more supermarket news & analysis – Page 958
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Delivery costs slashed
The Co-operative Group hopes the purchase of 40 new trailers as part of an overhaul of its logistics network will result in quicker deliveries to stores and better availability.Its distribution arm, Co-operative Retail Logistics (CRL), has...
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Asda to distinguish treats from healthy
Asda is planning to launch a new kids’ food range, which will distinguish between healthy and treat-only products, The Grocer has learned.The range, called Great Stuff, is still in development, but Asda has applied to register the name and logo...
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Suppliers’ spice move fury
Spice companies are up in arms after attempts by Tesco to steamroller through an initiative giving it control of ingredients purchasing.The multiple has banned primary own brand suppliers from using spice firms that do not comply with its new...
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Morrice quits as MD of Aberness Group
Stanley Morrice, managing director of Aberness Group, will be leaving the company at the end of the month.The announcement follows Palmer & Harvey McLane’s acquisition of the Scottish Mace wholesale business from Somerfield last...
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Tesco advertising head retires with high praise
Tesco’s head of advertising, Robin Gray, is retiring after working with the supermarket for 32 years.Brand marketing manager Paula Withell, who has been with Tesco for two years, has been promoted to the position of head of advertising....
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Feeling the City heat..
...but Sir Ken had many backers at the agm, says Ronan HegartyFrom the large number of burly security men at Morrisons’ agm in Bradford, you would have been forgiven for thinking chairman Sir Ken Morrison expected trouble.But...
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Tesco may want his lunch but Rose has other plans
A year since he took up the helm at M&S Stuart Rose is out to make its business less schizophrenic, as he tells Siân HarringtonStuart Rose is visibly tired after a week in which he has been scrutinised on everything from whether...
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Why lads go on top
Tesco’s decision to move lads mags higher up shelves has received support from several quarters. But where does it end, asks Rod AddyGiven Tesco’s seemingly unstoppable success as a global retailer, it’s understandable it receives the...
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Sainsbury picks a fruitful alliance
JS is standing by its Windward Island banana suppliers. Richard Clarke reportsIt can sometimes seem that the multiple retailers in this country are intent on squeezing suppliers all they can, always ready to trot out: “If you can’t do...
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Supplier Spotlight
Agricultural co-op turned limited company Branston traces the start of its growth back to when it began supplying potatoes to Tesco in 1990. It has since steadily acquired most of the other Tesco potato suppliers, and the multiple is its sole...
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GQ editor backs Tesco
Dylan Jones, editor of GQ, has defended Tesco’s decision to reposition men’s magazines away from family titles, saying some of the publications were “tantamount to pornography”.Jones, who is also chairman of the British Society of Magazine...
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Waitrose tries low-price food
Waitrose has broken away from its traditional quality-over-price roots for the first time with a trial of a low-price food range to pull in new shoppers.The range, which it describes as “inexpensive branded lines”, is being tested in selected...
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Channel Islands invitation
The Channel Islands are poised to become a battleground between major mainland retailers including Tesco and Carrefour as politicians there invite them to bid for sites.The Grocer has learned there are at least three sites up for grabs that are...
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Campaign not ‘a fair picture’
Waitrose has hit back at Sainsbury’s latest press campaign, in which it highlights the price difference on fresh produce between the two.The Fresh to Sainsbury’s campaign features fruit and veg, from peaches to potatoes. At the bottom of...
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Tesco warehouse to close
A Tesco warehouse in Kent is to close later this year with the loss of 400 jobs.The warehouse, in Strood, will close in September and its operations will be moved to Tesco’s Thurrock warehouse in Essex over 20 miles away.Tesco said...
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Channel Islands invitation
The Channel Islands are poised to become a battleground between major mainland retailers including Tesco and Carrefour as politicians there invite them to bid for sites.The Grocer has learned there are at least three sites up for grabs that...
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M&S milks Omega-3 cow
The dairy industry has welcomed the second launch in a week of a milk enriched with brain-enhancing Omega-3.Hot on the heels of St Ivel Advance with Omega-3 (The Grocer, May 21, p78), Marks and Spencer has launched its own Fresh Omega-3...
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Online war: Asda doubles up
Asda has launched a fresh attack on Tesco’s online market share with the announcement that it is to double the delivery coverage of asda.com.By the end of the year Asda’s online service will cover 60% of the UK, compared with 30% in autumn...
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King hits out in rip up row
An amazing war of words has broken out between Justin King, the chief executive of Sainsbury, and a leading small business lobby group.The multiple’s boss is outraged at comments made by Forum of Private Business chief executive Nick Goulding,...
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Co-operative Group axes 600 HQ jobs
The Co-operative Group is to slash 600 jobs from its head office in a £50m cost-cutting and efficiency drive to counter falling sales.The move, which was announced on Thursday as The Grocer went to press, will mean just under one-fifth of its...