Nearly a third of Irish shoppers think they will spend more money on groceries next year, according to a survey for Checkout Magazine.

Fourteen Irish meat companies and one Irish dairy co-operative are among the 5,900 exhibitors from 100 countries in Paris this morning for the French food fair Sial.

SHOPPERS are stubbornly resistant to the power of marketing and instead prefer less fashionable names when grocery shopping, new figures show.