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Germany: German retailers furious at plans to recycle drink
German retailers have blasted government plans to impose stringent new recycling laws on drink cans and bottles from January 2001. Under a new law proposed by economics minister Werner Mueller and environment minister Jurgen Trittin, consumers...
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Carrefour rebranding on target
Carrefour is on target to complete the rebranding of its Belgian hypermarkets to the Carrefour fascia by the autumn. Last July, Carrefour increased its stake in GB, the supermarket division of Belgium's GIB Group, to give it full ownership of 56...
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Safeway: Top team shaken up as Ramsden decides to go
Safeway has made a number of changes to its senior management team shortly after store format director Roger Ramsden quit the food chain. However a spokeswoman insisted the two moves were not connected. Ramsden became famous last year when as...
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Marks and Spencer: Lunch to Go facility set up
M&S has reorganised its logistics arrangements for its rapidly growing Lunch to Go food delivery service. Lunch to Go delivers sandwiches, salads and microwave meals in vans direct to offices in London and other major cities in the UK, typically...
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Jude gets to work with the Marks and Spencer brand
Marks and Spencer has appointed Jude Bridge head of external marketing, reporting to group marketing director Alan McWalter. Bridge, who joins in September, will oversee the development of the chain's new customer-focused marketing strategy in its...
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Multiples: Safeway boosting variety on record length fish co
Exotic fish offerings including barracuda from Australia among 160 different types Shoppers in Woking are being offered the chance to taste some truly exotic fish and meat products at Safeway's newly opened superstore. The fish counter is 21ft...
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Opinion: Beware the cult of Carlos
Talk to anybody at Safeway these days and you can't help thinking they have all joined some strange religious cult. Almost without fail, and always without any prompting, they will rattle on about how Carlos has done this, that and the other. Store...
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OTC medicines: Multiples react fast to RPM abolition
Asda is leading the way with the depth and number of price cuts across OTC medicines following the abolition of resale price maintenance. According to figures from Information Resources, all the major supermarkets were quick to respond to the legal...
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Dalepak Foods appoints two commercial managers
Dalepak Foods has appointed two new commercial managers. Tim Redman, 30, joins from William Jackson Bakery where he was national accounts manager. He will be responsible for national accounts, including Asda, Morrisons and Dalepak's food service...
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Veba doing well
Maxxium's efforts to carve a niche for itself in the cluttered PPS market are beginning to pay off. Veba a sweet and sour cherry flavoured product was launched in March through Sainsbury and Bass Leisure. Both are maintaining the listing and...
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Wal-Mart annual shareholders' convention: More supercentres
Exclusive Clive Beddall, Bentonville Giant, dual fascia supercentres and smaller format specialist supermarkets will spearhead Asda's retailing strategy as it targets Sainsbury to become the UK's second largest multiple. After a procession of...
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Whitworths has been bought by its management, headed by chie
A reward for information leading to conviction of a gang of shop raiders has been doubled to £10,000 by Leeds Co-op, Yorkshire Co-op, Jacksons Stores and T&S Stores. Nield Group, which claims to be the biggest independent wholesale distributor and...
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No fears over M&S effect
Northern Foods chief executive Jo Stewart is optimistic that M&S's troubles will not impact on his business. Over exposure to Marks & Spencer, which provides about 30% of Northern's business, is not a cause for concern, Stewart emphasised. ...
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David Webster
Chairman Safeway IGD president I would like the next government to redouble its efforts to secure a speedy reform of CAP. We simply cannot continue to subsidise the overproduction of commodity foods. The government should also keep the...
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SUPERMARKET style
Huge car supersites have brought supermarket practices to car buying in the UK where a vast selection of piled high sold cheap' vehicles represents massive savings on UK list prices. And now vans and pick-ups are being sold in the same way....
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Asda cheapest in survey for fourth year running
Exclusive Sheila Eggleston Asda is still Britain's cheapest food retailer despite facing intense competition from arch rival Tesco. For the fourth year running, the Wal-Mart subsidiary has notched up the highest number of cheapest baskets in...
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Asda's decision to turn honest labelling into a competitive
When launching its 200-strong range of Good for you! products, Asda said: "We took a red pen approach and crossed out all the false and misleading product descriptions which can misinform and confuse customers. The result is a range which states the...
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Asda again steals show with the cheapest baskets full to the
Sheila Eggleston Asda has again emerged as Britain's best value supermarket, accounting for 24 of the cheapest baskets reported in The Grocer 33 shopping survey during the past year. The only blot on Asda's phenomenal record came this week, when...
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Steak-loving Americans will soon have a new word to add to t
Quorn got the go-ahead from MAFF in the UK back in 1985 when the first product to hit the shelves was Sainsbury's Quorn pie. The myco-protein now turns over $150m in the UK and Europe including the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden and extends its...
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Quality food central to recovery at Sainsbury
New food ranges, extra customer care and better use of shopper data are aiding Sainsbury's recovery, according to chief executive Sir Peter Davis. Customer numbers jumped from 9.8 million last year to 10.8 million, which he said were both new and...