more discounter news & analysis – Page 186
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Self-heat meals listed nationwide
Self-heating canned ready meals are finally making inroads into the mass market with products under the Hotcan brand getting nationwide listings.Launching now in Moto service stations, the range is also listed in Palmer & Harvey, Aldi, Spar...
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Expert judges come on board to look for Gold
The judges for The Grocer Gold Awards 2004, sponsored by MEI, have now been confirmed.Retailers on the panels include: Colin Smith, chairman of Poundland; Sue West, retail operations director of Selfridges; Steve Melton, Argos supply chain...
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Yeo back in the old job as turbulence goes on
Iceland has replaced its retail director with the man he replaced 18 months ago.It has appointed store development director Mark Yeo as retail operations director, following retail director Ted Smith’s resignation a week earlier. The move...
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Mike Coupe moves on with sales in growth
The Big Food Group has announced that Mike Coupe, managing director of Iceland, is stepping down in September after two years in the role.In its third quarter trading statement, BFG said Coupe would continue as MD until early...
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Morrisons to divest 140 smaller Safeway stores
Morrisons is set to bring in £250m by selling 140 of Safeway’s smaller convenience stores after acquiring the supermarket group last week.Weekend press reports suggest that the Big Food Group, Somerfield and German discounters Netto and Aldi...
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Inside Aldi
Little is known about the notoriously secretive hard discounter, so Liz Hamson tracked down a former insider to quiz him on the secrets of its success and ask whether he thinks the formula will thrive in the UKMost of the time,...
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Aldi dossier
>>established 1948The Albrecht brothers, Karl and Theo, opened their first store in 1948 under the Albrecht Discount fascia in Essen, Germany. In the early 1960s they had around 350 stores and divided the business into two, Aldi...
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Iceland/Booker disparity blasted
The Big Food Group has been blasted by independent retailers – for charging consumers less for beer than them.The group’s Iceland chain was this week selling 24 bottles of Stella Artois for £9.99 – up to £3.30 cheaper than in its Booker cash...
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Lidl pulls Aussie wine
Lidl has withdrawn bottles of an Australian wine brand from shelves over fears it could trigger an asthma attack.The retailer is recalling stock of Creston Bay Cabernet Shiraz from the 2002 vintage, which costs £2.99, after a consumer...
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Market is ripe for discounters
The EDLP tactics of Asda and Tesco may have opened rather than closed the doors to the hard discounters in the UK, retail experts have warned.Speakers at Citigroup Smith Barney’s annual food retailing conference highlighted the growing...
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£3.9m ice cream buy
Richmond Foods has scooped up Sheffield-based ice cream maker Oldfields in a £3.95m deal. Oldfields, which supplies own label to customers including Iceland, made a pre-tax profit of £300,000 on sales of £5.4m in the year to December 2002....
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Shayle joins Iceland to expand customer offer
Iceland has recruited Steph Shayle, Asda’s general manager for core non-food categories, to fill the newly created post of category manager of frozen prepared food.She will head an eight-strong buying team aiming to expand Iceland’s customer...
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Back to the busy mum theme
Iceland has gone back to its roots with a new advertising campaign designed to drive home its credentials as the leading food shopping destination for busy mums.The ads, announced as Iceland unveiled positive like-for-like sales for the...
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DCS Europe’s top lines at 99p
Toiletries and household goods distributor DCS Europe has launched a new promotion enabling retailers to stock top brands such as Flash, Colgate and Cussons for 99p.DCS customers, which include TM Retail, Poundland and Blueheath, will be...
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Cool Trader expansion
Cooltrader, the frozen food chain set up by former Iceland boss Malcolm Walker, has opened its eighth store in Manchester.Buying director Andy Errington said the company – set up by Walker in July 2001 – was stepping up its store opening...
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Despatch points
The major grocery chains in Northern Ireland are The Co-operative Group, Iceland, Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury, Safeway and Tesco. Our mystery shoppers do not visit Iceland and M&S, so how do they measure up?Iceland stores in NI are...
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Iceland sweats its vital assets
MD Mike Coupe tells Elaine Watson how Iceland’s programme of refits is a vital part of a master plan to drive profitsThis time last year some quarters of the City were writing off Britain’s biggest frozen food retailer as a hopeless...
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Replenishment moves up a gear
Iceland has taken Booker’s collaborative approach with suppliers to the next level by plugging them directly into its store replenishment system and allowing them to pull off sales data for individual SKUs at store level. Nine months into...
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Makro’s regime offers a rare degree of autonomy
When Simon Hellam joined Makro 18 months ago, he was thrown in at the deep end. After six years in retail, performing a variety of functions with discounter Lidl – most recently at its Wimbledon head office – Makro put him in charge of its busiest...
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Iceland told to cool ads
Frozen food specialist Iceland has been ticked off by watchdogs for two advertising leaflets which failed to state clearly that the prices shown were promotional and not regular prices.Supermarket chain Kwik Save complained that the leaflets...