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Tesco resolves comparison row with Lidl

2003-08-02T00:00:00Z

Lidl and Tesco have resolved their bitter dispute in the Irish Republic over the latter’s price comparison campaign which the discounter claimed was misleading.The High Court in Dublin was told this week that behind-the-scenes talks had led...
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Tesco dedicates depot to clothes

2003-08-02T00:00:00Z

Tesco has opened a 240,000sq ft national distribution centre in Daventry that will handle all of its clothing ranges.The facility, operated by Tibbett and Britten, will free up space at distribution centres in Milton Keynes that were not...
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Low calorie beer tried again

2003-08-02T00:00:00Z

Anheuser-Busch is revisiting the low calorie beer market with the launch of Michelob Ultra.The 5% abv beer is available exclusively in Tesco and selected on-trade accounts with other retailers negotiating listings from...
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Sir Cliff’s wine: exciting

2003-08-02T00:00:00Z

Tesco got rather carried away after procuring stocks of Sir Cliff Richard’s Vida Nova wine, which is grown on his estate in the Algarve in Portugal. It proclaimed that the wine, which is in big demand with fans, would be on sale at Tesco.com...
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Walkers still tops chart

2003-08-02T00:00:00Z

Competition in the chart is extremely close this week with less than two percentage points separating the top five.Sainsbury moves up to the top of the chart just slightly ahead of Asda at number two. While Asda leans more towards price...
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Lidl and Tesco settle ad dispute

2003-07-29T00:00:00Z

Discount chain Lidl and Tesco Ireland have settled a legal battle over “misleading” price comparison ads by the supermarket chain about the German discounter. Lidl went to the High Court in Dublin to order Tesco to halt an advertising...
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Carrefour buys stores from Edeka

2003-07-29T00:00:00Z

French retail group Carrefour said its discount store unit Ed has agreed to buy 44 stores from Germany’s Edeka for an undisclosed sum. The Edeka stores – in Alsace, Franche-Comte and Lorraine in eastern France operate as Treff Marche – will...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

There's often a mealy mouthed feel about accusations, denials, court proceedings, judgements, fines, public disdain and moral high ground taken by litigants and public observers. The York-Sainsbury case is a fine example. Suppliers invent an alcohol...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

"To compete effectively you need the best people and you can't say the best people are always male and white." That is how Sainsbury's corporate personnel director Judith Evans sums up the business case for diversity in the workplace. She...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

The banner headlines said it all. When Sainsbury announced its profits warning last weekend, there was never a doubt the issue would make a rapid transfer from the business columns to the front pages of the broadsheets. And while the fortunes of...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

We'll buy British but not at any price. That was the message barely concealed between the lines of IGD president Tom Vyner's speech at the final flag-waving conference of the Strathclyde Food Project last week. You might say the Sainsbury deputy...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

The calls for unity which have coloured the Co-op's vocabulary since Andrew Regan's aborted attempt to take over the CWS will ring out again this weekend. But before they are heard, the roof of the national concert hall in Cardiff will be raised by...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

The club warehouse system has resurfaced in a different form. Will it be first of many? When Sainsbury bought the three Cargo Clubs from Nurdin & Peacock it believed planning and trading permissions would be adjusted to allow supermarket trading....
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Anyone who believed the General Election campaign would be conducted in an intelligent manner should have been among the shoppers at Sainsbury's supermarket at London's Nine Elms on Thursday. The farce began when entourages from our two major...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Sainsbury's bid to convince shareholders, City analysts and sceptical financial writers that it is making progress in the battle to regain the marketing high ground from Tesco was reflected on two fronts this week. The multiple sent more than a...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

It's always dangerous to judge the entire fleet by its flagship, but if Budgens could replicate its new Midhurst store across all its 105 sites, most of them situated in the south, it could certainly give Somerfield a run for its money. The...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

The Rochdale Pioneers have been turning in their graves. It is unlikely that the Co-op Movement has ever been thrust so savagely into the media spotlight during its 153 chequered years. But although the much publicised bid by City whizzkid Andrew...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Working on the maxim that all publicity is good publicity, Max Clifford would say the Co-op has enjoyed pretty good times recently. It is unlikely the trade historians will see it that way. The shock waves of the Andrew Regan saga are still being...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>Sir Ken will not risk morrisons by paying the wrong priceNobody should be too surprised to see Philip Green pulling out of the Safeway auction. Despite his blustering, it is clear Green has been having second thoughts for some time....
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>what’s tempted King to go to JS? And does the uk need to farm?When we caught up with Justin King this week, he was being suitably discreet about what he said – which was very little – as he sailed out of M& S to start his...