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Brands: will they help or hinder M&S food profits?
It has finally done it. After years of speculation, Marks & Spencer has decided to bite the bullet and trial branded products such as Marmite, Lemsip, Whiskas, Smirnoff and Kit Kat alongside its own-label products. Nineteen stores in...
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Availability
2Despite the massive size of this store, our shopper found it easy to navigate because the aisles were wide and the overhead signage was bold. Staff were helpful and guided him to several items, although the organic strawberry jam and Anadin...
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2Despite the massive size of this store, our shopper found it easy to navigate because the aisles were wide and the overhead signage was bold. Staff were helpful and guided him to several items, although the organic strawberry jam and Anadin...
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Pampers wipes floor with rival baby brands
Pampers continues to reign supreme in the branded baby category, with a firm hold on the promotional activity chart. Last weekend the brand accounted for twice the activity of its closest rival.
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Vaseline wins beauty parade for promotions
Vaseline's Intensive Care range took more than 50% more space than its nearest rival Colgate in the health, beauty & baby chart this week. It accounted for 31% of featured space compared with Colgate's 19%.
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PZ Cussons acquires The Sanctuary brand
PZ Cussons, which manufactures products including Imperial Leather, Original Source and Charles Worthington, has acquired The Sanctuary Spa Holdings for £75m.The deal includes premium beauty and body care brand The Sanctuary and The...
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Unilever ups spend on deodorant in revamp
Unilever plans to shake up the deodorants category next year with a raft of new sub-brands backed by a £65m ad spend - 50% higher than last year.The launches for women include sensitive variant Sure Skin Care, teen brand Sure Girl, Dove...
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Lynx Effect's creator joins Plum as CEO
Organic baby food company Plum has announced the appointment of Patrick Cairns as its new CEO.Following a 15-year career at Unilever, Cairns has spent the past year advising private equity and venture capital businesses on consumer...
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Dove flying past rivals in health, beauty and baby
Dove stormed ahead of its rivals in the promotional activity stakes last weekend with 43% of activity in the top five health, beauty and baby chart.
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Oral-B gives users a better way to brush
Procter & Gamble is launching a toothbrush that tells users how to brush their teeth effectively. Oral-B Triumph SmartGuide, which will retail at just under £140, is an electric toothbrush with a separate wireless display that tracks brushing...
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Calpol to boost kids' remedies in grocery
New symptom-specific products from Calpol are likely to add an extra £2.9m to the children's medicines grocery channel next year, according to owner Pfizer. Available next month, new Calpol Night, CalCold and CalCough, in Chesty and Tickly variants,...
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Babyfood promises Generation Organic
If there is one category that sums up organic's switch from niche market to mainstream, it is babyfood. This year's OC&C/Grocer 150 index shows 22.5% of the combined value of the babyfood and formula market is organic, while more than 50% of the...
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Reckitt tries again at eco detergent
Reckitt Benckiser, manufacturer of Vanish, Cillit Bang and Dettol, is preparing to launch an eco-friendly washing powder. The detergent, provisionally called VO, is heading for the market four years after Reckitt axed its environmental range of...
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Wilkinson Sword
Wilkinson Sword is teaming up with book publisher Penguin to offer free summer reading in a £250,000 campaign.
The ‘summer read’
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Sensodyne shines in a bout of healthy activity
The health and beauty category has slipped from first place in branded activity to a still healthy second place over the past year. The front-running brand, Johnson & Johnson, hasn't had it all its own way, with myriad brands jostling...
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The Challenge
Rude Health has aspirations to grow the healthy breakfast cereal category and make it more accessible, but it is not alone. It faces stiff competition from players such as Dorset Cereals, Alara, Nature's Path, Doves Farm and Mornflake, to name a...
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Nivea dispensed at cash machines
A new advertising venture for the Nivea skincare brand is set to take advantage of cash machine advertising features that target consumers by gender.The brand is the first to make use of the ATM:ad cash machine advertising's new...
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this year's winners
Personal care: Unilever UKMale grooming brand champion Lynx has undergone a major relaunch since the beginning of the year, which has involved improvements to the fragrance formulation, streamlined packaging and a feisty...
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Price Survey
Asda is yet again the cheapest retailer, having taken that title for 10 out of the 13 weeks of 2007.It produced a £42.68 basket in The Grocer 33 pricing survey this week, which was due in part to an ongoing promotional deal on Radox...
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Availability - 24 March 2007
Asda Oldbury, West Midlands 1 This store had no Radox Herbal Bath in stock but was tidy and free of shelf-stackers. Our shopper said the store was well-merchandised with helpful staff. A sufficient number of checkouts were open...