All articles by Ronan Hegarty – Page 92
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News
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 & 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 & 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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News
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.
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News
Whitehall set for tobacco packaging consultation
The government is expected to launch its consultation on whether to force all tobacco products into plain packs on Monday.
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News
Minimum pricing: the 'death' of white cider
The government’s plans for minimum pricing on alcohol will be the death knell for white cider, a leading cidermaker has admitted.
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Profiles
Morrisons signs up Alvin Hall
Morrisons has signed up TV personal finance expert Alvin Hall to help its staff manage their money better
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Analysis & Features
Is there a thirst to fight minimum pricing?
Some retailers and brewers may have decided to work with the government but the industry may still mount a legal challenge.
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News
Morrisons tries again to woo posh shoppers in Tunbridge Wells
Morrisons will open a store in Royal Tunbridge Wells next month, six years after it was forced to close a store there when it failed to win over shoppers in the posh Kent town.
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News
Fish and beef push exports through £12bn barrier
UK food and non-alcohol drink exports have smashed through the £12bn barrier on the back of an 11.4% increase in 2011.
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News
Olympics Sunday trade rule change to open floodgates?
As independent retailers rally to fight the government’s proposed relaxation of Sunday Trading laws for eight weeks around the Olympics,
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News
Morrisons toasts “best year yet” as profits rise 8%
Morrisons CEO Dalton Philips hailed the retailer’s “best year yet” as it posted an 8.4% rise in pre-tax profits to £947m for the year to 29 January.
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Analysis & Features
After seven years of battle,'Fingers' Fingleton departs
The OFT chief executive has experienced setbacks in his many tussles with the grocery industry, but he’s certainly left his mark.
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Grocer 33
Morrisons, Abbeyvale, Gloucester
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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News
Black market accounts for a quarter of tobacco
More than a quarter of all tobacco smoked in the UK is either fake or smuggled - costing the country billions of pounds in lost tax revenue.
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News
Foster’s revives Fast Show favourites for ‘brilliant’ new comedy
Foster’s has commissioned another six new episodes of classic nineties comedy sketch show The Fast Show, to be shown exclusively on its website.
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News
Morrisons’ web gambit helps it storm up hit list
As it gears up to begin selling online, Morrisons’ investment in its website and digital marketing is already proving a hit with customers.
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News
M Kitchen moves into veggie meals market
Morrisons is launching a vegetarian ready meal range that will be the antidote to “bland” supermarket veggie fare, it claims.
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News
Morrisons gets in the mood with Valentine’s Day love rub
Music may be the food of love but Morrisons is hoping that actual food does the job too after developing a range of Valentine’s Day inspired treats.