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UK majors circle over Ahold
Sean McAllister Tesco and Sainsbury may be potential buyers for assets of Dutch retailer Ahold after "significant accounting irregularities" were uncovered and chief executive officer Cees van der Hoeven and chief financial officer Michael Meurs...
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Red Navel for M&S
A little known variety of pigmented Navel orange has gone on sale in Marks and Spencer. The orange, called Cara Cara, is being sold in pre-packs of five fruit for £2.49. The red fleshed variety was first discovered in Venezuela some 30 years...
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Spar chairman takes on BRC role
The British Retail Consortium has signalled its intention to increase its focus on small store issues with the appointment of Spar's Morton Middleditch as deputy chairman. Middleditch, who is Spar UK's chairman, fills a gap created by the...
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Alliance meets JS needs
Five of the best known tomato growers have set up new marketing company Fresh Link Marketing to exclusively serve Sainsbury, although individually they will continue to supply other retailers. Wight Salads, the Jersey Produce Marketing...
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Waitrose keeps up speedy switch to new Quick Check
Waitrose is to convert 34 more stores to a second generation Quick Check system and put the facility in seven new stores between April and December 2003. The new radio frequency controlled version of Quick Check called Storewave is already live...
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Up close and personable
Although Morrisons remains at the top of the retailer chart Asda has rapidly closed the gap between them and comes in just two percentage points behind at number two. Buy one get one free offers and other multibuy promotions appear to dominate...
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Tesco revives Duo box concept
Rosie Davenport Tesco is hoping to refuel interest in a forgotten wine packaging innovation by giving the two wines in one box concept a new outing. It is following in rival Sainsbury's footsteps by teaming up with Darlington Wines to...
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Marriott joins Tesco’s Clubcard
Tesco has signed up Marriott Hotels to its Clubcard scheme, which will allow loyalty card members to collect Clubcard points in all of Marriott hotels around the world.Marriott Hotels has 2,300 hotels worldwide, with 69 in England, 58 of...
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Safeway backdrop as code review launched
Elaine Watson The OFT has announced plans to review the code of practice as concerns over Safeway's alleged heavy-handed tactics towards suppliers gather pace. Although a review of the code is separate to the OFT's inquiry into the Safeway...
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Farmers' faces go on to labels
Ed Bedington Beef farmers are set to get a higher profile in Somerfield stores by appearing on their products' labels. The retailer has introduced a scheme to highlight the name of its farmers of Scotch beef for its premium So Good'...
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The Co-operative Group's non-food strategy is full of Orient
Staff from New Century House now deal direct with the Chinese federation, which represents more than 2,000 manufacturing co-ops and state-owned and private firms, to get cut-price goods which are translated into WOWs in market town stores. (The...
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Wal-Mart cheers Asda doubles
Sean McAllister Wal-Mart has reported a strong performance from Asda with "double digit" sales growth in the year to January 31 and an even higher profit growth. Asda's like-for-like sales growth for the year, excluding petrol, was in the...
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BP's c-store ambitions
Siân Harrington BP has set its sights on Tesco and Sainsbury in convenience as its begins a strategy to persuade consumers it is the c-store of choice. Retail director Graham Sims said the oil giant was leading the convenience revolution in...
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JS raises its game
A cost-savings project carried out by Sainsbury and business improvement company Cobalt was highly commended at the national 2003 Management Consultancy Awards. The three-year cost savings project, started in 1999, was expected to deliver...
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Sainsbury takes a leap
Morrisons remains top of the fascia chart for promotions. A combination of price promotions and multi-buy offers across all categories helped Morrisons to open up a big gap between itself and its competitors last week. This week the gap has...
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Cereals is one of those product areas that any store manager
In the cereals category this week the two highest promoters were Sainsbury and Safeway, with a promoted to non-promoted sku ratio of 28%. The average ratio is just 18%. The results are interesting for a number of reasons. The average out of...
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Liston for Musgrave
Managing director of Heineken Ireland, Padraic Liston, is to become group commercial director of the Musgrave Group. Liston will report directly to Musgrave Group MD Seamus Scally and will join the company on March 3. Scally said: "Padraic...
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Four more for Unwind screwcap range
Tesco is continuing to extend the number of wines available in screwcaps with the introduction of a batch of new wines. Four wines are joining Tesco's own-label Unwind range next month, taking the total number to 10. Tesco's product development...
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Asda working to boost morale with NVQ trials
Asda has begun a workplace training scheme to give 1,000 staff the chance to train for apprenticeships and National Vocational Qualifications.A trial is being run in eight London stores following the validation of the company’s in-house...
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Waitrose links with Irish retailer
Waitrose products will be available in the Irish Republic for the first time following a joint trading agreement between the British retailer and Superquinn.Under the deal, a range of 110 prepacked chilled Waitrose products will be sold in...