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Issue 43

FMCG News Update

Tesco row divides town

Another cola war brewing?

Spar hosts first ‘shop in a shop’

Fairtrade cakes on the increase

Diet boost for Leigh food firm

ABF combines Ryvita & Jordans to expand in the healthy eating market

Launch Space Beer

RETAIL

Down The Aisle... Warburtons open new bakery

Out To Launch... Haribo Sour Cherries fizzy fruit flavour gums

Supermarket News... Rise in business for Bestway's

Beverages... Anheuser-Busch hires Goldman Sachs, Citigroup in preparation for takeover bid

Up The High Street... Royal Bank of Scotland to sell 50% stake to Tesco

Green Room... ASDA's first advergame supports their new "People, Prices, Planet" campaign.

MARKETING

Sales & Marketing... Morrisons overhauling own brand strategy

Movers & Groovers... First Milk appoint new vice-chairman

TRENDS

Eco Iconic-eco-goods and services is about to enter a new phase

What you can buy for £25 - Crowd funding a microbrewery

This is pretty cool

Take a look at this great website from Hema ( a Dutch store owned by a British investment company Lion Capital) This company has a sense of humour and a great computer programmer.

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TEA BREAK

Shaken but not stirred spy game and chicken suprise

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Issue 43

19 May, 2012

FMCG News Update

Tesco row divides town
Fears of loss of local jobs and traffic chaos

The community in a historic Suffolk town has been divided by an extraordinary row over plans to build a Tesco supermarket.

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Another cola war brewing?
Carbonated Soft Drink Leaders

Red Bull’s entry heats up the flat category of carbonated soft drinks.

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Spar hosts first ‘shop in a shop’
Aim is to supplement Spar proprietary goods with Love the Flavour quality

A forecourt store in Devon has become the first in the county to open a franchised Love the Flavour branded ‘shop in a shop’ for Food & Drink Devon.

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Fairtrade cakes on the increase
Fairtrade products by 2012 worth £2bn

The Fairtrade Foundation wants the UK market for Fairtrade products to reach £2bn a year, four times the current level, by 2012, according its recent report Tipping the Balance.

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Diet boost for Leigh food firm
Awards reflect and reward the impressive achievements and innovations of the companies

A Leigh-based food manufacturer which has developed a new ‘diet’ cake mix has been short-listed in the prestigious Food Northwest Awards 2008.

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ABF combines Ryvita & Jordans to expand in the healthy eating market
ABF Foods agreed to buy a 20% stake in Jordans

Associated British Foods Plc. said it has agreed to merge its Ryvita crispbread and healthy snacks business with the family-run cereal business W Jordan & Son Ltd. (Jordans) to expand in the healthy eating market.

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Launch Space Beer
Made from out of this world barely

Sapporo Holdings says that it is developing a new beer derived from the offspring of barley that has previously been stored on the International Space Station, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news service reported earlier this week.

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RETAIL

Down The Aisle... Warburtons open new bakery
Warburtons, Global food production, Food prices, Tobacco companies, HJ Heinz, The World Gastroenterology Organisation, The cost of an average shopping basket, R&R Ice Cream

Warburtons, has announced a new Bakery in the South West of England as part of the company's national expansion programme.

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Out To Launch... Haribo Sour Cherries fizzy fruit flavour gums
Haribo, Pernod Ricard, The Famous Grouse, Scottish & Newcastle, Diageo, ZGM

Haribo has responded to a consumer campaign urging Britain's No1 Gums & Jellies manufacturer to make the sour cherries found in Haribo's Tangfastics mix available as a separate bag line.

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Supermarket News... Rise in business for Bestway's
Bestway's, Morrisons, Tesco & Marie Curie Cancer Care, Waitrose, Morrisons own-label, Tesco telecommunications, Morrisons property portfolio, Asda value-clothing et, Aldi

Bestway's UK grocery wholesaling business rose 6.6% in the year to reach £1,369m.

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Beverages... Anheuser-Busch hires Goldman Sachs, Citigroup in preparation for takeover bid
Anheuser-Busch, Irish food and drinks sector, Constellation Europe, Indage, Heineken NV's, Carlsberg, Coca-Cola Enterprises

Anheuser-Busch has hired financial advisers Goldman Sachs and Citigroup in preparation for a potential £23bn takeover bid by Belgian brewer InBev, according to media reports. Big brewers searching for a brand old time, says analyst

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Up The High Street... Royal Bank of Scotland to sell 50% stake to Tesco
Royal Bank of Scotland & Tesco, Online retail, Amazon UK, BP & Wild Bean Café, John Lewis, Rossiter's

The cash-strapped Royal Bank of Scotland has decided to sell its 50% stake in Tesco Personal Finance, a joint venture between the bank and Tesco, to its joint venture partner Tesco.

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Green Room... ASDA's first advergame supports their new "People, Prices, Planet" campaign.
Asda, The 2008 ImagePower Green Brands survey, Adnams, Unilever & palm oil, Marks & Spencer, County food retailers, Retailers, The Irish food industry

Asda is urging consumers to take recycling seriously with the launch of its first online viral game, starring the character Landfill Bill.

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MARKETING

Sales & Marketing... Morrisons overhauling own brand strategy
Morrisons, Cadbury’s, PepsiCo and Britvic Superdrug, Scottish & Newcastle, Guinness and Bushmills, Pot Noodle, Kraft Foods, Doritos

Morrisons is overhauling its own-brand offering in a bid to emulate the success of Tesco's 'good, better, best' strategy.

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Movers & Groovers... First Milk appoint new vice-chairman
First Milk, Tesco Clubcard, Ideal Shopping Direct, M&S, Barclays, Pepsi, Asda & Debenhams, Marks & Spencer, Sara Lee

Robert Shearlaw has been appointed vice-chairman of First Milk, the farmer-owned business with over 2,500 members in Scotland, England and Wales.

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TRENDS

Eco Iconic-eco-goods and services is about to enter a new phase
Recognition from peers that you are green

What could possibly be added to the heaps of eco-documentaries, carbon emission studies, corporate greening initiatives, and Earth Day activities now dedicated to one of the world's biggest tasks at hand.

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What you can buy for £25 - Crowd funding a microbrewery
Community for beer lovers to share their ideas

A UK-based company has come up with the concept of crowd funding a microbrewery. The idea that people can come together in a community based format and create a company.

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