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Fairtrade: help tobacco farmers
Sir; Fairtrade is big business - annual sales at retail of £300m per year, 46% year-on-year growth, and 2,500 products on sale. And it's not just food. Fairtrade textiles are growing rapidly with Marks & Spencer leading the way, almost owning...
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Gangmaster probe launched by Tesco
Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda have launched an investigation into the labour provided to one of its major vegetable suppliers, Bomfords. It follows a swoop by the Gangmaster Licensing Authority, which resulted in seven labour providers to...
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Tesco centre faces legal threats in US
Tesco's US operation has seen off an attempt to get an injunction on the construction of its distribution centre in Riverside, California. The legal team behind a mystery group called Health First tried to halt work at the site, claiming...
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Turton: Nisa-Costcutter deal will not be revived
Nisa-Today's chief executive Neil Turton has categorically ruled out reviving the controversial merger with Costcutter, which collapsed last October. Speaking to The Grocer at Nisa's annual show for independents and wholesalers, Turton...
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Waitrose works to reduce basket price
Waitrose has begun a drive designed to cut the cost of shopping in its stores.The plan was announced to 200 store managers at a conference last week by MD Steven Esom, who said the retailer was planning changes to its pricing and...
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Sainsbury's recruits Icke to wine team
The Sainsbury's wine buying team has undergone a restructure following the appointment of Rachael Icke. She joins the supermarket from Constellation Brands Europe, where she was a senior national account manager with eight years'...
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Price Survey - 17 March 2007
Yet again Asda is the cheapest retailer, according to data from The Grocer 33 pricing survey. It provided the cheapest basket this week at £41.33 with some price cuts on basket items. Lettuce was 10p cheaper than the previous week...
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doing it by the book
Steve Robinson landed the job of chief executive of Tesco's ambitious internet and catalogue non-food arm by chance. The former finance director at Argos confesses he went to Tesco for the UK finance director's job, but was offered the role of...
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Hunt urges independents to exploit supermarket backlash
Wholesalers and independent retailers have an opportunity to take advantage of growing public dissatisfaction with the multiples - in particular Tesco - according to Today's Group MD Rodney Hunt.The UK's number- one retailer was a victim...
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JS: we'll bow to public preference over labels
Sainsbury's will bow to customer demand and remove traffic-light labelling from its products - if Guideline Daily Amount labelling wins public support.Front-of-pack nutritional labelling has become a key battleground in the food...
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My Favourite Things Bruce Hodgson, Budgens retailer, Fulham, south west London
What’s your favourite restaurant and why? Baumanns Brasserie in Coggeshall, Essex. Mark Baumann is my best mate and cooks like an Angel.
Do you prefer healthy or junk food? I try to eat healthily but given the choice between a rare rump… -
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Waitrose puts pedal to metal with new stores
Waitrose has revealed plans for aggressive expansion across the UK over the next ten years.MD Steven Esom told The Grocer he planned to double the number of Waitrose supermarkets available to shoppers in the next decade - a move that...
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Definition of predatory pricing 'needs rethink'
The independent retailer at the centre of a storm over alleged below-cost selling by Tesco four years ago has called on the Competition Commission to review its interpretation of predatory pricing.Ian Proudfoot, joint managing director...
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Beauty takes organic turn at Waitrose
Waitrose has become the first supermarket chain to launch a beauty range certified by the Soil Association. Products in the new Organically Beautiful range, which includes hand washes, body lotions and soaps, are made from 70% organic...
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Select & Save boosted by taking fight to Tesco
Symbol operator Select & Save has grown by almost 50% in the past year - and says it has done so by standing up to Tesco.Since opening its 100th store last January it has opened a futher 45 stores.Retail development manager Tony...
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In Brief: Bags not recycled; Focus group online; Clarification
Bags not recycled Forty two per cent of Brits fail to recycle their plastic bags, according to Somerfield. The retailer is offering shoppers a free bag for life each time they return five used carrier bags. Focus group...
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BWG buys lease of the store next door
BWG has paid nearly €1m to buy the lease on a rival store next door to one of its flagship Spar outlets in Dublin in a move that reflects the keen competition in the Irish convenience sector. The store, in upmarket Merrion Row, was...
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Hordle helps drive M&S green plan
Marks & Spencer has chosen David Hordle to co-ordinate the project management of its new Plan A environmental initiative.Hordle, who previously looked after M&S's health strategy for food and was also a category manager for its food...