All The Grocer articles in 20 December 2014 – Page 7
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Analysis & Features
Is the budget end of the grocery market slowing down?
A lot has been made of the “free ride” the mainstream supermarkets have given the discounters over recent months, but today’s Kantar Worldpanel data seems to point to tougher conditions at the value end of the market.
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Comment & Opinion
Will Iceland’s milk price move leave other retailers out in the cold?
Iceland has delivered an early Christmas present to dairy farmers – announcing the price it pays milk processors for their milk..
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News
Portas and MPs attack local authority action on high streets
The efforts of both national and local government to tackle the problems of town centres has come under strong attack from MPs and the former high street tsar today. The Communities and Local Government Select Committee claimed the National Planning Policy Framework was being mishandled by councils, with local planning ...
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News
Russian troubles hit Metro's full-year figures
Christmas trading is picking up for retailing giant Metro Group after a slow start for its food and textile business in Germany, with Metro Cash and Carry and Media-Saturn showing record year-on-year growth in December.
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News
Each of the big four supermarkets sees market share declines
The UK grocery market has returned to marginal growth as sales picked up driven by pre-Christmas price discounts, according to the latest grocery share figures from Kantar Worldpanel.
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News
Spar's Shop & Win campaign to return in January
Spar will add a new twist to its Shop & Win mobile promotional campaign early next year in nearly 2,000 UK stores because of the mechanism’s “phenomenal success” in August.
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News
Support grows for tax on sugary drinks
Health advisers for Mayor of London Boris Johnson have swung their weight behind calls for a tax on sugary drinks, after new figures claimed the introduction could save London boroughs alone nearly £40m in costs to the NHS.
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News
Iceland to directly link price it pays for milk with farmgate prices
Iceland is to link the price it pays processors for milk directly to farmgate prices.
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Analysis & Features
Pastygate seems a long time ago for booming Greggs
As turnaround years go, they rarely come much better than 2014 has proved for Greggs.
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News
Campaign calls for 2% duty cut on wine and spirits
Chancellor George Osborne is being urged to cut duty on wine and spirits by 2%, with a campaign claiming it would remove an unfair tax burden of British drinkers and give a £1.5bn boost to the public finances in 2015.
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News
Community Shop opens social supermarket in south London
A group of leading supermarkets this week began selling their food at 70% discounts to feed the poor, in an initiative which could become a new model for tackling hunger across the UK
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News
Londis to invest £2.3m in store development in 2015
Londis has invested £1m in retailer store developments in the past six months, the symbol group has revealed.
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News
Greggs raises profit forecast thanks to new product range
Greggs has upped profit expectations for the year as customers responded to the baker’s new coffee blend and healthier sandwich range.
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News
Biscuits: McVitie's up 5% but biscuit and cereal bar sales crumble
What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, breakfast was the most important meal of the day for biscuits in terms …
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Analysis & Features
Soft drinks: war on sugar sours juice sector sales
If you’re looking for a casualty from the war on sugar, you’ve found it. While carbonates, energy drinks and sweets escaped relatively lightly, juices & smoothies have been hammered. Value has slumped £69.4m (3.5%) on volumes down 6.5%, with own label’s long-term decline gathering pace to nearly double the rate ...
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Analysis & Features
Top launch: Super Smoothies by Innocent
Innocent has big ambitions for the functional fruit & veg drinks it launched in March – setting out a two-year sales target of £30m. There’s no denying Super Smoothies is a compelling proposition – combining the strength of the Innocent brand with good-looking products featuring fruit, vitamins and ingredients ...
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Analysis & Features
Market caution over Sainsbury's takeover rumours is understandable
One of the market’s unwritten rules is that any company subject to takeover rumours will get a nice share price boost.