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Quality items, and make no mistake
If an Aldi opens up next door to you, you might curse your downmarket postcode.But have you been to an Aldi store recently? Not only will you find a few Mercedes and BMWs in the car park, but products which look and taste better than you might...
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There is growing evidence that Aldi is aiming to boost its U
If an Aldi opens up next door to you, you might curse your downmarket postcode.But have you been to an Aldi store recently? Not only will you find a few Mercedes and BMWs in the car park, but products which look and taste better than you might...
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Aldi pushes suppliers to improve quality
Aldi is stepping up efforts to improve the quality of its product offering as it attempts to attract a more diverse customer base into its stores. Suppliers are being asked to provide better quality - although they still have to make tough deals...
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Aldi ice cream scoops top frozen award
Consumers have voted an Aldi premium ice cream as the best frozen food product of the year in the retail sector. Milfina Temptations premium honeycomb crunch ice cream, made for Aldi by Richmond Foods, also won the category for best new ice...
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Private investment in Two Saints
Private investors have bought the Two Saints Retail Park, Park Road, Ormskirk. The price of £4.9m reflects a yield of 7.7%. Aldi and McDonalds are among tenants of the 40,398 sq ft complex. Seller was Pochin Design & Build, advised by Lamont. King...
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Aggressive Lidl keeps up cracking new store pace
Anne Bruce Secretive hard discounter Lidl has doubled its UK portfolio since 2001, bucking declining numbers in the UK discount sector and leaving longer established competitors Aldi and Netto behind. A source said Lidl was "approaching 350 stores...
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republic of ireland
Discounters sourcing insignificant quantities' from Irish suppliers says RGDATA Aldi/Lidl sourcing probe urged by independents The independent grocers' body in the Irish Republic, RGDATA, has called for a government probe into the food sourcing...
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Kwik Save Lidl Aldi Netto
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Hard discount fight in Iberia
German retailers Lidl, Tengelmann and Aldi are gearing up for battle in Iberia with ambitious store opening plans for their hard discount formats in the region over the next three to five years. Aldi's announcement earlier this month of a move into...
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Discounters force Tesco into deeper cuts The recent arrival of Lidl and Aldi in the Irish market has intensified competition in the grocery sector over the past year, according to Maurice Pratt, managing director of Tesco Ireland. Tesco, once...
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Australia: Aldi denies it's interested but Franklins sale
Hong Kong conglomerate expected to put 287-strong discounter up for sale Despite persistent rumours Aldi has denied it is a front runner in a potential bidding war for Australian discount chain Franklins, which parent company Dairy Farm...
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Australia: Aldi set for Oz ad blitz
Aldi is preparing to launch a major national advertising campaign in Australia at the end of the month to coincide with the opening of its first stores in New South Wales. A billboard sign displayed outside the Bankstown store relaying details of...
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That was the year that was 10
August 25, 1990. Kellogg's has spoken out about Aldi's ultra-low price for 500g boxes of its famous cornflakes. The German discounter sells them for 79p 6p less than its nearest competitor Kwik Save and far below the £1.06 retail reported in the...
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Ireland: Aldi eyes Cosmoline store
One of eight supermarkets owned by a West of Ireland chain which has gone into receivership may be acquired by Aldi, now busily building an Irish network. The German discounter has expressed an interest in buying the 12,000 square foot store in...
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Germany: Wal-Mart's German operation must stop below cost se
Every day low pricing at Wal-Mart's German operation took on a whole new complexion this week as the retail giant was ordered to put its prices up. Hard discounters Aldi and Lidl were also told by the cartel office to raise prices on staple goods...
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Republic of Ireland: Cuts stay says Tesco as IFA threatens b
Supermarkets in the Irish Republic are threatened with a petrol-style blockade by dairy farmers who claim they could be put out of business by the current price war. All the major chains Tesco, Dunnes, SuperValu, Superquinn, Aldi and Lidl have...
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Republic of Ireland: Aldi strike over
A strike over union recognition which had lasted for three months at Aldi's recently opened store in Dublin has ended following intervention by a government minister. Labour affairs minister Michael Kitt helped broker a deal between management...
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Despatches: A gorilla scares Oz
The arrival of Aldi means Australia's big three are no longer going to have it all their own way. Barry Flanagan reports Around Easter last year, recruitment ads started to appear in Sydney newspapers for managers to join one of the world's leading...
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Industrial relations: Walk out threatened in Aldi dispute
Strike action is threatened from next week in a dispute between the Irish shopworkers' union, Mandate, and German discount chain Aldi. The dispute, which is over staff pay and conditions at Aldi's Dublin store, is complicated by the company's...