more supermarket news & analysis – Page 964
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Store shuffle near Sheffield
It’s all change in the grocery market just southeast of Sheffield, as Sainsbury aims to revitalise its brand in the region. The area is a long way from Sainsbury’s traditional heartland of the south, but the grocer has decided it’s time to shake up...
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Tesco breaks £2bn profit barrier
Tesco has broken the £2bn profit barrier thanks to strong UK, International and non-food sales.The retailer announced underlying profits up 20.5% to £2,029m for the year to February 26. Like-for-like sales in the UK grew by 7.5% excluding petrol...
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Tesco plans European expansion
Tesco is planning to open more than 40 stores in Central Europe this year.The retailer, which currently operates about 194 stores across Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, looks set to grow this number to around...
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Tesco's double whammy
Tesco has broken through the 30% market share barrier for the first time, according to exclusive new figures for The Grocer.The revelation comes just days before Britain’s biggest retailer is expected to post a profit of more than £2bn for the...
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The cost of a syringe
Sunjuice, the company that supplied Sainsbury with the orange juice in which a syringe was found last week, has had to invest £750,000 in measures to ensure such an incident can never happen again.The South Wales-based company, which produces...
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Tribunal rules Tesco employee was unfairly sacked
A Tesco employee who was sent home by his bosses because he had a swollen eye, and then sacked for taking too much sick leave, was unfairly dismissed, an employment tribunal has ruled.Tesco had denied the charges, arguing that Andre Van der...
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Working Week
>>Helen Corbishley, category product manager, co-operative groupHelen Corbishley says she needs more days to get through her busy working week as category product manager for chilled ready meals at the Co-operative...
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Battle of the bottle
Chris Walkland looks at what’s happening to the 3.5ppl milk price rises and why some farmers might not get a fair shareThe fight to raise milk prices took several weeks, but, against the odds, the battle was won – Asda and Tesco...
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Salad’s great unwashed
Making a convenience product less convenient might seem a strange thing to do, but that is what Tesco has done with the introduction of fresh, unwashed bagged salad. In the range are rocket and lambs’ lettuce varieties (rsp: 59p) and two...
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Asda’s ‘lifeline’ for UK growers
Asda has awarded Leeds-based frozen food supplier Fullers Foods International a multi-million pound contract to source UK frozen vegetables for all its 274 stores throughout Britain.The multiple said several thousand extra acres of UK veg would...
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Dairy Crest waiting on Morrisons
Continuing post-takeover woes at Morrisons are creating uncertainties at Dairy Crest.The processor has been hoping the retailer would be the last of the major supermarkets to undertake a review of its milk sourcing arrangements, and award new...
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UHT milk price rises
The price of the major supermarkets’ UHT milk is following its fresh counterpart upwards. Tesco and Sainsbury this week increased the price of cheapest own-label UHT milk from 32p to 35p, though Asda had not followed suit as we went to...
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Indian-style ready meals
An extensive range of ethnic ready meals that do not need to be refrigerated have been launched by newly established company Thali Foods.Available in Tesco, Thali is a 17-strong range of authentic meals that include dishes previously not found...
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The Acid Test
>>consumers and buyers give their views on the latest launchesPremium White RumFrom: The Co-operative GroupLaunched under the Co-op’s own Fair Trade label, Premium White Rum is the first spirit in...
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Tesco hits 30% share of total till
The slowdown in consumer spending is beginning to impact on food retailing. The topline market growths for food, drink and non-foods in supermarkets in the four weeks to March 19 were a strong 5.6%. However, other than the hypermarket channel,...
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Tesco gives brands a rough ride
Supermarket own-label smoothies are outdoing market pioneers such as PJ and Innocent. But, by focusing on innovation and new product development, the big names are hitting backOwn label continues to be king of the castle within the...
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Asda awards new frozen veg contract
Asda has changed its frozen vegetable supplier in order to save food miles.The grocery retailer has awarded Leeds-based frozen food supplier, Fullers Foods International, a multi-million pound contract to source UK frozen vegetables for all...
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Sainsbury sees faster growth than Asda
Sainsbury’s market share has recently increased faster than Asda’s for the first time in a decade, according to the latest UK food market share data by TNS.Sainsbury’s market share grew 4.1% during the 12 weeks to 27 March, while Asda’s...