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TEA BREAK
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Best Wave Ever and how to maintain a healthy level of insanity
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Issue 6
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4 September, 2010
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Food and Drink is dead. Long live Food & Drink
Increased food and drink revenues from the grocery multiples is, in hindsight, no real surprise.
by By Andrew Tharme, Joint MD,The Oxford Research Agency
Why did we ever doubt it ? People need to consume food and drink simply to survive. It’s the most basic human need since we lived in caves. Although, back then, the human species wasn’t deliberating over whether to give Aldi a try, or hunt for bargains in their usual Tesco, food and drink always was, and always will be, at the foremost of people’s minds.
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FMCG NEWS UPDATE
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Food & Drink Sales Recession Proof
Consumers Continued To Spend On Food
Retail sales rose for the first time in eight months in January as consumers took advantage of heavy discounting in the early part of the new year, according latest data from the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
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Delhaize Says"Unacceptable Demands" By Unilever
“Unilever is demanding that we place all their products on our shelves, without having a say on what we offer to our customers,”
Belgian supermarket Delhaize is threatening to remove 300 Unilever products from its shelves after refusing to agree to meet Unilever's demands for price increases and product promotion.
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Feed Back From Functional Foods Gloom
The “end of the so-called ‘functional foods’ movement”? Quite a big call
The FT reported last week that Danone’s decision to pull its beauty yoghurt Essensis from French retail shelves due to withering sales amplified by the economic slow-down.
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Danone's Faces Health Test
Danone has shed its conglomerate image but there are concerns that its streamlined shape may not be best-suited to a leaner economic environment.
Franck Riboud has spent the past five years so radically reshaping Danone, the French food company of which he is chairman and chief executive, that employees refer to it as the "new Danone".
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Another Supermarket Enters Price War
Morrisons slashes prices on 4,000 products
Wm Morrison is to cut prices on 4,000 products, trumping similar cuts by Asda and Tesco and intensifying the price war among Britain’s big supermarkets.
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Paul Moody CEO Britvic Exposed
And the business side
Paul Moody is going to see rock legends AC/DC in April.
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P&G To Sell Or Not To Sell That is The Debate
Not the best time to divest
Procter & Gamble’s decision to seek buyers for its pharmaceuticals business is prompting some dealmakers to suggest the company may be cooling its focus on selling certain well-known consumer products brands.
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Sustainability Remains At Core Of Tesco Strategy
Tesco has found that developing the business to be more sustainable has actually reduced the cost of running the business
Although the focus for many consumers has shifted to seeking out cheaper prices in today's tough economy, the issue of sustainability remains at the forefront of long-term strategic thinking for major retailers.
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Down The Aisle... Unilever Annual Profits Up 28%
Unilever, Danone, Drinking yoghurt , Glanbia, The Food Standards Agency, Bread, Food supplies for granted, Kraft Foods, Unilever, Snack makers, Christmas trading
Unilever has reported a turnover of GBP9.1bnfor the fourth quarter of 2008, an increase of 3% compared to GBP8.8bn in the corresponding quarter of 2007.
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Out To Launch... Walls Launch “Authenticity And Honesty”
Kerry Food’s, The First Touch Group, Magners, Aimia Foods, Premier Foods, Weight Watchers, GSK, Kraft Foods, Divine Chocolate, Kellogg's
Kerry Food’s has launched a range of pastry products under its new Wall’s branding emphasising “authenticity and honesty”.
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Supermarket News... Waitrose & Ocado Strike Deal
Waitrose and online retailer Ocado, Tesco and Asda, Tesco £126m payout, Tesco meal deal, Competition Commission's recommendations, Knife sales, The cleanliness of supermarkets, Tesco & Czech Re
Waitrose and online retailer Ocado have struck a deal that should enable the retailer to expand its delivery service outside of London.
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Drinks Bulletin... Coca-Cola Enterprises Closes Closes Water Plant
Coca-Cola Enterprises, Evian, Guinness, Diageo & United Spirits group, Diageo growth forecasts, M&K Acquisitions Godfrey's, Wells and Young's
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has announced it will be closing its Dasani mineral water production plant in Washington, Pennsylvania, as part of an efficiency drive in its operations.
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Sales & Marketing... Britvic Will Handle Marketing For Lipton Tea
Britvic, Plenty, Cadbury's Roses, Irn-Bru, Young's Seafood, Baileys Irish CreamNature Valley, Heinz, Cadbury's, Shloer
Britvic has acquired the rights to Lipton Ice Tea through a UK bottling agreement with Pepsi Lipton International and will handle marketing for the brand.
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Movers & Groovers... Former Co-Op Chief Is Next Today's MD
Today's Group, Netto UK , Starbucks, InBev, Coca-Cola Co, Tesco, Duchy organic food firm, Allied Bakeries
A candidate from the Co-operative sector has been appointed to one of the most high-profile jobs in the wholesale channel.
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First Time Brand Map
The Brandhouse Emotion 100™ report
The report, produced in conjunction with The Centre for Brand Analysis, is the result of an empirical study, conducted amongst a nationally-representative sample of 2000 UK consumers, of an issue that has, to date, been largely unexplored.
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CLICK AWAY
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Internet Retailing... Facebook How-To Guide: Create Business Pages And Ad Campaigns
Facebook page for their brands, Tesco Direct, Nestle Confections and Snacks
E-commerce Guide walks readers through setting up a Facebook page for their brands. The social-networking site offers the service for free and has pay-per-click advertising. Social networking site, Facebook, is used by more than 150 million people to share personal information with friends online.
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TRENDS
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In Beverage Industry, Sustainability Sells
When it comes to our drinks, green isn't just for tea anymore.
The beverage industry is cutting fuel and water consumption and boosting recycling, and the changes are being rewarded. Lessons to share: Design products around sustainability; think systemically; and align branding with beliefs.
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