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New World is just right size for Churton Park
WELLINGTON residents must have felt like Goldilocks as they entered their new 1,900 square metre Churton Park supermarket that owner-operator Bruce McLauchlan describes as “not too big, not too small, but just the right size”.
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Thursday 2 February 2012
Industry Support for Food Bill Despite Extreme Views
OVER the last couple of months there has been a flurry of concerns expressed about the Food Bill, which is currently before Parliament and awaiting its Second Reading.
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Thursday 2 February 2012
MASTERPET SOLD TO EBOS
THE Wooten family have sold the old established animal health and accessories company, MasterPet Corporation, to Ebos Group Ltd.
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Thursday 2 February 2012
$29M Investment In Christchurch By Coca-Cola
IN a major show of support for Christchurch, Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand has installed a new $15m high tech bottling line, a further $9 in infrastructure repairs following the devastating earthquake, and another $5m on its new distribution centre.
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Thursday 2 February 2012
Senior roles at Foodstuffs
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Thursday 2 February 2012
Fresh Strength For Blenheim’s Sollys Lollies
THE long established Blenheim confectionery maker, Sollys Lollies has recently been restructured and come under the majority ownership . . .
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Thursday 19 January 2012
PEL GOLF DAY
PROGRESSIVE’S annual Countdown golf day is scheduled for Friday, February 17 at Auckland’s Titirangi Golf Club.
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Thursday 19 January 2012
New $22m Countdown Market For Dargaville
EARLY IN 2013 Dargaville will see the opening of a brand new Countdown in a $22 million investment which will include buying the land, construction and fit-out. . .
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Thursday 19 January 2012
An End To Daily Bread
WOOLWORTHS is not happy with Goodman Fielder saying that it’s considering stopping deliveries of fresh bread every day to Australian supermarkets in a move to lower costs. . .
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Thursday 19 January 2012
WOOLWORTHS MAY SELL OFF PROPERTIES
WOOLWORTHS in Australia is considering spinning off its property portfolio estimated at $A8.6billion as it opens new supermarkets and home improvement centres . . .
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Thursday 19 January 2012
INDUSTRY TOLD TO SELF-REGULATE ON PROMOTIONS
PROGRESSIVE and Foodstuffs have been told by the Advertising Standards Authority to get their act together and resolve their mutual complaints over comparative advertising.
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Monday 19 December 2011
COTTONSOFT A SCAPEGOAT
The Food & Grocery Council says Cottonsoft and a number of other FGC members . . .
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Monday 19 December 2011
FOOD INDUSTRY REFORMULATING FOR HEALTH
NEW Zealand’s grocery manufacturers have made significant progress in the reformulation of foods over the last five years so they can offer . . .
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Monday 19 December 2011
NON COMPLIANT JUICE PRODUCTS IGNORED
THE juice and beverage industry is frustrated at its lack of success in getting agencies of government to put as much resource into ridding our shelves of non-compliant imported product as they do in spotlighting local producers.
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Monday 19 December 2011
Schwarzkopf Tops Digest Trusted Brands
SCHWARZKOPF is the most trusted shampoo and conditioner brand in the country, according to the recently published Reader’s Digest poll.
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Friday 18 November 2011
ASHBY’S Cleans up at Sausage Awards
CHRISTCHURCH’S Ashby’s Butchery has beaten 470 entrants to claim both the supreme award and people’s choice at this year’s Devro Sausage Competition with their Italian Casalinga pork banger.
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Friday 18 November 2011
ADVERTISING STANDARDS COMPLAINTS DISMISSED
The industry’s ongoing battle with sometimes eccentric vigilantes, all of whom have the right to complain, are a constant before the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
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Friday 18 November 2011
NOSH LOCKS INTO A WAITROSE FUTURE
THE six outlet Nosh chain has moved into an exclusive and formal partnership with upmarket UK grocery chain Waitrose although not a financial relationship at this stage.
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Friday 18 November 2011
Retailers In “State Of The Nation” Addresses
GROCERY suppliers picked up the latest retail developments from Progressive and Foodstuffs at this month’s annual conference of the Food & Grocery Council with both organizations promising closer relationships with the industry.
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Friday 18 November 2011
Top Line-up of speakers at the FGC
WITH around 240 delegates plus the occasional partner or wife, the 2011 annual conference of the Food & Grocery Council this month was amongst the biggest ever held – of course it was on-shore this time in Wellington, the first here in New Zealand for some time.
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Friday 18 November 2011
Auckland gets its first FreshChoice
COMPLETELY NEW to Auckland and only the second to open in the North Island is the FreshChoice which started trading in Glen Eden for the first time on 13 October.
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Friday 18 November 2011