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Commission must act to stop consolidation
Sir; The sale of Somerfield is the latest major step in the consolidation of the grocery market ('Asda tipped to buy Somerfield for £2bn', The Grocer, 19 January, p4).Speculation suggests that bidders are three of the existing big four...
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Babyfood scare culprit sent to jail
A man has been jailed for three years for sparking a food safety alert at Morrisons stores last August, which resulted in hundreds of products being pulled from shelves.Shane Ward, 53, left a jar of babyfood contaminated with bleach in a...
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Morrisons expects retaliation after 'astonishing' Christmas
Morrisons is bracing itself for a fightback by its competitors following its "astonishing" performance over Christmas.Like-for-like sales for the six weeks to 6 January were up 9.5%, excluding fuel, eclipsing the 3.1% recorded by Tesco...
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Leahy unfazed by Celtic slowdown
Tesco's expansion plans for the Irish Republic won't be affected by the country's once-booming Celtic Tiger economy slowing down, according to chief executive Sir Terry Leahy. This year, he said, six new supermarkets and four Express...
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Tesco to close its Brackmills drinks depot
Tesco is set to close its Brackmills beers, wines and spirits depot in Northamptonshire in May.The 15-year-old depot can no longer cope with demand and is to be converted into a Tesco.com depot, subject to consultation with trade unions,...
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Price Survey
Asda has passed the 100-day mark as the UK's cheapest retailer - while Tesco dropped from second place to fourth after its price hikes outweighed its cuts.Five of Asda's items were the cheapest in The Grocer 33 list this week - by...
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Bumper Christmas trading at Morrisons
Morrisons has reported a 9.5% increase in like-for-like sales growth, excluding fuel, for the six weeks to 6 January, ahead of analyst expectations.Total sales rose 11.6% excluding fuel during the period, Morrisons said, boosted by the...
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Tesco to phase out imported veal
Tesco has pledged to phase out sales of imported veal and instead stock British meat from calves bred to higher welfare standards.Some 930 farmers who supply Tesco with milk have agreed not to export their dairy calves, and the chain's beef...
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Tesco unveils RDC colossus
Work has finished on the UK's largest building - Tesco's new eco-friendly RDC in Livingston, Scotland. The 73,000 sq m construction outsizes Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5, previously the country's biggest free-standing...
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Kilkenny fury over Tesco store refusal
Kilkenny, the only one of the Irish Republic’s 26 counties without a Tesco store, is set to remain that way for the foreseeable future following the Planning Appeals Board’s rejection of a proposed 26,000 sq ft outlet.
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Blackhurst is tipped for Cheesewright job
Darren Blackhurst is emerging as the most obvious internal candidate to replace David Cheesewright as Asda's chief operations officer.Blackhurst joined Asda's executive board as food trading director in January 2006 from Tesco, where he...
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Opinion - "Who will buy Somerfield? Asda's Andy Bond dismissed smaller format stores but he is reviewing the situation"
It's no longer a question of if or when, now the cat's out the bag, the only question seems who. Assuming it can't be carved up (very hard to do), who would buy Somerfield, with its £4.6bn sales and its 908-strong portfolio of c-stores, forecourts...
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Asda tipped to buy Somerfield for £2bn
Asda has emerged as the frontrunner in the race to buy high-street grocery chain Somerfield, The Grocer has learnt. Somerfield hired the bank Citigroup this week after receiving "some unsolicited approaches", according to a source close...
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marks & spencer's new eco-store
This is a retailer, not a green adventure zone," insists Mark Calderwood, store manager at Marks & Spencer's new 'eco-store' store in Glasgow. If that's the case, it's certainly doing a good impression of one. The 70,000 sq ft...
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Christmas trading good insists Tesco
Tesco was putting a positive spin on its Christmas performance this week, despite its latest trading figures showing UK sales falling short of expectations. Like-for-likes were up 3.1%, excluding petrol, for the six-week period to 5...
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Price Survey - 19th January 2008
Price-slashing Tesco has thrown everything into the mix to match Asda's food prices this week, but it was not enough to prevent Asda recording its 14th week as cheapest retailer. Tesco cut the prices of six items on this week's list, five of which...
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Woolworths rounds off team 'made in heaven'
Woolworths now has a management team 'made in heaven' after poaching Tesco's former international chief operating officer Simon Turner, according to chief executive Trevor Bish-Jones.Turner will become retail and distribution operations...
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Greencore doubles up on commercial power
The commercial director role at Greencore Grocery has been split in two, with recent acquisitions and increased business leading to the creation of separate sales and marketing roles.Former Asda head of advertising Matthew Jenkins has...
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Fresh & Easy's Ford heads Peter Rabbit
Children's food brand Peter Rabbit Organics has appointed former Tesco Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market operations manager Ben Ford as its new chief executive. Ford has spent the past two years in Tesco's international division, working...
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Company Profile - Strawtech
Company: Strawtech
Established: 2006
Number of lines: 1
Listings: Sainsbury’s, Asda, Spar
Andrew Robinson’s mantra is ‘life’s good when it sucks’ - not because the 29-year-old is prone to wallowing in misery, but because he’s the…