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Central packing plants take shape
The remaining two factories that are being built to satisfy Asda’s meat needs are edging closer to completion.In Doncaster, ABP is just about to commission its new 120,000 sq ft, £18m plant. It would be up and running “October/November time”...
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Krispy Kreme to open in Tesco
Tesco is opening a Krispy Kreme doughnut concession at its Watford Extra hypermarket in early October. The store within a store concept will include Krispy Kreme’s trademark doughnut theatre (where customers can see the doughnuts being...
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Co-op half-year profits down by 40%
The Co-operative Group has suffered a severe setback after several years of steep growth in sales and profits.Profits are down more than 40% to £35.8m for the six months to July 24 compared with £61.6m last time, and sales are almost flat at...
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Morrisons keeps Exult on board
Exult, provider of HR-led business process outsourcing, has reached an agreement with Morrisons supermarkets to continue to provide accounting and payroll services for their Safeway businesses in the UK. Exult will continue with its existing...
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Sainsbury market share dips
Sainsbury’s market share has dipped to 15.3% from 15.4% during the past 12 weeks to September, according to the latest data from TNS Superpanel.This compares to a 15.9% market share for the same period last year. TNS also indicated that...
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Budgens enters LinkPork Scheme
Budgens has entered a partnership with pork processors, George Adams & Sons and a group of British pig farmers in order to ensure high quality supply of home produced pork.The new relationship with the LinkPork Scheme follows the recent...
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Tesco buys 10 Safeway stores
Tesco has bought 10 Safeway stores from rival retailer Morrisons for around £87.6m. This is the latest batch of store divestments by Morrisons since the completion of its takeover of Safeway in March. Morrisons was required to sell the...
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Booker loses out to Budgens
It’s a case of once bitten, twice shy when it comes to symbol group operators, says Deepak Patel, who is converting one of his three c-stores in Clacton-on-Sea to Budgens next month.Patel, who used to drive to Dhamecha’s Barking cash and carry,...
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Tesco sponsors fruit show
Tesco is to sponsor this year’s National Fruit Show, to be held at the County Showground in Detling, Kent, from October 20-21.The event is the high point in the English apple and pear calendar and a showcase for the industry at the time when...
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UK debut for sweet potato
Sainsbury is exclusively stocking a New Zealand sub-tropical sweet potato called the kumara.The kumara, which is one of New Zealand’s most popular vegetables, is appearing for the first time in the UK in commercial quantities.Supplier...
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Lloyd Maunder signs deal
Meat supplier Lloyd Maunder has won a contract to supply 227 Budgens stores around London and the south east with Devonshire-branded free range and organic chicken.The deal follows a similar one to supply Somerfield, which was signed this...
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tesco RFID delay
Tesco has not been able to progress as fast as it would like on implementing RFID through its supply chain due to the delay in the setting of global standards for the technology, according to a spokesman. “We will work with our suppliers in a...
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BP tipped for success
Tesco and BP are likely to be the most successful convenience operators in five years’ time, according to shoppers and industry experts.In a survey of 500 shoppers and 150 retailers, suppliers and experts, a massive 96% ranked Tesco in the top...
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JS falls down on stocks
Sainsbury continues to lag behind its competitors in the availability stakes, according to The Grocer 33 survey.The multiple, which recently parachuted in former Safeway logistics chief Lawrence Christensen to tackle its supply chain problems,...
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Hepworth bows out of the Co-op
Malcolm Hepworth is leaving the Co-operative Group after seven years at the helm of its retail division.Hepworth has been widely credited with transforming the society’s food retail business from a declining supermarket player into a major...
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Cleaner fuels for Sainsbury
Sainsbury has signed a deal with Npower Business to supply energy to its UK stores, including 10% from renewable sources.A further 44% of the 1,500GWh order will come from good quality combined heat and power (CHP) – a gas-fired product that is...
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Asda serves the right meal deal
The ambient pasta sauce sector has grown in scale and diversity in recent years, with plenty of brands now on sale as well as speciality retailer own label products. This diversity is reflected by the average of 108 products found across the grocery...
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The Saturday Essay
>>why we need local shops with local produce…Martin Hyson, chief executive, BudgensToday marks the beginning of British Food Fortnight and for the first time Budgens will be sponsoring it. The organisers approached us at the...
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A supergroup: why it will not happen
Creating one trading group for independents is a great idea. But nobody is buying it, reports John WoodThat point is clearly not lost on Martin Beaumont, chief executive of the Co-operative Group, which runs CRTG. He told this...
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Trouble in paradise
The EU’s abolition of banana quotas could spell disaster for Caribbean producers. Liz Hamson reportsWaitrose’s TV campaign for Caribbean bananas at 99p a kilogram paints a utopian picture of a lush heartland of banana production –...