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Issue 55

FMCG News Update

Food Companies: Recipes for Tough Times

Ways Supermarkets Can Help The Consumer

Job Cuts & Cost of Chocolate Set To Rise

Tesco Employee Sue Customer

Price Drives Tesco To Source Locally

Cocaine, Caffeine Drink Hits The Shelves In UK

RETAIL

Down The Aisle... Kerry Foods Increase In Sales

Out To Launch... Food Inc. Launch Finest Chocolate

Beverage Bulletin... Irn-Bru, The Demise Of The Fizzy Drink

Up The High Street... John Lewis Customers Distracted

Green Room... Bottled Water Backlash Flows On

Supermarket News... Superquinn Is For Sale

MARKETING

Sales & Marketing... Avon Go Digital With Podcast

Movers & Groovers... Boots Restructures

TRENDS

How to promote own label foods

Ten Top PR Blunders

Mistakes can and will happen, and while they do, PR blunders will continue to haunt the people involved and tickle the people who weren’t.

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TEA BREAK

In honour of the Olympics as the countdown to the London 2012 begin in earnest this week ... it might make you smile, its just a bit of fun and only the English.

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The World's 15 Best Places To live

Clean air, low rates of illness and access to food help make these the world's 15 best places to live. Ok the UK is not on the list but we can all dream.

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Issue 55

4 September, 2010

FMCG News Update

Food Companies: Recipes for Tough Times
Marketers Shift Focus to Value

Marketers are settling in for the long haul.

[FULL STORY]

Ways Supermarkets Can Help The Consumer
The question consumers are asking is who is going to give me a way to moderate my food costs

Higher food prices and the slowing economy are forcing consumers to stretch their grocery pound - heightening competition among supermarkets.

[FULL STORY]

Job Cuts & Cost of Chocolate Set To Rise
Chocolate manufactures fight to keep profits decent

Upheaval for a number of leading confectioners, reports suggest Cadbury may enact a number of job cuts while Mars joins rival Hershey in pushing up prices for its brands

[FULL STORY]

Tesco Employee Sue Customer
When the world goes a little crazy

A Tesco delivery worker is taking legal action against an online customer on whose driveway he reportedly injured an ankle, according to the Daily Mail.

[FULL STORY]

Price Drives Tesco To Source Locally
84% of consumers wish to buy locally

Tesco could make over £500m from sales of regional varieties of food this year as more consumers stop purchasing big brands.

[FULL STORY]

Cocaine, Caffeine Drink Hits The Shelves In UK
Criticism from politicians over the launch

The controversial energy drink called Cocaine, which while drug-free, contains 350% more caffeine than rival brand Red Bull, this week hit UK shelves amidst criticism from politicians over the launch.

[FULL STORY]

RETAIL

Down The Aisle... Kerry Foods Increase In Sales
Kerry Group, Tories & Food Companies, Arla Foods, Glanbia, Food prices, Health and beauty products, Sales volume

Irish food company Kerry Group has posted an increase in first-half earnings and sales as it successfully hiked prices to mitigate the effect of rising food commodity costs.

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Out To Launch... Food Inc. Launch Finest Chocolate
Food Inc, The Feel Good Drinks Company, Heinz, MasterChef, Walkers, Cadbury, El Olivo C&C Group, Global Brands

Food Inc., London's innovative food market at Whiteleys in Bayswater, will be launching a range of finest chocolates from award-winning British Chocolaterie, Demarquette - Fine Chocolates on Thursday, 28th August (6pm to 9pm).

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Beverage Bulletin... Irn-Bru, The Demise Of The Fizzy Drink
Irn-Bru, Boosted Smoothies, Diageo, Fosters Group, Bruichladdich, Diageo, Halewood International, Portman Group, InBev SA, New Zealand wine, Halewood, InBev UK

IRN-BRU is likely to account for less than half of AG Barr's sales for the first time in decades next year as the firm continues its diversification away from fizzy drinks.

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Up The High Street... John Lewis Customers Distracted
John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, Woolworths

John Lewis blamed the summer exam results and the Olympics as a distraction for its customers as it suffered a 4.2% drop in sales for the week to August 16.

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Green Room... Bottled Water Backlash Flows On
Huge environmental impact concern

The bottled water industry, which has enjoyed strong sales growth in recent years as a beverage perceived to offer improved health benefits, is coming under increasing criticism in North America over its alleged environmental impacts.

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Supermarket News... Superquinn Is For Sale
Superquinn, Morrisons, Aldi, The Co-operative Group, Waitrose, ASDA, Ocado, Lidl, Netto, Tesco

Superquinn, the Irish grocer has retained Goldman Sachs to advise on a sale.

[FULL STORY]

MARKETING

Sales & Marketing... Avon Go Digital With Podcast
Avon, Persil, Grolsch, Procter & Gamble,Twinings, Innocent Drinks, Innocent & The Advertising Standards Authority

Avon is introducing its first podcast in an attempt to further move its business model from doorstep to digital.

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Movers & Groovers... Boots Restructures
Boots, Motorola, Debenhams, Constellation Bran

Boots is restructuring its senior management team following its merger with Alliance Pharmacy.

[FULL STORY]

TRENDS

How to promote own label foods
Innovative marketing through the Internet and less traditional forms of media.

Following on from last weeks article ('Own Brands Become More Important To Supermarkets Bottom Line')on providing better looking own food labels here is a story on how the Americans have gone a step further.

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