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Supermarket price inflation falls back as deals return and price war looms
Offers and promotions have started to rematerialise, damping grocery price inflation
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Poor potato harvest hits McCain profits
Profits more than halved at frozen foods specialist McCain last year as “one of the worst potato harvests in 40 years” hit its bottom line.
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Brands team up for government hygiene campaign
The brands have begun working in partnership with the UK government to support its #EnjoySummerSafely campaign
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Michael O’Loughlin made COO at SimplyFresh in ‘transformation’
The appointment means a change of role for co-founder Kash Khera, who will become business development director
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Brakes records £25m loss and warns over coronavirus impact
The loss came in the wake of £39.3m pre-tax profit from the previous year
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Consumer confidence rising as lockdown is eased, says IGD
IGD’s Shopper Confidence Index shows a combination of the easing, warm weather and low inflation has driven up confidence levels
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Convenience stores selling hot food to benefit from VAT cut
Retailers will also be eligible to apply for a pavement licence
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Costa Coffee begins eat-in trials at 44 stores across the UK
Costa said it aims to extend the eat-in option to a further 1,000 stores by the end of the month
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Jacksons wins deal to supply Co-op own-label bread
The Co-op’s current contract with Kingsmill owner Allied Bakeries is coming to an end
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Food manufacturers lagging behind retailers on prompt supplier payments
The Grocer found many of UK’s biggest fmcg manufacturers far exceeded the recommended 60-day limit
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La Fiesta sparkling wine gets fruit-flavoured duo
Raspberry & Elderflower and Strawberry Fizz launched into Morrisons this week
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Aldi adds cava built to ‘balance against the chill of ice’
The semi-seco cava is billed as having flavour notes of stone fruits and fresh flowers
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No-deal Brexit will raise food prices, warns BRC
The BRC said the industry would be unable to absorb all the additional tariff costs, meaning higher prices for shoppers
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Coldpress HPP smoothies listed in Lidl
Coldpress founder Andrew Gibb said the move was “a major springboard” for the brand’s new-recipe smoothies
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Mars unveils raft of launches in spreads and sports nutrition
The US fmcg giant has created a duo of peanut butters for M&M’s and Snickers
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Unilever boosts protein in Pot Pasta range
Unilever has reformulated its Pot Pasta range to boost the snacks’ protein credentials
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City snapshot: Supermarket inflation falls back in June to 0.9%
Supermarket inflation fell back in June as the return of promotions and the threat of a price war took the sting out of pandemic-driven price hikes.
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Media Bites 10 July: Retail job losses, John Lewis, Boots, Brexit tariffs
“Help us stem tidal wave of job losses, beg shops”, writes The Times as John Lewis, Boots and Burger King cut nearly 7,000 jobs.
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John Lewis to close eight stores as Boots axes 4,000 jobs
The John Lewis shops identified for closure include two full-size department stores in Birmingham and Watford
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Alex Russo to take over as B&M chief financial officer in November
Russo will become CFO and executive director of the company on 16 November following a handover from Paul McDonald