Channels reports, insight and analysis – Page 4
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Events & Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Bestway wins E-Commerce Initiative of the Year
This groundbreaking real-time analytics dashboard for suppliers, gave them “unprecedented” visibility into their brand performance
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Events & Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: CJ Lang wins Technology Initiative of the Year
One Spar employee said “in all my 26 years’ service with this company, it is, in my opinion, the biggest game-changer to date”
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Tesco Finest is Own-Label Range of the Year
Judges were particularly impressed with premiumising meal deals and the brand’s laser focus on great packaging
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Tesco is Employer of the Year (Retailer)
The supermarket’s improvments to pay, maternity, paternity and adoption leave benefits, and a new virtual GP service stood out to judges
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Events & Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Tesco wins Online Service of the Year
The UK’s biggest online grocery retailer, serving nearly 1.2 million customers every week, and has undertaken comprehensive investments in the last year
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Who Gives A Crap wins Specialist Online Service of the Year
Set up in 2012, the B Corp sells loo roll made from recycled office paper or bamboo
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Hendersons is Independent Retail Chain of the Year
In 2023, Hendersons delivered a 16.5% rise in sales – outpacing the 12.5% growth in Northern Irish grocery as a whole
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Events & Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Booker Premier takes Symbol/Franchise Retailer of the Year
Having celebrated its 30th anniversary, Premier added over 400 new stores to its stable last year
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Cook is Specialist Wholesaler of the Year
Last year, this winner signed up 130 new accounts and drove an increase in gross wholesale turnover of 13.9%
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Castell Howell takes Regional Wholesaler of the Year
This Welsh foodservice specialist bounced back strongly from the pandemic and grew sales by 20% in the last year
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: JJ Foodservice is National Wholesaler of the Year
JJ formed a new team dedicated to school tenders and finding new suppliers of school-approved products
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Sainsbury’s becomes Grocer of the Year
Sainsbury’s has increased share and shopper penetration and was the only big four supermarket in the past year to gain shopper spend from both Aldi and Lidl
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Events & Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Tesco remains Britain’s Favourite Supermarket
The UK’s biggest retailer once again came out top in NIQ’s Homescan survey of more than 7,000 households
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Events & Awards
The Grocer Cup winner Greggs CEO Roisin Currie on ‘a point of pride’
There have been few high street success stories to match Greggs’ pivot from take-home bakery to takeaway behemoth
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KVI Tracker
Sainsbury’s adds another 50 products to Aldi Price Match scheme in a month
The supermarket has added more cupboard staples, ingredients and ‘summer favourites’, as the battle over price matching intensifies
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Range Preview
Preview some of the 130 new launches into Waitrose’s No.1 range
New additions include sausage from pigs sired by pedigree Hampshire boars and Belgian blonde chocolate florentines from a Dorset bakery founded in 1916
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Category Report
Kids’ lunch trends 2024: Obesity unpacked?
Childhood obesity peaked in lockdown. Today, it remains above pre-pandemic levels. So do our packed lunches need to change?
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Analysis & Features
PayPal, Uber Eats and Allwyn among new Grocer Gold Awards sponsors
The finalists for The Grocer Gold Awards 2024 have been announced. Now meet the sponsors
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Comment & Opinion
What Zoe’s ‘whole food complement’ says about its strategy
It’s a supplement, but not as you know it. On Sunday, Zoe announced the launch of a ground-breaking “whole food complement”.
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Category Report
Lunch trends 2024: Why lunch is going places
As food-to-go options get more adventurous, brands are looking to broaden the horizons of lunchboxes, too. Who’s winning?