All Discounters articles – Page 137

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    Every Lidl helps, except this one

    2008-11-22T00:00:00Z

    Forget mere accidental melamine contamination - one Lidl store in Sweden is in trouble for deliberately poisoning discarded food. The genius plan was hatched to stop those pesky homeless types feasting on expired lobster ready-meals and...

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    Aldi: planning law change is 'not healthy'

    2008-11-22T00:00:00Z

    Aldi is lobbying the Government not to push through changes to the planning laws that it feels would make store development too difficult.Next year, communities secretary Hazel Blears plans to get rid of the controversial needs test, which...

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    Lidl store closed for food safety breach

    2008-11-15T00:00:00Z

    The image of discount chain Lidl, which has been winning increasing customer support in the Irish Republic as the recession bites, has been dealt a blow by hygiene inspectors from the food safety authority.They ordered the closure of a Lidl...

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    Iceland runs missing people photo appeal

    2008-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Frozen food chain Iceland has launched an appeal with the Missing People charity and will print photographs of vulnerable missing people on the side of its milk bottles. The pictures will appear on four-pint packs, with each person being...

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    Advertising: Home-grown values from The Co-op

    2008-11-01T00:00:00Z

    We've read a lot about the competition between Lidl and Aldi but as far as advertising is concerned, it's a three-way fight in the smaller retailer sector. The Co-operative Group's investment in advertising this year isn't far behind that of its...

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    Credit crunch prompts 99p Stores sales boom

    2008-11-01T00:00:00Z

    The credit crunch has helped 99p Stores record half-year like-for-like sales growth of 7.5%.Shoppers had turned to the value retailer in the past six months as the economic downturn worsened, said 99p Stores commercial director Hussein...

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    Aldi and Lidl sales in Ireland increase 15%

    2008-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Shoppers in the Irish Republic are flocking to Aldi and Lidl as they struggle to cope with the deepening recession, new data has revealed. Figures from TNS show that 69% of Irish households have shopped at the two discounters in the past...

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    Green puts bid for Iceland on hold – reports

    2008-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Sir Philip Green, the retail magnate linked with an approach for Baugur's UK retail interests, has put his interest in the group on hold, according to media reports.

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    Woolies is on ice, but what of Malcolm’s own empire?

    2008-10-18T00:00:00Z

    Malcolm Walker has now ruled out a Woolworths takeover, but the future of Iceland is even more intriguing. Peter Cripps and Adam Leyland report

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    Iceland’s Walker tipped to swoop on shares in Baugur

    2008-10-18T00:00:00Z

    Admitting plans to buy Woolworths have been put on the back burner, speculation is rife that Iceland Foods boss Malcolm Walker is mounting a bid to buy out the business outright. In an exclusive interview with The Grocer, Walker refused to rule out...

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    Should Sainsbury’s fear the hard discounters?

    2008-10-11T00:00:00Z

    While headlines suggest middle-class shoppers are flocking in their 4x4s to Aldi and Lidl, the true picture may not be so simple, reports Sarah Butler

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    Vickery ads push up Aldi’s seabass sales

    2008-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Aldi’s sales of seabass have increased ten-fold in the two weeks since celebrity chef Phil Vickery has promoted it. The chef has endorsed the fish in the discounter’s television advertisements and on podcasts on Aldi’s website in which he...

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    Doubts over Aldi 1,500 UK stores target

    2008-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Aldi has said it is on track to eventually operate 1,500 UK stores, despite a report this week that claimed the number was unrealistic. The CACI report, Discounters’ Challenge in Tesco & Sainsbury’s Heartland, claimed there were 959 potential new...

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    Aldis appointed CEO of health food group NBTY

    2008-10-04T00:00:00Z

    Peter Aldis has been appointed to replace Barry Vickers as CEO of health foods group NBTY Europe. Vickers is to remain on the company’s board, which owns Holland & Barrett, Nature’s Way and GNC, in an advisory capacity after Aldis was promoted from...

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    Advertising: Lidl sticks to its guns

    2008-10-04T00:00:00Z

    Within the second-tier food retailers, Lidl and Aldi are comfortably the largest spenders, shelling out £7.3m and £8.7m respectively on advertising in the year to date.

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    Asda trumps Tesco discount move

    2008-09-17T00:00:00Z

    As revealed on thegrocer.co.uk (15 September), Tesco this week launched a new range of 350 discounted items in response to the recent gains made by discounters such as Aldi and Lidl. But the news was trumped yesterday when Asda signalled a major price war by slashing the cost of 5,000 items, including every product in its Smart Price range, as Asda chief executive Andy Bond said food inflation had peaked.

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    Iceland’s fishing fleet hit by banking crisis

    2008-09-13T00:00:00Z

    Iceland’s fishing industry is under severe pressure as a result of the country’s banking crisis, producers are warning. The freezing of bank accounts in the Nordic country – which is one of the major exporters of Atlantic cod to the UK – has made it...

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    Premium grocer Waitrose says it’s cheaper than Aldi

    2008-09-13T00:00:00Z

    It is known as a premium retailer and is always the most expensive supermarket in The Grocer 33 weekly pricing survey. Yet this week, Waitrose claimed it was cheaper than hard discounter Aldi – in six of its 25 categories at least. Unveiling a 2.5%...

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    Celeb chef Vickery leads £10m Aldi push

    2008-09-05T00:00:00Z

    Aldi is to plough £10m into a new advertising campaign featuring Michelin-starred celebrity chef Phil Vickery. Vickery, a regular on the BBC’s Ready Steady Cook, will star in a run of television adverts beginning on 15 September and is also to produce a number of podcasts and recipes for Aldi...

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    Walker planning Woolies carve up

    2008-08-23T00:00:00Z

    No more than 50 of Woolworths’ stores would be converted to the Iceland fascia if Malcolm Walker is successful in buying the ailing retailer, a senior retail source has predicted.  Woolworths was forced to go public last weekend on its rejection of...