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DFB 1st Grade targets gap in cheese market
Dairy Farmers of Britain has expanded its branded cheese portfolio with a range of four cheeses.The 1st Grade range, launched into 650 Tesco stores last week, features mild, mature and ploughman's vintage Cheddars and Red Leicester....
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Dairy calves reared for Asda's beef range
Asda officially launched its dairy calves initiative this week in a move to boost its range of home-produced beef. Under the supermarket's 360˚ Sustainable Dairy Calf scheme, farmers will receive £30 per calf from a rearer in Wales, who will...
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Other Movers 29/11/08
Morrisons trading director Andrew Pleasance is to take up the new role of senior trading director for operations. Grant Eastwood moves from licensed trades to the new role of trading projects and change director, while Simon Harrison will become...
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Tesco flushed with success as it cuts 40% off stores' water bills
Tesco has reduced its water bills by 40% in 28 stores by using rain water to flush the toilets, and has ambitious plans to cut water use even further.Engineers have installed tanks costing £25,000 under newly built stores, and have...
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Marks: sell-off averted referral to commission
The OFT's decision not to refer The Co-operative Group's £1.57bn acquisition of Somerfield to the Competition Commission rested on a knife edge, Co-op CEO Peter Marks has revealed.Speaking at the society's half-yearly membership meeting in...
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NewsGrocer 33: All smiles at a new type of Waitrose
It was a poor week for availability for most retailers but Waitrose in Brackley – one of its first Market Town formats – boasted no out-of-stock items and, with the helpful staff “all smiles”, was this week’s winner
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NewsGrocer 33: Tesco topples Asda to take pricing title
Tesco secured the cheapest retailer title this week, jumping two places and knocking Asda off the top spot with its £48.21 basket
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NewsGrocer 33 Online: Asda delivers all-round excellence
Bags for life. Bags under the counter. The supermarkets might be doing their darnedest to cut plastic bag usage in stores but for the online teams that pick and deliver, the plastic bag continues to be an Achilles heel
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Grocer 33 Star Order: Asda
Asda reclaimed the Star Order crown thanks to strong availability, great service and a low minimum order and delivery charge. The retailer netted the Star Order award in three out of the four 2008 Grocer 33 Online Surveys. "Three out of four...
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Battle for shoppers sends supermarkets’ ad spend soaring
Increasingly fierce competition between supermarkets has driven up their spending on television advertising – as a host of traditional big-spenders rein in their outlay in response to the slowing economy.
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Editor's Comment: Is it really a rip-off to run products at sale prices for longer than the higher ones?
It isn't the season to be jolly. That's next month. But already, the Christmas bargains are coming thick and fast. As well as 20% off on clothing at Marks & Spencer, this week saw buy one get TWO deals at Morrisons, for example. And while no-one...
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Asda kicks off drive to flag up local food
Asda is to trial a revamped local sourcing format in store after it became the first retailer to take on ambitious local food targets outlined in a new report.Improved merchandising and better promoted local food will be trialled in a small...
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Other Movers 22/11/08
George Davies, the founder of the first supermarket clothing range, George at Asda, is retiring from Marks & Spencer where he set up the Per Una label. The part-time chairman of Per Una will step down at the end of December. Andrew Skinner has...
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New platform for Sainsbury's payments
Sainsbury's has told suppliers it is the “best supermarket to do business with” following the launch of a new early payment scheme. At its supplier conference this week, the retailer launched what it said was an ‘industry first’ payment management...
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Financial difficulties? Asda says it will listen
Asda has revealed it is giving financial help to one of its oldest suppliers and offering to discuss with other suppliers any financial difficulties they are having.In an exclusive interview with The Grocer, CEO Andy Bond said the main way...
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Asda slashes petrol prices even further
Asda led the latest round of petrol price cuts this week, despite CEO Andy Bond claiming aggressive fuel price cutting had cost Asda £3m in October alone.The retailer cut petrol to 90.9p/l, with diesel down to 105.9p/l - a move that prompted...
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Union probes double shifts at Waitrose
Waitrose has been asked to attend a formal meeting with shopworkers' union Usdaw after migrant workers were found to be doing double shifts in its warehouses, sleeping in cars in between.The retailer has launched an investigation after Usdaw...
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Co-op ordered to sell another seven stores
The Co-operative Group must sell seven more stores, on top of the 126 already earmarked for sale, to complete its £1.57bn acquisition of Somerfield.The OFT cleared the deal to create the UK's fifth-largest supermarket in October but ruled...
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Grand Marnier: not just about Christmas
Grand Marnier is attempting to boost the brand’s appeal beyond Christmas with a second round of off-trade sampling. Next week, consumers visiting Sainsbury's and Tesco in the south east can pick up a free glass of the ‘grand café’ serve, which...
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NewsGrocer 33: Asda proves it's a friend indeed
Two retailers boasted 100% availability this week, but Asda in Swansea was the clear winner thanks to great customer service and a fun atmosphere as staff got into the spirit of Children in Need