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In NPD, More Is More

FMCG NEWS UPDATE

Supermarket Labelling Misleading

Co-Op CEO Targets Big Four

Divine Chocolate MD Honoured In New Year's List

Nestle's Mantra Remains Onwards And Upwards

Food Factories To Close

Down The Aisle... Birds Eye's Profits Up

Out To Launch... Wosits New Flavour

Supermarket News... Every Little Bit Helps- Tesco's Price Cuts

Beverage Bulletin... GlenDronach Distillery Defies Economic Downturn

Healthy New Year!

RETAIL

Up The High Street... M&S To Close Stores

Green Room... Reckitt Benckiser Launches Major Carbon Initiative

MARKETING

Sales & Marketing... Brains Need Water From Britvic

Movers & Groovers... New Marketing Director For Whyte & Mackay

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Internet Retailing... John Lewis Traffic Was Up 12 Times

TRENDS

Consumer Trends For 2009

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We have smirnoff , why Siamease twins came to the UK and why why why ??

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19 May, 2012

In NPD, More Is More
Less is Less

2009 will be an exciting year for food and drink, as new opportunities for better products and ideas present themselves. With pressure on budgets, different NPD strategies are being considered.

New research from The Oxford Research Agency shows that care and consideration needs to be taken in the NPD approach you follow. In NPD, Less is Less, and More is More.

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FMCG NEWS UPDATE

Supermarket Labelling Misleading
Its a moo of a scandal

A report compiled by the BBC claims that significant amounts of beef sold in British supermarkets as "Local Beef" is in reality, beef from Argentina and Brazil.

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Co-Op CEO Targets Big Four
Co-Op will be on the back of the big four

Peter Marks, chief executive of the Co-op will certainly make his business the one to watch in 2009.

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Divine Chocolate MD Honoured In New Year's List
Sophi Tranchell started Divine Chocolates in 1999

Sophi Tranchell, Managing Director of the leading Fairtrade chocolate company, Divine Chocolate Ltd, has been awarded an MBE in the Prime Minister’s New Year’s Honours List for service to the food industry.

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Nestle's Mantra Remains Onwards And Upwards
Nestlé - that of a relentlessly, ruthlessly, unapologetically boring company - is wide of the mark

The world is changing, the world's biggest food company appears Nestle,even now, seems to be recession-proof.

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Food Factories To Close
These are challenging times for the food industry

A leading food manufacturer is to make savings at three factories which could lead to the loss of 400 jobs.

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Down The Aisle... Birds Eye's Profits Up
Birds Eye Iglo, Heinz Snap Pots, Tate & Lyle, Labelling, Arla & First Milk, The cost of fresh fruit and vegetables, Frutarom, Regulate the food industry Tapas in a Box

Birds Eye Iglo has emerged from 2008 as one of the few consumer-facing companies to benefit from the flight to frugality by anxious Britons, with sales and profits up for the year.

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Out To Launch... Wosits New Flavour
Walkers, Nestlé, Rachel’s Organic, Bacheldre Watermill, Antony Worrall Thompson Organic soups

Walkers, the UK's No. 1 crisps and snack manufacturer, is adding a second flavour to their popular Wotsits brand.

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Supermarket News... Every Little Bit Helps- Tesco's Price Cuts
Tesco, The Co-operative Group, Tesco, Sainsbury's Asda strong Christmas, Waitrose, Asda

Tesco has announced it will invest £100m in permanent price cuts and promotions on over 3,000 staple products, building on an investment of £100m already announced in the period between Christmas and New Year.

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Beverage Bulletin... GlenDronach Distillery Defies Economic Downturn
The GlenDronach distillery, Coors, Burslem brewer, Inbev UK, The Famous Grouse, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo

One of Scotland's oldest distilleries is defying the economic downturn by starting work on a £250,000 development of its "sleeping giant" malt whisky brand.

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Healthy New Year!
New research commissioned by Uncle Ben’s

Healthy eating is the number one New Year’s resolution for 2009. Brits are becoming increasingly conscious about the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle with nearly 8 in 10 (77%) planning to eat more healthily in the New Year, new research commissioned by Uncle Ben’s released has reveals.

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RETAIL

Up The High Street... M&S To Close Stores
Marks & Spencer, Next & Debenhams , Barclays, John Lewis, 9.7% fewer shoppers, Interest rates Starbucks Corp., Published data on the high street trading

Marks and Spencer plans to close 25 of its small Simply Food stores and another two of its normal stores.

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Green Room... Reckitt Benckiser Launches Major Carbon Initiative
The campaign comes after research by the company

Household goods company Reckitt Benckiser is launching a global initiative aimed at helping consumers to cut the carbon footprint of the products they use. The Our Home Our Planet drive will launch in Europe this month.

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MARKETING

Sales & Marketing... Brains Need Water From Britvic
Britvic, Robert Wiseman Dairies, Muller Corners, Comfort Naturals range, Constellation Europe, Change4Life, Diageo's, Walkers, GlaxoSmithKline,Kellogg

Britvic has announced ‘breakdancing Brains’ will be back in action on behalf of spring water brand drench to highlight the perils of post-Christmas dehydration.

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Movers & Groovers... New Marketing Director For Whyte & Mackay
Whyte & Mackay, Britvic, Tyson Foods, Divine Chocolate, JJB

Whyte & Mackay has hired Nick Garland to the role of global sales and marketing director.

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CLICK AWAY

Internet Retailing... John Lewis Traffic Was Up 12 Times
Christmas and New Year sales, Ocado, Comparethemarket.com .Play.com

As we move into the start of 2009, it's worth taking a quick look back over the Christmas and New Year sales period to see beyond the pre-Xmas predictions and find out just what consumers actually did buy online this holiday season.

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TRENDS

Consumer Trends For 2009
You are in control

First Mars claimed heart-health benefits from the flavanols in chocolate. Now Mars takes its Dove line into new territory by adding “skin-nourishing vitamins.”

With the economy affecting shopping, consumers grapple with prices and desires.

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