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JS men are reunited at Alldays
Former Sainsbury commercial business unit director Andrew Mitcham has joined c-store chain Alldays as its trading and marketing director. Mitcham, with 25 years' retail experience, replaces Tim Chalk, who has left to pursue his career elsewhere....
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Allan drinks to Wal-Mart effect
Clive Beddall Seven months into Asda's membership of the Wal-Mart family, a buoyant Allan Leighton is claiming one million new customers and an increased market share to 14% after his chain's "best period ever". Talking exclusively to The Grocer...
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Safeway works to get premixes right
An over cautious approach to the emerging premixed spirits sector cost Safeway millions according to research it carried out with Bacardi-Martini. Like the other major multiples it took heed of public outrage over alcopops three years ago, curbed...
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Tesco staff get SAYE cash
Staff at Tesco are in line for an £83m payout this month from the company's Save As You Earn scheme. Savers have invested between £5 and £250 every month in three and five year savings plans. They are due to receive news of payouts in the coming...
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Green out of picture as M&S works to recover
Financier Philip Green has announced he has no intention of bidding for Marks & Spencer. The announcement ends weeks of speculation he was stalking the company with the intention of launching a takeover. Green said he did reserve the right to make...
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Leeds Co-op blasts ATM charges
Leeds Co-operative Society has joined the row over cash machine charges and has accused high street banks of profiteering. Chief executive Alan Gill said ATMs should not be a means for making a profit but a service for customers. "Many banks have...
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Tesco sells off Stewarts offies
Tesco is offloading 18 of the Stewarts off licence chain it owns in Northern Ireland. It plans to integrate 30 others with supermarkets but six will be kept for development. Philip Russell, which operates 40 off licences in the province, is a...
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Tesco Express adds 150 forecourt sites
Tesco's plans to expand its portfolio of Tesco Express forecourt stores have been met with concern by independent retailers. The multiple has struck a deal with Esso to open supermarkets on 150 sites during the next three years. But symbol groups...
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Motoring ahead
What's the story behind Tesco's rising interest in forecourt stores? Camilla Palmer reports The race to capture consumers while they fill up their cars with fuel, or snap up a paper, chocolate bar and a pork pie, has suddenly got faster with the...
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Alnwick wrangle ends in compensation
A settlement has finally been reached in a lengthy and costly row that blew up after the government rejected plans for a Safeway superstore on land bought from the Duke of Northumberland. The Duke has agreed to buy back at an inflated price 12...
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Safeway launches a further attack on suppliers' purses
Exclusive Julian Hunt Safeway has come up with a new wheeze to squeeze huge sums of cash out of suppliers. At the end of last year the multiple ran into a storm of protest when it asked manufacturers to stump up £20m to support its 1,000 ...
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There is no doubt supermarkets are making giant strides in i
1999 saw customers taking a far greater interest in the provenance of their food. People power saw the demise (whether temporary or permanent) of genetically modified foods. More and more customers declared their wish to buy Freedom meats; Lion...
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Local: reassuring talk?
Mark Rollmann walked into the lion's den at Gleneagles and emerged, practically unscathed, out the other side. Rollmann, as general manager for Sainsbury's Local, represents the new kid on the block as the multiple stores muscle in. He looks after...
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How british retailers are meeting online shopping orders
l Asda has two dedicated warehouses in Croydon and Watford serving one million customers in the London area, with two more scheduled to open in the second half of this year. It anticipates building a national network of 12-15 depots over the next...
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Howegarden receivership
Howegarden has gone into receivership owing in the region of £2m. It supplied more than £10m of produce to major multiples, including Tesco Sainsbury and Somerfield. The business is still continuing to trade and the receivers are hoping to sell…
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WELL, HELLO DOLLIES!
Following successful trials with a number of suppliers and logistics providers in the pioneering use of dollies, Tesco is planning to extend its phased rollout of these merchandising units to handle bulk volume ambient lines over the next few...
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ASDA: clout compatibility
Asda chief executive Allan Leighton was "not surprised" by the positive comments from the Competition Commission. "The effect we have had on inflation is greater than anything the Chancellor has done," he told The Grocer. "I have always been fairly...
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The other winners
Conserving Farmland Biodiversity Award, sponsored by English Nature and Sainsbury David Wood of Whinney Hill in Northumberland Farming Ambassador of the Year, sponsored by Asda David Milner of the West Midlands Show Group Young Farmer of...
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Norman now at Hague's right hand
Former Asda chairman Archie Norman has severed his final link with the company after resigning as a consultant, following his elevation to the post of shadow minister for transport, environment and the regions. The promotion to William Hague's...