All articles by Ronan Hegarty – Page 87
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News
Sainsbury's quits tobacco in Scottish store
Is this the future of the modern Scottish grocery store? Sainsbury’s has stopped selling tobacco from its Local store on St Andrew’s Square in Edinburgh city centre in the wake of a new tax imposed by the Scottish government, replacing the cigarette gantry with a wall of computer games.
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Morrisons to ramp up presence in south
Morrisons is set for a major push into the south as it looks to address concerns that it remains too reliant on its northern heartland.
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Morrisons marches south with major investment push
Morrisons is set for a major push into the south of England as it looks to reduce its reliance on its traditional northern heartlands.
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Comment and Opinion
Morrisons' southern exposure
Tunbridge Wells was an apt location for Morrisons to announce a renewed assault of the south, following its initial failure in the Royal town six years ago.
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Comment and Opinion
No regrets for Greencore
If things had gone differently and Ranjit Boparan hadn’t made his audacious eleventh-hour grab for Northern Foods we might have been reporting on the results of Essenta Foods this morning…
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Uniq deal boosts Greencore sales by 50%
Greencore’s acquisition of Uniq helped the convenience food business deliver a 36.7% rise in group operating profits to £31.7m…
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Morrisons to axe Rathbones bakery in Wigan
More than 160 staff have been put on notice at the Rathbones bakery in Wigan owned by Morrisons.
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Comment and Opinion
The thick end of the wedge
Just a few weeks ago The Grocer questioned whether the drinks trade had the stomach for a protracted legal battle over minimum pricing…
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Molson Coors' Hunter Czechs in at StarBev
Molson Coors UK CEO Mark Hunter has been picked to lead StarBev, the Central European business bought by the brewer last month for $3.5bn.
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Molson Coors’ Hunter Czechs out for StarBev
Molson Coors UK CEO Mark Hunter has been picked to lead StarBev, the Central European business bought by Molson Coors last month.
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Morrisons revamps ice-cream and frozen desserts ranges
Morrisons is this week relaunching its own-label ice cream and frozen desserts ranges.
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Analysis and Features
No Wedding, lousy weather... Morrisons hits harder times
Kate and Wills flattered sales in 2011. The weather is appalling. But Morrisons’ fall in like-for-likes may also reflect its strategy.
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Prisk 'not buying' ACS Sunday trading sums
Business and enterprise minister Mark Prisk has given short shrift to arguments that extending Sunday trading laws during the Olympic Games would cost independent retailers £480m.
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Grocer 33
Morrisons, Gamston
The Grocer 33 is a weekly mystery shopping survey, tracking price, service and availability at the five leading grocery retailers: Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose. Each week the winning store manager is interviewed by The Grocer.
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Duty stamps will wipe out all of our profits, warn brewers
The government’s plan to introduce spirits-style duty stamps on beer…
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Morrisons revamps its own label health range
Morrisons is set to launch the first products in a new 300-strong healthy eating own label range next week.
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Analysis and Features
Can Lansley rub out tobacco trade... and at what price?
Andrew Lansley wants to stub out the trade, but suppliers remain determined to push to push the case against enforcing generic packaging.
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News
Collard is marketing and ops director at Morrisons
Morrisons has described its new marketing and operations director Nick Collard…
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Comment and Opinion
Brands on the run
The government today launched its much anticipated consultation into whether to force tobacco manufacturers to remove all branding from their | products in a move it hopes will help reduce the 100,000 deaths a year it says are caused by smoking.
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Morrisons takes fight to specialists with new garden centres
Morrisons has opened garden centres in more than a quarter of its stores as it looks to lock horns with the specialist operators.