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rewarding the truly excellent
Sainsbury, Tesco and Waitrose shared the top honours in The Grocer's first Own Label Excellence Awards - winning three prizes apiece at our awards lunch hosted by broadcaster Richard Johnson at the Savoy in London this week - while Asda...
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Multiples' milk war stifles Cravendale
Sales of a highly successful premium milk brand have been damaged by the multiples' price spat in milk.The UK's biggest dairy processor claims that the price war that was kicked off by Asda in March has undermined sales growth of...
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Gü does it again with luxurious ice cream
Premium pudding company Gü looks likely to create a few shivers among frozen food producers as it expands its booming brand into the ice cream market.Three Italian gelato-style dessert ice creams roll into Waitrose stores and onto...
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Are the takeover rumours credible?
Amateur property developers often dream of finding an undervalued property than can be fixed up and quickly turned for a nice profit. In the past few weeks several private equity groups appear to have been eyeing Morrisons in the same...
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WHO'S THEGREENEST?
We've had Sainsbury's plastic packaging plan; Tesco's carrier bags scheme; The Co-operative Group's switch to green electricity; Asda's direct to store delivery scheme in Cornwall; Waitrose's "best supermarket" Soil Association awards; and...
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Oakes leaves at end of Somerfield project
Martin Oakes, logistics, IT and new business development director at Somerfield, has left the retailer.Oakes left this month after completing a project to outsource all of Somerfield's logistics to distribution company Wincanton, a...
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Head of taste for Eat Natural
Harriet Gregory is to be the new head of taste matters at Eat Natural.Gregory joins Eat Natural from Marks and Spencer and has more than a decade of experience in NPD and new taste pioneering. She will be responsible for all new product...
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Management team named at new Co-op
Richard Samson, the recently appointed chief executive of East of England Co-operative Society, has unveiled the society's new executive management team.The new society was created following the merger last year of Ipswich and Norwich...
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Oakes leaves at end of Somerfield project
Martin Oakes, logistics, IT and new business development director at Somerfield, has left the retailer.Oakes left this month after completing a project to outsource all of Somerfield's logistics to distribution company Wincanton, a...
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Head of taste for Eat Natural
Harriet Gregory is to be the new head of taste matters at Eat Natural.Gregory joins Eat Natural from Marks and Spencer and has more than a decade of experience in NPD and new taste pioneering. She will be responsible for all new product...
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Asda crisps take on a football flavour
Football fever is making its way down the crisp aisles at Asda this month with a range of crisps under its own label brand that celebrates World Cup-winning countries of the past.Six variants are being launched, with packaging specially...
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Premium press: how do you like them speciality apples?
Waitrose is adding to its speciality beer and premium cider offerings to appeal to the UK's growing interest in these markets.The retailer is launching its first own-label cider using fruit from its farm in Hampshire. Waitrose Leckford...
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Price Survey
After five weeks in third and second places, Asda has managed to claw its way back to the top spot this week.A vicious round of price cuts and a muscular promotional push has caused Asda's total shopping basket to plummet by £2.13,...
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FSA withdraws snacks
The Food Standards Agency has withdrawn a number of snacks from sale after they were found to contain a potentially cancer-causing toxin.Certain batches of Quaker Caribbean Chicken Seasons, Sainsbury's 18 Chocolate & Toffee Crispie Bites and...
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Sainsbury recovery on track
Sainsbury remains on track in its three-year recovery plan, recording a full-year pre-tax profit to end March 25 of £104m, up from a loss of £238m the year before.Releasing its full-year results this morning, the supermarket group also...
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Multiples toast award success
Sainsbury, Tesco and Waitrose shared the top honours in The Grocer's first Own Label Excellence Awards - winning three prizes apiece at our awards lunch hosted by broadcaster Richard Johnson at the Savoy in London yesterday - while Asda and Aldi...
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Sainsbury on road to recovery
Sainsbury is to announce year-end results next week that will show boss Justin King's turnaround strategy is motoring - although analysts said the focus would be on how the supermarket could now deliver better margins. The retailer...
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ScotMid Co-op writes off c-store acquisition goodwill
ScotMid Co-operative Society has written off a multi-million pound sum related to the purchase of convenience chain Morning Noon &Night. The Edinburgh-based society reported an operating surplus of £1.1m for the year to...
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World's biggest Spar store opens in China
It's as big as a large Tesco Extra and it sells Mongolian cows' milk. It's the world's largest Spar store - and it's just opened its doors in China. At 107,600 sq ft, the new store is more than 25 times the size of an average Spar...
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Give independent retailers a break, says Jerry Marwood, MD of Spar UK
Afew weeks ago David Ramsden, acting as spokesman for the organisation Deregulate, clarified why he thought that the Sunday trading regulations should be changed (The Grocer, April 8, p30). As MD of Spar in the UK, I firmly believe...