more discounter news & analysis – Page 138
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News
Lidl milk price move welcomed as farmers meet ministers for crisis summit
Move follows farmer-supporting action from Aldi, Asda and Morrisons
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Comment and Opinion
Aldi & Lidl - more 'meaningful' than the big four?
The rise of the discounters has been fuelled by the embrace of consumers, but why? Jon Kershaw of Havas Media explains
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Lidl to move to centralised data system in Europe & US
Lidl is poised to roll out a centralised processing and data management system to its European and US stores
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Comment and Opinion
Can Aldi’s Olympic deal unite Britain and Germany?
The borders dividing countries in global commerce have become blurred
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Aldi boosts British credentials with Team GB sponsorship push
As well as customer facing campaigns, Team GB athletes have also been working with Aldi staff
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Comment and Opinion
Like Ryanair, discounters will find low prices are not everything
As price becomes less of a priority for shoppers, lessons can be learned from similar upheaval in air travel
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Analysis and Features
A real living wage: is it time for the grocery trade to pay up?
The introduction of the national living wage by George Osborne has only fuelled calls for a higher living wage to be paid
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Comment and Opinion
Aldi and Lidl may prove decisive in living wage debate
There are fewer hot potatoes in grocery right now than the living wage…
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Sainsbury's is second largest grocery retailer again as Co-op achieves growth
Overall sales and shopper numbers also up, with prices now down 1.6%
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Former B&M owners sell £408m worth of shares
The Arora family, founders of the B&M Bargains retail chain, and its former private equity owners have sold a further 12% of B&M European Retail for over £400m.
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Comment and Opinion
Lidl proclaims triumph over Heinz in tomato-based twosome
Precisely what Heinz has done to irk Lidl we’ll never know, but each of the discounter’s new ads…
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News
Great German Bake Off: home baking soars at Aldi and Lidl
Forget the Great British Bake Off, it’s more like the Great German Bake Off…
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Media Bites 20 July: Seabrook Crisps, Iceland, Sainsbury’s
The takeover of Seabrooks Crisps, revealed by The Grocer on Thursday, has hit the papers this morning
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Analysis and Features
Christmas range 2015 sneak peek: Lidl
A clear extension of its plan to dispel the myth that it can’t satisfy premium palates
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B&M Bargains accelerates store opening plans
B&M Bargains is accelerating its store opening plans this financial year and now expects to add 80 net new outlets to its portfolio.
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Media bites 16 July: CMA, Lidl, JD Wetherspoon
Supermarkets are misleading shoppers by running confusing promotions, Britain’s competition regulator has found.
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Lidl sales climb £700m to record £4bn as new HQ plans unveiled
Lidl has hiked its UK sales by £700m to a record £4bn for the 2014 financial year as more shoppers desert the mainstream grocers for the discounters
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Aldi signs NFU pledge on fair treatment of fruit & veg growers
Aldi has become the first UK retailer to sign up to the National Farmers’ Union’s fruit and veg pledge
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Simon Twigger lands new role as Poundland trading director
Poundland has snapped up Simon Twigger, the former boss of Sainsbury’s convenience stores. Twigger, who has been on gardening leave from Sainsbury’s for the past few months, will join the single price discounter as trading director in September. He left Sainsbury’s in the wake of the group’s ...
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Media Bites 3 July: Lidl, price war, Pep & Co
Lidl and sister chain Kaufland have received almost $900m (£576m) in public development funding over the past decade, the cost of a basket of groceries grow for first time in six months and Andy Bond reveals Pep & Co ambitions.