All articles by Andrew Don – Page 44
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NewsNew EU data protection regulations must be met by mid-2017
A leading authority on EU data compliance has warned companies to guard against a “last-minute scramble”…
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NewsWalker halts Iceland growth to focus on The Food Warehouse
The frozen food retailer has earmarked The Food Warehouse format for future “aggressive” rollout and has signalled its commitment by appointing Richard Walker
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NewsIrwin's bakes up Tesco deal
Irwin’s will supply more than a million packs of Joeys to Tesco annually and the listing of the two lines increase the Co Armagh bakery’s annual business with Tesco by 10%
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NewsEat 17 forms new partnership with AF Blakemore
EAT 17 has two joint Spar convenience retail and restaurant sites in Walthamstow and Hackney
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NewsImperial Tobacco sees benefits of savings
The company’s cost optimisation programme is on track to deliver further incremental savings of £85m in the full year
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NewsWaitrose and the discounters are only winners in new market share data
A slowdown from the rest of the trade saw sales growth in the overall grocery retail sector slow to just 0.2% compared with the same period last year
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NewsDiscounting culture threatens to undermine industry, report suggests
Retail Think Tank claims whole shopping generation hooked on a diet of discounts, and that retailers and suppliers need more sophistication in their pricing strategies
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NewsDhamecha Foods explores further Midlands cash & carry openings
Dhamecha Foods’ planned Leicester cash & carry could become a “springboard” for further openings…
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NewsF1-inspired fridge technology rolled out at Sainsbury's
The rollout comes after The Grocer broke the news in January that the chain was testing the technology in its Buckingham Local outlet
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Grocer 33Nigel Huxley, Waitrose Bath: Grocer 33 store of the week
This branch is quirky because it is on two levels and has escalators…
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NewsPoundstretcher hopes to grow garden range
Poundstretcher’s survey found plants account for £961.2m annual expenditure, water features, £497.2m and “friendly” gnomes £3.11m even though 38% fail to use their gardens
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NewsOne Stop launches in-store Subway concessions
The first two concessions will be in Leicester and Burton Latimer
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NewsThornton's UK commercial sales decline thanks to unnamed specific customer
UK commercial sales declined 6.1% because of fewer orders from one specific customer, which analysts have speculated is Tesco, while sales in retail fell 5.4% to £27.7m
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NewsReal Good Food to sell Napier Brown sugar business for £34m
AIM-listed Real Good Food has agreed to sell Napier Brown to Tereos Group for £34m.
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NewsGreggs share price soars after sales uplift
Shore Capital analysts Darren Shirley and Clive Black reiterated a “buy” rating on the stock
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NewsNorbert Dentressangle bought up by XPO to create distribution giant
Norbert, a leading global provider of contract logistics, is a major supplier to the UK food and drink sector and has customers including Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Tesco
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NewsPub conversions into c-stores made harder by new planning rules
With more onerous planning changes that came into effect this week, the government has protected pubs listed as Assets of Community Value (ACV)
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NewsNFRN threatens wholesalers with CMA carriage charge referral
The trade body is demanding that savings made due to the drop in fuel prices should be passed on to retailers through a reduction in carriage charges
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NewsHMRC seizes huge amounts of illicit tobacco
The biggest haul involved HMRC in co-operation with the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) which seized more than 43m smuggled cigarettes in Croatia and Greece
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NewsNew M&S eco store in Newcastle features green living wall
The 130,000 sq ft Northumberland Street outlet is the first major full-line store to undergo the changes