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Sainsbury's cracks availability
Sainsbury's has overcome its traditional Achilles' heel, boosting its availability from 96.3% to 98.2% and leaping from last place, in The Grocer 33 half-year review last year, to first."This is great news," said Sainsbury's director of...
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Tchibo cancels supermarket concessions
Coffee-to-clothing retailer Tchibo is to scrap its concessions in Sainsbury's and Somerfield. The German chain has around 100 concessions in the supermarkets, but said it would end its association with Sainsbury's and Somerfield by the end of 2009...
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Buffin steps up within Groupe Aeroplan
Groupe Aeroplan, the company behind the Nectar reward scheme used by Sainsbury's, has appointed Tony Buffin to the new role of executive vice president and managing director. Buffin will be responsible for business units managed out of the group’s...
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Sainsbury's backs British meat in own-label lines
Sainsbury's is poised to become the first of the big four to use 100%-British meat in its own-label pies, soups, party food and ready meals. By the end of January, all the meat in its ready meals would be British, said category manager for...
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New platform for Sainsbury's payments
Sainsbury's has told suppliers it is the “best supermarket to do business with” following the launch of a new early payment scheme. At its supplier conference this week, the retailer launched what it said was an ‘industry first’ payment management...
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Grand Marnier: not just about Christmas
Grand Marnier is attempting to boost the brand’s appeal beyond Christmas with a second round of off-trade sampling. Next week, consumers visiting Sainsbury's and Tesco in the south east can pick up a free glass of the ‘grand café’ serve, which...
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NewsDefiant in the gloom
Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King explains why he's still looking up. By Julia Taylor and Adam Leyland
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Reasons to be cheerful
Among the daily headlines of bank bailouts, share price freefalls and housing market meltdowns, it's easy to forget there are good news stories out there. So we've devoted the next 14 pages to positive thinking, silver linings, tips on how to survive the credit crunch plus an exclusive interview with ...
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Sainsbury's thanks 'universal appeal' for 7.6% sales rise
Sainsbury's lifted some of the gloom surrounding the retail industry this week as it announced a 7.6% rise in first-half sales and pre-tax profits up 13.3% to £258m.
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Tony Page and Sainsbury's
Tony Page, Woolworths managing director of commercial, will not be joining Sainsbury's, as reported in The Grocer last week. Page was rumoured to be taking up the role of director of general merchandise. We now accept this was not...
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Own-label rises leave canned brands behind
The cost of own-label canned food in the big four has soared in the past month, flying in the face of ongoing Tesco and Sainsbury's campaigns promoting own-label brands as cheaper alternatives to branded goods.Although canned food brands...
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English apples boosted by supermarket support
Sainsbury's, Morrisons and the Co-op have all been praised for their support of English apples at the start of the 2008/09 season.The three retailers had all invested heavily in TV campaigns urging shoppers to buy English apples, according...
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NewsGrocer 33: Sainsbury's sharp act for Hallowe'en
In another fiercely competitive week, three retailers boasted 100% availability, finds Joanne Grew
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‘Forget food miles, eat African’ says King
Outspoken Sainsbury’s chief executive Justin King will today tell consumers to stop worrying about food miles and eat African produce to help development on the continent.
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EU law forces Sainsbury’s to ditch witches’ fingers
Sainsbury’s has abandoned plans to sell misshapen vegetables as Halloween-themed healthy snacks due to prohibitions on the sale of irregular produce under European Union law.
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Turning ugly: EU slams Sainsbury's campaign
Sainsbury's has been accused of pulling a PR stunt with a new ‘ugly fruit and veg’ campaign launched this week. The retailer said it had launched the campaign to force the EU to relax strict specifications on the size and shape of fruit and veg....
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NewsGrocer 33: Morrisons takes Asda's pricing crown
Asda lost its cheapest retailer title to Morrisons this week and had to make do with sharing joint second place with Sainsbury's. It was bad news for Tesco, too, which fell two places to fourth. Morrisons, which undercut its nearest rivals by...
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Sausage-chomping Londoners receive dedicated banger
A new London-branded sausage has been launched to give the capital’s meat-lovers a regional speciality to call their own. The Original London Banger, which is claimed to be London’s first locally-branded sausage, has gone on sale in Sainsbury’s,...
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Sustainable prawns arrive in Sainsbury’s
Lyons Seafoods has added a line of MSC-certified coldwater prawns to Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference range. Lyons, one of Europe’s largest processors of prawns, said it had been working with suppliers for two years to achieve MSC status and to...
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Supermarkets' petrol price war intensifies
The battle at the pumps between the big four has intensified with Asda and Sainsbury's cutting the price of fuel for the third time in a week.