Channels news – Page 478
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NewsMedia Bites 22 Feb: Just Eat, Kraft Heinz, Sainsbury's/Asda
US competitor to Just Eat, Uber Eats announced plans to cut the fees it charges restaurants on Thursday (21 February)
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NewsUber Eats squares up to Just Eat with new service
Previously, Uber Eats only allowed restaurants to sell on its app while also using its couriers for delivery
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NewsSainsbury's shares plunge in the wake of CMA Asda deal objections
Sainsbury’s shares have tanked to a lower level than they were trading at before last year’s announcement of the blockbuster merger with Asda due to City fears the Competition & Markets Authority has today killed the deal.
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NewsJuul to expand sales team to break into c-stores
Juul Labs UK will triple its field force by the end of April
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NewsPoundland creates transformation team to reinvent proposition
Mat Ankers, currently finance director of Poundland’s in-store Pep&Co clothing chain, will head up the team in the new post of transformation director
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NewsSainsbury’s facing uphill battle to overturn CMA decision
Mike Coupe accused the CMA of “moving the goalposts” on the deal and disputed the methodology used to claim it would lead to higher prices nationally
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NewsWaitrose adds online 'aisle' for certified B Corp products
The trial bands together 20 brands and 50 products for sale on its website
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NewsKroger names more locations for Ocado-powered CFCs
The latest announcement comes less than two weeks after Ocado’s automated warehouse in Andover was destroyed by a fire
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NewsMedia Bites 20 Feb: Asda, Iceland, Greggs
Asda said same-store sales grew by 1% over the fourth quarter, marking its seventh consecutive period of sales growth
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NewsB&M Stores to contest Adjudicator governance in court
The discount chain was added to the list of ‘designated’ retailers to be policed by the GCA, along with Ocado, in November
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NewsWaitrose to roll out energy-saving fridge tech at all stores
Waitrose will begin installing the technology in all 349 stores next month
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NewsDominic Taylor to step down as PayPoint CEO after 21 years
He will be replaced by former eBay and Diageo executive Patrick Headon
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NewsAldi trials direct charity food donations at 24 stores
The rollout will see three million meals donated a year
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NewsCity snapshot: McColl's returns to like-for-like sales growth
Profits halved and like-for-like sales slumped at the chain in 2018, blaming supply disruption from Palmer & Harvey’s collapse earlier in the year
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NewsCity snapshot: Vegan sausage roll success boosts profits at Greggs
Greggs said it has made an “exceptionally strong start” to 2019
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NewsPatisserie Holdings-owned Baker & Spice sold to Department of Coffee and Social Affairs
KPMG confirmed that the independent coffee chain has bought four Baker & Spice outlets in London Coffee shop chain Department of Coffee and Social Affairs has acquired the London-based Baker & Spice bistro chain from the striken former parent company of Patisserie Valerie. KPMG confirmed this morning ...
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NewsSainsbury's bumps up prices for 150 beers and ciders
The super has upped the cost of a swathe of larger-format bottled SKUs from some of Britain’s biggest beer and cider brands
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NewsAbel & Cole to launch new delivery service for workplaces
Deliveries will be made by bicycle from a warehouse in east London’s Hoxton, using third-party couriers
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NewsTulip loses big M&S contract to add to Danish Crown's woes
But pork giant says it’s winning new business too and its strategy is unchanged
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NewsLidl to roll out 'fun-size' children's trolleys nationally
The “fun-size” trolleys are to be a feature in more than 250 stores following a trial