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NewsWarburtons sales break £500m barrier as profits bounce back
Warburtons profits have recovered from a tough 2011 as sales broke through the £500m mark.
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NewsRupert Ellwood is Waitrose head of marketing
Waitrose has promoted Rupert Ellwood to fill the vacant post of head of marketing…
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NewsCCE's Andrew Milne joins Nichols as commercial director
Nichols has recruited Andrew Milne from Coca-Cola Enterprises to become its new UK commercial director…
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NewsWarburtons is 'biggest bakery brand in London'
Warburtons has now overtaken Hovis as the biggest bakery brand in London…
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NewsAll Waitrose stores to get coffee machines following trial
Waitrose is installing coffee machines in all of its stores following success in its c-stores…
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NewsWaitrose boss Price: ‘GM is tech looking for a problem to solve’
Waitrose boss Mark Price has slammed GM farming. As Defra secretary of state Owen Paterson stood up today to champion GM farming, Waitrose MD Mark Price blasted it as a technology “struggling for a problem to solve”. Waitrose is the only large supermarket to have a total ...
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Comment & OpinionFood label apathy
Today’s headlines have focused on who hasn’t signed up to the government’s new front-of-pack labelling scheme. But do shoppers really care?