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Nutri Centre debut at Tesco
Tesco has opened the first in-store Nutri Centre in its flagship store in West Kensington, London. In the joint venture, customers will be able to purchase more than 3,000 herbal and homeopathic remedies, aromatherapy oils, vitamins, minerals...
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Hit or Miss?
>> How is one of last year's top launches faring?Nestlé’s Nesquik Fresh, launched in July 2003, signalled the brand’s first foray into fridges.And the milk drink got off to a good start with listings in Tesco, Sainsbury,...
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Tesco's one stop shop
Not for Tesco a slow and painful Sainsbury-style advent into convenience beset by planning battles and distribution problems. Instead it is grabbing a 5% slice of the convenience market in one go. All it needs is T&S’s shareholders to rubberstamp...
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Asda supports road safety initiative
Asda has donated 300 high visibility jacket as part of its support to a new initiative by Leeds City Council to offer road safety training to children.At the same time Asda pledged its support to similar schemes across the country by...
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Wetherspoon to match supermarket prices
Pub group Wetherspoon is to match or undercut prices at Sainsbury’s on products such as Guinness and Red Bull as part of its festive marketing campaign at its 616-strong estate.From Monday, November 11 the company will charge £1.69 for a...
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Asda laps up local milk in Scotland
Graham’s Dairies – Scotland's largest independent family-owned dairy operation – will supply milk to 16 of Asda’s stores around Glasgow as part of the chain’s “Scotland’s Best local sourcing initiative”.Carrying the Graham’s Dairies label,...
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M&S unveils festive ads
Marks and Spencer today unwrapped its new christmas TV advertisement featuring eight celebrities including Denise Van Outen, David Beckham and Sean Bean.The ad aims to give a taste of the selection of christmas gifts and ideas available at...
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C-sector is set to fight
The Grocer news team Tesco won't find convenience retailing as easy as it thinks warned industry chiefs following its bid to buy an 862 storechunk of the market. AF Blakemore retail director Elwyn Davies said: "This is only bad news for bad...
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Birds Eye Chicken Lattice 2 for £2 Gondola end Asd
Birds Eye Fish Fingers 240g Buy one get one free Gondola end Sainsbury Cadbury's Ice Creams 4 Buy one get one free Gondola end Sainsbury Cadbury's Mighty Mini Cooki's 75g ...
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MORRISONS is the THREAT TO TESCO
from D Wakeling, Crabtree, Paston, Peterborough Sir; with reference to your Store Analysis report (October 12, p23) where you analysed why Morrisons would want to trade from Enfield when there were two Tesco stores and a Sainsbury within...
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Asda reinforces work on supply chain ops
Rod Addy Asda has promoted deputy trading director Dave Cheesewright to logistics director with a brief to significantly improve supply chain operations. The multiple said Cheesewright's move followed a highly successful year working for...
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A hit that's only faintly bruising
A good performance by Safeway and Sainsbury helped to prevent our basket of shares from taking an alarming dip this month. However, even though many of our companies are outperforming the market, we took a loss of £37.Tesco dropped a few...
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Northernmost
Budgens has opened its northernmost store in Lindrick, Nottinghamshire, taking the company's tally to 231 stores. cranswick sarnies Value added meats specialist Cranswick has moved into the sandwich market with the acquisition of North...
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Extra Special swells to twice the size
Mary Carmichael Asda is stepping up the battle for dominance in the premium own label market by almost doubling the size of its Extra Special range. The expanded range, which covers the spectrum of meal occasions, will include 250 products...
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English apple push sees results
Ed Bedington Sainsbury's campaign to boost English top fruit is beginning to show results in terms of market share, according to the multiple. Pear buyer Jay Norbury said the focus on English top fruit was producing results: "Market share...
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londis upgrade
Londis has completed a £1.3m upgrade of its Thamesmead distribution centre. The symbol group said the investment would improve on-site vehicle circulation and increase operational efficiency. nisa-today's call The National...
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Worshipful staff at the meat counter
Safeway is celebrating the expertise of some of its butchers who have won accreditation with the Worshipful Company of Butchers. More than 150 received the award after a three-day course, and 10 were honoured as outstanding. The Safeway...
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Sir Peter's eye on Curry work
John Wood Sainsbury chief executive Sir Peter Davis will be a member of the nine-strong implementation group charged with delivering DEFRA's sustainable food and farming policy. DEFRA is expected to report its strategy in early December and...
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Microwaveable meat launched
Ed Bedington Somerfield has claimed a first with the launch of a wide range of microwaveable meats. The multiple said it believed it was the first to offer such a wide selection of products, ranged across pork, lamb and beef. Charlotte...
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Focus On: Butters and spreads. Vox Shop.
Plea for DynamismPrasheel Kunwardia, Somerfield product group manager, cheese and yellow fats Kunwardia says more NPD work needs to be done to reverse volume declines. "Suppliers and multiples need to be more dynamic and aggressive with...