All Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) articles – Page 16
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Analysis and Features
How Tesco ran out of rabbits as it struggled to stem losses
A lot of tricks of the trade used by Tesco to extract money from suppliers are common practice. So where has it gone wrong?
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News
Tacon asks Tesco to look for breaches of Groceries Code
Groceries Code Adjudicator Christine Tacon has asked Tesco to examine its behaviour towards suppliers during the company’s internal review into the £250m overstatement of its profits.
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Comment and Opinion
Adjudicator Tacon should be heeded over forensic audits
The fact that so many retailers are blitzing the accounts before magnanimously stopping the practice is an outrage…
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News
Suppliers angry as retailers keep digging for old debts
The Grocer can reveal some retailers are still digging further back than the agreed two-year limit…
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Comment and Opinion
Why not just outlaw the obviously unfair trading practices?
I’m often accused of emotive language when discussing the Groceries Code Adjudicator…
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News
Adjudicator Christine Tacon to investigate pack and design fees
Groceries Code Adjudicator Christine Tacon has warned she is “warming up” for her first investigation – into packaging and…
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Analysis and Features
Adjudicator Christine Tacon on the challenges ahead
One year into her tenure, Christine Tacon has already achieved change with her payment backdating coup…
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News
Tacon claims breakthrough on ‘forensic auditing’
Groceries Code Adjudicator Christine Tacon has persuaded eight supermarkets to slash the time they backdate demands for money from six years to two.
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The Big Interview
Groceries Code Adjudicator Christine Tacon: One year in
Groceries Code Adjudicator Christine Tacon speaks to The Grocer about her first year in the role, and a new pledge on ‘forensic auditing’ by eight major supermarkets.
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Analysis and Features
Will GCA's 1% sales fine be a real deterrent to supermarkets?
Suppliers like Christine Tacon’s idea, of course, but the devil is in the detail…
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Analysis and Features
Christine Tacon: exclusive interview with new GSCOP Adjudicator
For the full transcript of our exclusive interview with new Groceries Code Adjudicator Christine Tacon, click here…
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Comment and Opinion
One fine day
Competition minister Jo Swinson today gave MPs, industry bodies, action groups and pretty much everyone you care to mention (apart from the supermarkets, obviously) what they demanded…
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Comment and Opinion
Fine time for the Groceries Code Adjudicator
To fine or not to fine? It’s the debate that has raged all week over the power, of lack of it, which will be afforded to the incoming Groceries Code | Adjudicator.
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Analysis and Features
The Dairymen: Views from the Top
As farmer protests throw the spotlight on supply chain relationships, we ask some of the industry’s leading lights…
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News
Adjudicator plan confirmed in Queen’s Speech
Legislation creating the long-awaited Grocery Code Adjudicator will be introduced this Parliament.
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News
Retailers’ red tape victory tempered by GCA plans
On the same day BIS announced plans to reduce the burden on retailers with its bonfire of red tape, the government department came under major pressure to beef up the power of its proposed Groceries Code Adjudicator a move deeply unpopular with...
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News
Give Adjudicator power to fine, demands Commons committee
Supermarkets could face fines if they fail to comply with the new grocery supply code after an influential parliamentary committee called for the powers of the Groceries Code Adjudicator to be extended.
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Comment and Opinion
Under the Adjudicator, retailers won’t know who they are apologising to
It’s difficult to remain focused on a story that drags on and on, but though I suspect torpor will soon set in over the Iceland acquisition…
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News
Adjudicator Bill is published but post may not be filled until 2014
The government has published its draft Grocery Code Adjudicator Bill, outlining how the ombudsman will oversee the Grocery Supply Code of Practice (GSCOP). The GCA will investigate complaints from suppliers, arbitrate in disputes between suppliers and large retailers and produce an annual report on compliance.
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News
Draft bill signals race to bring in Adjudicator for 2012
Consumer minister Edward Davey has announced plans to release a draft bill on the Groceries Code Adjudicator before Parliament’s Easter recess begins on 6 April. The move will boost campaigners’ hopes that the much-anticipated regulator could be in place as early as next year.