Sainsbury's - Latest News and Analysis – Page 128
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Morrisons steals promo crown from Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's consistently leads the pack for featured space promotional activity in the weekly research conducted by Assosia for Promotrack. But occasionally, Morrisons likes to wear the crown and over the past three weeks it has upped...
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Confidence in customer service - Q&A and Availability
Sainsbury's Salisbury branch in Wiltshire is flanked by bigger retailers who are better suited to the city, but its welcoming staff are fast winning plaudits, including this week's Top Store award. The standard of customer service at the 20,000 sq...
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Price Survey - 12th April 2008
Sainsbury's has stormed up the chart to become cheapest retailer for the first time in 11 months. The retailer's triumph comes after a turbulent six weeks in which Asda, Tesco and Morrisons have each scooped the title two times. But recent basket...
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McMeikan leaves Sainsbury's for Greggs
Ken McMeikan, retail director at Sainsbury's, has left the supermarket chain to become chief executive officer at high street baker Greggs.McMeikan, who has been on sabbatical from Sainsbury's since January, will take up his new role in...
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Ministry of Sound releases new vodka
Dance music label Ministry of Sound is moving into the vodka market this month.Ministry of Sound Vodka is being released in the on and off-trades and will initially be available in 240 Sainsbury's stores, priced at £12.99, and in clubs....
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Sainsbury's: on the road to restoring greatness?
As straplines go it was as much an admission of past failing as a bold statement of intent. The 'Making Sainsbury's Great Again' plan vowed to address the issues that saw Sainsbury's outmanoeuvred by first Tesco and then Asda as the former...
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Co-op buys stores from Sainsbury's
The Co-operative Group has bought 10 former Bells and Jacksons stores from Sainsbury's, adding 17,500 sq ft of selling space.It plans to invest almost £2.5m in rebranding and refurbishing the stores, which will be converted to its...
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Sainsbury's: we can defy the downturn to sustain growth
Sainsbury's was in buoyant mood this week after exceeding its three-year sales growth targets by almost 10% and said it was confident it could maintain the momentum.At its fourth-quarter trading update, it revealed it had delivered...
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Retailers confuse with unclear origin labelling
Supermarkets too often confuse the consumer with unclear country-of-origin labelling, a new report has claimed.Morrisons minted lamb, Sainsbury's lamb roast and Waitrose's beef stifado ready meals were among lines deemed not to be...
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Price Survey - 29/03/08
Tesco has fought off Asda and Morrisons to become this week's cheapest retailer, with Sainsbury's coming a close second. Tesco undercut its nearest competitor on 13 items but such is the competitive nature of price cutting between the retailers that...
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Pressure on retailers to increase milk price
Pressure is mounting on Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda to increase the milk price paid to their dedicated producers and "calm farmer nerves".Tesco is expected to increase the price, which is based on a formula geared 60% towards costs of...
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Six of the Best: juice and smoothie buyers
Star Buyer Stuart Owens Ambient and chilled juice buyer, Waitrose Owens started out at Sainsbury's as a trainee buyer in 1990, later progressing to buying in health and beauty and then household products. He moved to US chain...
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opinion -"Even Justin King couldn't sign off a £3m expense form claim unchallenged, let alone an ops director at one of his suppliers"
While Mr Potato, as he was dubbed by the Mail, turns out to be a middle-management buyer at Sainsbury's, the alleged £3bn bribery and money laundering case over a potato contract with Greenvale cannot be overstated. Rumours of bungs and brown...
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What the papers said - 22nd March 2008
Sainsbury's top potato buyer has been arrested by police investigating an alleged £3m fraud. The News of the World said detectives have questioned John Maylam over allegations that he took "backhander" payments from potato company Greenvale, which...
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Supermarket shares fall
Shares in Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons fell yesterday after analysts warned the chains could struggle to hit sales expectations.“Consensus forecasts appear to assume that Tesco, Sainsbury and Morrison will all continue to grow UK sales...
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Tesco growth lagging but it will fight back say analysts
Tesco and Sainsbury's have underperformed the total grocery market for the second consecutive month, while Morrisons and Asda have built on sales momentum, according to the latest TNS Worldpanel figures.The total grocery market grew 5.9%...
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IN a league of their own
The own-label corks are popping at Sainsbury's Holborn headquarters. This week, it revealed that sales of its Taste the Difference range surpassed the £1bn mark at the end of 2007, making the brand bigger in value than Coca-Cola in the UK. ...
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key team players
Sue Henderson integrity manager Our brand standards really define what it takes to be a Sainsbury's product. Many policies are customer-driven, such as taking additives out of our soft drinks - one of the biggest challenges we've...
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Supermarket surgery first in Manchester
Sainsbury's is to open the UK's first supermarket-based GP surgery on Monday in a six-month trial.The out-of-hours surgery at Heaton Park in Manchester will open on Mondays and Thursdays from 6.30pm to 9.30pm and on Saturdays from 11am...
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Sainsbury's loses out in English asparagus race
Tesco has beaten Sainsbury's in the race to get the first English asparagus into stores this year.Asparagus grown by S&A Davies in Worcestershire hit shelves in Tesco's Evesham store last week, beating the previous record by four weeks,...