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Analysis and FeaturesTop launch: Super Smoothies by Innocent
Innocent has big ambitions for the functional fruit & veg drinks it launched in March – setting out a two-year sales target of £30m. There’s no denying Super Smoothies is a compelling proposition – combining the strength of the Innocent brand with good-looking products featuring fruit, vitamins and ingredients ...
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Analysis and FeaturesMarket caution over Sainsbury's takeover rumours is understandable
One of the market’s unwritten rules is that any company subject to takeover rumours will get a nice share price boost.
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Analysis and FeaturesFarmgate milk price collapse looks set to continue in 2015
Almost a quarter of the value of UK farmgate milk has been wiped out since April, according to data from DairyCo…
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Analysis and FeaturesCan the FSA step up in the fight against food crime?
The most recent Efra hearing on food supply networks would have made for uncomfortable listening for the Food Standards Ag…
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The Big InterviewBruce Langlands and the hallowed halls of Harrods: big interview
Harrods is the most famous shop in the world. Over seven floors of prime West London real estate, it sells wickedly expens…
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Analysis and FeaturesHow Winemark saw the light to switch to LED in all its stores
Winemark hasn’t looked back since it decided to convert all its lighting to LED…
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Analysis and FeaturesTesco shredded salt beef: acid test
US-style meat products such as shredded beef and pulled pork are all the rage right now…
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Analysis and FeaturesSoft drinks: war on sugar sours juice sector sales
If you’re looking for a casualty from the war on sugar, you’ve found it. While carbonates, energy drinks and sweets escaped relatively lightly, juices & smoothies have been hammered. Value has slumped £69.4m (3.5%) on volumes down 6.5%, with own label’s long-term decline gathering pace to nearly double the rate ...
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Analysis and FeaturesOcado can reflect on a solid 2014 but the fireworks are still to come
Ocado’s growth may have slowed a touch in the fourth quarter, but it seems a little churlish to pick holes in solid figures that show the company surviving the current grocery retail chaos and coping with tough comparables.
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Analysis and FeaturesPhiladelphia Duo Cremoso: acid test
Launched across Europe this summer by Mondelez, Philadelphia Cremoso is a soft white cheese with a softer…
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Analysis and FeaturesGlanbia bulks up for 2015 growth
This week Irish food group Glanbia was selected as one of Jefferies’ top 15 top buy-rated stocks primed for growth 2015…
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Analysis and FeaturesMargin resets and junk status looming: analysts' views of Tesco
We look at analysts’ reaction to Tesco’s latest profits warning and where this leaves Dave Lewis’ plans to turn around the ailing grocery giant as we head into 2015.
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Analysis and FeaturesInvestors banking on a Unilever spreads sell-off may be disappointed
When it emerged that Unilever is breaking out its spreads business into a separate division at a London investor conference last Thursday, the fmcg giant’s shares immediately shot upwards by around 3%.
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Analysis and FeaturesPremier is following a well-established supermarket playbook
The real surprise about Premier Foods’ demands for payment from suppliers is not that the company is doing it, but that it’s suddenly in the spotlight.
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Analysis and FeaturesUK apple production 'under threat' from neonics ban, says CPA
Apple production in the UK could become “unviable” within a decade…
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Analysis and FeaturesCo-op Have Your Say survey results released at last
It was billed as the biggest piece of research and engagement in The Co-operative Group’s 150-year history…
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The Big InterviewMade in Chelsea: Jamie Laing talks Candy Kittens
If you are unfamiliar with Made in Chelsea, here is the set-up: young, rich, glamorous people live it up in…
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Analysis and FeaturesThe LED evolution: Colourful story of the light-emitting diode
Nobel Prizes for physics don’t get handed out to just anyone. Previous winners include Marie Curie, Albert Einstein…
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The Big InterviewBlossom Hill's Marty Spate: Big Interview
On a brief visit to the UK, Marty Spate, master winemaker at Blossom Hill, talks wine snobs, creating crowd pleasing wine, going global and Christmas.
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Analysis and FeaturesFood prices: will 2015 be calm for food and commodities?
After the chaos of 2012 and 2013, the past 12 months have brought some much-needed rebalancing to the global commodities m…