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Bags must be reusable, not degradable
from John Bunnell, East Portlemouth, DevonSir; I am dismayed that Tesco has agreed to buy degradable bags. The justification for degradability is suspect and the effectiveness more so.I was the MD of Alida Packaging in the...
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Tesco gets chewing
n Tesco has muscled in on the Wrigley-led chewing gum and breath-freshening strips markets with new own label products.n Its peppermint and spearmint gum, produced in Denmark, comes in...
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Tesco challenge to Boots
Tesco is to launch a £70m price-cutting campaign to focus mainly on its health and beauty range. The UK’s leading grocer said it would lower the price of more than 600 health, beauty and baby products, such as toothpaste, medicines and baby...
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Asda rings up record festive sales
Asda said it rang up 18 million transactions in the week before Christmas and that 38 customers-a-second went through its checkouts on December 23.The UK’s second largest grocer said a record 252 of its 265 stores broke the £1m sales barrier...
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Review of the year
Sir Ken Morrison passed the post with his £3bn bid for Safeway. Asda leapfrogged Sainsbury to No 2 spot.Anger turned to active protest as symbol groups united over paypoint margins. Tobacco ads were banned. The food...
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Pode goes to M&S
Marks and Spencer has headhunted one of Sainsbury’s senior marketing people to become its head of marketing for its food division.Miranda Pode, who will join M&S in January, was head of strategy in Sainsbury’s marketing division and had also...
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Morrisons to divest 140 smaller Safeway stores
Morrisons is set to bring in £250m by selling 140 of Safeway’s smaller convenience stores after acquiring the supermarket group last week.Weekend press reports suggest that the Big Food Group, Somerfield and German discounters Netto and Aldi...
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join the club
n Tesco has global ambitions for its data warehouse giving suppliers access to critical marketing information says Ed Bedington Tesco's understanding of its customer has been a key factor in the retailer's meteoric rise. But can the use of the same...
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Payouts spark rebellion
Londis retailers look set to reject Musgrave’s offer for the group, because of their anger over massive payouts it will trigger for four Londis directors.A telephone poll for The Grocer of 190 Londis retailers (10% of the entire membership)...
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Grimsey puts his offer in
A bidding war for Londis loomed as The Grocer went to press, with Big Food Group entering the fray and Nisa-Today’s considering its options. Big Food Group, which has sent out a letter to Londis shareholders urging them to reject Musgrave’s...
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New year brings new battles
Most food retailers have taken the windfall sales opportunities that Christmas offers. As ACNielsen has indicated since summer, there has been a momentum building within Tesco, Asda and latterly Morrisons that takes these retailers into 2004 with a...
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Snacks join the party
Tesco moves up to the top of the chart this week, forcing Sainsbury down to second place although there are fewer than two percentage points between them. Both retailers are really strong on promotions on alcoholic drinks with price promotions...
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They’d like a word...
Morrisons is finally tightening its grip on Safeway. Now it will move fast to get things running its way. What can suppliers expect? Elaine Watson reportsWith almost a year now elapsed since Morrisons stunned the trade with a bid for...
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Sensation at Sainsbury
Sainsbury is trialling a new red variety of the Green Comice pear, called Sweet Sensation, in 80 stores.The new red pear has taken Sainsbury’s Dutch pear supplier, Van Doorn, almost four years to cultivate and grow. As the name suggests, it is...
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Tesco starts chewing at Wrigley
Tesco is aiming to chew a strip off Wrigley by launching its own chewing gum range and even an own label version of new fad breath freshening strips.Britain’s top retailer is aiming to muscle in on the £269m gum category [ACNielsen] with the...
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Seeking a fair deal for shareholders
from Adrian Costain, Londis Shareholders’ Action GroupSir; I write to explain how the Londis Shareholders’ Action Group (LSAG) came to be. We hope this will help to ensure that in future the standards of corporate governance in the...
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Retailers need a say in their future
from Bernard Warren, retail vice-chairman, Spar National Guild and Spar retailer, Wool, DorsetSir; Re your story and feature last week about Musgrave’s bid for Londis. Londis has long been one of Spar’s competitors in the...
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The world has changed
Even if one puts Morrisons’ swoop on Safeway to one side, the year was marked by constant upheaval with both retail and supply sides remaining hellbent on consolidation. As Asda’s star rose, Sainsbury struggled to leave behind poor relation...
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Asda sprouts campaign
Asda has named Longwell Green in Bristol Britain’s sprout-eating capital, whose residents on average eat 85 sprouts per week. The chain’s store in Longwell Green sells 621,675 sprouts each week. Last week, Safeway claimed...
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Asda lever ‘won’t hit’ Morrisons
A proposal by Asda to buy 70 Safeway stores will not deter Morrisons from making a bid for the beleaguered supermarket group within days, according to industry sources.Asda refused to confirm or deny the latest development, but sources close to...