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Is Christmas cancelled ?: Far from it

FMCG News Update
Sainsbury's Shows How It Should Be Done
Danone's Sales Slow In Emerging Markets
Kellogg's Challenges Agressive Own Label Marketing
Waitrose and Ocado to compete on deliveries
Linda McCartney Foods Announces New Products Launches
Tesco Begins Appeal Against 'Competition Test' For Planning Approval

RETAIL
Down The Aisle... Milk Prices Sour Dairy Crest Outlook
Out To Launch... Porkinson Launch New Varient
Supermarket News... Aldi To Sell Holidays
Beverage News... Coca Cola Aquires News Brand
Green Room... Exchnage Your Old Mobile Phone On Line
Up The High Street... Starbucks Down 97% On Pretax Profit

MARKETING
Sales & Marketing... Sainsbury's New Christmas Campaign
Movers & Groovers... C&C Appoint New CEO
Stormhoek Reappoints Hugh MacLeod & Launches Global Marketing Campaign

TRENDS
The Industry Copes As Times Change

TEA BREAK

And So The Christmas Season begins and why Santa uses his Sleigh

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Save the Planet Or Avoid The Credit Crunch?

One company is showing how you don’t have to choose.
 

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South African Desert Diet
Hoodia Cactus
Hoodia is a cactus that grows in the South African desert and long before A-list celebrities were taking Hoodia. Bushmen living in the South African Desert were already using the plant for years.

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Issue 66   19 May, 2012

Is Christmas cancelled ?: Far from it
by By Andrew Tharme, Joint Managing Director, The Oxford Research Agency

With 6 weeks to go until Christmas, one question on everybody’s lips is: “Will Christmas be cancelled this year” ? The doom-mongers may be congratulating themselves about predicting an economic downturn over the last year but they won’t be able to take away our Christmas. With a figure of the magnitude of £30bn being predicted to be spent this year, a Christmas non-event couldn’t be further from the truth. 
 


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FMCG News Update
Sainsbury's Shows How It Should Be Done
Quality food at good prices

Sainsbury posted first-half profit towards the top end of forecasts as it lured cash-strapped shoppers away from upmarket rivals with promotions and a big push in own-brand goods.

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Danone's Sales Slow In Emerging Markets
Analysts are also worried that people will "trade down" from Danone's yoghurts, bottled water and baby food to cheaper ownlabel products.

Danone, the owner of Actimel yoghurts and Evian water, has warned growth was slowing in emerging markets and cut its 2009 sales targets. Danone is the first multinational food company to express concern that slowing emerging-market sales may hurt top-line growth.

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Kellogg's Challenges Agressive Own Label Marketing
Highlights the value of the branded cereal category

Kellogg's is not going to sit back and not challenge the own label marketing by the major multiples, including Sainsbury's 'Switch & Save' campaign.
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Waitrose and Ocado to compete on deliveries
No love loss between companies

Ocado had £68m of backing from John Lewis when it started up

The John Lewis group has handed its stake in the Ocado home delivery business to its pension fund, enabling the two businesses to compete head to head.


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Linda McCartney Foods Announces New Products Launches
Sales Increase

As meat prices soar and food bills increase, Linda McCartney Foods is leading the way with accessible meat free frozen foods as one of the fastest growing brands in the UK. The pioneering range has increased its sales by a staggering 20% YOY and is looking to increase this figure further with the launch of brand new products to the range.


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Tesco Begins Appeal Against 'Competition Test' For Planning Approval
Planning decisions in the hands of regulators instead of local authorities and lead to unnecessary delays.

Tesco will tomorrow begin a legal challenge to new planning rules that would prevent it opening stories in towns and cities where it already has a dominant share of the market.
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RETAIL
Down The Aisle... Milk Prices Sour Dairy Crest Outlook
Dairy Crest, Cadbury's, Emmi, Northern Foods, The Topping Pie Company, Rachel’s Organic, Salmon

Shares in Dairy Crest fell by more than a quarter after the maker of Cathedral City cheese and Country Life butter issued a profit warning because of surging prices in the raw milk markets and a weakening consumer outlook.

