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NewsBritish blueberries make early bow at Sainsbury’s
Sainsbury’s has started selling British blueberries three months earlier than last year – and its work with British growers is set to yield the biggest blueberry crop yet.
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NewsJubilee knees-up is worth £200m to grocery trade
Grocery retailers got a £200m boost from the Jubilee, the latest data from Kantar Worldpanel shows.
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NewsMorrisons boosts corporate assurance team
Morrisons has signed up Loblaw’s food safety chief Andrew Clappen to the new position of corporate technical services director.
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NewsMorrisons 'looking at' Costcutter acquisition
Morrisons has held exploratory talks with Costcutter as it seeks to gain a proper foothold in the convenience market…
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NewsCoat of Varnish for Ocado vans
Cycling world record holder and British Olympic medal hopeful Jess Varnish has created three colourful designs for Ocado’s delivery vans.
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NewsCity news 16 June 2012
The headlines were about Sainsbury’s beating Tesco this week, but investors took a different view, punishing Sainsbury’s instead.
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NewsNew lights help cut energy bill by 22%
A Costcutter retailer in Southport is reaping the rewards of signing up to British Gas’ Business Energy Insight initiative.
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NewsRelex says it can give Brits 99% availability
On-shelf availability in British supermarkets is unacceptably low, according to a demand forecasting company that opened for business in the UK this week.
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NewsSpar lays out plans to reclaim convenience
Spar UK has revealed a 10-point plan to regain leadership of the convenience market and grow sales by £1.5bn in the next five years.
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NewsNECS takes on Tesco Express with Newcastle store
The Grocer’s newly-crowned Independent Retail Chain of the Year North East Convenience Stores was celebrating a double victory…
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NewsHyperama buoyed by foodservice business
Sales at Hyperama have risen by £5m thanks to the cash & carry wholesaler’s growing foodservice business.
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'No conflict of interest' from sponsorship of King's son
Sainsbury’s board of directors has cleared a potential conflict of interest surrounding CEO Justin King and his 18-year-old son Jordan.
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NewsMore vitamin and mineral-rich dairy drinks for Tesco
Tesco’s push into functional dairy is gathering pace with the launch of two vitamin and mineral-enriched chilled liquid milks.
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NewsJimmy's high-welfare kiev wins over Tesco
Jimmy Doherty’s mission to get Tesco to switch to higher-welfare sourcing on key poultry and meat lines has had its first commercial success - Tesco’s new free-range chicken kiev is among the top 25% selling breaded poultry products in stores where it’s sold,
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NewsP&H appoint Brick to grow Mace business
Palmer & Harvey has appointed Rory Brick as head of symbol. Brick will focus on growing the business of P&H’s 892…
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NewsPaton's swift staff training wins him manager award
After a tense afternoon of judging, the coveted store manager of the year award was scooped by George Paton of Sainsbury’s in Livingston.
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NewsWrap hails use of smaller packs to cut waste
Supermarkets have made “great progress” encouraging consumers to waste less food by increasing availability of smaller pack sizes and improving labelling, according to a Wrap study.
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NewsSir Ken: Morrisons board risks repeating Safeway mistakes
Sir Ken Morrison has urged the supermarket he founded to refocus on its core business and accused its management of a “total bout of plagiarism”.
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NewsAsda widens gap over rivals in price wars
Asda is Britain’s cheapest supermarket - for the 15th year in a row - after winning an incredible 37 weeks out of 50 in the Grocer 33.