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Greggs and Iceland pair up to sell frozen sausage rolls
Iceland has joined forces with Greggs to sell frozen versions of the high street baker’s famed sausage rolls. Ten Iceland stores in Liverpool began selling the bake-at-home sausage rolls today in Greggs-branded four-packs.
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Disaster site: Waitrose’s online blunders elicit a second apology
Waitrose has apologised again to customers following further problems with its relaunched website.Users have complained the site is slow and difficult to navigate following its relaunch in March. In a statement issued this week, director...
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Haldanes CEO says his Co-op Group claim runs to £7.2m
Haldanes has revealed its legal claim against The Co-operative Group amounts to £7.2m. CEO Arthur Harris revealed the figure exclusively to The Grocer following the collapse last week of Haldanes Stores and Ruston Retail.
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Tesco brings healthy Goodness kids’ meals brand over from US
Tesco is rolling out a brand of kids’ foods originally developed for the US market and sold through the retailer’s Fresh & Easy stores.
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Sainsbury’s to team up with City & Guilds
Sainsbury's food colleges and bakery college have gained accreditation from City & Guilds the largest-ever accreditation in the training provider's history.The colleges, which opened last year, offer training to staff on meat, fish,...
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Save money on sourcing, Spar is told
Spar's outsourced procurement team has warned retailers they are paying over the odds by buying services and goods not for resale direct. Brightsourcing, founded by Somerfield's purchasing managers, was hired by Spar last year to improve...
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Jug It milk bag jugs get Tesco listing
Jug It, the reusable milk bag jug from Dairy Crest, has been listed in 270 Tesco stores following a 10-store trial.
The jugs along with Country Life milk bags started rolling out into Tesco stores at the end of June. Jug It is already… -
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New code of practice for Tesco dairy farms
Tesco has introduced a new code of practice for its dairy group farmers ahead of a planned drive to communicate the group's work to consumers later this year.The code, which lays down new environmental, animal welfare and health...
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Asda pricing expert lands ‘a bigger job’
Asda's marketing director Jon Owen, the man who was credited with masterminding Asda's game-changing Price Guarantee, has resigned after just 12 months in the job. Owen is to become director of Shop Direct Group's Very brand, which was...
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Tesco's Premier cull: the delisted products in full
Below is a full list of the products delisted by Tesco in its recent spat over pricing with Premier Foods. Read about how the spat occurred here, while Adam Leyland offers his take on how Tesco "ran rings" around Premier in his Editor's Comment.
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Asda hands McKenna chief operating officer role
Asda chief financial officer Judith McKenna will step into the chief operating officer role unexpectedly vacated by Simon King last week. McKenna, who joined Asda over 15 years ago, will take over responsibility for all Asda’s retail operations, including its stores, distribution network and IT systems.
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Delistings by Tesco push Premier into profit alert
A Grocer investigation into a pricing row that saw Tesco delist a quarter of its branded Premier Foods products prompted the supplier to issue a shock profit warning yesterday, admitting the dispute had cost it £10m.
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Tesco: supplier cull to benefit ‘power brands’
Tesco has revealed plans to slash its number of suppliers and replace their products with its own brands and "power brands" produced by its key strategic partners in its central European stores, and experts are predicting it could provide a model...
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Last three Haldanes stores shut up shop
The final three Haldanes stores have been closed, a week after the embattled chain slipped into administration. Stores in Tattershall, Wigton and Crieff were closed today, meaning all 26 outlets previously trading under the Haldanes Stores banner have now shut.
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Price Guarantee mastermind is next to quit Asda
The man credited with masterminding Asda’s influential price guarantee scheme has quit after just a year as marketing director. Jon Owen is leaving the supermarket to become director of Shop Direct Group’s Very brand.
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Ocado celebrates profits landmark with Carrefour tie-up
Ocado has announced its first-ever interim pre-tax profits. The online grocer turned the £6.7m deficit it suffered for the first half of last year into gains of £200,000 this time around. Sales rose almost 21% to £296.7m for the 24 weeks to 15 May.
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Sainsbury’s plans its own offensive in the price-matching wars
Sainsbury's is considering launching a price-matching voucher scheme to rival Asda's Price Guarantee and Tesco's Price Check. The supermarket chain has been canvassing opinion via a survey on whether shoppers would welcome a scheme that...
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Asda teams up with LEAF on soil advice
Asda has teamed up with LEAF to produce a booklet designed to help farmers improve their soil health.Simply Sustainable Soils sets out six steps for farmers to improve the performance, health and sustainability of their land.
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Sainsbury’s assures on beansprouts
Sainsbury's has introduced 'UK-grown' labelling to packs of beansprouts in the wake of the German E.coli outbreak.The label which reads 'beansprouts grown in the UK' has been added to packs of Sainsbury's own-label beansprouts and...
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Bennett and Blackmore to exit as Spar directors
Two Spar directors have handed in their notice and will leave later this year. Retail director Richard Bennett will leave at the end of August while supply chain and management information director Steve Blackmore has decided to retire...