All articles by Ronan Hegarty – Page 100

  • TESCO MOBILE
    News

    Tesco launches home phone service

    2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

    Tesco has linked up with Cable & Wireless to provide broadband and home phone services.

  • News

    Fade to grey

    2009-10-31T00:00:00Z

    No retailer really wants to use the grey market, but as as they battle to keep their prices low in the recession, more of them are doing so. Ronan Hegarty reports

  • MEAT
    News

    Police launch probe into fake organic meat

    2009-10-20T09:45:52.230Z

    Surrey police have launched a fraud investigation into the alleged supply of meat falsely labelled as organic to UK supermarkets.

  • STILTON
    News

    UK's food and drink exports soar once again

    2009-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Exports of food and non-alcoholic drinks rose 10.2% to £4.82bn in the first six months of the year, according to new research commissioned by the Food & Drink Federation (FDF).

  • News

    Supermarkets' brand data 'mostly wrong'

    2009-10-09T09:59:48.070Z

    An incredible 80% of the information held on supermarket IT systems about branded goods is wrong.

  • LUCOZADE
    News

    GSK takes ‘healthy’ Lucozade to China

    2009-09-29T09:48:09.700Z

    GlaxoSmithKline is to launch its iconic energy drink Lucozade into the Chinese market.

  • PROMO-26-SEP-09
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    Retail Prices: Promotions fall as retailers gear up for Christmas push

    2009-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Promotional activity has fallen for the first time in months, but the multiples are just steadying themselves for the big festive push. Ronan Hegarty reports

  • News

    Asda in Asian clothing first

    2009-09-14T09:46:01.687Z

    Asda is launching a new Asian clothing range under its George brand.

  • News

    There is another whey

    2009-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Blur's Alex James spends rather more time making cheese than playing the guitar and has now gained listings in Sainsbury's, as he tells Ronan Hegarty

  • News

    Morrisons uses fancy words to woo shoppers into store

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons has commissioned three poets to turn recipes into rhyme in a bid to encourage shoppers to get cooking. Professional poets Ian McMillan, John Mole and Peter Sansom have been appointed to write a series of poems for the supermarket chain...

  • PIMMS
    News

    Diageo sues Sainsbury’s over Pimm’s copyright row

    2009-08-17T10:02:23.500Z

    Diageo is taking legal action against Sainsbury’s over alleged copyright infringement of its Pimm’s brand.

  • News

    Should the UK fear a ban on tobacco displays?

    2009-08-08T00:00:00Z

    Tobacco is one of the main footfall drivers for convenience stores. But what happens when it's forced out of sight? Ronan Hegarty visits the Republic of Ireland to find out how retailers are coping with the tobacco ban one month in

  • News

    Tesco hits landfill target a year early

    2009-08-03T09:49:26.333Z

    Tesco has reached its target of diverting 100% of waste produced by its UK business away from landfill almost a year a head of its original target.

  • WASTE
    News

    Government picks a fight it has already begun to win

    2009-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Why is Hilary Benn declaring war on waste now, when retailers, producers and Wrap have been working on it effectively for years? Ronan Hegarty reports

  • News

    Industry laments loss of Defra minister Kennedy

    2009-06-13T00:00:00Z

    New Defra minister Jim Fitzpatrick will have big shoes to fill after the resignation of the popular Jane Kennedy last week.Kennedy, who had only been in the role since October and resigned from government in protest at Gordon Brown's style...

  • News

    Landmark celebrates biggest-ever dividend

    2009-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Landmark Wholesale's 32 members are enjoying their biggest dividend since the company was set up in 1972 after a 5% increase in sales for the year to 30 April.The buying group, members of which include Parfetts Cash & Carry, BA Cash & Carry...

  • ASDA POCKET SLAP
    News

    Asda staff to share in £43m windfall

    2009-06-02T09:55:38.613Z

    Asda staff are set to benefit from the retailer’s biggest rewards package since the company was taken over by Wal-Mart in 1999.

  • News

    Outsourcing: is it outdated? Del Monte broker, he say no

    2009-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Why did it go so wrong for food broker Jenks? And does its collapse pose questions about the viability of outsourcing, asks Ronan Hegarty

  • News

    Unpaid staff counting cost of Jenks collapse

    2009-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Staff at grocery outsourcing firm Jenks have not been paid since April, it has emerged in the wake of the firm’s shock collapse this week.

    Jenks entered administration this week and officially stopped trading on Monday. The majority of its…

  • News

    Fresh food making up a third of c-store sales

    2009-05-02T00:00:00Z

    Almost a third of all c-store sales are now fresh food, marking a huge category growth through this channel over the past five years. C-stores have often been accused of not getting their fresh offer right, but the latest figures from IGD’s...