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Quality food central to recovery at Sainsbury
New food ranges, extra customer care and better use of shopper data are aiding Sainsbury's recovery, according to chief executive Sir Peter Davis. Customer numbers jumped from 9.8 million last year to 10.8 million, which he said were both new and...
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n With the latest results out, is there hard proof Sir Peter
Sainsbury's fortunes have seemed rather like a runaway trolley over the last few years, complete with wobbly wheels. After years of growing market share, it began haemorrhaging customers and profits while arch rivals Tesco and Asda continued their...
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Can the giant really wake up?
For industry folk with long memories, and this writer is among them, the speeches at last weekend's Co-op Congress in Birmingham had a familiar ring. Sadly, some well meaning Co-op people have, for far too long, indulged in masochistic annual...
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Cadbury's Animals 200g Price promotion 69p Gondola end
Cadbury's cake bars 5 Buy one get one half price Gondola end Tesco Cadbury's ice creams Buy one get one free Gondola end Sainsbury Cadbury's Instant Hot Chocolate Break 400g ...
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Whitworths has been bought by its management, headed by chie
A reward for information leading to conviction of a gang of shop raiders has been doubled to £10,000 by Leeds Co-op, Yorkshire Co-op, Jacksons Stores and T&S Stores. Nield Group, which claims to be the biggest independent wholesale distributor and...
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No fears over M&S effect
Northern Foods chief executive Jo Stewart is optimistic that M&S's troubles will not impact on his business. Over exposure to Marks & Spencer, which provides about 30% of Northern's business, is not a cause for concern, Stewart emphasised. ...
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David Webster
Chairman Safeway IGD president I would like the next government to redouble its efforts to secure a speedy reform of CAP. We simply cannot continue to subsidise the overproduction of commodity foods. The government should also keep the...
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Asda cheapest in survey for fourth year running
Exclusive Sheila Eggleston Asda is still Britain's cheapest food retailer despite facing intense competition from arch rival Tesco. For the fourth year running, the Wal-Mart subsidiary has notched up the highest number of cheapest baskets in...
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Asda's decision to turn honest labelling into a competitive
When launching its 200-strong range of Good for you! products, Asda said: "We took a red pen approach and crossed out all the false and misleading product descriptions which can misinform and confuse customers. The result is a range which states the...
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Asda again steals show with the cheapest baskets full to the
Sheila Eggleston Asda has again emerged as Britain's best value supermarket, accounting for 24 of the cheapest baskets reported in The Grocer 33 shopping survey during the past year. The only blot on Asda's phenomenal record came this week, when...
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Steak-loving Americans will soon have a new word to add to t
Quorn got the go-ahead from MAFF in the UK back in 1985 when the first product to hit the shelves was Sainsbury's Quorn pie. The myco-protein now turns over $150m in the UK and Europe including the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden and extends its...
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Tesco: Online help for the blind
Tesco has adapted its online shopping service to cater for blind and partially sighted people, enabling another two million customers to buy goods from Tesco.com. Tesco collaborated closely with the Royal National Institute for the Blind to create...
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Adkin becomes operations director for AF Blakemore's Tates
Stuart Adkin is the new operations director of Tates, the company owned stores division of Spar wholesaler AF Blakemore. He replaces Geoff Hallam, who became managing director following the retirement of Colin Ellis. Adkin has been with the…
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ASDA PLAYS COPYCAT
Sir; We were amused to hear of Asda's latest initiative promising to be open and honest with its food labelling at least on 200 lines. As far back as 1995, the Co-op made a commitment to ensure all its labels gave as much clear information as...
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The Grocer focus on deli and food to go: It's all go at Spar
Spar is fully committed to the food to go concept. "It's highly successful, provided you have the right products, in the right location, at the right time," says trading controller Robert Neal. Spar began with a pilot scheme two years ago in a...
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Marks and Spencer: Vandevelde sees food as key to M&S reviva
We need to extend in food, home and beauty as well as financial services' An extended food operation is to be the lynchpin of M&S's recovery strategy. Chief executive and chairman Luc Vandevelde said: "Food is the best example of where we are...
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Executive moves: Craft moves on from Interbrew
Former Spar UK md Garry Craft has left his job as category development director at Interbrew. Craft left Spar two years ago and later joined the drinks side of Bass, taken over by Interbrew late last year. He said: "When I joined Bass it was on the...
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Waitrose: Costs dent profits but Felwick expects record
Waitrose md David Felwick is predicting record profits this year, despite profits for the year to January 27 dropping 11% to £57m. Sales for the same period were up 13% at £2,095m. Felwick said: "Profits during the first half of last year were...
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South Korea and Hungary: Tesco backs up rapid growth with ne
Tesco is building the infrastructure to support its rapid growth in South Korea and Hungary this year as work begins on two new state-of-the-art distribution facilities due to open in 2002. Tesco's success in Thailand has been attributed in part to...
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The Grocer focus on deli and food to go
analysis by Sarah Hardcastle - innovate your way out of deli decline - pre-pack banishes counter queues - food to go builds the margins The choice of TV chef Jamie Oliver to front Sainsbury's Try Before You Buy TV and in store campaign is more...