All The Grocer articles in 1 December 2007 – Page 4

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    Supermarkets admit milk price fix

    2007-12-07T08:54:00Z

    Asda, Sainsbury's and several leading dairy suppliers will be fined a total of £116m after admitting to price-fixing charges made by the Office of Fair Trading.As the two supermarkets, The Cheese Company and Robert Wiseman Dairies admitted...

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    Former Safeway boss to help M&S in China

    2007-12-07T09:08:00Z

    Marks & Spencer has enlisted the services of former Safeway chief executive Carlos Criado-Perez for its ambitious expansion plans for the Far East.The Times reports that the Argentinian has drawn up research notes on Taiwan for the high...

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    Reader survey - Competition Commission inquiry

    2007-12-07T10:05:00Z

    “Laughable”, “no grasp of reality” and “disastrous”. That is the opinion of Top 50 independents on the provisional findings of the Competition Commission's groceries inquiry. The commission provisionally found there was no evidence c-store...

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    Shop Profile - David Sands

    2007-12-07T10:10:00Z

    Store numbers: 24Staff: 530Turnover: £25mStart date: 1807Sales growth year-on-year: 25%Type of operation: c-store with extra services You won't hear David Sands muttering about the tough trading environment for the...