Channels reports, insight and analysis – Page 156
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Analysis & Features
Promotional activity way ahead of last year's levels
No surprise the number of promotions has fallen across the board…
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Comment & Opinion
Supermarkets must turn on the WiFi
The start of 2013 hasn’t been easy for retail with Jessops, HMV and Blockbuster going into administration….
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Analysis & Features
Why is Tesco getting all frothy about coffee?
How much potential does the coffee shop market really have for the supermarkets?…
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Analysis & Features
The future of fascias?
For every spotty youth Sainsbury’s employs in a c-store, how many independent retailers go bust?…
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Analysis & Features
No new year resolutions for brands as promos rise again
The marketeers of many of Britain’s biggest food and drink brands apparently didn’t include ‘cutting back on promotional spend’ in their new year resolutions…
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Analysis & Features
An End to Hedging
A new bakery, deli and butchers’ counter has helped Noel Kavanagh’s former Somerfield achieve massive sales growth…
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Comment & Opinion
The end of the retailer space race?
A flurry of festive trading statements reveals the retail charts for the supermarkets…
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Analysis & Features
Symbols of strength
On the embattled UK high street, it’s a case of survival of the fittest…
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Analysis & Features
Who won the battle for sales this Christmas? It depends...
Waitrose, Tesco and Sainsbury’s can all come up with figures to show…
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Analysis & Features
Supermarket prices fall 1% in month before Christmas
Average supermarket prices have fallen for a second…
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Analysis & Features
Retailers look to fight back as tough trading continues
Inflation and weak consumer spending made trading difficult for everyone in 2012…
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Analysis & Features
What does Ken's move mean for Greggs... and for Brakes?
News that Ken McMeikan had quit as Greggs CEO to move to Brakes was greeted…
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Category Report
Asda develops regional own-label range for NI
It may only be 20 miles across the Irish Sea, but Northern Ireland has some marked differences to the mainland…
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Comment & Opinion
Have discounters really cracked the UK?
Without doubt, discounters in the UK are currently enjoying an unprecedented run of growth…
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Comment & Opinion
Tesco is retrenching to a domestic market in which it is failing
Tesco attracts some serious talent. But CEO Philip Clarke and his new team look very exposed….
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Analysis & Features
Supermarkets: meet your new worst enemy
Last year, on a bright fresh Easter Saturday morning, something peculiar happened in Portsmouth…
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Analysis & Features
Are we making progress on the UK high street front?
This week, the BRC published the sixth major study to appear since the launch of the Mary Portas Review …
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Profiles and QandAs
The Butchery SE23 pops up in Forest Hill as Portas Pilot
On an icy Saturday morning in south-east London’s Forest Hill, dozens of shoppers are queuing up to buy meat…
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Comment & Opinion
Great products are no longer enough
A new report on own-label growth in Europe has demonstrated the increasingly high priority multiples are placing……