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Flying the British flag
Colin Smith faces a challenge: to unite the entire supply chain behind the red tractor scheme. Richard Clarke reportsColin Smith is a busy man. The former chief executive of Safeway is now chairman of discount retailer Poundland and...
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A fresh look at convenience
Sainsbury has launched a range of convenience meals designed to appeal to time-pressed consumers who prefer fresh food to ready meals.Products in the Fresh to Cook range comprise raw ingredients – a protein and items of prepared fresh produce –...
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Tesco takes on Dragon
Tesco is trialling a little-known variety of citrus fruit, named by the multiple as Dragon Citrus.The variety is a natural orange/grapefruit cross known by the Chinese as Huyou. It is sourced from the south eastern province of Zhejian.The...
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Jersey spuds star in Jamie Oliver ad
Jersey Royal new potatoes will feature in Sainsbury’s next Jamie Oliver-themed television adverts.Oliver spent three days in Jersey last week filming the two commercials, one of which is understood to show the TV chef in a potato field, while...
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Co-op woos discerning with tighter tomato specs
The Co-operative Group said it plans to offer fewer tomato varieties and tighten the specifications given to suppliers. “Customers are becoming more and more discerning,” said salad buyer Carla Fletcher. “Benchmarking tomatoes from all...
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Rivals fear Tesco may pocket cheese price rises
Retailers have not yet reacted to intense lobbying from dairy farmers and processors to secure retail price increases on cheese to help pay for added milk supply chain costs. One stumbling block is thought to be Tesco, because of the amount of...
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Store shuffle near Sheffield
It’s all change in the grocery market just southeast of Sheffield, as Sainsbury aims to revitalise its brand in the region. The area is a long way from Sainsbury’s traditional heartland of the south, but the grocer has decided it’s time to shake up...
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Tesco breaks £2bn profit barrier
Tesco has broken the £2bn profit barrier thanks to strong UK, International and non-food sales.The retailer announced underlying profits up 20.5% to £2,029m for the year to February 26. Like-for-like sales in the UK grew by 7.5% excluding petrol...
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Tesco plans European expansion
Tesco is planning to open more than 40 stores in Central Europe this year.The retailer, which currently operates about 194 stores across Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, looks set to grow this number to around...
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Spar drives non-food ranges into all stores
Spar is to roll out non-food products across some 1,600 stores this summer in its first national push behind the higher-margin category.Advertising and promotions manager Simon Fisher said that the symbol group would initially look to stock...
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Tesco's double whammy
Tesco has broken through the 30% market share barrier for the first time, according to exclusive new figures for The Grocer.The revelation comes just days before Britain’s biggest retailer is expected to post a profit of more than £2bn for the...
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Iceland trialling switch to Cooltrader
Iceland is to understood to be trialling the Cooltrader format at five underperforming stores, with a view to rolling it out to 100 outlets if it proves a hit.Cooltrader is the frozen food chain set up by Iceland boss Malcolm Walker after he...
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The cost of a syringe
Sunjuice, the company that supplied Sainsbury with the orange juice in which a syringe was found last week, has had to invest £750,000 in measures to ensure such an incident can never happen again.The South Wales-based company, which produces...
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Tribunal rules Tesco employee was unfairly sacked
A Tesco employee who was sent home by his bosses because he had a swollen eye, and then sacked for taking too much sick leave, was unfairly dismissed, an employment tribunal has ruled.Tesco had denied the charges, arguing that Andre Van der...
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Subway at Spar in UK
US sandwich chain Subway is to roll out 400 concessions in convenience stores and multiple grocers in mainland UK in the next five years.The move follows a successful tie-in with Northern Irish symbol operator the Henderson Group, in which it...
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Working Week
>>Helen Corbishley, category product manager, co-operative groupHelen Corbishley says she needs more days to get through her busy working week as category product manager for chilled ready meals at the Co-operative...
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Family values
Newitt & Sons’ products are so good that Budgens asked it to run its in-store deli counters. Richard Clarke checked one outJames Newitt is visiting the first deli counter that his family business was invited to run for Budgens, at...
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Battle of the bottle
Chris Walkland looks at what’s happening to the 3.5ppl milk price rises and why some farmers might not get a fair shareThe fight to raise milk prices took several weeks, but, against the odds, the battle was won – Asda and Tesco...