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  • WE all make mistakes and perhaps the original idea was really worthwhile, but     have you heard anyone from either Progs or Foodies bemoaning the fact   that between them they have lost over $100 million by investing in The   Warehouse shares. Those parcels of...
    25-02-2010
  • Independent Liquor is no longer a minor player in the premier league of brewers, writes John WintersWHILE THE majority of New Zealand’s food and beverage companies would  be regarded as very conventional in the way they conduct their businesses, there are a few considered more “off the wall”...
    25-02-2010
  • THE PRICE of liquor in Australia may be set for another change. The Australian Treasury is carrying out a review with a response expected next month. It’s been reported that it could put up the price of full-strength beer by 5% and  wine by 1%, but would leave the price of spirits unchanged and...
    25-02-2010
  • AFTER A gap of nine years, Kirin Brewery – owner of Lion Nathan – has  regained the top spot in the Japanese beer market for 2009 based onvolume sales and market share. The company says it ended the year with a 37.7% market share, but its volumes fell by 0.9%. It overtook Asahi Breweries, whose...
    25-02-2010
  • WEAKNESSES IN the United States and Europe have had a negative impact on Pernod Ricard, although emerging markets in Asia went some wayto offset  the weaknesses. It has reported a 3% fall in like-for-like sales for its fiscal half-year. These sales  improved in the second quarter, to a 2% fall...
    25-02-2010
  • MARTY HAMNETT, who led the integration of Progressive Enterprises with Woolworths Australia when the latter acquired it from Foodland Associated, is to retire.After overseeing the integration, Hamnett returned to Australia to be general  manager of supermarket operations. Hamnett says he will retire...
    25-02-2010
  • THERE’S ENGLISH Breakfast Tea and an Irish version, but there’s not a tea blend based on New Zealander’s preferred black tea taste. So during a visit to New Zealand just before Christmas, Stephen Twining, 10th generation of the founder of the Twining’s tea company, launched a competition to find...
    25-02-2010
  • SIAL France, one of the world's two biggest grocery shows, is scheduled again for October this year and the search in on in New Zealand for innovative  products to be put before judges from 29 countries this May.With only a few more weeks to go before the products have to be selected by the New...
    25-02-2010
  • THE UNITED KINGDOM has the world’s highest proportion of private label  penetration in the grocery market, Professor David Hughes told members of the New Zealand Food & Grocery Council at its annual conference in Surfers Paradise in November. Professor Hughes, who was speaking on the theme...
    25-02-2010
  • HUBBARD FOODS has a new shareholder - the Rotorua Energy Charitable   Trust. It is said to have taken a 35.6% stake because the Trust feels itstands   out as a local business the matches the Trust’s ethics, and provides a satisfactory  commercial return.Dick Hubbard says the...
    25-02-2010
  • SIMPLOT New Zealand’s John West brand has signed a new partnership with   the New Zealand Olympic Team to Vancouver, the New Zealand Olympic Committee and a broadcast partnership with SKY Network Television for the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.Starting on 12 February, the world’s best...
    25-02-2010
  • Viscount Plastics focuses not only on what the retailer might need in-store but also from the perspective of the supply chainITS PRODUCTS can be seen in supermarkets throughout the country in a  prominent but, as yet, relatively small way. Yet Viscount Plastics has very little profile outside the...
    25-02-2010
  • IN 2009, we learnt a lot about the fresh produce category. For the first time,  Nielsen released fresh produce purchasing data from Homescan*, its 2500 strong household panel, which has been operating for over 10 years and has been selected to demographically and regionally represent New Zealand.In...
    25-02-2010
  • OPENING JUST in time for the Christmas and summer holiday season was   Foodstuffs Auckland’s first brand new purpose-built standalone Four Square  store to open in what is believed to be some 10 to 20 years.The store is in Beachlands, a growing community in East Auckland some 20 minutes’...
    25-02-2010
  • Wanganui New World has received a prestigious award for its excellence in   providing a top customer experience and its owner-operator Brendon Joneshas  been judged the city’s best chief executive.A rigorous judging process saw the inaugural Management Excellence Award  bestowed...
    25-02-2010
  • PROGRESSIVE ENTERPRISES made a sharp loss for the year to June 2009, hurt by the fall in value of its stake in The Warehouse, Woolworths Australia has reported. Woolworths says there was a loss of $53.4 million after the $86m hit as a result of the fall in the value of The Warehouse Group.But revenue...
    25-02-2010
  • SELF-SERVICE checkouts have come to Progressive Enterprises’ stores.The first have gone into the new Countdown in Auckland’s Quay Street, which  used to be a Foodtown until converted last year.The success of this first installation will be assessed in early 2010 to determine the rollout to other...
    25-02-2010
  • PRODUCT images play an even more vital role in the day-to-day operation of New Zealand’s grocery industry than ever before. Whether its high-res images for newspapers or magazines or the supermarket  groups’ own flyers or whether it’s low-res images for websites or Planograms, product images...
    25-02-2010
  • TESCO HAS lost one of its highly-rated executives to French  supermarket/hypermarket group Carrefour.James McCann, former head of Tesco’s business in Hungary, had been tipped as a possible successor to Tesco CEO Sir Terry Leahy. Instead he will be running Carrefour’s French business and will...
    25-02-2010
  • JAM MAKING at Heinz Wattie’s Tomoana site in Hastings has increased with   the manufacture of the Cottees’ Rose’s and Monbulk branded jams and marmalades for the Australian and New Zealand markets.This substantial increase in Heinz Wattie’s jam production (40%) has meant  flow-on...
    25-02-2010

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