Issue 8   TOP STORY & ANALYSIS Go Against The Grain Or Follow The Crowd ? FMCG NEWS UPDATE Cadbury's Profits Up As Gum Takes Strain Tesco's International Sourcing Thorntons Goes Cost Cutting Consumers Say NO! Healthy Drinks Dominate Dairy Sector Down The Aisle... Kerry Sees More Growth Out To Launch... Linda McCartney Has New Image Supermarket News... Waitrose Wins Drinks Bulletin... Named and Shamed RETAIL Up The High Street... Wake Up To Wholegrain- Shop Green Room... Nestle Cuts Plastic Packaging MARKETING Sales & Marketing... Prince Charles's Duchy Reband Movers & Groovers... Britvic Appoints Customer Management Director Is The Virgin Way The Way Of "Insanity"? CLICK AWAY Internet Retailing... 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Stated share figures and forecasts (and sometimes no forecasts !) from the likes of Unilever, Kraft and P&G contrast with the those from the likes of Reckitt Benckiser and Nestle.    [FULL STORY]   FMCG NEWS UPDATE Cadbury's Profits Up As Gum Takes Strain Last year it announced increases of about between 6 and 8 per cent Gum chewing by nerve-racked consumers in the downturn helped Cadbury, the confectionery giant, to a 30% rise in profits.    [FULL STORY]   Tesco's International Sourcing The machine behind the machine Every day about 200 20ft containers full of clothing, TV sets, barbecues and shopping trolleys are winched on to cargo boats and shipped out of Kwai Chung Container Port - better known as the Port of Hong Kong - and other nearby harbours, all bound for Tesco stores around the world.    [FULL STORY]   Thorntons Goes Cost Cutting Options implemented Thorntons is exploring ways of clawing back some of its operational costs, after the confectioner saw its pre-tax profit fall 39% to £7.3M for the 28 weeks ended January 10, 2009.   [FULL STORY]   Consumers Say NO! General Mills and Dannon – to reformulate their dairy product lines Consumer concerns about a synthetic growth hormone used in milk production have prompted two leading food producers in the United States.   [FULL STORY]   Healthy Drinks Dominate Dairy Sector Growing emphasis on health in society as obesity becomes a global problem Dairy drinks promoted with a health benefit in tow now account for more than 70% of global launches.   [FULL STORY]   Down The Aisle... Kerry Sees More Growth Kerry Group, H.J. Heinz Co, L'Oreal, Health scares, Associated British Foods, Nestlé Irish food company Kerry Group has posted a 7% rise in 2008 earnings and said it expected more growth by adapting its range of ingredients and flavours to suit budget-conscious consumers.   [FULL STORY]   Out To Launch... Linda McCartney Has New Image Linda McCartney, Essential’s, Britvic, L'Oreal, Warburtons, Asda, PepsiCo Linda McCartney has refreshed it image with the launch of a new range of  contemporary dishes. All the new dishes are ‘free from’ artificial colours, flavours and preservatives, as well as being a good source of fibre and protein necessary to maintain a healthy diet.   [FULL STORY]   Supermarket News... Waitrose Wins Waitrose, Sainsbury's, Dansk Supermarked,Tesco's US operations, Asda and Tesco mortgages, Mills Group, Asda, Tesco, Waitrose Waitrose emerged as the winner in a poll by BBC consumer programme Watchdog to find the UK’s favourite supermarket.   [FULL STORY]   Drinks Bulletin... Named and Shamed Diageo and Anheuser-Busch InBev, Wine & Spirit Trade Association Beer sales, Britvic, Arniston Bay, Coca-Cola's Sprite, C&C Group, Pepsi, Heineken Suppliers of major drinks brands such as Smirnoff and Budweiser have hit back at claims that they are neglecting and, in some cases, endangering small businesses by extending payment times across their supply chains.   [FULL STORY]   RETAIL Up The High Street... Wake Up To Wholegrain- Shop Kingsmill, CBI, imark, Vatcut, Vodafone, The LEGO Group To drive awareness of its ‘Wake up to Wholegrain’ Breakfast campaign, family bread brand Kingsmill has taken the unique step of creating ‘The Kingsmill Breakfast Kitchen’, a temporary café on Little Portland Street in Central London.     [FULL STORY]   Green Room... Nestle Cuts Plastic Packaging 700 tonnes less waste being sent to landfill Nestle has removed plastic packaging from around 80 per cent of its shell Easter eggs in a move to further its green credentials.   [FULL STORY]   MARKETING Sales & Marketing... Prince Charles's Duchy Reband Duchy Originals, Flora,Tropicana, Burton Food’s, Rimmel, AB Duchy Originals, the organic food producer founded by Prince Charles, is to undergo its first rebrand since its launch almost two decades ago.   [FULL STORY]   Movers & Groovers... Britvic Appoints Customer Management Director Britvic, Unilever, Icelandic Water Holdings, Nestlé, National Farmers’ Union, C&C Group, Kerry Foods, South West Food & Drink, British Retail Consortium  UK soft drinks company Britvic has appointed Murray Harris as its customer management director. Harris, who will also join the company's executive committee, has 15 years experience working for Britvic in a number of roles across customer management, most recently as business unit director for take-home grocery.   [FULL STORY]   Is The Virgin Way The Way Of "Insanity"? From flying across the Atlantic in a hot air balloon, to taking on Coca-Cola, some of Richard Branson’s decisions might come across as "counter-intuitive," says Seth Godin.   [FULL STORY]   CLICK AWAY Internet Retailing... Sainsbury's Website Down Again Sainsbury's website, Moneysupemarket.com, British Retail Consortium and British Property Federation, MyWaitrose Sainsbury's is to take down its groceries website down for "routine maintenance" work for more than two days from next Friday, in a move that could cost it more than £1m of lost revenue and hit its reputation among customers. Follows an earlier glitch in June 2008, when Sainsbury's grocery website was unavailable for about four days.     [FULL STORY]   TRENDS Consumer-Centricity A Key To Retail Success: Study Most retailers (75%) and consumer products manufacturers (58%) rank consumer centricity as a top 3 success factor Consumer centricity is among the key factors of success in retail, according to a new study measuring how retailers and consumer products manufacturers use consumer-centric data and analysis to drive their businesses. [FULL STORY]   Published by diane@emailgatherers.co.uk - FMCGenews Copyright © 2009 FMCG. All rights reserved.

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