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Sainsbury moves closer to its customers
EXCLUSIVE Julian Hunt Sainsbury is looking to flex its promotions and ranging to boost sales as part of a massive project to meet better the needs of consumers. Assistant managing director Sara Weller said the supermarket chain was "leveraging...
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VISIONS OF EXCELLENCE AT ACS
Vision, excellence, innovation and motivation will be the key themes of the ACS annual conference in March. Speakers and chairmen include United Co-op chief executive Martin Beaumont, Aberness Foods md Stanley Morrice, T&S chief executive Jim...
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n The supermarkets' swoop on banking and other financial ser
Almost five years after the launch of branded banks by Tesco, Sainsbury and Safeway, the concept of buying customer-friendly financial services from the big supermarket chains has proved to be a winner. Now, it's the c-store operators who are...
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Morrisons debuts in Wales while stocks run low during major
Two new stores and three refits pepped up our weekly shop. Tesco, Carlton, was being refurbished to make room for food to go, a new fish counter and new freezers. However, stocks were low, especially in the freezers where turkeys and Christmas food...
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Sainsbury says it will build on success forging better relat
Sainsbury suppliers have been told the multiple is committed to continue improving and further developing relationships with them. The 230 key people gathered at its annual suppliers conference were promised they would see a profitable return on any...
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Tesco calls for simpler planning system
Tesco is calling for planning reform in the wake of announcing plans to open eight new stores across the West Midlands. Targeting brown field sites, UK regeneration manager Martin Venning said the developments would bring around 3,500 jobs to the...
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Tesco gets a new Irish boss as Maurice Pratt goes to Cantrel
Maurice Pratt, the 45-year-old chief executive of Tesco Ireland and one of the country's best known retailers, is leaving the job to become managing director of Cantrell & Cochrane (C&C), the drink and snack foods group which is gearing up for a...
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Special diets set to boom
Food products aimed at consumers with special dietary needs will be the next big thing, according to Sainsbury assistant md Stuart Mitchell. He told the suppliers' conference that the multiple planned to offer more such products as part of its...
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Boots ahead of schedule
Sainsbury has opened its first Boots concession several weeks ahead of schedule at the Warren Heath store in Ipswich. Assistant managing director Sara Weller said the project had been accelerated so that six trial stores could be kitted out with...
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Food manufacturers can source a whole range of beef and poul
Marks and Spencer is to sell its 18 French stores to department stores group Galeries Lafayette for an undisclosed sum. M&S is "still in consultation" over remaining stores in the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Luxembourg. The four Belgian stores...
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Multiples claim to be level-pegging
Safeway claimed to have kicked off a new round of petrol price cuts this week, reducing the price of a litre of unleaded by 2p. Customers spending more than £40 at the checkout will also get a further 5p reduction per litre at the pumps. Tesco...
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multiples: toasting a winning strategy
Morrisons has walked off with some glittering prizes for its drinks offering and the way it has developed its ranges. Keeping its simple is key Morrisons has been winning respect for the success of its drinks offering and praise for the way it...
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Morrisons overhauls wine offering to promote the best of all
Wine buyers at Morrisons have just completed a mammoth' task to review every single wine on its shelves with the evidence going on show in London to to selected wine journalists for the first time this week. John Spurs, licensed trade director of...
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Princes was showing off a new range of Napolina pasta sauces
Israel's Sabra Salads plans to launch more houmous lines in the UK. On test in 60 Sainsburys is Houmous Extra, which contains pine nuts and olive oil, and comes in 250g tubs. Galtee Meats was showing its Ted's Kitchen brand of individually cut,...
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As Tesco and Levi battle it out in the European Court of Jus
How big a problem is parallel trade? Phil Evans The amount of grey market trading is small overall, but big in a few areas. It seems like a perversion to allow corporations to use a legitimate tool for identifying goods (a trademark) but then...
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Tesco fights Dunnes plan
Tesco and RGDATA, the Irish independent grocers' organisation, don't usually find themselves agreeing, but both are contesting planning permission granted for a 30,000 sq ft supermarket on Donegal Town's outskirts. Leading Irish developer...
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Ditch price claims and build trust says Baker
The supermarket industry should abandon its phoney price claims, according to Richard Baker, Asda's deputy chief operating officer. He claimed these tactics were backfiring because all they did was erode further consumer trust in food retailers. ...
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GOOD OLD WINNIE THE POOH
Old favourites can still call the tunes and the one Safeway has its bets on is Winnie the Pooh. Christmas category buyer Jayne Sorrell says: "Any Winnie the Pooh character is a winner. Our Christmas stocking is new for us and comes in Winnie the...
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Congratulations, Sir Peter!
Readers of this magazine have voted Sir Peter Davis, chief executive of Sainsbury, this year's winner of The Grocer Cup for Outstanding Business Achievement. A delighted Sir Peter picked up his trophy at the IGD Food Industry Awards and then...