Archive of all Booker articles – Page 6
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NewsBooker adds snacking and BBQ lines to Discover the Choice
The snacks range launched this week with the BBQ lines to follow next month
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NewsPayPoint to provide back office links for Booker customers
Retailers who shop with the wholesaler and have a PayPoint One system will have access to a range of services
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NewsBooker recalls Happy Shopper tomato ketchup over plastic risk
The 440g packs are from batch code 7269 and have a best before date of end March 201p
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NewsSandell threatens to derail Tesco-Booker at the 11th hour
Sandell Asset Management said it would vote against the proposed £3.7bn takeover because it was based on too low an offer
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NewsWalkers infuriates wholesalers with Booker van move
Walkers has antagonised some of its wholesalers in the wake of Palmer & Harvey’s collapse by partnering with Booker
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NewsCharles Wilson to become Tesco UK CEO after merger with Booker
Wilson will replace current UK CEO Matt Davies, who will leave the retailer at the end of April 2018
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NewsBooker reports strong third-quarter growth
Booker recorded strong growth in the third quarter, despite a drag from falling tobacco sales…
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Comment & OpinionA bleak Christmas for opponents of the rubberstamped Tesco-Booker deal
For bitter opponents, reading the CMA’s verdict must feel like an untimely dose of the norovirus
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NewsMRH signs Booker partnership deal after P&H collapse
Booker will deliver chilled and ambient groceries to 370 MRH store
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NewsShell signs supply deal with Booker following collapse of P&H
The deal will see Booker deliver goods to 500 stores for the next three years
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NewsCharles Wilson criticises anti-merger 'little island' wholesalers
Rivals would have to up their game to succeed, Wilson told The Grocer in an exclusive interview
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Analysis & FeaturesDave Lewis and Charles Wilson: the exclusive and uncut interview
With the CMA provisionally clearing the Tesco-Booker merger, platinum members can read an extended version of our exclusive Q&A ahead of this Saturday’s issue of The Grocer
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Analysis & FeaturesWholesalers ready to lay down in front of Tesco-Booker tanks
What prompted the CMA to give Tesco-Booker the all-clear? And can opponents still stop the new behemoth in its tracks?
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Analysis & FeaturesTesco-Booker targets Aldi and Amazon
Charles Wilson has claimed the CMA decision will allow the combined business to take the grocery war to Aldi and Amazon
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NewsCMA bowed to Tesco-Booker pressure to include discounters in inquiry
The competition authority had originally excluded Aldi and Lidl from their competitor set
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NewsTesco £3.7bn Booker takeover gets green light from CMA
The UK’s competition regulators are sensationally set to approve Tesco’s £3.7bn takeover of Booker, without imposing conditions such as selling off hundreds of its stores
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NewsIndustry reaction to CMA provisional clearance of Tesco-Booker
It was no surprise that the Competition and Markets Authority cleared Tesco’s £3.7bn takeover of Booker, but that it did so without asking for any remedies has shocked many
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Comment & OpinionTesco-Booker debate all over bar the shouting (and screaming)
The CMA has decided that even beasts with such scale as Tesco and Booker did not have the power to damage competition even if they wanted to …
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NewsHow analysts reacted to CMA provisional clearance of Tesco-Booker
The CMA reported the provisional findings of its probe, ahead of a final decision in December
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Analysis & FeaturesCMA approves Tesco-Booker takeover: timeline
Here’s how The Grocer reported the key milestones of this landmark mega-merger