more supermarket news & analysis – Page 731
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News(Nisa buying) power to the people’s co-op store
The People’s Supermarket - the co-operative retailer that opened in a blaze of publicity last year, promising to offer an alternative retail model - has joined Nisa-Today’s.
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NewsAll four, one: M&S farmers get collective
Four M&S dairy farmers from Dorset have clubbed together to create a collective buying and accounting system in a bid to cut costs and improve efficiency. The farmers, all of whom supply M&S through Dairy Crest, will share…
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NewsJerky Group supplies own label for M&S
Beef snack company The Jerky Group, supplier of the Wild West Beef Jerky and Bundu Original Beef Biltong brands, has launched an own-label beef jerky range for M&S. Available in Classic and Peppered, the new range is made in the UK…
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Will others follow Morrisons’ lead on women in the boardroom?
It’s six months since Lord Davies published his Women on Boards report and 23 companies, including Reckitt Benckiser, have appointed female directors in that time. But, despite Lord Davies urging FTSE 100 companies to sign up to a voluntary target…
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Grocer 33Asda, Trafford Park, Manchester
The Grocer 33 is a weekly mystery shopping survey, tracking price, service and availability at the five leading grocery retailers: Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose. Each week the winning store manager is interviewed by The Grocer.
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NewsMorrisons drops biggest hint yet of bid for Iceland
Morrisons appears to have signalled its intention to bid for frozen food retailer Iceland by appointing Credit Suisse as an advisor. Iceland’s majority owners, the officials responsible for the winding up of Icelandic bank Landsbanki, put their 67% stake up for sale in May.
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NewsTesco eyes legal challenge to OFT price fixing fine
Tesco has vowed to battle the multimillion-pound fine it was handed yesterday by the Office of Fair Trading. The UK’s largest supermarket was fined £10.4m as the competition watchdog’s long-running probe into price fixing in the dairy trade finally drew to a close.
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NewsMastercard man Horgan ends Sainsbury’s hunt for marketing chief
Sainsbury’s has finally named its new marketing chief – a year after Gwyn Burr vacated the role. Mark Horgan joins from Mastercard and counts stints at Mars and Nestlé on his CV.
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NewsRetailers told to put safety first after latest night of carnage
Retailers have been urged to put people ahead of property and not risk unnecessary confrontation after London plunged into a third night of riots. Store owners in the capital, as well as Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool, saw shop fronts smashed and goods looted in what Scotland Yard called “the worst ...
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NewsSmall batch Indian sauces from Anand
TV chef and cookery writer Anjum Anand has launched seven premium home cooking sauces into Waitrose. The Spice Tailor range of ambient sauces (rsp: £2.89/255g) are hand-made in small batches in India. The line-up, inspired by regional...
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NewsHe’s queasy, but Hugh lets Tesco off the hook
After years of hounding the nation’s biggest retailer, campaigning chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has finally buried the hatchet with Tesco and will instead focus his attention on John West when his Fish Fight returns to TV on Monday.
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NewsYorkshire presents first official sausage
The UK’s largest county, Yorkshire, has got an official sausage at last. The Yorkshire Sausage rolls out to nine Morrisons stores next week. Its launch follows a three-month campaign to find an official Yorkshire sausage, led by local…
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NewsCo-op staff reveal details of its new ‘sales drive’ on Facebook
The Co-operative Group is understood to have launched several in-store initiatives to boost sales. Following two-hour in-store briefings with operations managers, staff have been discussing a “new sales drive” on Facebook.
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NewsFresh & Easy wines hit the UK as Tesco shakes up sourcing
A Californian wine previously available only in Tesco's Fresh & Easy stores is going on sale in the UK as the retailer ramps up efforts to harmonise its international wine sourcing. WineWrights 2010 pinot noir, which has a 13.9% abv....
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Analysis & Features
Asda roars ahead of rivals in driving up promo levels
The distraction is back. After scaling back its activity, Asda has upped the ante again, running 24.1% more deals last month than a year ago.
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Analysis & FeaturesFish Special: The start of the line?
The first MSC-certified line-caught fish from Iceland is hitting Sainsbury’s now. Nick Hughes visits the country to see if its tie-up with Saemark presents a blueprint for the future
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NewsMarchant steps up in Tesco clothing shake-up
Tesco has reshuffled its clothing executive team. The retail giant has promoted UK buying director Jan Marchant to the role of design director for its F&F Europe clothing operation.
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NewsTesco backtracks over badger cull ‘boycott’ claim
Tesco has moved to clarify its policy on the planned badger cull in England, after one of its customer services managers mistakenly sent out a letter claiming it would not source from any suppliers involved in the cull.
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Grocer 33Waitrose, Rickmansworth
The Grocer 33 is a weekly mystery shopping survey, tracking price, service and availability at the five leading grocery retailers: Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose. Each week the winning store manager is interviewed by The Grocer.
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NewsExpress format comes to Fresh & Easy
Tesco will open its first smaller-format US store in November. The Fresh & Easy Express will be half the size of existing Fresh & Easy stores, at around 4,000 sq ft.