All articles by Ed Devlin – Page 187
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Media Bites 27 November 2015: Black Friday, Tesco, Co-op, SSP
All the focus this morning is on Black Friday, with updates, deal finders, live blogs and updates from the US, where the phenomenon started.
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City snapshot: Growth harder to come by for Fast 50
The UK’s privately owned fmcg suppliers have found it difficult to maintain the monster rates of sales growth of previous years, the new Grocer Fast 50 reveals today. But the same business still leads the way.
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Finsbury Food shares rise as new year starts strongly
Soaring sales in the first four months of the new financial year has pushed Finsbury Food shares close to record highs.
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Media Bites 25 November: Tesco, Greencore, Coca-Cola, John Menzies
All eyes are on Chancellor George Osborne today ahead of the Autumn Statement and Spending Review, but this morning’s papers find room for potential strike action at Tesco and booming sales and profits at Greencore.
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City snapshot: Britvic improves profits despite challenging markets
Robinsons squash owner Britvic has improved its full-year pre-tax profits by more than 10% to £147m despite sales falling as it kept close control of its costs
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Bakkavor Q3 UK sales rise as it drives volumes
Bakkavor has increased UK like-for-like sales in the face of challenging retail conditions as it passed on lower prices to its grocery customers.
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Media Bites 24 November: Ocado, Nestlé, WHO
A broker upgrade for Ocado, Nestlé finds evidence of slave labour in the supply chain and sausage and bacon sales hit by cancer scare.
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Greencore focus on food-to-go helps sales rise
Greencore has increased sales 5.2% to £1.34bn in the year to 25 September as its strategy to focus on food-to-go pays off.
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B&M hands audit contract to KPMG
B&M has ended its 18-year relationship with Grant Thornton as chooses a new auditor.
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Supermarket price war squeezes SME supplier profit margins
The gap between profit margins of Britain’s smallest food producers is widening versus their bigger competitors thanks to the supermarket price war.
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City snapshot: Small food suppliers are the main casualties of price war
Small food manufactures are being hit the hardest by the raging supermarket price war, with margins being squeezed by more than a third, according to a new research.
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Media Bites 23 November: Black Friday, Autumn Statement, Morrisons
The papers reflect the fact that this week brings the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement and Black Friday.
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Surplus redistributor Company Shop gets £7.6m expansion cash
Surplus food redistributor Company Shop has secured a £7.6m funding package
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Asda Price Guarantee placed under review
CEO Andy Clarke confirmed a decision on the scheme would come early next year
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City News: Poundland's dramatic tumble
Shares in fixed-price discounter Poundland took a dramatic tumble to all-time lows
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City snapshot: Seabrook profits soar as business enters 'growth phase'
Bye said it was the first year of the “growth phrase” at Seabrook after completing a three-year turnaround
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Resurgent Seabrook Crisps sees profits soar 60%
Profits have climbed more than 60% at Seabrook Crisps in the year leading up the £35m buyout by LDC