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The Credit Crunch challenge

FMCG News Update
Glaxo May Shed 6 % Of R&D Staff To Save Costs
Wrigley £12bn Sale To Mars Approved
Aldi Wins Outstanding Achievement Of The Year Accolade At The Retail Industry Awards.
Tainted Milk Crisis Hits More Global Companies
Paul Newman: The Food Entrepreneur

RETAIL
Down the Aisle... Dairy Crest To Cut Jobs, Factory Closure
Out to Launch... Heinz launches A Step Further Into Sandwich Market
Supermarket News... Tesco Holding Steady
Beverage Bulletin... Labels Urged For Caffeinated Energy Drinks
Up the High Street... Barclaycard Introduces New Logo
Green Room... Honey Bees Need Saving

MARKETING
Sales & Marketing... Magners Sponsor Paramount Comedy Festival
Movers & Groovers... Cadbury's Loses Chief Financial Officer
Green Consumers Not Practicing What They Preach
Winning At The Shelf

TRENDS
Consumers Pick Up Clip Of Coupons

Top Weight Loss Drinks

Looking for the right weight loss product? Well here are the top brands voted by readers on Aol.

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20 Most Annoying Things At The Grocery Store
20 items or less abuse
Are you an "aisle blocker"? Perhaps you're a dreaded "express lane abuser"? Opps must hold my hand up to a few of these.

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A man boarded an aircraft at London 's Heathrow Airport for New York

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Issue 60   4 September, 2010

The Credit Crunch challenge
Launching new products into changing markets

Conflicting news surround the onset of recession, with retailers and several of our own clients reporting increasing sales and revenues. 

Launching NPD today requires a different outlook and approach to achieve success.

 


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FMCG News Update
Glaxo May Shed 6 % Of R&D Staff To Save Costs
The move reflects a tough stance on costs by new Chief Executive Andrew Witty

Andrew Witty, CEO GlaxoSmithKline GlaxoSmithKline has said it was planning to cut up to 850 research and development jobs in Britain and the United States, in a bid to improve productivity.

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Wrigley £12bn Sale To Mars Approved
Deal bumps Britain’s Cadbury from the top sweet-making slot.

Shareholders of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. have approved the company’s £12.5bn sale to Mars Inc., a move that will end more than a century of family control as the chewing-gum company becomes part of what will now be the world’s largest sweet maker.

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Aldi Wins Outstanding Achievement Of The Year Accolade At The Retail Industry Awards.
Full list of winners

Aldi picked up the Outstanding Achievement of the Year accolade at the  Retail Industry Awards.

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Tainted Milk Crisis Hits More Global Companies
Its Gets More Murky

Han Kwan-woo, an official of Korea Food and Drug Administration, shows packages of recalled biscuits Snackers, beware: Your favourite chocolate or creamy treats might contain milk contaminated with melamine.

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Paul Newman: The Food Entrepreneur
Why has Newman's Own been so successful?

Paul Newman, right, president and founder of Newman's Own, Inc., and Henry Gonzalez, McDonald's East Division president, mixed salads at the McDonald's Times Square restaurant in New York. McDonald's hoped the new salads and the link to Newman's all-natur To a younger generation, Paul Newman wasn't Butch Cassidy or Cool Hand Luke or Fast Eddie Felson. He was a witty guy who ran a food company that made popcorn, salsa and spaghetti sauce.


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RETAIL
Down the Aisle... Dairy Crest To Cut Jobs, Factory Closure
Dairy Crest, Kerry Group, Lees Foods, Robert Wiseman Dairies, Pilgrim’s Pride, Unilever's Ben & Jerry's, Innocent Drinks, Isklar Norwegian, The Office of Fair Trading, Consu

Dairy Crest, the maker of Clover spread, has said that it will cut jobs and is considering closing a factory to deal with difficult market conditions.

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Out to Launch... Heinz launches A Step Further Into Sandwich Market
Heinz, Procter & Gamble, Asda, LanesHealth, Bodyform, Hancocks

Heinz has moved into the pre-packed sandwich market in the UK using its branded sauces.


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Supermarket News... Tesco Holding Steady
Tesco, Asda interactive games, Tesco mortgages, Sainsbury's, Asda, Food Inflation, Tesco Chinese sweets, The Co-operative Group

Tesco has reported a steady rise in half-year profits despite the tough retail environment. The company made group profit before tax of £1.43bn in the 26 weeks to 23 August.

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Beverage Bulletin... Labels Urged For Caffeinated Energy Drinks
High-caffeine drinks,Tesco, Pernod, Foster's, Conference on Alcohol, Côtes du Rhône, William Grant & Sons and Rémy Cointreau

Warnings should be put on high-caffeine drinks, experts are recommending.

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Up the High Street... Barclaycard Introduces New Logo
Barclaycard, JJB Sports, The Co-operative Bank, HSBC, Marks and Spencer, The British Retail Consortium

Barclaycard is introducing a new logo and global visual identity as it tries to accelerate the transition of perception of the brand from the traditional plastic card to a wider payments company.

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Green Room... Honey Bees Need Saving
The Soil Association, Procter & Gamble, Company Fair Trade, Asda

The Soil Association has urged the government to ban pesticides linked to honeybee deaths around the world.

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MARKETING
Sales & Marketing... Magners Sponsor Paramount Comedy Festival
Magners Paramount Comedy Festival, New media, Ryvita, Ferrero, Boots, Jordans' muesli range, PepsiCo

For fun and hilarity, the Magners Paramount Comedy Festival in Brighton is the place to be this October.

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Movers & Groovers... Cadbury's Loses Chief Financial Officer
Cadbury's, Tesco non-executive director , Bacardi-Martini, Tesco brand chief, Wholesaler Spicers, Perfect Fools, Hormel Foods, Foster's Group, Diageo, Orange

Cadbury chief financial officer Ken Hanna is leaving the company. Cadbury's highly-respected chief financial officer Ken Hanna resigned from his post at the world's largest confectionery maker to become chairman of car dealer Inchape.

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Green Consumers Not Practicing What They Preach
Retailers and product manufacturers need to acknowledge this inconsistency

How green should you really be, if your customers talk green but don't act green at the moment of truth?


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Winning At The Shelf
Instant Field Intelligence is a unique benefit of a new approach to field execution

Winning at the Shelf white paper reveals how mobile technology is transforming field execution for leading consumer products companies.

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TRENDS
Consumers Pick Up Clip Of Coupons
Companies, are trying out a program to allow consumers to use coupons via their cell phones.

After years of ignoring coupons that offer rebates on daily household products, cash-strapped consumers are showing more of an appetite for these small discounts.


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