Long reads – Page 292
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Analysis & Features
Will indies go crazy for new online-only wholesalers?
A new type of online-only wholesaler is emerging, aiming to revolutionise the market by undercutting cash & carries on price…
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Analysis & Features
Can new faces fight food industry's corner at downgraded Defra?
After last year’s sacking of Jim Paice as food and farming minster, Noble House has again been hit with key changes…
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Analysis & Features
Ocado’s app top in first mobile 33
In our first-ever mobile shopping Grocer 33 - in which mystery shoppers used an iPhone to order their groceries…
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Analysis & Features
Cocoa butter hikes add 6p to a chocolate bar
The cost of producing the average milk chocolate bar has soared by 25% over the past 12 months…
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Analysis & Features
Tesco ups featured space promos by 10%
Tesco ramped up the number of featured space promotions by more than 10% in September compared with the previous month…
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Interviews
Mac the Knife: Lord MacLaurin on Tesco, Sir Terry and Philip
At Tesco’s agm in June, Lord MacLaurin stunned shareholders by laying into Sir Terry Leahy, his protégé. He talks to The Grocer about his Tesco, Sir Terry, and Phil Clarke…
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Analysis & Features
Horsegate: first impressions from the Elliott Review round table
Time is of the essence in securing a positive legacy for Horsegate…
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Analysis & Features
Promotions growth comes to a halt for first time in months
What appeared to be a relentless increase in activity on the gondola ends of UK supermarkets came to a screeching halt this month…
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Analysis & Features
Oats bonanza in England pushing down prices
Good news for fans of porridge and other oats-based winter warmers….
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Analysis & Features
The waste trail: a global scandal
Up to half the food the world produces may never reach the mouths it was intended for. What’s the solution?…
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Analysis & Features
Closing the green gap
One in four consumers say they will pay more for green products but will they put their money where their mouths are?
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Analysis & Features
Suppliers ignore doubters and stick with wind power
Many experts have dismissed wind turbines as a waste of space. So why are so many food suppliers putting them up?…
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Analysis & Features
The Hotspot 50: will Wrap's initiative lead to demonisation?
Will Wrap’s initiative to pinpoint the eco-footprints of grocery staples end up as an exercise in demonisation?…
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Analysis & Features
As Anglia merges with Midlands has the co-op power shifted?
First Penrith and Scotmid, now Midlands and Anglia: whether defensive or opportunistic, more mergers are surely on the car…
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Analysis & Features
AG Barr's multiple plans for South leave Britvic in the past
Sales are up 9% over the border as organic growth tops agenda…
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Analysis & Features
Nuts offer snacking value as crisps are hit by price hikes
Thrifty bagged snacks fans could be better off shelling out for nuts rather than crisps at the moment…
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Analysis & Features
Müller Wiseman to increase farmgate milk price
A wave of farmgate milk price increases will sweep through UK dairy next month…
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Analysis & Features
Dragging the high street out of town
How serious a threat to indies is Tesco’s much-lauded reinvention of the hypermarket format?…
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Analysis & Features
Small retailers never asked to be let off 5p plastic bag charge
Exemption for smaller stores will just confuse shoppers says BRC…
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Analysis & Features
Why food and drink brands lead in British export drive
Last year they were in the doldrums but now British brands have bounced back with value-added lines up 4.9%…