All articles by Ronan Hegarty – Page 99
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Cigarettes ditched at Lidl in Scotland
Lidl is to stop selling cigarettes in its Scottish stores in a bid to enhance its healthy credentials. From next week, tobacco will no longer be stocked in any of its 78 outlets north of the border, bringing the offer into line with the...
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Winterton blasts superstore voting
The Electoral Commission has been urged to stop allowing supermarkets to set up in-store polling stations on the grounds it undermines small retailers. Tory backbencher, Sir Nicholas Winterton made the plea this week during a House of...
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The beginning ofthe end?
Convenience chains could become a target again for the major multiples after the Competition Commission found Tesco's and Sainsbury's move into c-stores had done independent retailers no harm. The commission's surprise verdict in the...
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Salmonella alert shuts Fox's factory
Confectionery maker Fox's has reopened two of the four product lines it was forced to suspend at its Leicester plant after the discovery of salmonella a fortnight ago. The contamination, which was identified during...
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BRC sounds alert as violent attack and theft levels soar
Theft levels have rocketed to a 10-year high, the British Retail Consortium's annual crime survey has revealed. The total cost of goods stolen shot up to an estimated £830m last year, with detected theft up 8.5% to £205m and undetected...
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Irish c-stores welcome sales boost as expansion kicks off
Ireland's Celtic Tiger economy may have slowed after a decade of unprecedented growth, but its convenience store sector is still booming, according to new data. Figures from the Irish government's central statistics office indicate sales...
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Costcutter accused of double standards over ordering levy
Nisa member Costcutter has been accused of double standards over its reaction to the introduction of Nisa-Today's new Low Weekly Order Volume Levy. Costcutter executive chairman Colin Graves has given his broad support for the levy, which...
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Supply problems with HP Sauce worsening
The problems of supplying HP Sauce that blighted wholesalers earlier this year have worsened despite Heinz claiming it was getting to grips with the issue. One leading wholesale boss said the problems had spread from the 255g pack, which...
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Members hail Nisa move to take secretary role in-house
Nisa-Today's decision to take the role of company secretary in-house has been welcomed by members who say it is another improvement to the corporate governance of the company. Nisa is planning to combine the role with that of company...
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Farmfoods leads private food firms
Nearly 20% of The Sunday Times' Top Track 250 ranking of Britain's biggest mid-market private companies are from the food and drink industry. A total of 44 companies, ranging from retailers and manufacturers, to wholesalers and...
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Booker depots will be open for longer
Booker is promising longer and more accessible opening hours as it aims to live up to its promise of becoming the "back store" for independent retailers. Now Booker's 172 depots will open at 7:30am from Monday to Saturday and from 9am to...
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600+ jobs to go in Smarties production move to Germany
Nestlé has announced it is to switch the manufacturing of Smarties from its factory in York to a factory in Germany by the end of the year with the loss of more than 600 jobs. The move comes just two weeks after Cadbury announced it would...
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When will that Ocado success story be delivered?
A bad press can get you down. So let's hope Ocado chief executive Tim Steiner and his band of bankers-turned-grocers are selective in their reading. Depending on their choice of newspaper, this online food retailer run in partnership with...
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Forget Leahy jibe - we will make it says Ocado's boss
Ocado chief executive Tim Steiner has hit back at Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy following his jibe about the viability of the loss-making online grocer. Sir Terry, announcing Tesco's interim results on Tuesday, said the Ocado model, where...
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Teens ignoring health advice says King
Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King is to tell the government that its healthy eating message is failing to get through to teenagers. In a survey commissioned by the retailer 85% of teenagers polled were not eating the recommended...
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Wholesalers to distribute product info
The three biggest newspaper and magazine wholesalers have joined forces to launch a service designed to make it easier for food and drink suppliers to tell independent retailers about new products. Menzies Distribution, Smiths News and...
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McColl and Smiths form alliance to boost news
C-store and CTN chain Martin McColl has joined forces with Smiths News to form an innovative category alliance designed to boost sales of news and magazines. From next month Martin McColl will use Smiths staff and services to support the...
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the spar pavilions
People say that retailing is a pretty straightforward business," says Spar UK MD Jerry Marwood. "But the truth is, this is not a simple business anymore." He should know. In his five years with Spar, Marwood has emerged as an important...
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We're the only winner says Mars
Mars UK was the only one of the UK's three major chocolate manufacturers to have increased its market share in the first six months of this year, data shows. IRI figures show its share of the £1.4bn-a-year chocolate market rose 1.4...
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Irish close to biodegradable gum solution
Food scientists in the Irish Republic believe they are close to finding the answer to a sticky problem - with the development of a biodegradable chewing gum that can be either swallowed safely or, if dropped on the street, be washed away by...