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Tesco: satisfaction
Tesco CEO Terry Leahy congratulated the Competition Commission for "not getting sucked into the general uninformed clamour" about supermarkets' profitability. Admitting he was "a little surprised" by the positive comments from the Commission in...
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Sainsbury scours urban jungles for Local sites
Exclusive Camilla Palmer Sainsbury is finding it impossible to grow the Local c-store chain as fast as it would like because it cannot find enough sites to develop. The multiple has been placing discrete ads in which it says it is "urgently"...
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JS: the Lille thing
Operated by P&O, Sainsbury's first distribution centre on French soil has proved a bonus all round. Nicola Gordon-Seymour reports on progress to date Sainsbury's decision to open its first European primary consolidation centre in Lille last...
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Regional sourcing on target says Somerfield
Nicola Gordon-Seymour Somerfield says its Regional Sourcing Initiative is on track, despite being hit by delays in the south east. The multiple launched the initiative last October in conjunction with Food from Britain with the aim of sourcing up...
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Tesco: a fully automated future
One computer holds the key to the chain's fast track distribution in 2001 meet Tess of the multiples Tesco is trialling a high speed automated cross docking materials handling system at its composite distribution centre in Southampton. Tesco...
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Asda on top in battle for loyalty but price wars have done h
Asda is the star performer of the latest Verdict report on the shopping habits of UK consumers. The report says Asda has overtaken Sainsbury to take number two spot in the hearts of the UK shopper gaining number one spot in the loyalty stakes. It...
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Inside Back Cover Briefs
The manager of the new Co-op in Enfield, North London is Siobhan Rooney. The store will be open early December. Chris Temperley, an ex Allied Domecq man, has joined the importers of Poland's biggest selling beer, EB Specjal Pils, as sales director....
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Peter and the wolves
You would never have guessed it from the PR man's doleful expression as he faced the tv cameras, but Sainsbury had something to smile about this week. How long is it since you could say that? For the decision to parachute the multiple's best known...
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Cheap headline prices for own label canned goods have been
In canned fruit, for example, both Asda and Tesco have seen 12% and 9% falls respectively in their year on year sales figures for own label canned fruit, despite continuous low retail prices on the value ranges. Del Monte, with an 18% share of the...
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the winners and losers
l Morrisons: In the seven weeks to January 9, sales 19.5% higher than the corresponding year. Like for likes up 15.1% l Tesco: In the seven weeks to January 8, total UK sales up 8.8%. Like for like sales up 5.5% with sales volumes up 4.5% l...
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Sainsbury's Supermarkets has signed a deal for a 10,000 sq f
Knutsford, the investment company headed by four entrepreneurs including former Asda boss Archie Norman, has made a £600m bid for private equity business Wassall. It is believed to be a staging post before Knutsford moves on to a retail takeover...
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Asda signs Open TV deal
Asda customers will be able to shop via their digital tv sets by the summer, says the multiple, following a partnership deal with British Interactive Broadcasting network Open. When the service is launched in June it will be available to all one...
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ETHICAL TRADING
CWS and Sainsbury sourcing first fruit Fair outlook for banana sales Fairtrade bananas became a new element in UK banana retailing for the first time this week with the news that CWS is selling fruit imported from Costa Rica and Ghana in 1,000...
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here's the team
The hullabaloo that surrounded news of the appointment of Sir Peter Davis masked the fact Sainsbury also rejigged its management. Most of the changes came in the supermarkets division as new md David Bremner sorted out his team. The decision to...
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City puts frighteners on talk of Tesco/M&S link
Tesco bosses have refused to deny a possible tie up with Marks & Spencer even after shareholders saw the value of the former's stocks plummet this week. The continued speculation saw M&S stocks climb as high as 332.5p in the early part of the week...
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Sainsbury's Supermarkets has signed a deal for a 10,000 sq f
Knutsford, the investment company headed by four entrepreneurs including former Asda boss Archie Norman, has made a £600m bid for private equity business Wassall. It is believed to be a staging post before Knutsford moves on to a retail takeover...
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No more Mr Nice Guy
That Dino Adriano is a nice guy is not in doubt. The problem as Safeway's Colin Smith found out last year is that being nice counts for nowt when your rivals are getting nastier by the day and your business is going south. Like Smith, Adriano...
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Here comes the sun
Investors are so used to receiving bad news from Sainsbury that when the group announced Sir Peter Davis was joining as chief executive its shares shot up 5% even though the announcement was accompanied by another profit warning. The City was...
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And this, Peter, is your mission
n There are lots of things we can do,' says Sir Peter. All will be revealed in May. A sell out is not on the cards, but a merger just might be. Julian Hunt reports on the Davis agenda The message from the Sainsbury's board to its ...
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Tesco gets tough in new GM rules
Tesco has broken ranks with the major supermarket groups by imposing a ban on crops grown in fields that have been host to genetically modified foods. It said the decision would not affect its current suppliers but will help them plan their future...