more supermarket news & analysis – Page 851
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Milk co-ops welcome OFT merger approval
First Milk and Milk Link have welcomed the Office of Fair Trading's decision not to refer their merger plans to competition authorities - effectively giving it the green light. Having looked at territorial, milk supply, cheese production...
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Dieting and health get separate Tesco ranges
Tesco is launching a new diet sub-brand this week in the first strike by one of the major supermarkets to win over the new year healthy pound. The unveiling of the 250-strong Light Choices range comes as Tesco relaunches its Healthy...
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In Brief: Waitrose lists caviar; Vaccine order hailed; NFU welcomes ban
Waitrose lists caviar Waitrose started stocking caviar again last month, 10 years after it removed the product amid concerns over dwindling sturgeon numbers. It says its new caviar is from sustainable sources. Vaccine order...
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Price Survey - 5th January 2008
Asda has started the new year with its grip on the title of Britain's cheapest retailer showing no sign of weakening in what has been a quiet week for price changes. Although Morrisons and Tesco matched 26 and 27 of Asda's prices respectively, Asda...
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Asda unveils plan for value free-from lines
Asda is to launch a range of own label Free From products designed to offer value to people with food allergies and intolerances. The Asda Free From range, which will initially consist of 40 lines, will be introduced to stores from...
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Waitrose to enter United Arab Emirates
Waitrose is planning to open more than 20 stores in the United Arab Emirates by 2010.It has secured a licensing deal with supermarket retailer Spinneys through which selected stores will operate under the Waitrose fascia. The first...
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Opinion - "Now, the sympathy vote simply won't wash. But the fine will have unintended consequences for the PM too"
The £116m of fines meted out by the OFT to Asda, Sainsbury's, Dairy Crest and Robert Wiseman last Friday came too late to be included in Saturday's issue, but this story, already five years old, is far from over. And right now, save for a few very...
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Tesco third-cheapest retailer behind Asda and Morrisons
Morrisons has beaten Tesco on price to become Britain's second-cheapest supermarket behind Asda over the past six months.While Asda's average weekly basket came out cheapest at £44.51, the half-year review of The Grocer 33 shows...
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M&S organic turkey sales go over £1m
Organic turkey sales in Marks & Spencer are set to break the £1m barrier this Christmas for the first time.Sales of organic turkey through its food customer ordering service are already up 40% on last year.Steven Esom, director...
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Court slaps alcohol marking order on Somerfield store
A Somerfield store must have all of its alcohol products marked by police so they can be traced back to the store if they are found in the possession of minors.The condition was imposed this week by a licensing panel at Brighton and Hove...
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Tesco bids for Czech chain
Tesco is bidding to become the largest grocery retailer in the Czech Republic after putting in a €200m (£144m) bid for the Plus discount chain, according to reports.Czech daily newspaper Mladá Fronta Dnes said Tesco had put in the...
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Waitrose develops surplus calf scheme
Waitrose has developed a cross-sector initiative that it hopes will revamp the home-reared veal and beef market.Under the Calfline project, every surplus bull calf produced on Waitrose's dairy farms will be reared for the beef and veal...
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Morrisons recruits own label execs
Morrisons has poached two senior executives from Asda and Tesco to spearhead a product development drive to transform own label.It has appointed head of Asda brand product Simon Mitchell and Tesco's Central European product development...
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Wal-Mart Canada gets Cheesewright as boss
The departure of Asda's chief operating officer David Cheesewright on 4 January will come as a huge blow to the retailer, say analysts. Cheesewright is taking over as president and CEO of Wal-Mart Canada from Mario Pilozzi, who is...
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The warmest family welcome - Q&A and Availability
With the Christmas rush gathering momentum, our mystery shoppers reported scenes of frantic restocking at the retailers this week, but only Asda in Radcliffe, Lancashire, provided a full basket earning it our Top Store award. In addition to having...
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What the papers said - 15th December 2007
Tesco has complained to the OFT about property website Rightmove for refusing to list its properties. Tesco launched its home-selling service, Tescopropertymarket.com, in June in an attempt to undercut estate agents but has struggled to crack the...
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Letter of the week - Farm welfare and Asda sour grapes
If Asda's Chris Brown had taken the time to read Compassion in World Farming's Supermarket Survey Report properly he would have seen that it is based on well-respected and accepted scientific evidence and research - not assumptions ('Welfare survey...
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Muesli brand from a land down under
Australian cereal brand Carman’s is hoping to shake up the breakfast market with the launch of its muesli range in the UK.
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Price Survey - 15th December 2007
Asda remains the cheapest retailer in the run up to Christmas - but Tesco put up a strong fight, consigning Morrisons, the usual runner up, to third place. Asda's £41.79 basket, which was just 35p cheaper than Tesco's, boasted seven of the cheapest...
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Six-month price, service & availability review
Asda's low prices have dominated The Grocer 33 for the past six months but it's Morrisons not Tesco that is challenging it, however, to be Britain's cheapest retailer. In the first half of 2007, Tesco came closest to stopping Asda's run...