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Spar trading team gets fresh faces in revamp
Spar UK’s trading team has been strengthened with the addition of four new recruits as it has undergone a restructuring.Group trading director Peter Miller said the new structure would remove complexity and help to align the central trading...
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West won’t be at a loss
Asda has appointed Clive West as loss prevention director, taking over from Steve Robinson who is leaving to pursue other opportunities.Prior to his move, West was director of stores of the community and claims to have raised Asda’s profile in...
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Asda cranks up its health credentials
Asda is ramping up its healthy offering with the refocus of Good for You! and the expansion of its kids range.The retailer is doing a u-turn on Good for You!, which was relaunched last year as a diet brand. After listening to customer feedback...
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Stores go up for sale in Northern Ireland
Morrisons is understood to have invited bids for Safeway’s 12 stores in Northern Ireland as well as just over 100 of Safeway’s smaller stores on the mainland.The closing date for bids for the smaller stores passed on Friday July 23, while the...
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Tesco’s suncare is a bright spot
The holiday season is here so this month’s report is on sun protection products.The average multiple has 68 skus on a typical fixture, with 20% of the category on promotion. In managing availability, 9% of normal lines were low on stock and 21%...
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Laced hung up on punters
A design company is behind a new vodka and fruit drink which hangs around the neck. Laced comes in plastic bottles attached to a coloured cord which can be hung around the neck, wrist or attached to handbags.The idea comes from Asda own...
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Tesco moves 420 jobs to India
Tesco is moving 420 jobs to Bangalore, India, from three of its offices in the UK, according to a Reuters news report.The jobs will be from offices in Cardiff, Dundee and Welwyn Garden City, in the areas of business support.The retailer has...
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Lidl plans to target central Europe
German discount store Lidl is set to roll out stores in 15 European countries, according to media reports.This should turn it into Europe’s biggest discount store, overtaking Aldi as the leading small format discount store operator in Europe by...
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Spar Germany launched new concept
Spar Germany has launched a new Eurospar concept store in Hamburg which was jointly developed with International Spar.The 23,000 sq ft store is claimed to be the first in Germany to feature instore flat screens to inform customers about special...
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Tesco to expand mobile market
Tesco is planning to relaunch its mobile phone market to offer more handsets and increased shelf space.The retailer currently has about 250,000 mobile phone customers and it plans to broaden the range of the products it offers in order to...
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Informationtechnologybridging the gap or widening the gulf?
Big retailers have many natural advantages over their smaller counterparts.Take Tesco, which pays 10-15% less for its goods than smaller rivals, according to the Competition Commission in 2000. From haulage to photocopier paper,...
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Ager takes China role
Senior Tesco executive Steve Ager is to become president of the Chinese joint venture announced this week.His 27-year career at Tesco has included senior buying jobs, which saw him launch the Finest brand, and more recently a two-year stint...
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How Grimsey will tackle sales falls
Big Food Group has pledged to drive up operational efficiency at Iceland after another quarter of negative like-for-like sales growth.Posting a 1.7% drop in like-for-like sales at Iceland and a 1.1% drop at Booker in the 13 weeks to July 2,...
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Subway talking sarnies at Somerfield
America’s biggest fast food company Subway is in talks with Somerfield about putting its sandwich offer in 100 stores.Area regional manager UK and Ireland Kevin Graham said the company was in “advanced discussions” with the retailer. The...
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Joint venture for exclusivity
Two companies have launched a joint venture to provide fresh produce exclusively to Asda.International Produce, a business combining the import activities of Geest’s English Village Salads and Thames Fruit, began trading this week. It will...
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Confused government health advice blasted
The government’s lack of consistency in health and diet messages is failing both industry and consumers, Asda’s regulatory affairs manager Gordon Maddan said this week. “We are baffled by the priorities – the Food Standards Agency is talking...
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King’s supply chain vow
Supply chain problems at Sainsbury have led to repeated prosecution by trading standards, chief executive Justin King admitted at the company agm on Monday.Most recently, the company was fined £18,000 last month after it was discovered that...
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Tesco in china
Tesco has entered the Chinese market in a joint venture,as predicted in The Grocer (March 6, p16) The 50:50 agreement is between Tesco and Ting Hsin, for its subsidiary Hymall stores. Tesco will acquire 50% of the equity for Hymall for...
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Food standalones will continue
Marks and Spencer will unveil a radical new look for its food offer in its Basingstoke store this autumn as part of a series of initiatives to revive food sales.This will be followed in January by a new dieting concept and developments in...
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Sainsbury hurts Somerfield
Sainsbury recently opened a new £16m store in Selsdon, the first to open under the company’s new group chief executive Justin King.The development had faced considerable opposition from a local MP and Croydon Council, which rejected the...