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STUART PURDIE
trading manager (WINEs), MORRISONS Purdie has worked in the wine industry for 23 years. He managed stores for Peter Dominic for eight years and during its amalgamation with Bottoms Up. He began wine buying and moved to Morrisons as a wine buyer....
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SIMON THORPE
CENTRAL WINE BUYER, WAITROSE Thorpe began his career in the wine department of Fortnum and Mason in 1988 and worked there for seven years. He then completed a 15-month tour of the world's vineyards. Returning in 1997, he joined the Waitrose...
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TIM RANSCOMBE
CATEGORY BUYER FOR WINE, SAFEWAY Ranscombe has bought wine for Safeway for more than two years. Before that he worked for Sainsbury for 10 years in roles ranging from logistics to wine buying. He developed his interest in the wine category with...
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Somerfield to downsize stores
Somerfield is to focus on cost control with target cost savings of around £100m over the next three years, to be reinvested “to improve the customer offer". Chairman John von Spreckelsen was confident that the delivery of the refocused group...
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Press-round-up ... Somerfield
A new bid for Somerfield could be mounted by Gareth Jones, the former head of Abbey National’s wholesale banking division.The Times said Jones – a non-executive director of Somerfield until last August – is in discussions with two private...
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The Co-op buys Balfour
The Co-operative Group has bought convenience store operator Balfour for £30m from venture capital company 3i and Balfour’s senior management team.Balfour’s estate includes 76 c-stores and 35 newsagents based in southern England and had...
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Morrisons is now the firm favourite to win the battle for Sa
But there was a sting in the tail, because the Commission also warned that reducing from five to four competitors locally could be a threat to the intensity of competition at a national level. And its document adds: "It has been put to us that, if...
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JS looking to more extras from Oliver
The Jamie Oliver range of extra matured beef has been launched into Sainsbury's stores this week. The meat, which has been matured on the bone for 21 days, and features four joints and five steaks, will be available in 400 stores in specially...
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Retailers stall on stocks
Many grocery suppliers feel instore availability has grown worse in the past 12 months and the majority are still not convinced retailers are doing enough to tackle the problem. Half the senior executives we quizzed as part of our latest...
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Leaf for Waitrose
Waitrose has become the first multiple to use the Leaf marque on its fruit and vegetable prepacks. It coincided with the adoption of the logo on strawberries being sold at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships provided by Hugh Lowe Farms, which...
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Pork trade must try harder'
The British pig industry was given a tough must try harder' message by a supermarket chiefs at the World Pork Congress in Birmingham. Pork was failing to appeal to customers looking for convenience and a healthy diet, said Colin Smith, Tesco's...
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Legal threat in the wash for Co-op's Pods
Mary Carmichael The Co-op has launched what it claims is a revolutionary laundry product, but under the threat of legal action. The retailer claims Powder Pods dissolvable plastic sachets of washing powder, made by Robert McBride ...
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Morrisons' lead eroded
Morrisons remains number one for the second week but rather than maintaining a healthy five percentage points lead over the second-placed retailer as it did last week, it is threatened by Safeway which has jumped up the chart from number four and is...
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Tesco extends student scheme
Tesco is extending its Swap Shop scheme in which its part-time student employees transfer to the Tesco in their home town in university holidays The initiative was trialled in six Scottish stores last December, using a hotline for students to...
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Scan and pack ad misleading
Sainsbury's scan and pack' television ad, featuring celebrity chef Jamie Oliver having his shopping packed by checkout staff has been banned by TV watchdogs for being misleading. In the ad, two girls watch Jamie Oliver having his carrier bags...
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Scots suppliers at risk
Research from the IGD suggests suppliers will be caught out as Tesco and Sainsbury introduce factory gate pricing in Scotland. Half of suppliers who took part in the research commissioned by Scottish Food & Drink had minimal or no knowledge of...
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When The Grocer last conducted its online mystery shop in Ap
Sainsbury is not alone in finding that a third party delivery company had let them down. When a D'Agostino delivery driver had a run in with the NYPD the media had a field day and the reputation of the service-orientated D'Agostino, which is New...
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It was bold, brash and the early signs are that it worked. S
Running throughout May, the campaign's distinctive purple leaflets invited customers who shopped in Safeway stores or at their petrol station forecourts to text the amount they had spent at the store that day for a chance to win TVs, tickets to...
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Asda's basket full of accolades
Asda has this week been named as the country’s favourite supermarket chain by consumers, ensuring it picked up The Grocer’s inaugural Gold Award for The Grocer of the Year. The award was based on research carried out by marketing information...
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Safeway trials furniture sales
Safeway is trialling the sale of furniture at its first third generation megastore in Reading.Pine dressers, sideboards, tables and leather sofas are on display in the new expanded homeware section. Store manager Gary Hunt said that...