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Make us the first door you knock on M&S food boss urges supp
Exclusive Julian Hunt The head of Marks and Spencer's food business is urging suppliers with new product ideas to make the chain their first point of call even if they don't already do business with it. In his first interview since joining M&S...
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Sainsbury has relaunched its corporate web site at www.j-sai
Ahold's Scandinavian subsidiary ICA plans to double its presence in Latvia within two years by opening 25 new stores. US multiple Target has brought a lawsuit against rival Kmart accusing it of false advertising, unlawful and deceptive trade...
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Spar's Zimbabwe subsidiary set to grow through alliance
Spar South Africa's Zimbabwean subsidiary is to be expanded following a tie-up with leading Zimbabwean food and leisure group Innscor. Under the deal, Innscor will take control of the Spar distribution centre in the capital Harare and a 65%...
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McHugh goes from JS e-commerce
Sainsbury has lost its group e-commerce head Patrick McHugh, instrumental in the company's involvement in the B2B exchange, GNX. The news of his departure in June not announced by Sainsbury until now comes hot on the heels of the resignation of...
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Marks and Spencer: M&S to trial Indian franchise stores
Marks and Spencer is to tackle India with plans to open two trial franchises in October. The company has formed a partnership with Planet Sports for stores in Bombay and New Delhi, scaled down from the usual 40,000 sq ft to 8,000 sq ft, and selling...
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Spar: Tates set for biggest ever
Spar UK's most powerful member is planning to build its biggest ever store. Tates, the company owned stores division of Spar UK's biggest wholesaler AF Blakemore, is awaiting planing permission for a store in mid Wales of about 6,000 sq ft, and...
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Multiples: Asda doing well again' with strong sales growth
Asda has returned from the "relative doldrums" of six to nine months ago and is now outtrading the rest of the industry, said analysts as Wal-Mart released its half-year results this week. Parent company Wal-Mart does not publish separate figures...
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Sainsbury: Taste Network axed, then Angela Megson moves on
Sainsbury has suffered its second blow in the e-commerce arena with the resignation of home shopping supremo Angela Megson. The chain has just pulled the plug on its digital tv channel the Taste Network a joint venture with Carlton Communications...
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Co-operative Group: Three in One divi card is a hit with sho
The launch of a new variation on Co-operative Group's Dividend card has proved a hit with more than 200,000 customers signing up. The Three and One Dividend card, which earns 3% back on all Co-op branded and fresh goods and 1% on all other...
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The Grocer focus on speciality & fine foods: passionate abou
A major part of any retailer's speciality food portfolio is cheese. But to make it special it has to have that certain something and, according to Waitrose cheese buyer Graham Cassie, that is passion. One of their main characteristics is that they...
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Online retailing: Tesco targets Mothercare with baby site
Tesco has launched a new web site offering parents and prospective parents advice, information, shopping facilities and chatrooms to talk to other parents about their experiences. The You and Your Child site accessed via Tesco.com deals with issues...
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Sainsbury: SIXTY STORES TO GET HOME SHOP
Sainsbury aims to put its expanded cookware range into 60 stores in the next two years. The Home Shop is now in 22 stores and will go into Harrogate and Burton-on-Trent next month; the range is usually introduced when shops are "reinvigorated"....
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Co-op decides honesty the best policy for selling own label
The Co-op is extending its honest-labelling policy to cover its entire range of own-label wines and is celebrating the move in its first ever women's press campaign. The £1m push, which aims to highlight the group's self-proclaimed position as a...
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Convenience stores: Connex stations set for 40 stores
Exclusive Anne Bruce Railway stations have become the latest battle ground for convenience operators with French catering giant Elior preparing to launch a co-branded c-store chain. The news comes a week after Marks and Spencer revealed it was...
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Co-op: Farmcare overhauled
The Co-operative Group has carried out a major overhaul of its farming operation Farmcare which is intended to make it more customer oriented. Following the review and a restructuring of the management team, Farmcare, one of the UK's largest...
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Lamb: Longer tail looms to FMD than predicted
In Cumbrian hotspot cases more than doubled in week to August 4 Leaflets from the Co-Op promoting fresh lamb shoulder at half price, £1.99 per kg, dropped into household letter boxes at Penrith, Cumbria on Monday, a day after the announcement by...
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Sainsbury: Parrot talk with Oliver
Sainsbury is to add a further 50 lines to its Blue Parrot Café range of food for children this summer. Sales of the range, which currently consists of 150 products, are set to exceed £45m this year. A spokeswoman said awareness of the range among...
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Apples: Jazz debut at Marks
Marks and Spencer is promoting the latest New Zealand apple variety called Jazz for the first time this season. The bicoloured fruit is a Braeburn/Royal Gala cross and is harvested later than either. Because of its tolerance to storage it can be...
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This FT story really is a bit of a flop...
Oh dear. You know the silly season has started in earnest when the Financial Times runs a story about how the popularity of flip-flops has led to a surge in the sale of plasters at Sainsbury. We kid you not. Such a story appeared in the pink 'un...
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Tesco: New deli trialled
Tesco is following Safeway and Sainsbury's lead as it trials new deli counters at its Bar Hill superstore, north of Cambridge. The new look store boasts Continental-style touches such as Tesco's first ever self service olive bar. Other innovations...