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Courvoisier wraps it up
Courvoisier is being packaged in a gift box for added seasonal appeal. The pack features a 35cl bottle of Courvoisier VS Cognac with a brandy balloon glass and will be available in Sainsbury's, Asda and Makro for £9.99. The back of the pack...
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Not for Tesco a slow and painful Sainsbury-style advent into
Then it can get on with its plans to convert 450 prime sites to its lucrative Express format over the next three to four years. The masterplan is to use T&S's distribution network to serve the new standalone Express chain and around 400 residual One...
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Safeway thrives on off-fixtures
Morrisons and Tesco remain at the top of the retailers' chart with Morrisons pulling slightly further ahead. Tesco is being chased by Safeway, which has moved up from number five. The success of Safeway this week is due in part to the...
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Single shop as Nature shrinks
Elaine Watson Organics chain As Nature Intended, the brainchild of former Iceland boss Malcolm Walker, has imploded with the sale of the East Sheen store and the closure of the warehouse in Acton. As Nature Intended MD Pippa Sterry has left...
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Tesco skates on Streatham ice
Tesco has put in a planning application for a mixed-use regeneration scheme in Streatham, south London. The scheme will include a new 38,000 sq ft Tesco store, private and affordable housing, a public square, improved public transport links and...
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Spar Kick Starts Pub As Hub
Midlands Spar wholesaler AF Blakemore has recruited the first pubs to branch out into convenience retailing as part of its ‘pub as the hub’ initiative to encourage rural businesses to join Spar.Retail director Elwyn Davies said two pubs in...
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Londis Deal With Moneybox
Londis has claimed an improved deal with cash machine provider Moneybox could help net each of its stores £11,000 extra profit per year.Moneybox has agreed to install its self-fill cash machine, which it believes is the smallest footprint...
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Safeway Launches £2m TV Ad Campaign
Safeway has moved back onto TV screens with a £2m ad campaign it claims will take supermarket advertising into a “new dimension”.Safeway canned its talking toddler adsa along with its ABC loyalty card on the grounds cash was better spent on...
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Tesco buys T&S Stores
Tesco has agreed to buy convenience store group T&S Stores for £377.3m to boost its presence in the convenience market.T&S's portfolio of stores includes more than 1,200 shops including 862 convenience stores under the One Stop and Day &...
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Stock failures revealed
Elaine Watson Tesco and Sainsbury are missing out on a major sales opportunity through poor product availability, according to new research by Taylor Nelson Sofres revealed at the Schroder Salomon Smith Barney Food Retailing conference. Data...
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Stock failures revealed
Tesco and Sainsbury are missing out on a major sales opportunity through poor product availability, according to new research by Taylor Nelson Sofres revealed at the Schroder Salomon Smith Barney Food Retailing conference.Data from TNS...
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Co-op closes Alldays deal
The Co-operative Group has bought convenience store operator Alldays for some £131m from receivers PricewaterhouseCoopers.Co-operative Group chief executive Martin Beaumont, said: “This deal establishes the Co-operative Group as the UK’s...
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Sian harrington
Safeway chief executive Carlos Criado-Perez says the company is determined to remain independent in light of market talk of a bid from Asda, but the retailer's share of trade continues to fall, placing it in a vulnerable position. Our TradeTrak...
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Potential of Russia huge
The Russian grocery retail market is huge, untapped and ripe for consolidation, delegates at the SSSB annual food retailing conference were told. Former Somerfield home shopping boss David Noble, now a supervisory board director at St Petersburg...
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Aldi/Lidl cocking a snook' at the Irish
Discount chains Aldi and Lidl give consumers in the Irish Republic very little option to buy Irish-produced goods, according to a survey by the independent grocers' group, RGDATA. It found that with Aldi, only 19% of products were of...
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Twist is ready to dance for the nation
Bacardi-Martini is ready for a national roll out of its Breezer Twist after a four-month trial in Tesco. Breezer Twist's range of fruit-flavoured spirits comes in three versions, lime, watermelon, and mango with passion fruit, each with a...
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Sir Peter defends margins claim
John Wood Sainsbury chief executive Sir Peter Davis mounted a robust defence of his claim that his company will achieve industry leading margins at the Schroder Salomon Smith Barney Annual Food Retailing Conference. Sir Peter was challenged...
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Clubcard partners
Allders and Dollond & Aitchison have signed up as partners for Tesco's Clubcard and are the first of many, according to the retailer. Tesco is negotiating with "a number of other companies", said a spokesman, to make loyalty points available "in...
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DEFRA hands new role to Davis
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 on its strategy in early December and the...
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Musgrave advances distribution network
Irish wholesaler Musgrave has installed an “advanced” food distribution network at six of its chilled and ambient warehouses so the group to operate a stock-free environment with maximum use of space.The group said the end-to-end solution...