Archive of all news articles – Page 384
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Amazon launches London hub for e-bike and walking deliveries
A spokesman told The Grocer there are “more hubs planned across the UK in the coming months”
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Supermarket customer satisfaction rises as complaints in other sectors reach record levels
M&S Food was the highest-ranked supermarket when the index was last published, in January. Aldi came highest among its rivals in July 2021
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City snapshot: Sainsbury’s sales slide amid ‘intensifying pressure’ on household budgets
Sainsbury’s sales fell back in its first quarter as both grocery and general merchandise sales fell as it warned of “intensifying pressure” on household budgets. Plus, new CFO for B&M and trading updates from Chapel Down and Surpreme.
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Media Bites 5 July: Kellogg’s, Pret a Manger, BrewDog
News of Kellogg’s defeat in the High Court over new UK government HFSS regulations garners plenty of coverage today, along with the latest financial results from Pret.
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Nestlé quark brand Lindahls Kvarg launches big pot format
The pots are available in natural, raspberry and white chocolate flavours with between 50g and 53g of protein in each pot
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Bowl Grabber secures six-figure funding to disrupt wine category
The start-up offers wine across multiple formats – bottles, cans and bag-in-box – and has grown sales to £500k in its first year, with retail listings at Ocado and Amazon.
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Ekaterra appoints new CEO and chair
Nathalie Roos, former CEO of l’Oreal Germany, has been promoted to CEO, while Pierre Laubies, former CEO of Jacobs Douwe Egberts and a veteran of businesses including Mars and Campbell Soup Company, has joined the board as chair
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Startup Insane Grain to challenge Nik Naks with non-HFSS Knobbly Sticks
The snacks promised to deliver on both taste and texture, said Insane Grain
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Heinz Beanz Protein Pots pulled after less than two years on market
The pots were launched in early 2021 as part of Heinz’s ongoing ‘Beanz Liberation Exercise’ push
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Vimto eyes move into energy drinks with trademark application
Owner Nichols has applied to register the name ‘Vimto Energy’ as a trademark with the International Property Office
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Portman Group rules against Marks & Spencer snow globe gins for under 18 appeal
Marks & Spencer claimed the bottles – which featured a light-up mechanism – were not designed as ‘a novelty, toy, or something that should be used by children’
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Kellogg’s legal challenge to HFSS clampdown rejected by High Court
The cereals giant challenged the clampdown, which is due to see HFSS products banned from prominent locations in stores, on three separate grounds
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Brakes relaunches ‘Help for Hospitality’ fund as cost pressures bite
The wholesaler has now relaunched the initiative to ease increasing costs for its customers, such as rising energy prices and staff wages
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John Lewis Partnership launches chef academy to tackle hospitality staff shortages
The company added there was potential to increase the number of vacancies in the future
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Spar highlights own label ‘bestsellers’ under new initiative to drive distribution
Spar said the project was focused on increasing own-label penetration, as well as overall category growth
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Mars cuts size of Twix multipacks to mitigate cost hikes
The 23g bars included in its 16x23g and 9x23g multipacks have been swapped for new 20g bars
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Amazon Fresh stores running 25% off shop promo for Prime members
All 19 Amazon Fresh stores – the most recent of which opened in Sevenoaks last month – are running the promotion
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Chef Monica Galetti appointed first ever Scottish seafood ambassador
Galetti will lead the campaign to encourage buyers, restaurant owners and chefs from across the UK to purchase and serve more Scottish seafood
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Russian oligarch sanctions won’t affect Getir funding, company says
Vladimir Potanin was named by the Foreign Office last week as one of several Russians to be hit by sanctions in a bid to “hit Putin’s inner circle”
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Media Bites 4 July: Boparan/Slim Chickens, Sainsbury’s, Pubs
Ranjit Boparan will today open four restaurants under the Slim Chickens brand and plans to be operating 350 restaurants in Britain under the US brand in the next few years