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Events and Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Employer of the Year (Supplier)
The winning supplier’s revised people strategy included a returners programme, a mental health programme, improved leave policies and two pay rises
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Employer of the Year (Retailer)
The supermarket’s improvments to pay, maternity, paternity and adoption leave benefits, and a new virtual GP service stood out to judges
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Store Manager of the Year
Judges praised Griffiths’ “genuinely outstanding” achievements during a highly disrupted year
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: The Grocer Cup
There have been few high street success stories to match Greggs’ pivot from take-home bakery to takeaway behemoth
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Exporter of the Year
First and foremost a UK success story, but Fever-Tree has equally kept a sharp eye on international markets
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Independent Retail Chain of the Year
In 2023, Hendersons delivered a 16.5% rise in sales – outpacing the 12.5% growth in Northern Irish grocery as a whole
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Symbol/Franchise Retailer of the Year
Having celebrated its 30th anniversary, Premier added over 400 new stores to its stable last year
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Britain’s Favourite Supermarket
The UK’s biggest retailer once again came out top in NIQ’s Homescan survey of more than 7,000 households
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Specialist Wholesaler of the Year
Last year, this winner signed up 130 new accounts and drove an increase in gross wholesale turnover of 13.9%
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Regional Wholesaler of the Year
This Welsh foodservice specialist bounced back strongly from the pandemic and grew sales by 20% in the last year
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Entrepreneur of the Year
Leading the fastest-growing brand in UK nut butters, having amassed more than 45,000 stocking points
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Online Service of the Year
The UK’s biggest online grocery retailer, serving nearly 1.2 million customers every week, and has undertaken comprehensive investments in the last year
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Specialist Online Service of the Year
Set up in 2012, the B Corp sells loo roll made from recycled office paper or bamboo
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: National Wholesaler of the Year
JJ formed a new team dedicated to school tenders and finding new suppliers of school-approved products
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Own-Label Supplier of the Year
This winner has developed new varietals through its in-house breeding programme to extend the season, improve taste, and increase yield
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Supplier of the Year
P&G’s strong innovation pipeline helped it deliver strong volume, value, share and overall category growth
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Grocer of the Year
Sainsbury’s has increased share and shopper penetration and was the only big four supermarket in the past year to gain shopper spend from both Aldi and Lidl
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News
Food industry comes together on net zero transition plan
IGD is leading the industry-wide plan along with EY and Wrap
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News
M&S investing £38m in two new stores in Bristol and Bath
The planned Bristol and Bath stores were announced today by CEO Stuart Machin in response to a shareholder question at the retailer’s AGM
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Comment and Opinion
The UK spud offer is sorely lacking in variety and taste
The range of potatoes in supermarkets seems to have shrunk in terms of diversity, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This