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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Grocer CUP For Outstanding Business Achievement 2008
Vote now for your personality of the year: www.grocercup.co.uk
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Emmerdale actress turns wine blender
Stowells is teaming up with former Emmerdale actress and Hell’s Kitchen finalist Adele Silva to produce a limited-edition wine range as part of a campaign to demystify wine for female drinkers. Stowells brand owner Constellation Europe claims the...
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All change as Greenvale restructures
Greenvale AP, the UK’s leading supplier of potatoes, has appointed Brian Macdonald as its new financial director. Macdonald, who has worked for brewer Scottish & Newcastle for 25 years, most recently as finance director for developing markets, also...
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Wolrd News: Wal-Mart drives into Latin America
Wal-Mart has announced plans for expansion in South America, with 80-90 new stores in Brazil and 12-15 new stores in Argentina to be opened in 2009....
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End of the line for Boosted Smoothies
Nestlé’s Boosted Smoothies drinks have been discontinued just four months after they were launched to take on Innocent. The smoothies range had been billed as Nestlé’s “number one focus for a good few years” by Jon Walsh, MD of new business. But...
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Harrods lists Tahira Ramadan calendar
Halal food company Tahira Foods has won a contract to supply Harrods with chocolate Ramadan calendars. Similar to a Christmas advent calendar, the Ramadan calendar contains 30 pieces of milk chocolate in a box decorated with Islamic...