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Frangelico plans to crack liqueur sector
Waitrose is to be the launchpad for an Italian hazelnut liqueur. To promote the new product, the retailer is running a sampling campaign for the drink combined with its Italian coffee.Frangelico - a liqueur made from wild...
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Asda chats about NPD on Facebook
It may have banned its staff from using it, but Asda is preparing to make full use of social networking website Facebook as part of its marketing mix, we can reveal.Asda plans to set up a page for its development chef, Neil Nugent, who...
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Spring's here for Sainsbury
Midlands-based Springhead brewery is to supply Sainsbury with its pub-favourite premium blonde beer.Springhead has brewed Roaring Meg since the early Nineties and the brand is now sold at more than 300 pubs nationally, according...
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M&S food sales increase
Marks and Spencer has reported a 3.6% increase in full-year like-for-like food sales to April 1.The retailer revealed that food had a “very successful” year, with sales increasing 7%, driven by a renewed focus on quality and...
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M&S results expected
Marks and Spencer is this week expected to reveal full-year pre-tax profit of approximately £751m, up from £618m the year before.Analysts have also predicted that the retailer will unveil plans to increase the amount of space in its stores...
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Multiples facing depot discontent
Supermarkets are facing a summer of discontent over industrial disputes at depots, with union relations increasingly tense. Morrisons is braced for up to 600 employment tribunals in relation to disputes at its now closed Aylesford depot....
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The new Tesco town is... Milton Keynes
Inverness is set to lose its crown as the UK's biggest 'Tesco Town' to Milton Keynes after Asda revealed plans to build a 70,000sq ft store in the Scottish town. Asda has signed a conditional contract to acquire a site in the southern...
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Three Tescos sold alcohol to minors
Tesco has fallen foul of a round of test purchasing in Reading, with three stores caught selling alcohol to minors. Staff at Tesco Express stores in Bath Road, Southcote, and Church Street, Caversham, plus the Tesco superstore in Napier...
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McCarthy quits JS for top job at Poundland
Jim McCarthy, managing director of convenience at Sainsbury, is leaving the group in September to take up the role of chief executive officer of discount retailer Poundland. McCarthy was appointed to Sainsbury's operating board in June...
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Marketing task for Evans at Ginsters
Ginsters has appointed Linda Evans as sales and marketing director.Evans joins Ginsters from Grampian Country Food Group, where she headed up the company's business unit for Sainsbury. She has wide experience in the food industry, having...
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Availability
Asda Bridgwater, Somerset32Asda's Bridgwater store narrowly missed out on a full basket as it was out of stock of iceberg lettuce. Our shopper spotted a trolleyload of deals in the fresh produce section including special offers...
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Dissenting voice is getting louder
Ican't help being amused and encouraged by the infighting that is afflicting the food industry.First it was Sainsbury, suspending its membership of the British Retail Consortium because its spokesman, Kevin Hawkins, seemed to be pushing...
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Asda ditches all bogofs
Bogofs and "gimmicky" food promotions have been axed by Asda as part of an effort to get back to the basics of EDLP. Food trading director Darren Blackhurst said that as part of its work to restore its position as the market's price...
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rewarding the truly excellent
Sainsbury, Tesco and Waitrose shared the top honours in The Grocer's first Own Label Excellence Awards - winning three prizes apiece at our awards lunch hosted by broadcaster Richard Johnson at the Savoy in London this week - while Asda...
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Retailers say... 'Lottery works for us'
‘I’d vote for Branson’
Geoff Futcher, Arborfield Stores & Post Office, Reading
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Size: 1,000 sq ft
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Retailers' defiance of avian flu praised
Retailers have been praised for not capitalising on the avian flu crisis to bring in imports and contribute to a lowering of poultry meat prices triggered by foodservice and catering companies altering their sourcing strategies. This...
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Multiples' milk war stifles Cravendale
Sales of a highly successful premium milk brand have been damaged by the multiples' price spat in milk.The UK's biggest dairy processor claims that the price war that was kicked off by Asda in March has undermined sales growth of...
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Gü does it again with luxurious ice cream
Premium pudding company Gü looks likely to create a few shivers among frozen food producers as it expands its booming brand into the ice cream market.Three Italian gelato-style dessert ice creams roll into Waitrose stores and onto...
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Are the takeover rumours credible?
Amateur property developers often dream of finding an undervalued property than can be fixed up and quickly turned for a nice profit. In the past few weeks several private equity groups appear to have been eyeing Morrisons in the same...
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WHO'S THEGREENEST?
We've had Sainsbury's plastic packaging plan; Tesco's carrier bags scheme; The Co-operative Group's switch to green electricity; Asda's direct to store delivery scheme in Cornwall; Waitrose's "best supermarket" Soil Association awards; and...