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Bill Capper hands over reins to Robert Upton
Bill Capper, managing director of the family-owned Spar company Capper & Co, is to be succeeded by Robert Upton on May 1.Capper will move to the position of executive chairman. He has led the company, which operates the Spar franchise...
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Falconer boosts Britvic take-home
Britvic Soft Drinks has named Colin Falconer as its new business development manager for Sainsbury.Falconer joins Britvic from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, where he had been business account manager for Boots, Sainsbury and Safeway. Prior to...
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The Saturday Essay
>>Brian Cotter, Liberal Democrat spokesman on small business and MP for Weston-Super-MareAs Tesco becomes the first UK retailer to announce profits of more than £2 billion, the debate about whether increasing supermarket...
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The working mum with a ruthless price agenda
Asda’s trading and marketing director Angela Spindler is the driving force behind its low price agenda says Fiona McLellandAvailability is something of an obsession. In the 12 months to June 12, 2004, Asda achieved 98.25% in The...
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New snack sticks its neck out
Asda will next week begin to stock a meat-based snack product that its suppliers believe will create a £20m-a-year sub-category.PMM Foods, established in November, has won exclusive UK rights to market Snakstix, a low-fat poultry protein...
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Co-op deal for Dungannon
Dungannon Meats Group has won a contract to supply additional fresh beef to the Co-operative Group.The deal will create 30 new jobs involved in added-value work in Dungannon’s Northern Ireland factories.Dungannon has now won £55m of new...
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Chains eye MG Rover site
Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury are all eyeing up the MG Rover plant at Longbridge for a new supermarket development, which could end up as a hypermarket megastore.The initial plans for a supermarket are part of a 40-acre science and technology park,...
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Poor food sales as Co-op profits fall
Grocery sales at The Co-operative Group have performed poorly as profit fell by 39% to £74.5m for the year to January 8.Group chief executive Martin Beaumont blamed internal issues as much as increased competition, as like-for-like sales...
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Amazon to run M&S website
Marks and Spencer has signed up online retailer Amazon to run its Internet operation.Stuart Rose chief executive said: “Frankly, we ought to be better at it than we are. We are going to have to invest money in it for more functionality and...
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Refurbished Silloth Spar ‘as good as it gets’
Stan and Judith Foster have owned and run their store in Silloth, Cumbria for the past 25 years.
The shop was originally a cinema, owned by Stan’s father, before he and his wife set up business there. Since then, there have been a few changes…. -
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can tesco grow in non-food sector?
from Dave Tyrer, consultant, GMAP ConsultingSir; Tesco continues to make bold moves with a £2bn+ profit and a strategy to create 25,000 jobs worldwide, with 11,000 in the UK, through an aggressive store expansion programme. But...
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Waitrose works with schools to boost kids’ nutrition
Waitrose is building a substantial diet and nutrition education programme for children.The supermarket chain has now established Waitrose Studios in three of its Food & Home branches. The facilities offer free school workshops using...
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It’s hands off... or is it?
Tesco has granted the independent c-store sector a buyout reprieve – by appearing to rule out more acquisitions.Britain’s biggest retailer, which had previously shaken the industry with a series of acquisitions including 45 Adminstore outlets...
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A shortlist of excellence
The shortlists for The Grocer Gold Awards 2005 have been announced. Upmarket frozen food chain Cook, the company-owned stores division of Spar wholesaler CJ Lang and northern chain Proudfoot have been shortlisted for best independent retail...
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Baugur joins combined bid to buy out Somerfield chain
Competition officials have revealed the 23 former Safeway stores that Somerfield may be forced to divest.The move came as some City analysts predicted that Somerfield could be broken up if a consortium comprising Icelandic retail group Baugur...
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Nisa picks up BP contract
Nisa-Today’s has picked up the contract to supply the 31 BP stores left without a stocking partner following the fuel giant’s retail split from Safeway.The wholesaler will begin supplying the stores with a range of ambient, frozen and chilled...
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Blackmore moves up to newly created Spar post
Spar UK retail director Steve Blackmore has been appointed to the newly created post of supply chain and management information director as the group aims to improve cost effectiveness of supply.Blackmore’s move coincides with this month’s...
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Every little helped
Tesco has become the first UK retailer to break the £2bn profit barrier. But that’s just the start of its ambitions. Simon Mowbray reportsTuesday morning started as we all knew it would: Tesco announced record full-year results,...
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Staking a fashion claim
In four years, Tesco has driven prices down 30%. Clothing chief John Hoerner gives a rare interview to Liz HamsonThe problem that clothing has in Tesco is Tesco – it’s a highly productive business,” says clothing chief executive John...