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Food Companies: Recipes For Tough Times
Proactive use of price to grow volume

FMCG News Update
Caffrey’s gets the cold treatment
Somerfiled sold, the background story
Talking ingredients around the world
Brewery's controversial Speedball

RETAIL
Down The Aisle... Foodvest Group sold
Out To Launch... New food companies launch at Royal Welsh Show
Supermarket News... 'Want a cuppa' says Tesco?
Beverage Bulletin... Champagne retains its fizz
Up The High Street... M&S pushing into international and online markets
Green Room... Co-op switches to fully recycled drinks packaging

MARKETING
Movers & Groovers... Tiger UK makes country manager appointment
Sales & Marketing... Asda customers stock up on ice cold Carling
The ipint a new idea in advertising
Best-loved brands list revealed

TRENDS
Down-sizing trend driving US rigid food packaging
Indulgence trend takes hold in India

TEA BREAK

Coffee break the perfect husband and custom tricks

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Shops you must visit
What are the best shops in the world?

Whole Foods Market Austin Texas
A group of leading executives from the retail industry were ask about their favourite shops. The stores  they chose have little in common, except one thing – they excel in product, service and creativity that is the lifeblood of retail.

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Issue 50   4 September, 2010

Food Companies: Recipes For Tough Times
A range of opportunities for closer collaboration

Faced With Rising Costs And Pickier Customers, Processed Foodmakers Find Ways To Boost Their Products' Appeal -- And Make Price Hikes Stick.

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Proactive use of price to grow volume
Putting on the £s - the best way

With increasing raw ingredients pushing up the costs of food and drink, new pricing approaches are needed to understand how to pass on costs without harming volumes.


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FMCG News Update
Caffrey’s gets the cold treatment
Caffrey’s widget will ensure that consumers get the perfect ‘at home’ drinking experience.”

Caffrey’s – the original cold ale, is the first ale to feature temperature sensitive indicators on its packaging this Summer.


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Somerfiled sold, the background story
Deal does little to change the retail landscape

The Co-op paid a low purchase price for Somerfiled, 6.7 times Somerfield's earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, well below the 9.5 times multiple for Tesco shares, or the 8 times multiple for Morrison shares.

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Talking ingredients around the world
Different ingredient concepts presented around the world

Harvey Chimoff Director, Marketing, Americas, Tate & Lyle Harvey Chimoff Director, Marketing, Americas, Tate & Lyle is video interviewed at 2008 IFT Food Expo

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Brewery's controversial Speedball
The name of the notorious drug cocktail which claimed the lives of the actors John Belushi and River Phoenix

A controversial north-east brewery is again facing criticism from health campaigners after giving its latest concoction the same name as a lethal heroin-cocaine cocktail.


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RETAIL
Down The Aisle... Foodvest Group sold
Foodvest Group, Tate & Lyle, Parmalat, Unilever & Bertolli olive oil, Dairy Crest, Danone

UK private equity group Lion Capital has acquired Foodvest Group – the owner of brands including Findus and Young’s Seafood – for an undisclosed sum.

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Out To Launch... New food companies launch at Royal Welsh Show
New products, Calypso, Bruichladdich, Coors UK, Mars Food, Kellogg, Anglo Drinks Birds Eye

Royal Welsh Show A passion for local food and the Welsh countryside were the driving forces behind seven new food businesses that are launching new products at the Royal Welsh Show.

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Supermarket News... 'Want a cuppa' says Tesco?
Tesco, Safeway, Asda Morrisons and Sainsbury's, Lidl, RM & Tesco,The Ocado food, Tesco, Waitrose, Tesco Mobile's

Tesco is to give away tea and biscuits at 252 stores across the UK this week in an effort to revive the traditional British tea break and lift sales.
 


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Beverage Bulletin... Champagne retains its fizz
The champagne market, Coca-Cola ,The advertising of alcohol brands, Coca-Cola, SABMiller, Pernod Ricard

The champagne market is sparkling despite the credit crunch and rises in the cost of living.

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Up The High Street... M&S pushing into international and online markets
Marks & Spencer, Online shopping, Unwins

Marks & Spencer will spend £450m on IT and technology over the next three years, pushing into international and online markets to ease its reliance on the ailing UK retail environment.
 

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Green Room... Co-op switches to fully recycled drinks packaging
The Co-operative Group, Tesco, Soil Association, Fairtrade

Co-op: rPET bottles will reduce the retailer's carbon dioxide emissions by 1,212 tonnes per annum

The Co-operative Group has announced that all plastic packaging for its soft drinks range will be made from recycled materials.


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MARKETING
Movers & Groovers... Tiger UK makes country manager appointment
Tiger UK, Nestlé, JW Lees, United Biscuits, Cadbury, The Food Standards Agency, Scottish & Newcastle

Tiger UK has confirmed a change of leadership.

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Sales & Marketing... Asda customers stock up on ice cold Carling
Beam Global UK, The Co-operative Group, Boots, Walkers, Coca-Cola, Halewood

This summer Asda Stores across the UK will be visited by the Carling Cold Beer Amnesty Truck - from 2pm to 7pm, shoppers who buy into the main multi-buy mechanic will have the opportunity, when they leave the store, to swap their packs of warm beer for ice cold Carling.


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The ipint a new idea in advertising
"The best example to date of mobile advertising"
www.carling.com/ipint

Carling has launched a new ad campaign and it just might point to the future of advertising.

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Best-loved brands list revealed
Marks and Spencer was the only food retailer to make the top 20

Supermarkets have slumped in popularity with not one of "big four" making it into the top 100 of Superbrands. It is the first time since the league table of the nation's best loved companies was created three years ago that they have failed to have a presence in the premier places.


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TRENDS
Down-sizing trend driving US rigid food packaging
Consumer goods rigid plastic production is ceasing at Huhtamaki's UK sites

The trend towards smaller, more portable beverage and prepared food containers will play a large part in the increased use of plastics in rigid food packaging in the US market, according to a new report.

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Indulgence trend takes hold in India
Indian consumers are able to spend more on non-essential food products

India's expanding economy and rising disposable incomes are fostering growth in indulgence food categories, such as chocolate confectionery and sweet and savoury snacks.

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