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Proof that sports drinks work and the wife and the speeding car.
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Video Of The Week
This beats going to work on Mondays...take a look its brill!
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FMCG NEWS UPDATE
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The Outlook for Food Company Valuations and Merger and Acquisition Activity In 2009
Is 2009 going to be a bleak winter for the food industry?
In this article, Mark Lynch a founding partner of Food Co. M&A specialists Oghma Partners, reviews the outlook for merger and acquisition activity in the food sector in 2009. He also assesses the outlook for food company valuations.
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New Product Pipeline Clogged
Consumers are as receptive to new products during recessions as they are in good times, Procter & Gamble's Chairman-CEO A.G. Lafley told investors last month
Signs suggest that packaged-goods companies are creating fewer new products and concepts as the economy falters, but the trend is not expected to last.
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World Retail Top 10
Deloitte's global retail league
Aldi breaks into the top 10, while Lidl moved three places to Number 7 in a list of the world’s biggest retailers.
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Does This Recession Make Me Look Fat?
Definite link between income and obesity
As we look for ways to cut costs wherever possible, doctors worry that the changes we make to our food purchases will lead to an even worse obesity crisis than we're already facing.
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Jamie Oliver Out To Save The Porkers
There is no legal definition of free-range pork,
Animal rights campaigners are trying to close a loophole on "free-range" meat ahead of an expected surge in demand from shoppers jolted by a new campaign by the TV chef Jamie Oliver.
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Premier Foods Aims To Sell Slice To Private Equity
Aims to raise £300m
Premier Foods, the owner of the Hovis and Mr Kipling brands, is pushing lenders to sanction a ground-breaking rights issue in return for relaxing banking covenants on its £1.8bn debt mountain.
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What Tesco Knows and Woolies Forgot
Greatest reward from a job is the satisfaction of doing it well
The cab driver was bemoaning the closure of the local Woolworths. “The problem, guv, is Tesco.” That company, he explained, offered better quality and value in the goods people used to buy at Woolworths.
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Down The Aisle... Northern Foods Q3 Sales Up After Solid Christmas Trading
Northern Foods, Premier Foods, The Food and Drink Innovation Network, Findus frozen food, Bakkavör, Procter & Gamble, Thorntons
Northern Foods said underlying group sales for the third quarter increased 3% and that it was confident of meeting full year expectations after a robust Christmas trading performance.
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Out To Launch... Wilkinson Sword Launch Bikini Trimmer
Wilkinson Sword, Nestlé Confectionery, Mr Todiwala's
Wilkinson Sword is simplifying the shaving process with the launch of the new revolutionary 2-in-1 Quattro for Women Bikini that combines a bikini trimmer and a high performance razor in one convenient beauty accessory.
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Supermarket News... Well Done Aldi
Aldi UK, Tesco, Morrisons, Iceland Foods, Tesco distribution centre, Asda, Sainsbury’s, The Co-operative Group
Aldi UK confirmed its position as one of the few winners from Britain’s economic downturn, with sales up by a 25% over the past year as wealthier Britons flocked to the discount retailer’s stores.
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Beverage Bulletin... Developing The 'Adult' Soft Drink
Hopper, Pilsner Urquell, Anheuser-Busch, Scottish & Newcastle & Tiger Beer, Majestic Wines, Stag brewery
Hopper, a natural brewed fruit drink currently being trialled by UK-based manufacturer the Juice Brewery, at smaller retail venues in the country, hopes the drink, which combines various extracted fruit flavours with hops and malt, can fill a growing niche for ‘sophisticated’ beverage alternatives to alcohol, juices and carbonated brands in the year ahead.
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Carling Off-Trade Preview of the Year 2009
Determined to increase sales
In spite of difficult economic times, Coors Brewers is increasing its marketing investment on Carling in 2009 to stimulate performance of the beer category for its customers, by aiming to attract 1 million more shoppers down the beer aisle.
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RETAIL
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Up The High Street... M&S Chief Talks About The Squeeze
Marks & Spencer, A 'Pound Store', John Lewis Partnership, British Retail Consortium, Boots, Zavvi
The head of Marks & Spencer, the country's biggest clothing retailer, has warned that the retail industry would continue to face a squeeze on margins this year during the "biggest recession for 20 years.
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Green Room... Tesco 's New Low Carbon Supermarket
Every Little bit helps
Tesco has opened its new low-carbon supermarket in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester. According to the supermarket chain, the £20m venue has a carbon footprint of about 70% less than a typical store.
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MARKETING
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Sales & Marketing... Bernard Matthews £200,000 Launch, Possible £5000 Win
Bernard Matthews Farms, Heinz, Anchor butter, Drink Me Chai, Nestea, Mornflake brand, Diageo GB
To ring in the new year, Bernard Matthews Farms is launching a £200,000 on-pack promotion giving forty consumers the opportunity to win £5,000 towards their year’s grocery shopping.
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Movers & Groovers... Patrick Cescau Joins Tesco
Boots, Tesco, Screwfix
Tesco has hired former Unilever boss Patrick Cescau as a non-executive director.Cescau, former chairman of Anglo Dutch consumer group and chief executive from 2005, will start at Tesco on 1 February.
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CLICK AWAY
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Internet Retailing... Waitrose launch an Ezine, Waitrose LIve to 3m People
Waitrose, New Look, Thorntons, Next's, Sainsbury's, Ocado, House of Fraser,The UK ecommerce market
Waitrose has launched an 'ezine', an online interactive magazine that incorporates Waitrose food news and features, nutritional information and tips, recipes and cookery demonstrations.
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TRENDS
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Dynamics Of The Downturn
A report from the Future Foundation’s “Charts of Fire” Changing Lives event
by Carlos Grande, WARC Online Exclusive, January 2009
Price comparison, category switching and “social” online shopping could all increase in the downturn as consumers reappraise routine behaviour and choices.
This theme connected the four presentations at the Future Foundation “Changing Lives” event in December 2008 which looked through a recession-tinged lens at prospects for the UK economy, consumer attitudes, technology take-up and eco-consumption.
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