http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz en-nz Supermarket News 30 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/403104 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. 005, 2 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/403104 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/403114 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”. 005, 2 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/403114 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/403113 005, 2 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/403113 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/403107 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. 005, 2 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/403107 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/403105 THE Wooten family have sold the old established animal health and accessories company, MasterPet Corporation, to Ebos Group Ltd. 005, 2 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/403105 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/401060 PROGRESSIVE’S annual Countdown golf day is scheduled for Friday, February 17 at Auckland’s Titirangi Golf Club. 003, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/401060 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/401059 WOOLWORTHS in Australia is considering spinning off its property portfolio estimated at $A8.6billion as it opens new supermarkets and home improvement centres . . . 003, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/401059 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/401062 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. . . 003, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/401062 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/401061 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. . . 003, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/401061 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/401057 THE long established Blenheim confectionery maker, Sollys Lollies has recently been restructured and come under the majority ownership . . . 003, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/401057 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/396839 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. 052, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/396839 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/396841 The Food & Grocery Council says Cottonsoft and a number of other FGC members . . . 052, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/396841 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/396837 PROGRESSIVE and Foodstuffs have been told by the Advertising Standards Authority to get their act together and resolve their mutual complaints over comparative advertising. 052, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/396837 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/396842 NEW Zealand’s grocery manufacturers have made significant progress in the reformulation of foods over the last five years so they can offer . . . 052, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/396842 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/391769 SCHWARZKOPF is the most trusted shampoo and conditioner brand in the country, according to the recently published Reader’s Digest poll. 047, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/391769 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/391770 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. 047, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/391770 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/391771 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). 047, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/391771 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/391765 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. 047, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/391765 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/391766 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. 047, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/391766 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/391767 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. 047, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/391767 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/391768 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. 047, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/391768 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386031 THE mid-December re-opening of New World Kaiapoi after a $12m refurb and extension has attracted 043, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386031 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386030 FOODSTUFFS HAS decided to change the format for its annual Expo after some 12 years since it’s been held. 043, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386030 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386029 043, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386029 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386028 RETIRING Green Party MP Sue Kedgley is continuing to claim that supermarkets are routinely putting substantial mark-ups of 100 to 043, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386028 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386032 043, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386032 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386027 PROGRESSIVE Enterprises has been named supreme winner of the 2011 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards after the judges said 043, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386027 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386040 RECKITT Benckiser last year donated $100,000 to Plunket and are on track to do the same this year through a Dettol brand promotion. It is again giving a dollar to Plunket for every baby born and registered on the Dettol website, plus sample boxes for mothers. 043, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386040 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386041 THE Wesfarmers owned Coles is testing a new scheme that allows customers to shop online and pick up their groceries at service stations. Using Shell outlets, the plan called Click & Collect is being trialled in Victoria and it may be expanded to Shell’s full national network of service stations. 043, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386041 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386043 IT’S always a surprise when you are overseas to see something from home. Well I struck one of those at the SIAL expo 043, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386043 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386042 SARA LEE’S frozen desserts business in Australia may soon have a new owner. The US company is said to be reviewing this business 043, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386042 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386046 THE gluten free market is a growing segment in New Zealand driven by both increased diagnosis of coeliac disease 043, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386046 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386038 A sugar free, fat free and high fibre gum that started out in pharmacy has now gone into grocery. 043, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386038 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386037 TIP TOP have big plans for summer following the launch last month of their Creamy Yoghurt range of ice creams in three flavours – Blueberry, Apricot and Luscious Lemon. National sampling is under way this month and next. The new lines bolster the Strawberry and Passionfruit lines already on the market and the 97% fat free concept is proving particularly appealing. 043, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386037 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386035 REGISTRATIONS are now open for the Food & Grocery Council’s annual conference at Wellington’s Intercontinental Hotel from November 2-4. This is the first time for many years that the conference has been held on-shore and a strong programme has been organized. More information is on the FGC website http:/www.fgc.org.nz/conference.asp 043, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386035 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386034 THE Grocery Charity Ball trustees are looking for a charity beneficiary for next year. This year the ball raised over $200,000 for The Hearing House. Each year the trustees sift through dozens of applications for support and the amount raised over recent years has been staggering. Any organisations looking to put their name forward should contact Leanne Murphy on leanne@grocerycharityball.org or phone her on 027-221-2588 before mid October. 043, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386034 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386033 COREY Winder of Ashby’s Butchery in Christchurch took home the supreme award 043, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.supermarketnews.co.nz/webapps/i/91045/268405/386033