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Nectar to be squeezed
Sainsbury is aiming to squeeze more out of its Nectar loyalty scheme, after it reported a collapse in annual profits this week from £610m to £15m.The supermarket is planning to include fmcg brand offers for the first time. In the past it has...
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Sainsbury on the road to recovery
It’s early days, but Sainsbury’s results out today show it is taking the first tentative steps on the road to recovery.Sainsbury revealed that total UK supermarket sales were up 5.1% to £16.1bn for the year to end March 26, compared with...
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Sainsbury bolsters its c-store supply chain
Sainsbury is strengthening its convenience supply chain and overhauling its in-store offer to help meet its sales growth plans for the next three years.The company has created two key positions: head of supply chain and head of IT for...
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Ambassador for PayPoint
PayPoint has recruited Mike Igoe, brand development manager at Sainsbury-owned Jacksons Stores, to woo retailers dissatisfied with the margins it offers on services.He will manage the utility payment network’s relationships with retailers, its...
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Co-branding to keep old names alive
In a surprise move, Sainsbury has vowed to keep three of Britain’s most famous independent names – Jacksons, Bells and JB Beaumont. Simon Mowbray explains whyShortly after Sainsbury acquired the 114-store Jacksons Stores empire on...
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Sainsbury’s Bank to axe jobs
Sainsbury is expected to cut a number of jobs at its banking venture, Sainsbury’s Bank.The company has written to all of its 350 employees warning them that their jobs may be at risk.Sainsbury’s Bank is run as a joint venture with...
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Star Buyer: Stuart Owens
>>Ambient and chilled juice buyer, WaitroseStuart Owens became a trainee buyer for Sainsbury in 1990 and was soon promoted to a buying role in the health and beauty category. He then moved on to household products, covering...
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Bell quits Sainsbury
Two big names at Sainsbury have announced their departure from the business this week.Chief executive of the Sainsbury-owned Bells Stores Steven Bell has moved on to concentrate on other ventures.Meanwhile, Sainsbury’s marketing director,...
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No longer the bad apple?
Availability, sharp pricing and solid working with suppliers may be pulling Sainsbury around says Rachel BarnesFor Sainsbury, life has tasted a bit better in 2005. It’s re-signed man-of-the-moment Jamie Oliver and morale is riding...
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Sainsbury labels GI
Sainsbury is set to follow in Tesco’s footsteps by putting a glycaemic index (GI) logo on its packaging from next month.The move is part of the supermarket’s pledge to make health a key differentiator in its offer. However, Tesco was first on...
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Chains eye MG Rover site
Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury are all eyeing up the MG Rover plant at Longbridge for a new supermarket development, which could end up as a hypermarket megastore.The initial plans for a supermarket are part of a 40-acre science and technology park,...
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JS rolls out dual branding
The names of former independent chains Jacksons and Bells look set to live on indefinitely under new plans by Sainsbury to make them a core plank of its c-store business.Sainsbury’s Convenience managing director Jim McCarthy has for the first...
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Falconer boosts Britvic take-home
Britvic Soft Drinks has named Colin Falconer as its new business development manager for Sainsbury.Falconer joins Britvic from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, where he had been business account manager for Boots, Sainsbury and Safeway. Prior to...
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Tesco a step ahead on labelling
Tesco is to make a radical change to its food packaging by moving nutritional labelling from the back to the front of packs.The new look – which will work along the same lines as Sainsbury’s front-of-pack ‘Wheel of Health’ system – is set to...
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Store shuffle near Sheffield
It’s all change in the grocery market just southeast of Sheffield, as Sainsbury aims to revitalise its brand in the region. The area is a long way from Sainsbury’s traditional heartland of the south, but the grocer has decided it’s time to shake up...
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A fresh look at convenience
Sainsbury has launched a range of convenience meals designed to appeal to time-pressed consumers who prefer fresh food to ready meals.Products in the Fresh to Cook range comprise raw ingredients – a protein and items of prepared fresh produce –...
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Jersey spuds star in Jamie Oliver ad
Jersey Royal new potatoes will feature in Sainsbury’s next Jamie Oliver-themed television adverts.Oliver spent three days in Jersey last week filming the two commercials, one of which is understood to show the TV chef in a potato field, while...
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UHT milk price rises
The price of the major supermarkets’ UHT milk is following its fresh counterpart upwards. Tesco and Sainsbury this week increased the price of cheapest own-label UHT milk from 32p to 35p, though Asda had not followed suit as we went to...
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The cost of a syringe
Sunjuice, the company that supplied Sainsbury with the orange juice in which a syringe was found last week, has had to invest £750,000 in measures to ensure such an incident can never happen again.The South Wales-based company, which produces...
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Sainsbury sees faster growth than Asda
Sainsbury’s market share has recently increased faster than Asda’s for the first time in a decade, according to the latest UK food market share data by TNS.Sainsbury’s market share grew 4.1% during the 12 weeks to 27 March, while Asda’s...