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Issue 47

FMCG News Update

Ten retailers defy the gloom

Has Tesco fallen on the same spear as Walmart?

Snacks players must embrace health and wellness to beat obesity

Mother's junk food diet could harm children

MillerCoors begins trading

Tesco Thwart Chicken Challenge

RETAIL

Down The Aisle... Baugur relocate to UK

Out To Launch... Coca-Cola launch coffee drink

Supermarket News... Tesco departs from Zimbabwe

Beverage Bulletin... Anheuser-Busch investors seek court aid for InBev offer

Green Room... Morrisons win award

Up The High Street... M&S sales slump

MARKETING

Sales & Marketing... Arla Foods appointed BD-Ntwk

Movers & Groovers... M&S director of food leaves

Credit crunch forces ZO to downgrade ad forecasts

TRENDS

Scottish Tennent's Lager's innovative idea

Supermarket Of The Future

A German supermarket is encouraging customers to scan and ring up their shopping using mobile phones, and check out without the help of a cashier.

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TEA BREAK

Backrubs and no peaking please and I used to like Eric

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Issue 47

4 September, 2010

FMCG News Update

Ten retailers defy the gloom
How do they do it?

Consumers are tightening their belts like never before. But some retailers are still shifting their products.

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Has Tesco fallen on the same spear as Walmart?
A victim of their own success

It has been an unprecedented British success story with record profits and global expansion. So why is Tesco under increasing fire over the way it does business?

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Snacks players must embrace health and wellness to beat obesity
PepsiCo vision to advance health and wellness issues

Only a true health and wellness vision can enable global snack players to tap into the booming market for obesity solutions, claim experts. A new report from Credit Suisse projects the market for obesity fighting consumer staples could hit a massive £70bn by 2012 as the world's population continues to gain weight.

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Mother's junk food diet could harm children
Effects lasting well into adulthood.

Pregnant or breastfeeding mothers who live on a diet of junk food could be condemning their children to lifelong obesity and ill-health.

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MillerCoors begins trading
Strong leadership team

The MillerCoors joint venture has officially begun.

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Tesco Thwart Chicken Challenge
Five Freedoms proposed improve welfare standards for chickens

Tesco, Britain's largest supermarket, has defeated a proposal from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the celebrity chef, to invest in improving living conditions for the chickens it sells in its stores.
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RETAIL

Down The Aisle... Baugur relocate to UK
Baugur relocate to the UK, McBride, Campbell Soup, Del Monte, Baugur, R & R Ice Cream

Executive Chairman Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson

Icelandic investor Baugur is considering whether it could relocate to the UK after the conviction for bookkeeping offences of executive chairman Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson.

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Out To Launch... Coca-Cola launch coffee drink
Coca-Cola, World Gourmet Marketing, Liquid Lust, RDA organic, Bruichladdich, Extraordinary Foods, Constellation Europe, Bushmills

Coca-Cola, has announced the launch of a coffee energy drink.

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Supermarket News... Tesco departs from Zimbabwe
Tesco, Lidl, Tesco fairtrade ranges, Supermarket bosses, The Co-operative Group, Sainsbury's, Aldi, Tesco, Competition Commission, ASDA, Waitrose

Tesco is to stop sourcing products from Zimbabwe due to international concern about the current political climate there, the company said in a statement.

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Beverage Bulletin... Anheuser-Busch investors seek court aid for InBev offer
Anheuser-Busch, Thiénot Group, The Edrington Group, The Glenmorangie Company, Asda, Somerfield, FirstCape, UK wine market, Anheuser-Busch

Shareholders in Anheuser-Busch have filed lawsuits seeking to force the American owner of Budweiser beer to consider fairly the £23.6bn takeover bid for the company from InBev.

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Green Room... Morrisons win award
Morrisons, Sacla, The 3rd Annual Ethical Supply Chain Summit, Sustainable growth

Morrisons has been rewarded for its efforts to lower carbon emissions.

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Up The High Street... M&S sales slump
Marks & Spencer, DSGi, Gatwick Airport, bssa, June sales

Marks & Spencer, has reported a sharp decline in same-store sales, attributing the drop to ebbing consumer confidence and challenging market conditions.

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MARKETING

Sales & Marketing... Arla Foods appointed BD-Ntwk
Arla Foods, Hellmann's, Maxxium, Bernard Matthews, Cadbury

Arla Foods has appointed BD-Ntwk for the second year running to carry out both its summer and Halloween experiential campaigns for its Anchor Real Dairy Cream brand.

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Movers & Groovers... M&S director of food leaves
M&S, PepsiCo UK, Hain Celestial, Pernod Ricard USA, William Grant & Sons, Pernod Ricard, Stella Artois, InBev

M&S director of food Steven Esom, is leaving with immediate effect.

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Credit crunch forces ZO to downgrade ad forecasts
Buoyed by internet spend, the UK is set to overtake Germany to become the world's third largest advertising market by 2010

Publicis Groupe’s ZenithOptimedia has been forced to downgrade its advertising expenditure forecasts for the UK, Western Europe and North America, citing growing concerns surrounding the credit crunch.

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TRENDS

Scottish Tennent's Lager's innovative idea
Fans select artists

Scottish Tennent's Lager has launched Tennent's Mutual, a new music venture that will ultimately result in a live music festival later this year in which fans select artists, debate locations for gigs and call the shots on ticket prices.

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