more supermarket news & analysis – Page 1006
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Geest forms Asda import alliance
Geest has formally announced plans to join forces with another supplier to exclusively supply Asda with imported produce.The move will see the UK’s second largest retailer sourcing its imported produce through a sole importer.In a...
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New breed of chicken
Sainsbury has joined forces with poultry farmers to launch a new breed of chicken.Devonshire is a 100% Westcountry free range chicken the retailer claims “tastes like chicken used to taste”.Lloyd Maunder and selected farmers worked with...
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JS leads cuts with Courage
Sainsbury has fired the latest salvo in the Christmas beer pricing war with big cuts across Scottish Courage brands.In an attempt to differentiate itself from Asda and Tesco, both using Stella and Carlsberg as their lead deals, the retailer has...
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OFT reduces Safeway divestments
Morrisons will only have to sell 52 stores if it buys Safeway – as opposed to the agreed 53 – the Office of Fair Trading has ruled. The OFT has decided that Morrisons would not have to divest a store in Towcester. Earlier this week,...
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Geest to simplify supply chain
Geest is to form a new business to combine its English village salads (EVS) sold at Asda and Thames Fruit, which imports citrus fruits and melons to the supermarket. The aim of the new business – NewCo – is to simplify the supply chain for...
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Experience to savour
Specialist snacks retailer Julian Graves plans to build its JG Experience format to challenge Marks and Spencer’s Simply Food. Anne Bruce reportsShutts says the company is not afraid of change. In fact it has already been through...
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Superquinn.ie motors
Turnover at Superquinn’s online shopping portal Superquinn.ie is approaching 5% of the chain’s annual sales.The anchor tenant in the Irish virtual shopping precinct www.Buy4Now.ie, Superquinn’s site was set up in autumn 2000 before Tesco’s...
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Ocado ‘set for second slot’
Online retailer Ocado is set to overtake Sainsbury’s to You in turnover in the next few months, according to chief financial officer Jason Gissing.He said Ocado had achieved 300% sales growth this year and was set to be taking £1.5m a week by...
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Asda makes music count
Asda is broadcasting “Asda TV” to its music and video departments as a two-year roll out project comes to an end.Large plasma screens broadcast a three-hour chart show on a loop in 260 of its 264 stores. The four stores which don’t have the...
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Tesco to fore at Christmas
Tesco looks set to win the battle of the supermarkets this Christmas, according to an exclusive survey of consumers’ spending plans for the festive season carried out for The Grocer.Almost a third of consumers who are not regular Tesco shoppers...
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Spottiswoode thinks local for Somerfield
Somerfield has promoted Kieran Spottiswoode to local marketing controller to help support its £70m store refit programme and new formats roll-out.He replaces Rachel Warren, who left in August to become head of retail marketing at Oxford,...
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Six of the best cakes and biscuits buyers
>>nominated this monthBISCUIT BUYER, SAINSBURYBanks joined Sainsbury in 1998 and worked in store as a graduate trainee manager. She moved to head office as a trading administration specialist for bakery and her first buying...
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Tesco gets back on top
Tesco re-establishes itself at the top of the chart this week, moving up from number four. The retailer is now particularly strong on confectionery and health and beauty and has a number of multibuy offers situated on gondola ends. The upward...
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Tesco tills will be a’ jingling
Exclusive research for The Grocer reveals how consumers will be spending their money this Christmas. Liz Hamson reportsShoppers plan to spend just as much this Christmas as they did last yuletide and Tesco is their number one...
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Non-food is pivotal
Tis the season to be merry for Tesco and Asda whose superior non-food offers will give them the edge, says Sean McAllisterThe City and retail analysts are predicting both Tesco and Asda will have a bumper Christmas. In fact both...
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Trust in the Asda brand helps quadruple sales since 2000
>>DVD players set sales spinningAsda’s commitment to non-food is demonstrated again in the electricals sector where its sound and vision department alone includes about 80 products.The chain entered the category in the...
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MSC no2 for Asda
Asda is set to introduce its second seafood product certified to the Marine Stewardship Council's environmental standard. The new Asda own brand Alaskan salmon product, prepared in a lime and coriander marinade, is due to hit shelves on...
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Water takes on the Glenlivet name
The Glenlivet name is being extended beyond its whisky heartland – and into water.Speyside Glenlivet natural mineral water is rolling out to Waitrose nationwide after an exclusive launch period inHarrods. The water, from a source in the...
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The who, why, what and when of the nation’s multi-million pound Christmas shopping spree
>>Key findingsTesco 3133Asda2020Sainsbury1725Morrisons810Safeway719Co-op323Kwik Save39Somerfield211Waitrose 16Other928Tesco31Asda...
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United Co-op bans terror pair
United Co-operatives says it has made legal history by obtaining a civil court injunction that bans two problem customers from entering its stores.The Staffordshire-based co-op, the second largest in the UK, has had Darren Boote and...