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FMCG News Update

Grocery Sales Rise 5.8%

Supermarkets Feel Heat As Food Inflation Eases

Mission Impossible For Woolworths

Private-Label Opens Doors For Confectionery Makers

Heinz Price Hikes Accepted by Consumers

Hovis's New Ad Is A Slice Of History

RETAIL

Down The Aisle... Bottle Water Takes A Tumble

Out to Launch... Häagen-Dazs Extend Range

Supermarket News... Asda Slash Food Prices

Beverage Bulletin... La Martiniquaise Buys Glen Moray Distillery

Green Room... Ice-Cream Firm Call For Wind Power

Up the High Street... Habitat Needs To be The High Street Ikea

MARKETING

Movers and Groovers... SABMiller Has New Marketing Director

Sales and Marketing... Unilever's First Mobile Internet Presence

Pricing in an inflationary downturn

Shorter Ads Are Better

TEA BREAK

The IT crowd-men without women, success and the worlds greatest body painting

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BLUNDERS

The Launch Of The Wine Gang

www.thewinegang.com has been launched by five of the UK's most respected wine critics. From left to right they are:

www.thewinegang.com is a revolutionary new online publication that unites five of the UK’s top wine communicators in a common mission: to sniff out the best wines in the UK.

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Issue 58

4 September, 2010

Tell Us What You Think About Fmcgenews
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FMCG News Update

Grocery Sales Rise 5.8%
Asda and Morrisons continue to outperform the market

Sales at grocery multiples have increased 5.8% YoY in the latest 12 weeks with food inflation continuing to drive all growth in this sector.

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Supermarkets Feel Heat As Food Inflation Eases
Inflation has probably peaked

Signs that food price inflation is close to a peak could herald tougher times for the country's supermarket groups, which have so far been comparatively resilient to a slowdown in consumer spending growth.

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Mission Impossible For Woolworths
Are we seeing the beginning of the end of Woolworths

Steve Johnson takes on the high street's version of Mission: Impossible this week as sets out to resurrect Woolworths, the one-time giant of the retail sector, writes The Times.

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Private-Label Opens Doors For Confectionery Makers
Sixty Two Percent Of shoppers said they were more likely to buy supermarket own-brand products than a year ago.

Opportunities for private label confectionery formulations are set to rise as food inflation starts to pinch the consumer purse.

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Heinz Price Hikes Accepted by Consumers
Net income increase of 12%

Frozen potatoes and soy sauce have never looked so good. The global producer and marketer of packaged foods, led by strong gains of those two popular products, turned in a 12% increase in net income in its fiscal first quarter, ended July 30.

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Hovis's New Ad Is A Slice Of History
Longest ad ever shown

At 122 seconds, it is one of the longest adverts ever shown.

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RETAIL

Down The Aisle... Bottle Water Takes A Tumble
Aquafina and Volvic, Consumers, The Soil Association, Diageo, Unilever, Thortons, Fyffes

Sales of the world's best-known brands, including Aquafina and Volvic, have tumbled in some countries as weakening economies take a toll on household incomes.

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Out to Launch... Häagen-Dazs Extend Range
General Mills, Bernard Matthews Farms, Burton's Foods, Grove Fresh Organic, Kellogg’s, Mars, Unilever, Red Tractor logo

General Mills is to extend its range of Häagen-Dazs ice creams on sale in the UK this winter with the launch of a caramel biscuit and cream variant.

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Supermarket News... Asda Slash Food Prices
Asda, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, The Co-operative Group, Spar UK, Morrisons, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Asda, Aldi’s, Sainsbury's, Sainsbury's dental surgery

Asda has announced over 5,000 price cuts and said that food price inflation has peaked. From tomorrow Asda will cut the price of every Smart Price product and is claiming shoppers could cut their shopping bill by 50% by switching.
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Beverage Bulletin... La Martiniquaise Buys Glen Moray Distillery
The Glenmorangie Company, Constellation, Coors Brewers, Cobra Beer, Diageo, Beringer, Coors Light

The Glenmorangie Company has lined up the sale of its Glen Moray distillery in Scotland to French spirits company La Martiniquaise.

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Green Room... Ice-Cream Firm Call For Wind Power
Windpower The Scottish Food and Drink Federation, Welsh Farm Organics

The founder of Scotland's biggest independent ice-cream firm has urged Britain's farmers and landowners to unite in forming the country's biggest windpower company.

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Up the High Street... Habitat Needs To be The High Street Ikea
Ikea, Debenhams, John Lewis, Retailing rents London's West End, Poundland

Habitat should become more like its parent company Ikea in order to restore its fortunes, Habitat founder Sir Terence Conran said this week.

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MARKETING

Movers and Groovers... SABMiller Has New Marketing Director
SABMiller, Thorntons, Unilever

SABMiller has named its European marketing director Chris Taylor as group international brand director – a newly created role designed to "ensure closer coordination" across its international products.
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Sales and Marketing... Unilever's First Mobile Internet Presence
Unilever, The New Covent Garden Soup, Mars, Coca-Cola, Tilda

Unilever is supporting the launch of Peperami.mobi, the snack brand's first mobile internet presence, with 'Animal Attacks', a rant-generator.

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Pricing in an inflationary downturn
In the current environment, costs are rising as price sensitivity increases. Six tactics can help companies get pricing right.

Getting pricing right is always a challenge in an economic downturn, as decreasing demand, excess capacity, and greater price sensitivity all conspire to drive down prices.
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Shorter Ads Are Better
Value in having a low-clutter environment

A study Neuro-Insight has researched that shorter commercial breaks featuring fewer brands are better liked and remembered by TV viewers.

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