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Issue 54

FMCG News Update

Own Brands Become More Important To Supermarkets Bottom Line

Tesco's Fresh & Easy For Some

Supermarkets Reply To Consumers Trading Down

Marketers’ Stress Levels Put Them At Risk

Organic Foods Sales Set To Rise 18% by 2010

Supermarkets And Not Supplier Should Bear The Brunt Of Price Issues

Online Retail Surges Ahead

RETAIL

Down The Aisle... Clear Price Message Is The Answer

Out To Launch... Wrigley Launch New Flavours

Supermarket News... Tesco's Debt Solved

Up The High Street... Job Loss Fears At M&S

Green Room... Sainsbury's Opens Model Green Store

Beverage Bulletin... Coca Cola Olympic Bottle

MARKETING

Carlsberg Changes Their Mind

Movers and Groovers... Baxters Appoints New Deputy CEO

Sales & Marketing... Body Shop Launch New Campaign

TRENDS

RFID Is On The Rise, But What About Security?

TEA BREAK

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"Day Off, a Boss's Perspective"

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Brands For Sale

When brands lose their earning power, corporations find themselves with few other options than to sell these businesses or spin them off. For this reason, some of the most iconic companies in the world have been cast off by their parent firms.

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Issue 54

4 September, 2010

FMCG News Update

Own Brands Become More Important To Supermarkets Bottom Line
Lets have brighter labelling

There are things we can do to drive less, but how do you eat less. As budgets get tighter and food gets more expensive, American like the British consumer are switching to store brands.

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Tesco's Fresh & Easy For Some
Heavy criticism from certain sectors

Tesco's Fresh & Easy is coming under attack from. The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy as it is suspicious of F&E's practices.

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Supermarkets Reply To Consumers Trading Down
Shoppers Manage Own Inflation With Smart Shopping

The big grocers are running tit-for-tat price promotions to pull in shoppers as household budgets come under increasing strain.

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Marketers’ Stress Levels Put Them At Risk
Stress levels to high

For all of you out there who are not on holiday a new report out shows that marketers in the UK are most likely to turn to alcohol and comfort eating to help them deal with the stress of their occupations.

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Organic Foods Sales Set To Rise 18% by 2010
People will still buy good food

High prices are dissuading new organic customers from buying organic and keeping loyal customers from spending on discretionary items such as organic ice cream. Still, sales of organic foods and beverages are expected to grow 18% annually through 2010.

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Supermarkets And Not Supplier Should Bear The Brunt Of Price Issues
Dairy price wars kicking-off in UK and France

Price cuts by British supermarkets and French cheese makers may be driving dairy industries in their respective countries towards a milk war.

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Online Retail Surges Ahead
While high street sales for July were 0.9% down on June

Figures released from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index show that online spending rose in July to reach a total market value of over £4.8bn - the equivalent of £79 for every person in the UK.

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RETAIL

Down The Aisle... Clear Price Message Is The Answer
Grocery retailers, Greencore Group, Almond crops, Dawn Farm Foods, Arla Foods, Heinz, Unilever

Grocery retailers that stick to clear price messages are seeing the strongest sales, according to the latest TNS Worldpanel figures.

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Out To Launch... Wrigley Launch New Flavours
Wrigley, Makro, McGuigan, Magners Irish Cider, Kavli, The Food Doctor

Wrigley has unveiled a number of new additions to its Airwaves and Extra Fusion ranges.

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Supermarket News... Tesco's Debt Solved
Tesco's debt, Iceland, Farmfoods, Aldi , Lidi, Sainsbury's Tu Home, Price promotions, Food inflation Tesco discounting, Marks & Spencer, Asda

Tesco, the UK's leading supermarket, has remained silent on reports that it is in talks to sell-off some of the freeholds to its larger stores in a deal that could raise around £500m.

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Up The High Street... Job Loss Fears At M&S
Marks & Spencer, M&S's tills, W H Smith, Woolworths, PayPoint, Vodafone, WHSmith

Marks & Spencer is planning to cut redundancy benefits for its 60,000 staff by up to 25%, sparking fears of job losses according to The Times.

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Green Room... Sainsbury's Opens Model Green Store
The Future is here

Sainsbury’s has opened its flagship green store in Dartmouth, Devon, which is expected to become the model for all its new supermarkets.

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Beverage Bulletin... Coca Cola Olympic Bottle
The Coca-Cola Co, Scotland's whisky industry, Pernod Ricard, Shepherd Neame

The Coca-Cola Co. has joined forces with celebrity photographer Rankin to create a limited edition Coca-Cola bottle in the UK.

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MARKETING

Carlsberg Changes Their Mind
No free beer with The Sun in Liverpool after backlash from scousers

Carlberg had an idea that they'd give away free beer through vouchers printed in The Sun, which were to be exchanged for a free pint in 13,000 pubs over the bank holiday weekend. Free beer! What could possibly go wrong?

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Movers and Groovers... Baxters Appoints New Deputy CEO
Baxters Food Group, SABMiller, Coca-Cola, Premier Foods, United Biscuits, Aunt Bessie's, Holistica, Morrisons, Market Intelligence Services

Bill King appointed deputy chief executive at Baxters

Baxters Food Group, the UK soup-to-sauces maker, has appointed Bill King to the position of deputy chief executive. King, currently chief operating officer, takes up his post with immediate effect, the company said.

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Sales & Marketing... Body Shop Launch New Campaign
The Body Shop, Tesco, Coors, Diageo, Nestlé, Greenall’s Gin, Heineken, Danone, Absolut Vodka, Scottish & Newcastle’s

The Body Shop has unveiled a new global positioning as it launches its first marketing campaign aimed at re-establishing its ethical heritage following its L'Oreal takeover.

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TRENDS

RFID Is On The Rise, But What About Security?
RFID can communicate lots of different data

RFID technology that was initially used solely to track warehouse operations and for inventory control is now making its way into the smart keys that lock and unlock doors and transponders used at toll booths and gas stations. Unfortunately, criminals can find ways to read the keys or cards as easily as their intended targets do.

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