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In Brief: Gill joins Booths; Greencore controller; Co-op accounts; Appletiser duo; Seafood sales chief
Gill joins Booths Booths has appointed John Gill as a non-food buyer responsible for laundry, homecare, toiletries, medicines, petfood and paper. Gill joins from Spar wholesaler James Hall where he worked in the buying department for eight years...
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Red Bull says job cuts not part of review
Red Bull UK is carrying out its first structural review in 10 years but denies it has made redundancies. Customer marketing and category manager Caroline Jacomb said Red Bull was "frustrated" by media speculation about redundancies. "No redundancies...
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Expanding Innocent ramps up staff levels
Innocent Drinks is to increase its staff numbers by a third in a bid to manage continued rapid growth at home and ambitious expansion plans abroad. The smoothie supplier wants to grow its 210-strong workforce by 70, with about half of...
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Healthier Britain requires education and lower VAT
Innocent Drinks' campaign for a reduction on VAT is the best chance for companies and the government to act together for public interest Recently I announced my support for a campaign being led by Innocent Drinks to reduce VAT on juices...
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Has Innocent lost its halo effect with This Water?
n less than 10 years, Innocent has built a £110m-sales brand, with a superb reputation as an innovator and trendsetter. Other companies have envied and emulated the quirky pack notes and website, funky outdoor events and Bananaphone hotline that...
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Coke's Wakefield plant hit by strike
The world's biggest soft drinks bottling factory is set to be hit by two 48-hour strikes.Nearly 400 workers at Coca-Cola Enterprise's Wakefield plant, which produces 6,000 cans and 1,650 bottles of soft drinks every minute, will strike...
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Cadbury fined £1m for salmonella outbreak
Cadbury Schweppes was yesterday fined £1m and ordered to pay £152,000 in costs for hygiene offences linked to a salmonella outbreak last year.More than a million chocolate bars were recalled last June after an outbreak of salmonella was...
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Letter of the week - High prices are deterring shoppers
While VAT questions can often be complicated and awkward, the case for reducing VAT on fruit juice is a practical and direct one ('Innocent mounts new push for lower VAT on fruit juices', The Grocer, 7 July,p6). At present, a glass of fruit juice...
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Innocent mounts new push for lower VAT on fruit juices
Innocent Drinks has renewed calls for VAT on fruit juices to be slashed - in the hope Gordon Brown will be more sympathetic to the cause now he is prime minister.Innocent has been lobbying since last August for a change in the law that...
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FIVE-STAR PERFORMERS
Coke Zero Launched: June 2006 Sales: £46.2m Star rating: ? ? ? ? ?Undoubtedly the most impressive newcomer of the past 12 months, Coke Zero has outsold any other of this year's Star Products by three to one and is also one of the...
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Tangerine set to buy Cadbury's Butterkist
Tangerine Confectionery, the UK's largest independent confectionery manufacturer, is poised to swoop on Monkhill Confectionery business, a Cadbury-Schweppes subsidiary which makes Butterkist popcorn and own-label products for supermarkets....
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To be novel, a brand has to keep its value
Sir; This summer, Coca-Cola is hoping consumers will turn Orange. As part of its 'Coke Side of Summer' campaign, Coca-Cola Orange will be hitting the shelves from July 2007. Coca-Cola's own research suggests 70% of consumers would definitely or...
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Cadbury to announce cost-cutting programme
Cadbury Schweppes is expected to reveal details of a major cost-cutting programme tomorrow (Tuesday).The confectionery giant split its operations into confectionery and beverages in March this year following shareholder pressure and will...
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Coke may help the body to fight anaemia
Coca-Cola is working with scientists at the University of East Anglia in a bid to prove that Coke can combat anaemia. The soft drink company believes the fizzy drink could encourage the release of greater levels of iron from food, which...
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Opinion - "Such a glacial schedule suggests the FSA is not only dragging its feet but is still in denial"
Coke Zero is a great product. With a great taste, superb packaging, and backed up by genius execution, it's a deserving winner of the Star Product Award at this week's The Grocer Gold Awards. It also helped Coca-Cola Enterprises win the Best Branded...
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the new order
Within days of Nelson Peltz disclosing a 3% stake in Cadbury Schweppes earlier this year, the drinks and confectionery giant announced plans to break itself in two. Todd Stitzer, Cadbury's CEO, maintained the idea had been in train for...
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campaign trail - Ribena
Berries desperate to make it to the juicing factory are the stars of Ribena's latest TV ad, which charts their perilous journey as they cross forests and rivers. Before arriving at the Ribena gates, some unfortunate fruits meet a sticky end. They...
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Britvic acquires C&C Group soft drink business
Britvic has acquired the soft drinks and distribution businesses of the C&C Group for E249.2m (£169.5m) in cash.The deal includes brands such as Club soft drinks and Ballygowan water, as well as the rights to the Pepsi and 7Up brands through...
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Britvic updates Tango with natural flavours
Iconic fizzy drink brand Tango is poised to unveil a new healthier image in a bid to grab a bigger share of an increasingly health-conscious market.From July, Tango will contain only natural flavours and colours, although brand owner...