All articles by Grocer Staff – Page 2
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NewsTen problems to keep Sir Terry up at night
The Tesco juggernaut keeps on trucking, with sales of £59bn and profits north of £3bn in its latest accounts. Yet Tesco is not infallible and against the backdrop of a global economic recession suppliers, industry consultants, City analysts and marketing experts have been unusually critical of certain aspects of its ...
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Rankings
Britain's 100 Biggest Brands 2009
These are challenging times for brands - even for Britain’s 100 Biggest Brands. Will recession stale the infinite variety of innovation among the brands celebrated in this special supplement? p4-8: Features - Will recession stale the infinite variety of innovation among Britain’s Biggest Grocery Brands? And what is the route ...
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2009 preview: The year of make do...and mend
With job losses escalating, sterling in big trouble and businesses falling by the wayside seemingly daily, we're finding out the hard way what happens when the heart is ripped from a credit-based culture. The grocers generally traded well...
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NewsGrocer 33: Brace yourselves for continuing volatility in food prices in 2009
Food price inflation has had a rollercoaster ride over the past six months, soaring in June but flattening by November. But after a tumultous six months, plotting where prices will go next is a tough task. Due to lags in the supply chain,...
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Review of the Year 2008
At the start of the year, we said 2008 would be all about the credit crunch. We were right, only it was a crunch far worse than we - or any one else for that matter - had dared predict. As the global banking system reached near-meltdown, no-one in...
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Rankings
Top Products 2008
With food price inflation, recession and the rise of the discounters, it’s been a helter-skelter year. Here we reveal the year’s risers and fallers, from alcohol to tobacco, baby goods to laundry, and report on the battle that continues to rage between branded and own-label products.The survey is sourced using ...
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Supermarket chiefs say price inflation has reached a peak
Sir Terry Leahy this week became the third supermarket CEO to predict that food price inflation has peaked. As Tesco announced a 3.7% increase in like-for-like sales in the six months to 23 August, Leahy said: “I think the peak has passed now so...
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Tesco hits back with ‘discounter in every store’ tertiary lines
Tesco has brought back the tertiary brand, with the biggest new range since Tesco Value was launched in 1993. The introduction of Discounter Price and Market Value products was revealed on thegrocer.co.uk on Monday before hitting stores on...
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Category Report
The Dairymen 2008
It has been, according to just about anyone in the dairy industry you could care to ask, the most extraordinary year in recent memory. To think that only 15 months ago farmers were receiving about 17ppl for their milk, the standard retail price was £1.10 for four pints, and the ...
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Merger boost for Glendale Foods group
The Glendale Foods group has reported a strong year-on-year increase in sales following a merger with Supreme Foods and acquisition of the Great British Pudding Company. Combined sales for the group have shot up 40% since last year, thanks to...
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Asda tracks consumers’ confidence
Asda is attempting to map consumer confidence, having recruited 10,000 shoppers to answer weekly questions about their lives, shopping habits, job security and the economy. The Pulse of the Nation Index has produced its first quarterly findings,...
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World News: week of 6 September 2008
Levallois-Perret, France: Carrefour has unveiled plans to slash prices on 300 brands by up to 20% as it published its half-year results. Described by chief executive José Luis Durán as the “best half-year results since 2005”, sales for the second...
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NewsTop-Up shop
Every week The Grocer’s mystery shoppers also visit convenience stores to check out the price of 10 commonly bought fast-moving food items across all grocery categories
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What the papers said
Apples could rot on their branches due to labour shortages, warns The Observer. Apple growers blame government restrictions on immigrant workers for a shortage of labour. “If we can’t get the pickers, there is a grave danger that apples will be...
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Making the most of the multiples
How much of the market do the multiples command? According to Mintel they now account for more than 50% of sales, while TNS says they have a 61% share by value, headed by Tesco then Asda, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, the hard discounters and...
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Tesco secures local sweetcorn supply
Barfoots of Botley has struck a deal with Tesco to supply locally grown sweetcorn to stores in southern England. Local sweetcorn went into Hampshire and Sussex Tesco stores last weekend, while Isle of Wight sweetcorn was launched into the...
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Questions raised over how local Tesco’s produce really is
Environmental groups and independent retailers have poured scorn over Tesco’s local food claims. This week, Tesco reported a 40% year-on-year increase in sales of locally sourced food, and claimed to be on track to generate £500m in sales of local...
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Green revamp for M&S pizza
M&S’s pizzas have undergone a makeover in preparation for a relaunch of its Italian range next week. M&S said more than 60% of the packaging in its pizzas had been stripped away, so almost 500 fewer tonnes of cardboard and 83 fewer tonnes of...
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Frozen veg gains gourmet qualities
Birds Eye is venturing into gourmet vegetable dishes as part of a £15m three-year plan to rejuvenate the frozen vegetables market. The heavyweight investment will kick off next month with the launch of Tasty Veg, a new range of prepared vegetables...