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Sainsbury wants action on ATM charges
Sainsbury has paired up with the Nationwide Building Society to attack cash machine operators who charge customers to withdraw cash from their machines. Sainsbury, which operates 340 cash machines, said this year customers would pay more...
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Inter Link Foods makes Paul Griffiths group MD
John Wood Inter Link Foods has appointed Paul Griffiths, the former chief of United Co-op's food group, as group managing director. Griffiths will take control of the management of Inter Link Foods' manufacturing and distribution...
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Safeway in defensive mode
Sean McAllister Safeway has admitted to shareholders that the situation surrounding a possible takeover was stopping it from "competing full-bloodedly" with other supermarkets and was creating enormous uncertainty for head office staff. ...
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Goats cheese Caerphilly proves hit
An idea to try something new with goat's milk has led to a top award for a struggling small cheese maker. Somerset based John Longman took the top prize in Tesco's inaugural Cheese Challenge with his goats cheese Caerphilly. The win means his...
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Safeway moves to recruit more disabled people
Safeway is aiming to boost job opportunities for disabled people through a deal signed with recruitment agency Remploy. The company specialises in finding employment for disabled workers, a group which it claims represents up to 20% of the UK...
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Safeway sales dip
Safeway said the five-way bidding battle for its estate has “created an uncertain environment for our customers, staff and suppliers” with like-for-like sales down by 0.1% in the fourth quarter.The dip compared to an increase of 0.1% in the...
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Tesco names new non-executive director
Tesco has appointed Mervyn Davies as non-executive director with immediate effect. Davies was group chief executive of Standard Chartered, which has operations in more than 50 countries and is a leading bank across Asia, Africa and the...
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Milk Link gets Tesco man
Robert Hirst, category manager for dairy at Tesco, has left to join farmers' co-operative Milk Link in the newly created role of trading director. He will be responsible for more than £220m worth of milk and ingredients sales. He will manage a...
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The fact that the Co-operative Group paid £30m to capture Ba
Consolidation of the market has been going on for the best part of a decade with the likes of T&S Stores competing fiercely with its peers to swallow up other chains like M&W, One Stop Convenience Stores and Day & Nite. But at the end of...
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What are your responsibilities?
Asda's Stores in the Community strategy encourages staff to help the neighbourhood where their stores are locate. This can be done by fundraising events and other community projects. I also have a team which finds local sourcing opportunities. ...
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Foreigners can forget it
Asda is claiming to be the first retailer to stock British carrots all year round. Working with Scottish growers in Perthshire, Angus, and Aberdeenshire, the retailer said it had extended the home-grown season from 46 weeks of the year to 52....
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John von Spreckelsen tells Julian Hunt why he's confident he
Given there are always plenty of people predicting a rather gloomy future for Somerfield, being invited to meet with executive chairman John von Spreckelsen at World's End seemed somewhat ironic. But there were no prophets of doom to be found at the...
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Anzac backs British veterans
One of Australia's most iconic products, the Anzac biscuit, is to make its debut on the UK market. Privately owned Aussie company Unibic has struck an exclusive deal to supply Sainsbury, with the first packs going on shelf from July 14. The...
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Somerfield lifts lid on rotisserie offer
Julian Hunt Somerfield has come up with an ingenious way of offering hot rotisserie chicken in stores without room for the traditional serveover counter. Shoppers at its store on the King's Road in London one of those testing the idea ...
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Vitelma's no-cholesterol mayonnaise
Belgian company Vandemoortele claims its new Vitelma mayonnaise offers a low-fat, no cholesterol, dairy and egg-free option. Rolling out now, initially in Tesco and Morrisons stores, the newcomer is made with rapeseed oil, which is rich in...
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M&S goes for seasonal best
David Shapley Consumers are being encouraged to pick up the best tasting seasonal fruit and veg at Marks and Spencer. The retailer has launched Best of Season', a new initiative to promote seasonal produce. The products selected for...
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Balfour to run as standalone
The Co-operative Group plans to run the newly acquired Balfour chain of stores as a standalone unit while it gets on with the task of merging former Alldays stores into the business. Co-operative Group chief operating officer Malcolm Hepworth...
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You can't live by food alone
Somerfield's results this week demonstrate how hard it is for retailers to generate strong like-for-like sales when their focus is on grocery and they have little in the way of non-food to boost top line growth. The Tradetrak figures from...
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Shares in Somerfield have almost doubled over the last quart
However Mark Hughes of Numis Securities believed the shares had peaked and would not trade any higher than 130p this year. The big loser this month was Unilever after it cut its full-year target for growth of its top 400 brands. The share price...
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n wild garlic yarg
Waitrose is to stock the latest offering from the company that introduced the nettle-covered Cornish Yarg cheese. Lyhner Dairies Cheese Company is introducing a Wild Garlic Yarg exclusively to the retailer in September. The company...