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Kraft's search is on for the new face of Angel Delight
Kraft Foods is looking for an angel to star on revamped packs of children's instant dessert Angel Delight. The search for a cherubic child will be promoted both instore and on milk cartons at Tesco in the Midlands, south and Wales, nationally in...
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Food Standards Agency: Co-op blasts FDF stance on labels
Manufacturers and retailers have clashed over government proposals to ban potentially misleading phrases such as natural', farm fresh', country style' and authentic' from food labels. The Food Standards Agency is drawing up a list of guidelines...
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Shepherd Neame wins Tesco award
Shepherd Neame is to showcase one of its beers in Tesco after winning the chain's Autumn Beer Challenge. It is the first time the Faversham-based brewer has won the competition, although it has entered beers on a number of occasions. Shepherd...
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Online shopping: Tesco.com opens for WAP/PC orders
Shoppers are now able to buy their groceries on the move following the launch of a new service from Tesco.com. The online grocer has teamed up with software giant Microsoft and launched Tesco Access, which allows users of handheld computers and WAP...
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Retail spotlight: This M&S is Simply Food
The chain has eschewed mainstream moneyspinners for its first c-store format and is sticking to what many say it does best. Anne Bruce reports Marks and Spencer is clinging to a few mementos of its heyday as it bows to the demands of modern...
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United Co-op: Daily delivery boosts fresh produce sales
Sales of fresh produce have soared by up to 70% in some United Co-op convenience stores thanks to a new daily delivery service. Paul Griffiths, who heads up the society's food business, said 15 stores in the Potteries had been involved in trials...
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Online shopping: Golden gateway for Tesco.com
The US roll-out of Tesco.com's online shopping system will start in San Francisco, it was revealed this week. Last month Tesco licensed its technology to US supermarket chain Safeway and took a 35% stake in the latter's warehouse based online...
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Sainsbury: Six stores to get Boots
Sainsbury will be ready to start selling the entire Boots range at six large out-of-town superstores by early next year (The Grocer, July 14, p4) Some 10,000 Boots products will replace Sainsbury's existing range of 4,500 products in branded units...
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Somerfield: It's Progressive and a fresh approach
Somerfield has signalled its desire to be better at fresh foods with the opening of the first its so called Progressive format stores. The format being trialed in Rustington and Crowthorne is designed to appeal to consumers in upmarket areas....
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CWS: Citrus hits the Jackpot
More than 1,200 Co-op stores are participating in a summer citrus Juice Jackpot promotion during three weeks starting on August 4. It will feature a quarter of a million mandarin, clementine, orange and lemon prepacks with a fruit jackpot machine...
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On your marks for opera with Safeway
The supermarket business is all about entertainment, and that's certainly the case with Safeway. Their Pavarotti Picnic in the Park bash in London last weekend, which raised half a million quid for the Prince's Trust, will go down as one of the...
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The Grocer focus on Scotland: Get yer oats
A first for the oatmeal market is a resealable 500g aluminium ring-pull can developed by Hamlyn's of Scotland. Originally created for the US, pinhead oatmeal is now available in this format in the UK and has been taken up by Tesco and Waitrose at an...
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Tesco out of stocks frustrating'
Sir; Considering the size of Tesco, its leading position and its hi-tech warehousing and supply systems, the least you could expect is well stocked shelves. But, unfortunately when it comes to the store in Elmers End, that appears to be far from...
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The Grocer focus on home entertainment
analysis by Steve Hemsley - Grocers move fast forward in video - Aggressive pricing hits music specialists - Asda sets sights on being UK No 1 - Adults are driving new formats Bearing in mind how fast sales of music, video and games have grown...
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Multiples: Safeway set to trial low cost format
Safeway is to trial a low cost fresh food supermarket to allow it to roll out "total localisation". The 15-18,000 sq ft stores are planned for less affluent areas and will trial lower building and fitting costs along with different ranging....
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Executive moves: Brain drain goes on as Asda's Gaunt goes to
Another senior defection to Iceland has added to the brain drain from Asda's top management team. Brian Gaunt, who was Asda's European supply chain director, has joined Iceland as group logistics director, reporting to chief executive Bill Grimsey....
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The Grocer focus on home entertainment: Children's Video
The total video retail market is valued at more than £1.1bn, according to the British Video Association, and children's titles are boosting sales through grocery. Tesco is among the multiples to heavily promote this genre which accounted for 20.5%...
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Adderley helps Somerfield to call it quits with Sainsbury
Somerfield has headhunted the marketing director of TV channel Taste CFN, the joint venture between Sainsbury and Carlton TV. It has appointed Nick Adderley group brands director for Somerfield and Kwik Save stores. Adderley headed up Sainsbury to...
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M&S will tailor Simply Food to local customer patterns
Opening week sales at Marks and Spencer's first Simply Food c-store in Surbiton are said to have been buoyant. The new c-store solution was created to tackle concerns raised by customers in an M&S review of its high street portfolio according to...