All Loyalty articles – Page 22
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‘Biggest-ever’ points giveaway for Nectar
Sainsbury's is running its first 'triple point giveaway' for Nectar customers this bank holiday weekend.Shoppers would receive up to one billion points over the four-day bonanza, which equated to about £5m in savings, the retailer...
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NewsSainsbury’s revamps credit card to reward Nectar points hunters
Sainsbury's is splitting its existing credit card offer, with two new cards connected to its Nectar loyalty scheme.
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Sainsbury’s hails Nectar as number one loyalty card
The Nectar card is now the UK’s most popular loyalty card, according to Sainsbury’s, with almost 17 million card-holders in the UK.
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NewsFirst Quench owes £2m to Diageo - and £14m to taxman
Diageo has been named as the largest corporate creditor of collapsed Threshers owner First Quench Retailing.
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Nectar says it won’t offer double points
Nectar, the loyalty scheme used by Sainsbury's, has ruled out any retaliatory increase of its own following the launch of Tesco's double-points Clubcard 2. While he said Tesco's new offer, as predicted in The Grocer last week, was "a...
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Baker heads board overseeing Nectar
Former Asda and Boots executive Richard Baker has been appointed chairman of the European advisory board that oversees the Nectar reward scheme. The advisory board will advise Groupe Aeroplan on how it can grow its loyalty programmes, such as...
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Tight Scots to see Nectar points cut
Sainsbury’s is changing the terms of its Nectar card in Scotland so shoppers spending under £50 will now earn just one point per pound rather than two. An incremental scale has been introduced to reward shoppers with extra points for spending more,...
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Nectar gets firepower to analyse 10 million
Sainsbury's loyalty card is set to "leapfrog" Tesco's by analysing the shopping habits of millions more consumers than its rival, according to the man who used to run Clubcard.This summer Peter Gleason left Dunnhumby, the company that...
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Can Nectar catchup with Clubcard?
Cast your mind back a decade and all the major UK grocers were either operating their own loyalty card scheme or trialling one. Fast forward to today and most have been ditched, the money from running them ploughed into reducing prices...
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Clubcard's Gleason to join Nectar card group
Nectar has enlisted the help of a Tesco Clubcard specialist to help it better exploit its data.Peter Gleason, former managing director of retail media at Dunnhumby - the customer insight specialist behind Tesco's Clubcard data analysis...
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JS drive to use Nectar better
Sainsbury's plans to place its Nectar loyalty card at the centre of its marketing in a bid to use the data to understand its shoppers better. It will "significantly improve the exploitation of Nectar", it said in a job advert for a number...
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JS sticking with Nectar
Sainsbury has given its clearest indication yet that it will sign up again to Nectar when the contract comes up for renewal this year, after bowing to customer pressure to make it more user-friendly.There has been persistent...
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Nectar Operator in Sale Talks
Loyalty Management UK, the operator of the Nectar loyalty scheme, is understood to be in talks with several trade buyers about a possible sale valuing the business at £300m.Lehman Brothers was hired to explore options for LMUK after it...
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Sainsbury trials novelty Nectar key tag card
Sainsbury is trialling what it claims is a first-of-its-kind key tag for the Nectar loyalty card scheme in a bid to cut handling time at checkouts. The card, created by a US supplier to look and feel exactly like a mini credit card, has both a...
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Sainsbury set to stay sweet on Nectar
Sainsbury is finally getting value for money out of its relationship with the Nectar loyalty card. Improvements to the way it uses data are set to deliver a 10-fold increase in incremental sales generated from the scheme in 2005 compared with just...
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Nectar to be squeezed
Sainsbury is aiming to squeeze more out of its Nectar loyalty scheme, after it reported a collapse in annual profits this week from £610m to £15m.The supermarket is planning to include fmcg brand offers for the first time. In the past it has...
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Nectar links with Brakes
Brakes has become the first food company to offer a Nectar reward scheme to its trade customers.Through the Nectar for Business scheme launched this week, Brakes is offering independent food operators or retailers two Nectar points for every...
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Nectar passes 13 million members
As forecast by The Grocer (September 6, p35) loyalty scheme Nectar’s first anniversary was marked with the announcement of impressive statistics. It now has 13 million accounts in the UK. In the last 13 weeks, 10 million of those accounts have been...
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Nectar Points Are Sweeter
If the marketing is to be believed, shoppers across the nation will be lapping up Nectar when the multi-retailer loyalty scheme launches in store on Monday. And, perhaps more than any of the other participants, Sainsbury will be praying it is a...
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Nectar prompts City scepticism
Sainsbury is believed to be gearing up for a September 16 launch of the Nectar loyalty card, developed with partners BP, Debenhams and Barclaycard. It will also be keeping up its BOGOF activity throughout the launch period and is expected to...