Archive of all Aldi articles – Page 64
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Aldi stretches into lobster, goose and duck
Aldi is offering its customers whole frozen salmon, lobster, duck and goose for the first time as part of its Christmas range.The discounter is hinting at further premium line offerings in meat and fish being introduced in the future.The...
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Aldi plans to go big in UK
Aldi has started work on a major expansion of its head office – further proof that the discount chain really does mean business in the UK and Ireland.Group MD Paul Foley said that planning permission was granted last week for the expansion at...
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Aldi plans to go big in UK
Aldi has started work on a major expansion of its head office – further proof that the discount chain really does mean business in the UK and Ireland.Group MD Paul Foley said that planning permission was granted last week for the expansion at...
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Aldi offers premium range
Aldi is taking on the multiples with the launch of a premium range to fit its new quality-led brand positioning.The discounter is moving into the territory occupied by Tesco Finest and Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference with its Specially...
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Aldi Shelves Planned Store in Fraserburgh
German discounter Aldi has shelved plans for a store in Fraserburgh, Scotland, after the proposal was rejected by local authority planners in August.Locals were divided over plans for the store, but many objected to its location next to a...
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Aldi pay hits a new high
German hard-discounter Aldi is smashing through the minimum wage pay scale to offer inflation-busting wages to store assistants.A recent recruitment drive for store staff has been offering prospective employees an hourly wage of £7.20, rising...
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Out with the Aldi
Aldi has unveiled a bold new blueprint for a more upmarket offer, says James DurstonAfter a decade of near media silence, German hard discounter Aldi has finally spoken. Last week it invited The Grocer to the opening of its new store...
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Aldi takes itself upmarket
Aldi is to spend £500m in the UK building new stores and refurbishing existing stores in a move that it hopes will turn its image into one appealing to middle Britain.According to Tony Baines, MD for group buying, Aldi’s ambition is to tempt...
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Irish retailers’ profits soaring
Profits in the Republic of Ireland’s wholesale and retail grocery sector may be higher than 11.3bn a year, according to the Department of Finance.It is the first official estimate, as the major supermarkets – Tesco, Dunnes, Superquinn, Aldi and...
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Aldi soup launch
Discounter supermarket group Aldi is launching a new range of low calorie fresh soups.Available in three varieties – Tomato & Red Pepper, Spicy Parsnip and Chicken & Sweetcorn – all the soups contain less than 3.4g of fat and 53 calories...
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Don’t discount their advantage
The discount chains are tightening their grip on continental Europe. Could the same happen here? John Wood and Siân Harrington reportFor mainstream retailers operating in the UK, Aldi’s announcement...
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UK not yet in Lidl’s net
Lidl is set to overtake its bitter rival Aldi as the top discounter in Europe in the next 10 years, according to a report from IGD.Last year Lidl increased its sales by 15% to E18.9bn, twice Aldi’s growth rate, and IGD estimates Lidl trebled...
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Ireland’s multiples face prices probe
Multiples in the Irish Republic are to be quizzed by a parliamentary committee on why Irish grocery prices are among the highest in the EU. The market’s major players, Tesco, Dunnes, SuperValu, Aldi and Lidl, as well as a number of other...
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Aldi plans big expansion into Ireland
Aldi is planning to expand its presence in Ireland over the next 18 months, and hopes to increase its store numbers from 14 to 80.According to a report in The Sunday Times this week the retailer plans to open at least one store a week...
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Lidl plans to target central Europe
German discount store Lidl is set to roll out stores in 15 European countries, according to media reports.This should turn it into Europe’s biggest discount store, overtaking Aldi as the leading small format discount store operator in Europe by...
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Irish discounters ready to treble market share
Discounters Lidl and Aldi are likely to have a 15% share of the grocery market in the Irish Republic – three times their current figure – within five years, according to a report on the sector by Dublin-based Merrion Stockbrokers.By then, Lidl...
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Self-heat meals listed nationwide
Self-heating canned ready meals are finally making inroads into the mass market with products under the Hotcan brand getting nationwide listings.Launching now in Moto service stations, the range is also listed in Palmer & Harvey, Aldi, Spar...
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Morrisons to divest 140 smaller Safeway stores
Morrisons is set to bring in £250m by selling 140 of Safeway’s smaller convenience stores after acquiring the supermarket group last week.Weekend press reports suggest that the Big Food Group, Somerfield and German discounters Netto and Aldi...
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Inside Aldi
Little is known about the notoriously secretive hard discounter, so Liz Hamson tracked down a former insider to quiz him on the secrets of its success and ask whether he thinks the formula will thrive in the UKMost of the time,...
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Aldi dossier
>>established 1948The Albrecht brothers, Karl and Theo, opened their first store in 1948 under the Albrecht Discount fascia in Essen, Germany. In the early 1960s they had around 350 stores and divided the business into two, Aldi...