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Fifty new products plus from Marks
Marks and Spencer is continuing to extend its grocery offer with the chain, which has long relied on its food aisles to pull in shoppers, adding more than 50 new products to its repertoire. These include additions to M&S's healthy-eating Count On...
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SAFEWAY: GONZALES WORKS WONDERS
It might have been the stuff of nightmares but Safeway's stock strategy behind high:low pricing has proved a winner says Sarah Hardcastle S afeway's high:low promotions strategy, known in the company as Gonzales, has been hugely instrumental in...
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Hands off Sundays, Sir Peter!
Sir; Sir Peter Davis must be the current UK grocery champion with his outstanding leadership of Sainsbury's recovery. He is reported by Nigel Cope, City editor of The Independent (January 15) as seeking longer trading hours for Sundays in the...
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Jerry Marwood to take over from Middleditch at Spar
Exclusive John Wood Newshops managing director Jerry Marwood will take over the top job in the UK symbol sector in May, when Spar UK managing director Morton Middleditch stands down. In a surprise move, Middleditch announced this week that he...
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NORPAK ADDS TRAMPING'
United Co-op subsidiary Norpak says the doubling of its coldstore capacity to 14,000 pallets is now starting to pay dividends. Over the Christmas period it found additional capacity was badly needed. Managing director Gerry Finnerty says...
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Asda, Morrisons the real winners
BY THE GROCER NEWS TEAM Publication of the first of our TradeTrak market share figures, produced by ACNielsen, coincides with the release of Christmas trading statements by many of the retailers included in our table. Our data is for the 12-week...
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European leaders must get to grips with change'
Europe needs to adopt a fresh approach to farming, food safety and product innovation, according to Unilever chairman Niall FitzGerald. Speaking at the second City Food Lecture sponsored by Sainsbury, FitzGerald said: "We must embrace change not...
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Kwik Save to get more non food lines
Somerfield is planning to expand the non food offer within its Kwik Save stores following successful trials. The non food initiative has been tested in 25 stores in Wales and the North West of England since September. Kwik Save commercial director...
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Soya integrity hinders pledge on pork
A year after Tesco and Asda pledged to source all chicken and pork from animals fed non-GM diets, they have failed to meet their targets on pork. Although they attribute the delay to foot and mouth disease, industry sources say the multiples are...
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Tesco struggles to grow market share
Further proof that the Tesco grocery juggernaut may finally be slowing comes this week with the first publication of The Grocer's TradeTrak market share figures in association with ACNielsen. For the 12-week period ending December 29, Tesco's share...
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Tesco has bought United Co-op's Hindley superstore near Wiga
Boots said early results of its standalone operations at six Sainsbury supermarkets were encouraging as it delivered better-than-expected sales figures for autumn and Christmas. Independent cashpoint provider Moneybox is to put its cashpoints on...
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Supplier consternation at ex-factory gate plans
The Grocer's exclusive report that Sainsbury and Tesco are planning to introduce ex-factory gate pricing across all categories (The Grocer, November 3) has sparked a frenzy among suppliers. The IGD has been inundated with questions as it prepares...
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Compact Cafe Fresco tried
Safeway is trialling a scaled down Cafe Fresco instore restaurant at Welling Garden City in Hertfordshire. The new compact version, which opened in December, is a move away from the ambitious high volume foodie restaurant which launched last April ...
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Somerfield to unveil new logo
All of Somerfield's stores will be rebadged with a new logo, although the process could take several years. Chief executive Alan Smith said the company was finalising a new corporate logo likely to be unveiled on a new store in about three months,...
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Budgens hits accelerator with aggressive expansion targets
Budgens' new site acquisition team is targeting 20 new sites a year, four times its traditional annual growth rate of about five new stores. Budgens chief executive Martin Hyson said he was confident the company could sustain its aggressive...
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TESCO: CR steams ahead in phase two
Tesco says it has been delighted by ongoing success with CR as fresh produce joined the fray last year says Sarah Hardcastle T esco has fully implemented the second phase of its continuous replenishment programme, a ground-breaking distribution...
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The boss of online delivered wholesaler Blueheath believes h
As any good science student knows, a catalyst is an agent you add to speed up developments and, as such, is a word Colin Smith feels aptly sums up the effect Blueheath will have on the wholesale sector. The former Safeway chief executive is...
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M&S steams ahead with plans for railway Simply Food sites
Exclusive Marks and Spencer plans to open at least 40 Simply Food stores on railway station concourses this year as it looks to accelerate the rollout of its new c-store format. The chain is steaming into railway stations in partnership with SSP,...
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More Duchy lines on shelf
Prince Charles' burgeoning Duchy Originals organics label is seeing in the new year with a raft of new launches. In preserves, blackcurrant (rsp: £2.45) debuts in Safeway this month while English Damson (£2.45) and Balmoral Heather Honey (£3.29)...