more supermarket news & analysis – Page 1109
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
Those natural impulses Organic food has been a Waitrose obsession for nearly 20 years, but it is only six years since the niche achieved profit. Camilla Palmer talks to chief agronomist Alan Wilson Organic food has become something of a passion at...
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Drinks: Grey spirits: distillers hit back
Distillers have shrugged off claims by Tesco that it had to mount top secret import operations because they are ripping off UK customers. Tesco made the accusations when it revealed it had sourced brands such as Teacher's, Bacardi and The Famous...
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M&S sells property
Marks and Spencer, under new property chief Chris Williams, is looking to raise a further £250m from selling off property. Property already sold or on the market includes Body Shop and Pizza Land outlets adjacent to M&S stores in Edinburgh, and...
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United Norwest: Co-op grabs 14 c-stores
A 14 strong chain of c-stores has been bought by United Norwest Co-op for an undisclosed sum. United Norwest has bought the AM/PM stores from Wrexham based wholesaler CG Paletta. The stores are in Wrexham in North Wales, the Wirral on Merseyside,...
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
Private pleasures Its status as a private company may exclude it from equity funding, but there are benefits to Waitrose's independence. Financial advisor Brian Carroll talks to Gillian Law Working for a private company gives directors an ideal...
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
Bring on the continuity people Waitrose's meat business has achieved an enviable robustness in a volatile and much troubled sector. Mike Ingham expalins why Tradition may have gone out of fashion in multiple retail management as troubles beset a...
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
Partners turn star performers. Waitrose has pulled the supermarket career image out of the doldrums. Thanks to its specialist training programmes, jobs now involve not just real expertise but also theatre, personality and panache, as Mary Carmichael...
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
The buying game The knack when buying for Waitrose is to keep one step ahead of the opposition says Rachel Pearson, central buyer for foodservice Camilla Palmer reports With a background at Harrods and four years' charcuterie buying under her...
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
In there for the duration Waitrose suppliers must be first class and share its philosophy. But once taken up, they are there for the long term, as director of buying Steven Esom tells Karen Dempsey You won't hear words like "squeeze" or "margins"...
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Multiples: Budgens goes ripe and ready
Budgens has moved into ripe and ready following pioneers such as Marks and Spencer and Sainsbury which have had such ranges on their shelves for more than five years. Dip Chotal, produce marketing manager, said the 19 own label range would also...
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
The multiple multiplies With expansion plans coming to fruition much faster than anticipated, Waitrose distribution director Geoff Salt is having to cope with an unexpected increase in volume, as Nicola Gordon-Seymour discovers With the...
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
Information age brainpower Poor IT can put the skids under your company. That's why Waitrose has installed its own advanced system, as Gillian Law discovers In a competitive industry such as food retailing, IT systems are "competitive edge stuff",...
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
The art of selling wine Julian Brind doesn't want crude formulae or too many labels in the drinks department. He wants balance and variety across all price points, as he tells Tim Palmer Julian Brind's comment that "wine is an art form and should...
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Tesco sales continue to grow
An upbeat Tesco chairman John Gardiner told a shareholders meeting last week that sales in the group were continuing to rise, with further growth likely as its expansion plans came online. Gardiner revealed group sales in the first quarter of the...
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Wal-Mart: The power and the glory
The Grocer gained unprecedented access to the Wal-Mart inner sanctum in Bentonville being the only UK publication to be invited to its annual shareholders' meeting. Camilla Palmer flew out with the Asda delegation and in our six page special...
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News analysis: British farm standard mark
Retailers rush to adopt the logo Using its "unique position as a major farmer and retailer", the Co-op has produced the first frozen peas to be registered under the new British Farm Standard logo. Produced on CWS farming estates in South...
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Marketing: Sainsbury gets into bed with naked chef
Sainsbury is hoping to inject some passion into its advertising after signing up celebrity chef and Essex geezer Jamie Oliver as the new frontman for its marketing activity. Marketing director Sara Weller said: "All the new work is still focused...