All articles by Alec Mattinson – Page 206
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Media bites 22 May: Booker, Tesco, SSP
Booker is “going head-to-head with the discounters and the Big Four grocers” after buying Budgens and Londis.
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Media Bites 21 May: Marks & Spencer, Premier Foods, Greencore
The papers are predictably dominated by Marks & Spencer’s return to annual profit growth yesterday, with chief executive Mark Bolland’s position suddenly looking more secure
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City Snapshot: Booker to buy Londis and Budgens
Booker has signed a deal with Musgrave to buy its Londis and Budgens chains in the UK for £40m, plus Dairy Crest’s annual profits collapse, Booker’s full-year results and the rest of today’s news from the City
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Comment and Opinion
Asda plays the long game
If Asda CEO Andy Clarke needed a little literary inspiration before facing the nation’s press today, a phrase or two from Rudyard Kipling
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Booming food to go sales boost Greencore's first half trading
Convenience food group Greencore shrugged off the tough grocery market conditions to report a 3.2% revenue rise in the six months to 27 March.
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Media bites 19 May: GCA, Thorntons, Cranswick
Officials at the watchdog set up by the Government to oversee the supermarket industry spent at least a year battling with Whitehall to get powers to impose fines on grocers for misconduct, according to The Independent.
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City Snapshot: Sales trends improve at Premier Foods
Branded sales at Premier Foods (PFD) have showed their fourth successive quarter of sequential improvement, but overall full-year revenues fell 4.5%…
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Wonderful Brands buys Pomegreat from administration
Wonderful Brands has purchased the assets of the Simply Great Juice Company from administration.
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Cranswick profits up 10% as annual revenues edge past £1bn
Underlying pre-tax profit at pork supplier Cranswick was up 10.6% for the year ended 31 March, boosted by growing exports and strong sales of sausages and bacon.
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Analysis and Features
Grocer Price Index: Prices start to recover at big four
Has grocery price deflation run its course? Last month, supermarket prices fell by their lowest amount so far in 2015.
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Bright Food secures 40% remainder of Lion's Weetabix share
The remaining 40% stake has been bought up by Bright Food, with the intention - it is believed - of re-selling it to Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Asia
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SABMiller enters UK's growing craft beer sector with Meantime acquisition
SABMiller is entering the craft beer market with the purchase of London-based brewer Meantime.
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Metcalfe's Skinny demerger from Itsu triggers speculation
Metcalfe’s Skinny is to split from parent company Metcalfe’s Food on 1 June, The Grocer can reveal, with the parent company changing its name to Itsu Grocery
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City snapshot: SABMiller acquires craft brewer Meantime
SABMiller has agreed a deal to buy to London-based modern craft brewer Meantime Brewing Company, Coca-Cola HBC reports strong volume growth and all the rest of the latest news from the City.
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Media Bites 15 May: The Co-op, Poundworld, M&S
A row “threatening to tear apart the already battered co-operative movement” is set to be defused today with the Co-op Group board reaching a last minute compromise over its new board.
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TPG snaps up majority stake in Poundworld
US investment firm TPG has confirmed today it has bought a majority stake in UK fixed price discounter Poundworld.
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Media Bites 14 May: The Co-op, SABMiller, supermarket wines
The Co-operative Group has said that votes for election to its members’ council have been miscounted
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City snapshot: Beer revenues up 9% at Marston's
carBrewing revenues were up 9% for Hobgoblin and Pedigree maker Marston’s in the first half, strong food sales drive Mitchells & Butlers first half revenues and all the rest of the news from the City.
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Birds Eye owner Nomad brings in former Delhaize exec as CEO
New Birds Eye owner Nomad Holdings has appointed former ABInBev and Delhaize exec Stéfan Descheemaeker as CEO as it looks to grow its portfolio of international food investments.
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Delhaize and Ahold confirm merger talks
Belgian supermarket group Delhaize has confirmed this morning it is in merger talks with Dutch contemporary Ahold.