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Hatch Mansfield sees sales fall in 'competitive' wine market
But despite falling sales, protfits were largely stable
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City snapshot: Morrisons profits jump as wholesale arm drives sales
Profits jumped 8.6% at Morrisons on the back of strong revenue growth in its wholesale arm, retail technology business Eagle Eye saw half-year sales surge 30% and the rest of the news from the City
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Media Bites 13 March: Brexit, Domino's Pizza, GSK
Britain would slash tariffs on the vast majority of goods entering the country in a no-deal scenario, the government has confirmed
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Brindisa Spanish Foods plans northern growth with new hires
The speciality wholesaler has operated in the south of England for 30 years
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Former Typhoo sales director to support small brands with export agency
Exporting is Great will offer support to challenger brands amid Brexit uncertainty
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Birds Eye bins premium fish Inspirations sub-brand
The move comes after the struggling Inspirations range dropped double digits in value and volume sales in last year’s Grocer Top Products survey
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Poundland writes to police to ask for knife sale ban backing
The discounter, which banned knife sales last autumn, has written to the National Police Chiefs’ Council for support in its campaign
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Waitrose compostable banana bag criticised by customers
Shoppers have taken to Twitter to ask why the upmarket retailer has stocked bananas in packaging at all
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Supermarket REIT targets £25m raise to buy new property
The move would take the fund’s assets to well over £340m
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Morrisons to double Scottish coverage for online deliveries
Online deliveries were initially launched in the Edinburgh and Glasgow areas in August
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Müller launches first-ever natural yoghurts line
It comes in a period of growth in the plain yoghurt segment, which shot up 5.3% in value in the year to January
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Ocado plans for robot order packers derailed by Andover fire
The robot prototypes were held at Andover and destroyed along with the rest of the facility
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The Foraging Fox awarded top prize at Chefs’ Choice Awards
The awards took place on Tuesday at London’s The Shard
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City snapshot: PureCircle counts the cost of switch to new stevia generation
Stevia producer PureCircle has posted a 5% drop in sales and an escalation of first half losses after reformulation and writedowns hit its performance. Plus, Domino’s Pizza Group reports on “mixed year” as international business drags down performance, staffing changes at Carlsberg and all the rest of the latest news from the City.
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Media Bites 12 March: Paul Polman/Unilever, Brexit, Inflation basket
Paul Polman, the former head of Unilever, took home €11.7m, including an annual bonus of nearly €2m, in a year in which the company faced heavy criticism.
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Lost Sheep claims UK first with compostable speciality coffee pods
The Nespresso-compatible pods are made from waste wood bark from the paper industry
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Aspall cuts alcohol content to avoid new white cider tax
The brand “unfortunately got caught up in the government’s bid to make high-abv white ciders less appealing”
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Government plans for HFSS ad watershed go 'against evidence'
The Advertising Association said the average child spent less than one hundredth of one per cent of the day viewing HFSS advertising
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Brexit set to 'bring billions of battery eggs to the UK'
Battery cages give chickens a space smaller than an A4 sheet of paper and were banned in the UK in 2012
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Danish Crown pledges to go carbon neutral by 2050
The group is in the process of setting up sustainability projects tackling issues from energy and water consumption to packaging and transport