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Out To Launch... Porkinson Launch New Varient
Porkinson, Nespresso, Clover. Uncle Ben's, Bushmills Irish Whiskey, Carling, CIRIO’s, Bottlegreen Drinks Co

For the first time in 20 years, Porkinson – the iconic sausage invented by photographer Norman Parkinson – has introduced a new variant to its gourmet range.

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Supermarket News... Aldi To Sell Holidays
Aldi, Sainsbury's losing its grip, Sainsbury's & 2012 Olympic Games, Tesco's, Asda & Dunnes Stores, Asda, Tesco & kitchens

Aldi may soon also be loading up on bargain city-breaks along with the weekly groceries.
 

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Beverage News... Coca Cola Aquires News Brand
Abbey Well, Wold Top Bitter, Chablis 2008 vintage, Glengoyne’s, Inbev

Coca-Cola Great Britain has acquired Waters & Robson, the owner of the Abbey Well water brand.

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Green Room... Exchnage Your Old Mobile Phone On Line
Used mobile phones, GreenBottle, Disposable plastic carrier bag levy

Online shoppers can exchange their used mobile phones for a range of exciting and desirable rewards at WWW.COOLAFONE.COM, a new mobile phone trade-in website for eco-conscious consumers who still want an uplifting experience in the economic downturn.

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Up The High Street... Starbucks Down 97% On Pretax Profit
Starbucks, Vodafone £1bn cost cutting drive, Woolworths, Vodafone, Free case study Building a Seamless Retail System

Starbucks has reported that pre-tax profits have plummeted by 97% over its fourth quarter due to the consumer slowdown.

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INTERNET RETAILING
ABF's Pataks Brand Launch Video Recipes On Youtube
Be inspired by fourteen new cookery videos to help you create authentic, delicious meals at home. Wigan-based communications agency, Parker Sandford, has created 14 recipe videos for Pataks, part of Associated British Foods.

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Craigslist Founder To Speak On Value Of Social Media To The Grocery Industry
Newmark created the online, non-commercial community bulletin board of classified advertisements and discussion boards in 1995

Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, will discuss the value of social media to the grocery industry during the closing session of The Food Marketing Institute's Future Connect Leadership Conference, which will be held May 4 to 6, 2009 in Dallas.

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Finding Wealth In The Field
Next-generation software solutions for retail execution:Business case and bottom-line benefit

This White Paper, prepared by O4 Corporation, illustrates how Consumer Products companies around the world are quantifying the benefits of implementing an advanced mobile retail execution solution for field sales, marketing, merchandising and direct store delivery operations.

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MARKETING
Sales & Marketing... Sainsbury's New Christmas Campaign
Sainsbury's, The Co-operative, Jacob's Creek, Cadbury, Johnnie Walker

Sainsbury's has recruited Ant and Dec to spice up its Christmas ad campaign.
 

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Movers & Groovers... C&C Appoint New CEO
C&C Group, Miller Brands UK, Orange, Waitrose

C&C Group, the drinks company behind Magners cider, has appointed former Scottish & Newcastle boss John Dunsmore as its new chief executive.
 

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Stormhoek Reappoints Hugh MacLeod & Launches Global Marketing Campaign
The campaign will revolve around the "What For?"

In 2001, a wine brand was launched that would change the “online wine world” forever.  In 2003, Stormhoek and Hugh Macleod – one of the world’s most respected marketing strategists and cartoonists – started a new conversation about wine, using technology that was alien to most. 

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TRENDS
The Industry Copes As Times Change
Supermarkets that have cut costs, improved quality and lowered prices over the last decade

Supermarkets are breaking away from decades-old business models to offer cash-strapped consumers lower prices without sacrificing quality. This article talks about business, the market, technology and the future of the industry.

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