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City snapshot: Gusbourne up for sale as Lord Ashcroft considers options
Gusbourne is the latest English winemaker to be put up for sale, revealing this morning that Lord Ashcroft is open to selling his majority shareholding. Plus, Ocado announces “significant development” of its partnership with North American grocer Kroger
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Media Bites 22 July: CrowdStrike, Prime, John Lewis, Ocado
A packed weekend in the papers is led by the IT outages hitting systems around the globe on Friday
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City News: Rollercoaster week as Ocado shares rebound on earnings upgrade
It’s been another rollercoaster week in the life of Ocado, as the under-fire online supermarket suffered a share price plunge on Monday on a broker downgrade – only to bounce straight back the next day on an earnings upgrade
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Tate & Lyle profits surge after weak sugar beet harvests
Tate & Lyle Sugars enjoyed a huge jump in sales and profits last year as the cane sugar refiner benefited from weak European sugar beet harvests.
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On-demand grocery hits 80 million orders worth £2bn
The channel’s value has shot up from almost nothing five years ago
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City snapshot: Retail sales slide in June amid poor weather
UK retail sales volumes fell back in June, according to official figures, to take industry sales into decline for the second quarter
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Media Bites 19 July: Pret a Manger, business rates, loyalty cards
Pret a Manger is axing its subscription offering members “free drinks”, almost four years after the deal launched in the UK
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Cadbury Flake launches 99 Bus to take families to the seaside
The buses will depart from Leeds, Bradford and London
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Sainsbury’s to donate £2.5m towards tackling summer ‘holiday hunger’
The campaign is the latest fundraising event of its ongoing Nourish the Nation programme with Comic Relief
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Breakfast clubs to be made free for primary school pupils
Prosposal was part of the Children’s Wellbeing Bill announced in this week’s King’s Speech
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Pret a Manger to end free coffee subscription model
The old model, giving customers up to five coffees per day, will be replaced with a discounted offer
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Fever-Tree denies sponsoring Republican National Convention
The brand’s logo appeared on a list of partners on the website of the event’s organiser
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Over 100 independent stores using AF Blakemore’s Tesco Price Match initiative
The wholesaler said there were around 50 products that it matched against Tesco pricing, which were rotated every three to four weeks
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WH Smith considering hot food offer as it doubles down on food and drink
The retailer is in the early days of a hot food trial, WH Smith MD Andrew Harrison told The Grocer
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Government commits to introduce standalone offence for attacking shopworkers
Retailers and trade bodies have welcomed the announcement, calling it a “crowning moment” for shopworkers who continue to suffer record levels of abuse and violence every day
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Waitrose confirms plans to restart charges for suppliers who breach delivery standards
The deadline to reintroduce penalty charges was pushed back in April following ‘issues’ with the system used to notify suppliers
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Kitwave foodservice division joins Country Range Group
Kitwave said in May it was taking its foodservice business out of Unitas
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Goodrays adds former Monster marketing director to senior team
He joins after a five-year stint at the energy drinks giant
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Amazon facing £2.7bn threat over marketplace class action claim
The legal challenge comes with the Groceries Code Adjudicator Mark White considering launching an investigation into Amazon over its treatment of suppliers