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Islands life for Le Riche
Channel Islands convenience retail group Le Riche has appointed a new trading director, Dean Dawson, to take responsibility for trading, marketing, distribution and supply chains.Dawson has recently been acting as a consultant to Sainsbury,...
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JS ends junket culture
The surprise finding in the detail of the OFT’s report into the supermarkets code of practice? That Sainsbury traders emerged as the industry’s junket junkies. The OFT’s auditors found 42 instances where Sainsbury staff had accepted hospitality...
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JS to close Meadowhall
Sainsbury is closing a 15-year-old store at the heart of a top fashion retail centre in Sheffield due to lack of prime customers.The 37,000 sq ft Meadowhall store employs 323 staff and will close on July 9, but the supermarket has applied for...
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Lloyd Maunder gets the chop
Sainsbury is to ditch fresh, retail packed lamb supplier Lloyd Maunder from October – but it is unclear whether this marks a step by the retailer towards single sourcing in the category.Sainsbury refused to say which company would be handed the...
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Star Buyer: Melissa Draycott
>>spirits and fortified wine buyer, SainsburyDraycott has worked at Sainsbury for 15 years. She joined the supermarket as a beers, wines and spirits manager in the Bury St Edmunds store. After four years, Draycott started her climb up...
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Buyers who bring fizz to the alcohol fixture
Suppliers hail the very best buyers in the beers, wines and spirits category. The star is Sainsbury’s Melissa DraycottThe Grocer spoke to beers, wines and spirits suppliers this month to find out which buyers were most respected in...
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Farmers protest at Sainsbury’s HQ today
Farmers and customers protested to Sainsbury this morning, delivering a large mound of non-GM animal feed to the front of its Holborn headquarters.Members of the Fair Price for GM Free Milk Coalition also chained themselves to doors of the...
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‘Code should cover middlemen’
Food processors should be just as liable to a code of practice as supermarkets, and suppliers to Sainsbury should help the crisis-hit retailer through its troubles because it is for their own good, according to BRC chief executive Kevin Hawkins. ...
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Sainsbury appoints Shapland as chief financial officer
Sainsbury has moved quickly to appoint a new chief financial officer following analysts’ predictions that it would announce an appointment this week, as reported in TheGrocer.co.uk’s email alert this morning.The company has appointed Darren...
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Active Kids: runaway success for Sainsbury
More than half the UK’s primary and secondary schools have signed up to Sainsbury’s Active Kids campaign.The scheme aims to get kids fitter by taking up sports from wall climbing to trampolining.The retailer has already beaten its...
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Retailers neglectcontinuity planning
Retailers are spectacularly ill-equipped to cope with major disruption to their businesses, according to a Chartered Management Institute report.While some retailers such as Sainsbury have been proactive on the risk management front, many were...
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Tesco’s control complete
Tesco has decimated the competition over the last 12 months, stealing £1bn of business from rivals and picking up the lion’s share of lost trade from Sainsbury, Marks and Spencer and Morrisons/Safeway, according to new switching data from...
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Marketing chief to go in latest JS job losses
Sainsbury’s head of direct marketing, Jonathan Latham, is to leave the company as part of a major restructuring of the marketing department. It is thought that Latham will go later this month, along with a further 100 members of the 300-strong...
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JS chief’s blast ‘a bit rich’
Sainsbury chief executive Justin King has blasted suppliers who are unwilling to help the chain ease its money troubles – at the same time as paving the way for a fat cat-style payment should he be axed from the top job.In an unprecedented...
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Call for price rise across dairy
Sainsbury and Morrisons this week increased the retail price of their milk by 2p a pint to 32p, following a similar move by Tesco and Asda last week.The upward shift has delighted farmers, who will now try to secure increases across the cheese...
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Sainsbury launches turnaround incentive scheme
Sainsbury is launching a new incentive scheme that could potentially pay out more than £90m to its top managers it they transform the group’s fortunes over the next four years, according to newspaper reports.The supermarket group is offering...
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JS hungry for c-stores
Sainsbury has launched an aggressive promotional campaign in its c-store estate and started trialling a new forecourt format with Shell.It is also eyeing up further acquisitions in the multiple c-store sector to boost turnover in the 267-store...
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JS delays payment change
Sainsbury has sensationally postponed the introduction of new payment terms for 100 of its suppliers following a barrage of opposition to the changes.The retailer sparked an outcry last month when The Grocer revealed it had written to 1,900...
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Sainsbury kids get active with Kelly Holmes
Double Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes is to front Sainsbury’s Active Kids campaign.Dame Kelly will star in a TV advertisement for the initiative, which encourages fresh produce consumption and participation in sporting...
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Top Sainsbury stakeholder reduces stake
The biggest stakeholder in supermarket group Sainsbury has sold shares in the group, making this the second occasion in seven days.
Judith Portrait, the trustee of several trusts set up by the Sainsbury family, sold a million shares in he…