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Avoid the dog house this Christmas and a Christmas story
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Wishing All Our Readers Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year
All of us at fmcgenews wish to thank you, our readers, for your continued support throughout this year. 2008 has been an exciting year in FMCG and 2009 is already promising to be another year of great change.
Our sponsors, The Oxford Research Agency, are launching many new initiatives in 2009, and you will read about them here first on fmcgenews.
We are going to take a well earn break from publishing and will be back in your email box on January 7th 2009.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Diane (editor)
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FMCG NEWS UPDATE
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Cadbury To Sell Drinks Business To Focus On Chocolate
It just wants to be all about confectionery
Dairy Milk maker Cadbury will sell its last remaining drinks business to focus on chocolate and sweets, despite retailers frantically pricing down confectionery stock amid fears of poor Christmas trading.
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Supermarkets' Plans To Keep Shelves Full
Tesco said it was supporting suppliers that needed extra help by giving an indication of future orders.
Fears that scores of supermarket suppliers will go bust next year have led the country's major chains to draw up emergency plans to replace them.
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Morrisons's Chief Executive Marc Bolland Found Right Formular
Analysts sniffed when Marc Bolland took over the Yorkshire legend, but recent results have silenced critics
Retail, they say, is detail, and Bolland has clearly taken that mantra to heart. As he walks the store he is constantly picking up litter, rearranging displays and warmly greeting butchers, bakers and cash till operators.
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Struggling Retailers Slammed By ASDS's Boss
Not be the way to grow a business in the economic downturn.
Andy Bond, chief executive of Asda supermarket chain, has attacked his opponents’ current strategies, of heavily discounting and pre-Christmas sales.
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Down The Aisle... ABF Buys Azucarera Ebro
Associated British Foods, supermarket ombudsman, Procter & Gamble, Abbey Well, Villa, Premier Foods, Food firms are misleading parents, Hovis, Irish pork, Procter & Gamble, Kellogg’s
Associated British Foods has confirmed the £344m purchase of Azucarera Ebro, Spain’s biggest sugar producer.
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Out To Launch... Nestlé Goes All Innocent
Nestlé, Unilever UK, Debbie & Andrew & Guinness, Cadbury, Kettle Foods
Nestlé is to launch a new brand of smoothies in the UK later this month in partnership with Australian juice-bar chain Boost Juice, in what is seen as an attempt to break The Innocent brand's stranglehold on the market.
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Supermarket News... Hum Bug Tesco To Open Boxing Day
Tesco, Aldi, Somerfield, Tesco and Waitrose, Tesco £25m of discounts, Waitrose drop in sales, SPAR, Waitrose
Tesco is breaking its tradition of giving most staff two days holiday over Christmas with plans to open nearly 200 of its biggest stores on Boxing Day as it fights for business in a worsening UK retail climate.
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Beverage Bulletin... Budweiser Loses Right To Bud Name
Anheuser-Busch, Scottish & Newcastle, India’s United Breweries Holdings & Cobra beer, Moorhouse's, Wine and Spirit Trade Association, Marston's, Cobra Beer
A European Union court has decided that Budweiser-brewer Anheuser-Busch should not have rights to the "Bud" brand throughout the 27 nation bloc.
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RETAIL
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Up The High Street... Its Just No Cricket For Vodaphone
Vodafone, House of Fraser, The consumer prices index, Zavvi, Bailiffs on standby EUK, Woolworths
Vodafone is dropping its sponsorship of the England and Wales Cricket Board after 12 years. The current deal expires in January 2010 and will not be renewed.
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Green Room... Asda And Waste Initiatives
Asda and their waste management provider, Veolia Environmental Services, Organic food
Asda and their waste management provider, Veolia Environmental Services, have agreed to implement several strategies to reduce waste across the supply chain.
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MARKETING
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Sales & Marketing... Rebranding Launch For Pollen Organics
Pollen Organics, Kellogg’s, Marks & Spencer's, Procter & Gamble, L'Oreal, Groupe Danone, Cadbury's, L'Oreal, Unilever
Pollen Organics, the award winning Hampshire based food company that makes fresh organic pestos, cooking sauces, mayonnaises, dressings, sauces, relishes and preserves, has unveiled nationally its new packaging as the core element of a major new branding promotion.
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Movers & Groovers... Cadbury's Names New CFO
Cadbury's, Marks & Spencer's, Innocent Drinks, Dunkin' Donuts, Delhaize, Coca-Cola Co
Cadbury's has named former Bristol-Myers Squibb executive Andrew Bonfield as CFO. The confectioner said Bonfield, 46, will join the company in February as CFO-designate and take over as CFO from Ken Hanna when he leaves the business in April.
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Know Your Customer
Adapt to their needs quickly
Knowing your customer is even more important in recession than at any other time and having data about your customers can be crucial in making strategic decisions for your business.
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CLICK AWAY
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Internet Retailing... Coca-Cola Enterprises Is Just A Click Away for Retailers
Coca-Cola Enterprises, IMRG,Tesco football site, Tesco video-on-demand, Consumer website launched, Legal services supermarket’, Report back-biggest online shopping day
Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd (CCE) has launched an off-trade website trade.cokecce.co.uk .
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Ocado Begins Move Into Non-Food Business
Goal of making this year its first profitable year in eight years of trading
Freedom from part-ownership by Waitrose is driving big changes at Ocado, which now has a new look website and a new own-brand food range.
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TRENDS
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Nestle's Collaborative Strategies
Nestle's Helmut Traitler ipod interview
Nestle has been working with art students and emerging-market researchers to develop new products and branch out to new audiences. Helmut Traitler discusses how the Swiss-based company approaches "open" innovation to help Nestle grow. Listen to the ipod interview.
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Asda Survey Of Consumer Habits In Recession
10,000 ASDA shoppers asked
Through its comprehensive Pulse of the Nation survey of 10,000 ASDA shoppers, ASDA has identified a number of key trends that demonstrate consumers' needs are changing in the current economic climate.
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