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Latina Brands has scored a hit with its debut range of moder
Launched in November last year in Waitrose and Sainsbury, the majority have been snapped up by other major retailers, including Safeway and Asda, and the range has gained praise from such hard-to-please critics as the Observer Food Monthly magazine....
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Spain to build on Tesco alliance
Ed Bedington Top Spanish officials have met Tesco bosses to thrash out plans to repeat and expand an innovative marketing deal. The success of the retailer's first-ever generic marketing campaign for the country's fresh produce this year led...
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Hunt calls for OFT referral of T&S buy
Federation of Wholesale Distributors chairman Rodney Hunt has called on the Office of Fair Trading to refer Tesco's bid for T&S Stores to the Competition Commission. Speaking at the FWD annual dinner, Hunt said Tesco's turnover in grocery was...
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Asda trips up as it doles out staff pay slips
Pay day cheer at Asda spilled out into the Cheshire store where a group of staff blocked the fruit and veg aisles as their pay slips were handed out. The group then remained there for several minutes swapping jokes before dispersing, to the...
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NPD gets online kick to backside
When Sainsbury first told suppliers about plans to develop all new own label products on the internet, it was not bowled over by their enthusiasm, admits product development manger Cathy Port.Aside from inevitable concerns over who was going to...
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Morrisons feels the squeeze
After the stability of last week there are now several changes in the retailer chart this week, although Morrisons still continues to claim the number one slot. Safeway and Asda have both moved up the chart to put the pressure on Morrisons....
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Customer: a person who buys. That is a dictionary definition
This is why Tesco works so hard to understand customers better than anyone else. We get to know their likes and dislikes and study what they buy and how they shop. Then, armed with this intelligence, we adapt. The offer we have made for T&S stores...
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Safeway's new product development team has been evolving ove
Batchelar says the team works with buyers and technologists and other departments. "Product developers work with all areas including marketing, design, buying, technical and retail roles. And we have introduced a quality management element into the...
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In profile: John Howells
Operations Manager, West Midlands Co-op.How would you describe your role?I manage a team of group managers who are each responsible for a number of stores. I work with them to help develop the team and the strategy for the food division. ...
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Tesco is our EU trump card
Clive Beddall, Budapest Hungary's food and drink providers believe their "homeland Tesco experience" will prove a trump card when their country becomes a full EU member in 2004 and they chase more UK business. Exhibiting at the country's...
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Pat on back for Waitrose
Waitrose has been commended for its innovative environment in a report by Accenture and the Talent Foundation. Innovation A Way of Being' praised the retailer for giving its permanent employees a stake in the ownership of the firm by making...
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A cut-throat christmas but merry?
Tesco's third-quarter trading statement this week has underlined one of the few certainties in the UK's increasingly volatile grocery market, namely that the operators focused on efficiency and low prices are the ones who are the most successful. ...
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Tesco has everything going for it
from John Gallanders, Hermitage Consultancy Services Sir; There appear to be certain sectors of the trade that are giving a negative view of the impending takeover of T&S by Tesco. Any business that expands will always have a major impact...
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Stores unite over T&S takeover
John Wood Pressure is being piled on the Office of Fair Trading to refer Tesco's takeover offer for T&S Stores to the Competition Commission. This week two more major players in the c-store sector made representations to the OFT and the...
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Shopping visits grow shorter
It is no surprise that Tesco and the other big supermarket retailers are keen to increase their presence in the convenience market when you analyse recent trends in shopping visits.Our survey, compiled exclusively for The Grocer from research we...
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Scottish Spar chain aims for 20% profit
Scottish Spar chain Botterills has set itself a sales target of £55.8m for the year to May 2003 and is aiming for 20% gross profit. Profits will be ploughed into extending and refurbishing the portfolio, with two or three new stores scheduled to...
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Stella's flying start to yuletide
The fascia chart remains stable this week in terms of positioning, with Morrisons, Safeway and Tesco making up the top three. Morrisons has pulled further ahead with a wide range of beers and lager on price promotion on floor stacks....
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The Best is made better
Safeway has become the latest retailer to raise the stakes in premium own label, claiming to have improved its The Best range and committing £2m support over the next year.Britain’s fourth largest supermarket chain also aims to double the...
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Multiples to monitor taint
Tesco, Sainsbury and Waitrose are planning to take part in an ambitious project to trial a new cork designed to limit wine taint. Sabaté, the French cork manufacturer, has produced 100,000 corks which are guaranteed to have half the amount of...
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Safeway to be clear on offers
Safeway has been rapped over the knuckles by advertising watchdogs for making misleading availability claims in a leaflet promoting French Boules.The leaflet in question promoted an offer on a French Boules 2 pack at two of the supermarket’s...