All articles by Ronan Hegarty – Page 91
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Analysis & FeaturesMorrisons skills up its staff for a better future
Morrisons completes a hat-trick of wins as the industry’s best employer.
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Analysis & FeaturesMorrisons forges ahead despite trading blips
Morrisons hit its first bump in the road when its sales growth was slightly lower than the City expected over the Christmas period.
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Grocer 33Morrisons Poynton
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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NewsMorrisons hires Ali as head of ethnic buying
Morrisons has poached one of Asda’s rising stars to head up its ethnic buying team.
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Analysis & FeaturesMorrisons gets stores ready for a fresh future
Morrisons is looking to impress its southern shoppers with its Royal Tunbridge Wells ‘store of the future’.
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NewsSainsbury'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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NewsMorrisons 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 & OpinionMorrisons' 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 & 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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NewsUniq 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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NewsMorrisons 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 & 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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NewsMolson 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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NewsMolson 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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NewsMorrisons 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 & FeaturesNo 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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NewsPrisk '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 33Morrisons, 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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NewsDuty stamps will wipe out all of our profits, warn brewers
The government’s plan to introduce spirits-style duty stamps on beer…