All Financial Results articles – Page 203
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Comment and Opinion
Ocado clears the fridge when it should be basting the turkey
The timing of Ocado’s profits warning couldn’t have been worse, laying out for all to see the extent of its…
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News
Glanbia warns of global dairy slowdown
Glanbia has issued a robust assessment of trading for the year to date, but warned of weakening demand globally for dairy products.
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News
Brits to spend £33bn on festive food
UK shoppers will splash out £1bn more on Christmas than they did last year, despite the squeeze on consumer spending…
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Comment and Opinion
Tesco's fighting talk
Philip Clarke today had the unfortunate task of unveiling what many have described as Tesco’s worst interims for 20 years, despite a tidy rise in profits across the group.
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News
‘Mindless munching’ sees sweet sales soar
Brits have munched their way through 120 million more boxes, bags and bars of sweets and chocolates in the past year. Supermarket sales of sweets soared almost 5% year-on-year to a whopping 2.9 billion packs, while the value of the market…
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Comment and Opinion
Peter Marks' very long game
Peter Marks, boss of The Co-operative Group, declared this morning that trading conditions were “the worst” he had seen “in over 40 years of retailing”.
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Comment and Opinion
Balance of power may soon shift in suppliers' favour
The protracted sale of Iceland looks like giving analysts and media commentators lots more opportunities to comment on the space…
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Analysis and Features
One year on, can Kraft now celebrate its Cadbury deal?
It’s just over a year since its $19bn acquisition of Cadbury. Kraft’s results have given Adam Leyland a proper opportunity to examine progress
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Category Report
Hot 100 Convenience Stores 2011: A first for the industry
No one’s done it before. But now 37,000 of the country’s c-stores – their locations, facilities, competition and customer bases – have been weighed up so we can reveal the UK’s 100 hottest spots for convenience retailing. Nick Hughes reports
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Category Report
Hot 100 Convenience Stores 2011: Top independent is a magnet for passing commuters
Slap bang in the middle of London; spitting distance from two mainline stations; a huge student residence nearby; even a blue plaque to mark its historical significance c-store spots don’t come much hotter than this.
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Category Report
Hot 100 Convenience Stores 2011: Top store has no rivals, just a perfect location
The One Stop in Hampton Hargate, Peterborough, is a lesson in successful store location. A 10-minute drive from the city centre, it is just off a busy junction of the A1, so it’s an ideal pit stop.
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News
Are the fmcg giants making the grade?
Fmcg manufacturing shares outperformed the stock market last year. But the picture was mixed…
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News
Pre-pack keeps Natural Kitchen stores trading
An upmarket slow food store set up by two former Asda bosses has entered a pre-pack administration deal…
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News
Focus On Jams, Preserves & Honey: It’s orange, but it’s not marmalade
Marmalade sales have been declining for some time and have continued to do so over the past year with volume sales down 2.8%…
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News
Retailers up prices under cover of VAT
Supermarkets have used the increase in VAT to pass on thousands of price hikes over and above the cost of VAT…
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Analysis and Features
Will high-value M&A deals stay locked out in the cold?
Insolvency buyouts were behind much of last year’s M&A activity and this year is unlikely to see a return…
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News
Vimto range grows with Cherry variant
Vimto aims to build on already strong sales with a new Cherry flavour the first permanent new line in its 101-year history…
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News
Alpro refreshes its look to appeal to the mainstream
Alpro has been given a multimillion-pound facelift in a bid to return it to double-digit growth…
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News
C-store move returns G101 chain to profit
Independent Scottish off-licence chain G101 Off Sales has returned to profit, according to accounts filed at Companies House.
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News
Colony Collapse Disorder and thrifty shoppers hit honey sales
Honey sales are down 5.4%, by volume after six consecutive years of growth [TNS 52w/e 4 October 2009]. Own-label honey led the decline, with sales down 7.4% in volume [IRI 52w/e 31 October 2009].