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NewsDairy Crest shares fall as rising cream prices to squeeze butter profits
Dairy Crest first-half volumes improve but the processor warned profits will come under pressure this year as rising prices hit butter margins.
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NewsFruit Bowl sales fall on tough trading environment
Sales tumbled 11% at snacking brand Fruit Bowl in 2015 as volumes declined in the challenging grocery market.
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NewsMorrisons impresses the market as Ocado is hammered
Morrisons improved its second quarter like-for-like excluding fuel sales performance to 2% from 0.7% in the first quarter
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NewsCrawshaw shares crash as price wars hit meat category
A slowdown in trading at Crawshaw and aggressive price cuts by the supermarkets has seen shares in the value butchery chain sink 43% today.
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NewsBooker gets Budgens/Londis boost
Booker sales surged 15.2% in Q2 but the tobacco display ban remains a drag on performance
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NewsBrothers sales slow in 2015 but output grows
Joint MD Matthew Showering expects revenues to surge in 2017 when the new high-speed bottling line, which doubles capcity to 400 million bottles a year, becomes operational.
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NewsCity snapshot: Morrisons plays down Brexit after 2% second quarter sales hike
Morrisons said today it has seen “no negative impact” from Brexit after it announced second quarter like for like ex fuel sales growth of 2%
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NewsCity snapshot: Currency movements help boost trading at Hilton Foods
Meat packing firm Hilton Foods has reported “strong” first half trading despite competitive retail grocery markets and uncertain macroeconomic conditions
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NewsButterkist growth slows decline at Tangerine Confectionery
Booming sales of popcorn brand Butterkist has helped slow a decline in sales at parent Tangerine Confectionery.
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NewsAston Manor sales sour as UK cider market goes flat
Aston Manor Brewery is seeking to grow exports as difficulties in the UK cider market continued to sour sales for a second consecutive year.
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NewsNoble hatches plan to turn around declining sales and profits
Newly filed accounts in Companies House for Noble Foods show sales dropped 22.2% in the year to 30 September 2015
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NewsRed Bull UK & Ireland sales hit as marketing spend falls
Red Bull put this “mixed” performance down to the “highly competitive” UK marketplace
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NewsGreene King nets growth during Euro 2016
Brewer and pub group Greene King has also appointed former Tesco Ireland boss Gordon Fryett as a non-executive director.
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NewsMcVitie's loses £38m from UK biscuit cuts but profit rises
Revenues at United Biscuits UK, which now falls under the Pladis group, declined amid falling supermarket prices
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NewsAsda grows profits 3.3% at expense of sales
Asda has continued to outperform its peers in terms of profits but the protection of the bottom line saw sales plunge by almost £1bn in 2015.
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NewsApplegreen food sales fuel profit growth
Growing food sales have fuelled a boost in profitability at petrol forecourt retailer Applegreen as the group builds on ambitions to expand in the food-to-go market.
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NewsFyffes shrugs off tough banana market to post 14.7% first half growth
Irish fruit importer Fyffes has announced a near 15% increase in first half sales driven by acquisitions and volume growth
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NewsThird quarter like-for-like sales down 1.8% at McColl’s
McColl’s Retail Group has reported a 1.8% rise in total sales in the 13 weeks to 28 August, but a 1.8% dip in like-for-like sales
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NewsArmaghdown Creameries reports sales drop of more than a third
Northern Ireland-based supplier sees sales plummet due to effects of “continued downturn in the global dairy markets”
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Analysis & FeaturesCity news: Steady WH Smith reassures the market
WH Smith said its new store opening programme in the UK and internationally “is on track”