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Consumers flocking to lamb at pork's expense
Safeway turned its Woking store café into a fine-dining restaurant for a night as part of a promotion for lamb. Supplier HM Bennett and Safeway management said they were pleased with customer response to the event. HM Bennett senior sales manager...
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Morrisons is buoyed by alcoholic cheer and takes the chart b
The fascia chart has a new leader with Morrisons storming to the top and particularly active in the alcoholic drinks category with a wide range of floor stacks and off fixture displays for beers and lagers. Safeway, Tesco and Somerfield all remain...
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Budweiser 10 x 207ml Price promotion £4.49 Floor stack
Cadbury's Chocolate Fingers 125/150g 2 for £1.50 Side stack Asda Cadbury's Chocolate Fingers 125/150g Buy one get one free Gondola end Morrisons Cadbury's Roses 480g 2 for ...
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It's paled to significance
An ambitious project by Australian producer Cranswick to target female shoppers with a dedicated wine range is paying dividends seven months after launch. The company claims the Image range it launched in Tesco and Sainsbury last August, in...
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regional branding
Celtic Pride hits shelves The Celtic Pride Welsh Lamb Sausage went on sale at Tesco and Sainsbury stores across Wales and the south west following pioneering deals struck by Wales' leading livestock co-operative The Welsh Meat Company. Just two...
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the money's
on smart Ed Bedington discovers how Asda shaped its parent Wal-Mart's technology for the benefit of all its UK stores Asda has always claimed to be spiritually in tune with its parent company, but the introduction of new technology means that...
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another partner for tarrango
Australian winemaker Brown Brothers has increased the off-trade distribution for its varietal Tarrango with a listing in Budgens. The grape is produced exclusively by the company and its stockists include the Co-operative Group, Tesco, Sainsbury...
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Tesco has set up its own travel company, Tesco Freetime, to
The FSA has repeated its warning that children should not eat mini cup fruit jelly products that contain Konjac because of the risk of choking on the sweets. Scottish & Newcastle has taken a 46% stake in Greek brewing company Mythos, the number two...
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Sainsbury's Kiln Lane, Epsom, store has been inviting custom
Exactly what does browsing mean? I don't know. All I can suggest is that the store has re-opened after refurbishment and wants customers to come in and have a look at it. But it hasn't been refurbished and it hasn't been closed. It's been open for...
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Retailers vindicated after euro slurs
Retailers and multiples in the Irish Republic accused of ripping off consumers by hiking prices during the euro changeover, have been cleared of the charge by the latest consumer price index. Irish prices fell slightly between December and January,...
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David Felwick moves to JLP on a high
As Waitrose md David Felwick this week prepared for his move to a new role at parent group the John Lewis Partnership, he said he looked back with a great deal of pride and satisfaction at what had been achieved during his time with the supermarket...
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Fresh fare in London
Somerfield is converting six London based Kwik Save stores into the more profitable Somerfield convenience format. Kwik Saves in Paddington, Cricklewood, Camberwell, West Norwood, West Wickham and Waltham Cross will be refurbished between May and...
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Buoyant Waitrose now hunts for new sites outside its traditi
Julian Hunt Waitrose confirmed it was closer than ever to breaking into new trading areas as it reported a record set of figures for the last financial year. The chain has made no secret of its desire to move further into the north and the west,...
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Asda Wal-Mart's £53m sale to British Land
Asda Wal-Mart has sold its 204,000 sq ft Orbital Shopping Park development in Haydon, north Swindon, to British Land for around £53m. The price reflects an initial yield of around 6.5%. Final price will depend on rent achieved for the last lettings...
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MANAGEMENT TEAM BUY BUKO
One of the UK's leading shopping trolley manufacturers has been saved from receivership by a new Bank of Scotland funded management team. Buko, which claims to have a 40% share of the UK's shopping trolley market and supplies Sainsbury, Safeway and...
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Imagine arriving at your local supermarket and finding a not
Dream on! I fear this is unlikely to happen, Mrs Beckett and others tell us that the public want cheap food. Well, over the last four years farmers have seen farm gate prices plummet to levels often below the cost of production without consumers...
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Lager, beer and cider give drinks an appetite for the main c
The fascia chart continues to be dominated by Asda which again holds the number one spot. Safeway is closing the gap on Asda, however, rising to number two just five percentage points behind. The resurgence of Safeway has pushed Sainsbury down...
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Cadbury's Creme Egg x12 Price promotion £3.49 Gondola
Cadbury's Dairy Milk Bar 1kg Price promotion £3.98 Side stack Asda Cadbury's Heroes 1.5kg Price promotion £2.99 Gondola end Safeway Cadbury's Ice Cream Bars 3/4 packs ...
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Sainsbury will soon launch an intermediate ECR scorecard for
Thorntons posted a 9.2% rise in pre-tax profit to £10.3m on sales up 3% to £102m for the six months to January 12. The company said it would drive sales through more listings in other retail outlets and even pub chains. Procter & Gamble is...
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Tesco cracking on with
factory gate ambitions Tesco believes its new factory gate pricing initiative will help it slash the £500m currently spent every year moving products from factories into its distribution centres. Group supply chain director David Wild said: "We...