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Motoring ahead
What's the story behind Tesco's rising interest in forecourt stores? Camilla Palmer reports The race to capture consumers while they fill up their cars with fuel, or snap up a paper, chocolate bar and a pork pie, has suddenly got faster with the...
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Alnwick wrangle ends in compensation
A settlement has finally been reached in a lengthy and costly row that blew up after the government rejected plans for a Safeway superstore on land bought from the Duke of Northumberland. The Duke has agreed to buy back at an inflated price 12...
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Safeway launches a further attack on suppliers' purses
Exclusive Julian Hunt Safeway has come up with a new wheeze to squeeze huge sums of cash out of suppliers. At the end of last year the multiple ran into a storm of protest when it asked manufacturers to stump up £20m to support its 1,000 ...
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Local: reassuring talk?
Mark Rollmann walked into the lion's den at Gleneagles and emerged, practically unscathed, out the other side. Rollmann, as general manager for Sainsbury's Local, represents the new kid on the block as the multiple stores muscle in. He looks after...
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Bishop goes to Costcutter
Ian Bishop has joined Costcutter as project marketing manager after an acrimonious departure from Select and Save where he was retail marketing manager. Bishop left the symbol group following a difference of opinion with director Steve Jones, who...
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How british retailers are meeting online shopping orders
l Asda has two dedicated warehouses in Croydon and Watford serving one million customers in the London area, with two more scheduled to open in the second half of this year. It anticipates building a national network of 12-15 depots over the next...
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Howegarden receivership
Howegarden has gone into receivership owing in the region of £2m. It supplied more than £10m of produce to major multiples, including Tesco Sainsbury and Somerfield. The business is still continuing to trade and the receivers are hoping to sell…
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WELL, HELLO DOLLIES!
Following successful trials with a number of suppliers and logistics providers in the pioneering use of dollies, Tesco is planning to extend its phased rollout of these merchandising units to handle bulk volume ambient lines over the next few...
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ASDA: clout compatibility
Asda chief executive Allan Leighton was "not surprised" by the positive comments from the Competition Commission. "The effect we have had on inflation is greater than anything the Chancellor has done," he told The Grocer. "I have always been fairly...
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The other winners
Conserving Farmland Biodiversity Award, sponsored by English Nature and Sainsbury David Wood of Whinney Hill in Northumberland Farming Ambassador of the Year, sponsored by Asda David Milner of the West Midlands Show Group Young Farmer of...
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Norman now at Hague's right hand
Former Asda chairman Archie Norman has severed his final link with the company after resigning as a consultant, following his elevation to the post of shadow minister for transport, environment and the regions. The promotion to William Hague's...
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Tesco: satisfaction
Tesco CEO Terry Leahy congratulated the Competition Commission for "not getting sucked into the general uninformed clamour" about supermarkets' profitability. Admitting he was "a little surprised" by the positive comments from the Commission in...
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Outlandish Icelandic
A £5.4m TV ad campaign for the premixed spirit Metz breaks on Monday featuring an Icelandic strapline. The ad revolves around the Judderman and has the endline Judder pydir Metz og Schnapps' which translates as Judder means Metz. This is designed...
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Sainsbury scours urban jungles for Local sites
Exclusive Camilla Palmer Sainsbury is finding it impossible to grow the Local c-store chain as fast as it would like because it cannot find enough sites to develop. The multiple has been placing discrete ads in which it says it is "urgently"...
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JS: the Lille thing
Operated by P&O, Sainsbury's first distribution centre on French soil has proved a bonus all round. Nicola Gordon-Seymour reports on progress to date Sainsbury's decision to open its first European primary consolidation centre in Lille last...
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Regional sourcing on target says Somerfield
Nicola Gordon-Seymour Somerfield says its Regional Sourcing Initiative is on track, despite being hit by delays in the south east. The multiple launched the initiative last October in conjunction with Food from Britain with the aim of sourcing up...
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Tesco: a fully automated future
One computer holds the key to the chain's fast track distribution in 2001 meet Tess of the multiples Tesco is trialling a high speed automated cross docking materials handling system at its composite distribution centre in Southampton. Tesco...
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Londis builds up team as Scottish drive nears
Londis has started its recruitment drive in the far north and Scotland which will make it a "national player" for the first time. Three new business development managers for Scotland have already joined the company. Tony Gallagher comes from Spar...
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Asda on top in battle for loyalty but price wars have done h
Asda is the star performer of the latest Verdict report on the shopping habits of UK consumers. The report says Asda has overtaken Sainsbury to take number two spot in the hearts of the UK shopper gaining number one spot in the loyalty stakes. It...