All Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) articles – Page 13
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News
Tacon charges Tesco £1m for code investigation
Adjudicator describes Tesco’s bill as a “significant sum”
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News
Adjudicator Tacon trains sights on fees for shelf positioning
Supermarkets will be given eight weeks to respond to a new probe by Adjudicator Christine Tacon
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Analysis and Features
Tesco chief product officer Jason Tarry on his Tacon to-do list
But there is more to do, admits chief product officer Jason Tarry
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Comment and Opinion
Tacon verdict will get a mixed reaction at best from suppliers
Tacon wants to investigate the evolution, as she calls it, of the role of category captaincy
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News
Media Bites 28 Jan: ABInBev/SABMiller, Britvic, Scotch whisky
A delay in the regulatory approval process in Africa threatens AB InBev’s merger with SABMiller, writes The Times.
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Media Bites 27 Jan: Tesco, Sainsbury's, Argos
The GCA’s findings that Tesco “knowingly” withheld cash from suppliers to artificially prop up its results dominates the papers this morning.
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Comment and Opinion
Tesco report underlines GCA’s lack of teeth
It is clear that, despite her protestations, the Adjudicator has struggled badly to get any new evidence from suppliers
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News
Tesco illegally deducted 'millions' in supplier payments, GCA reveals
Retailer also systematically delayed payments owed to food and drink companies, in some cases by more than two years
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Tesco CEO Dave Lewis apologises and highlights culture change in response to Tacon findings
Tesco said it accepted the findings, which mirrored its own investigations
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Media Bites 26 Jan: Tesco, Fever Tree, Sainsbury's
Tesco faces more problems today as The Guardian wries that it will be reprimanded over its treatment of suppliers.
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Comment and Opinion
I’m a GCA, get me out of here!
The Efra Committee farmgate inquiry is shaping up to be some excellent televised entertainment
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News
Stop asking me to get involved in farmgate prices, says Tacon
She told MPs she is fed up with coming under criticism for not doing things that are not in her remit
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Media Bites 19 October: GCA, Tesco, Diageo, Megabrew
A rare quiet weekend in the papers for the retail industry but there are stories on the Groceries Code Adjudicator, Tesco’s Brand Guarantee scheme and more wine sell offs at Diageo.
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Adjudicator Tacon shocked by supplier ignorance of GSCOP
Christine Tacon has admitted in a new video for suppliers that she is “shocked” by their lack of knowledge of the Code
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The Big Interview
Jason Tarry: 'Work to do but Tesco reset is on track'
Softly, softly: how chief product officer Jason Tarry is resetting Tesco
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News
SFO investigation 'is silencing Tesco talk' to GCA Tacon
Suppliers fear being dragged into the ongoing Serious Fraud Office investigation, a top negotiation expert claimed
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Comment and Opinion
My Week… by Jeremy Corbyn (as told to Bill Tush)
According to Marx’s theory of alienation, the proletariat of Budgens have become estranged from their species-essence
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News
Former Sainsbury's buyer writes GSCOP advice book
A former veteran Sainsbury’s buyer is writing an online book on how suppliers could learn to make better use of GSCOP
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Groceries Code Adjudicator to launch supermarket packaging probe
Christine Tacon has launched a new probe into supermarkets amid fears they have been exploiting own-label suppliers on packaging changes.
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Media Bites 27 July: Morrisons, space race, Diageo
Buyers at Morrisons have attempted to secure one-off payments from about 20 suppliers in a potential breach of the GCA, according to The Guardian. Diageo boss Ivan Menezes is expected to play down the SEC investigation into alleged ‘channel stuffing’ in this week’s annual results.