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Food from Britain makes McNair its chief executive
Exclusive Clive Beddall Former Allied Domecq and Sainsbury director David McNair is the new chief executive of Food from Britain. He joins the organisation next week and succeeds Patrick Davis, who leaves at the end of the month to become...
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DIY WITH BELL
Norman Bell, 41, has announced his resignation from Somerfield after nine years with the food chain. Bell oversaw the integration of the Kwik Save stores to Somerfield earlier this year but his most recent role was director of home shopping. He...
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Sainsbury lays claim to safe raw eggs
Exclusive Julian Hunt Sainsbury is close to cracking the age old problem of how to make raw eggs safe for pregnant women, children and the elderly. The multiple is working with a leading supplier to develop a completely natural process that will...
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Safeway working on peace with farmers
Safeway has pledged to work with the National Farmers' Union to develop a code of practice for future supplier initiatives following the uproar caused by its 1,000 Line Availability Focus campaign. The supermarket chain told the NFU it was...
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Full steam ahead
n Sainsbury thinks flash pasteurisation could revolutionise food safety. Others think it may be a case of overkill, says Julian Hunt For US shoppers, flash pasteurisation is nothing new. Almost two-thirds of the fresh beef they buy in supermarkets...
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Ahold still eyeing UK move
Dutch giant Ahold, which failed in a bid for Safeway in the 1980s, is still interested in moving into the UK market, according to president Cees van der Hoeven. Speaking at the Global Retailing Conference, organised by the IGD and Food from...
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Somerfield sets out to take the lead in home shopping servic
Somerfield is preparing to launch its online shopping service within the next couple of weeks as part of its 24-7 home shopping package. And it has almost finished trials of a new eFulfillment picking system, on trial at its Bristol depot, which...
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Expansions create 28,000 new jobs
The major supermarket chains are set to create 28,000 new jobs in the UK in the coming year. Tesco leads the way with a promise of 10,000 new staff in 22 new UK stores. It is also expanding its home delivery service currently operated from its...
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M&S seeks health destination appeal with Count on Us foods f
Marks and Spencer has taken on McVitie's Go Ahead! and other major health oriented brands with the launch of its Count on Us range for slimmers and the health conscious this week. The move is a brave attempt by the beleaguered retailer to add...
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The great British public is reacting against the uniformity of global supply and supporting hard pressed regional suppliers…
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Arise, Sir Ken not bad going for a market lad!
Ken Morrison, the executive chairman of Wm Morrison Supermarkets, joined the ranks of Richard Branson…
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TIME FOR CHANGE
Somerfield is searching for a new marketing director only five months after a restructure which resulted in the appointment of Richard Smith as head of the department. The announcement follows Smith's move to the group's recently created change...
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Partners' 26p premium pinta
Waitrose is launching premium farm assured milk on Monday and pegging the new lines in its 121 stores at its normal retail price of 26p a pint. The range of full fat, semi skim and skimmed milk will be marketed in screw top cartons under the...
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Millennium Babies
Last September Tesco launched a baby and toddler catalogue as part of its mail order home shopping service. It was another strand of Tesco's stategy to provide a complete one stop shopping service covering every facet of the babycare products...
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Leighton tipped to run Marks
Clive Beddall Charismatic Asda chief executive Allan Leighton is tipped to take a leading role in a takeover bid for troubled Marks & Spencer. Leighton, 45, the man who brokered the £6.7bn deal which saw Wal-Mart buy Asda last June, is seen by...
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Bremner starts fresh shake up
The new boss of Sainsbury’s supermarkets arm is lining up another restructuring of the business…
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Hardy fury at £2.49 Stamp
Deep price cutting by Safeway on the Stamp wine range prior to Christmas forced BRL Hardy to hold back supplies. A spokesman for Hardy said the multiple brought the price of the Stamp Chardonnay Semillon down to £2.49 in some stores. "We had not...