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Sainsbury's hits out at celebrity ads of rivals
Sainsbury's advertising boss has launched an astonishing attack on the TV campaigns run by the company's rivals. Speaking to Sainsbury's staff magazine, national advertising manager Anna Shirley described the Spice Girls, who featured in...
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Sainsbury's adding weight to property development team
Sainsbury's has strengthened its property management team with the appointment of a second head of property development. The supermarket plans to increase floor space by 10% to more than 19 million sq ft by March 2010 and has...
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Opinion - "Now, the sympathy vote simply won't wash. But the fine will have unintended consequences for the PM too"
The £116m of fines meted out by the OFT to Asda, Sainsbury's, Dairy Crest and Robert Wiseman last Friday came too late to be included in Saturday's issue, but this story, already five years old, is far from over. And right now, save for a few very...
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Supermarkets admit milk price fix
Asda, Sainsbury's and several leading dairy suppliers will be fined a total of £116m after admitting to price-fixing charges made by the Office of Fair Trading.As the two supermarkets, The Cheese Company and Robert Wiseman Dairies admitted...
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Sainsbury's signs deal to source British wheat
Sainsbury's has become the first chain to achieve full traceability for its fresh own label bread by sourcing wheat for its in-store bakeries from named British farmers.A multimillion-pound deal with miller Whitworth Bros and farmers in...
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Forget Delta Two. King's doing well
Sainsbury's management continue to do a great job restoring the chain's fortunes and could well deliver impressive profits in 2009That J Sainsbury put out a very solid set of interims last week will most probably be lost in the noise...
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We've got to go for a total ban on plastic bags - now
Retailers must stop pandering to consumers with half measures and collaboratively introduce a total ban on plastic bagsThe public won't accept it" is what Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King said on BBC Radio 4's Today...
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Northern Foods acquires Ethnic Cuisine
Northern Foods has acquired oriental foods manufacturer Ethnic Cuisine for an undisclosed sum.Ethnic Cuisine supplies chilled ready meals and snacks to Sainsbury's and Brakes, and at 31 March 2007 had gross assets of £13.9m and revenue of...
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What the papers said - 17th November 2007
Supermarkets sell beer at a lower price than bottled water and risk fuelling the binge-drinking crisis, according to the Telegraph. The paper said that Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda were selling lager at 22p a can, significantly less per pint than...
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Price Survey - 17th November 2007
Sainsbury's was a challenger for the cheapest retailer title this week, but its price cuts were still not enough to stop Asda securing its seventh victory in a row with a £38.74 basket. Tesco and Morrisons have been tussling for the second-cheapest...
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Climbing the ladder - Andy Davis
What was your first-ever job? I worked in a butchers while I was at school Give us a quick run-down on your career to date. After I finished college I was a trainee manager at Sainsbury's and then progressed to senior manager of a department. I left...
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King faces shaky comparisons
Unflattering comparatives revealed by The Grocer show that Sainsbury's has a tough task ahead to continue its recovery after the Delta Two débâcle, says Mark Choueke Doing nothing is no longer an option”. That was the warning Deutsche Bank...
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A very warm Welsh welcome - Q&A and Availability
Most bigger supermarkets struggle to recreate the sort of welcoming atmosphere that corner shops offer. Not Sainsbury's in Roath, Cardiff, however. It not only managed this feat but provided the only full basket this week, earning it our Top Store...
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"CEO Justin King will be rallying the troops this week. But store managers will miss the plasma TVs they almost owned"
Simple journalist that I am I've never quite understood why the Qataris were prepared to pay a 36% premium to the share price for Sainsbury's, and a 32 times multiple on the supermarket's improving but still modest profits of £380m after...
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Bernard Matthews workers plan strike
Some 1,300 workers at turkey supplier Bernard Matthews are planning to strike next week in a dispute over pay.Union T&G warned turkey supplies to Sainsbury's, Tesco and Morrisons could be threatened in the run up to Christmas unless the...
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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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Supply Something New goes abroad
Supply Something New, Sainsbury's Dragons' Den-style drive to find new products, is going global. The scheme, designed to boost the amount of British local produce in stores, is being taken to Australia, France and Germany. Head...
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Flavoured water withdrawn
Tesco, Sainsbury's and the Co-op have recalled bottles of flavoured still water due to mould contamination.Sainsbury's recalled six varieties of its own-label flavoured water, Tesco five and the Co-op three. The water was supplied by Cott...
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Letter of the week - A takeover won't stifle Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's CEO Justin King's claim that a proposed £10.6bn takeover of the company by Delta Two would not hamper Sainsbury's ability to perform well in a competitive market is broadly right ('Buying power leads to better prices? I don't buy that...
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Sainsbury's hits out at Tesco swingometer ad
Sainsbury's has launched a stinging attack of Tesco's £4m 'swingometer' price comparison campaign, describing it as "inaccurate" and misleading. During the campaign, which ran from July to September, Tesco boasted that 4,251 products...