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    Usdaw recruiting

    2002-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury and Morrisons have been targeted by shopworkers' union Usdaw for a recruitment campaign. Usdaw broke through the 100,000 members barrier at Tesco last week and has plans to grow membership. Both Sainsbury and Morrisons claim to...

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    Tesco top for flowers

    2002-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Judges have voted Tesco Fresh Flower Retailer of the Year at the 2002 Retail Industry Awards. Tesco was up against Sainsbury and Marks and Spencer for the award, which was sponsored by the Flower Council of Holland. The judging panel...

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    Source tags eyed by Waitrose

    2002-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Anne Bruce Waitrose has become the latest UK supermarket to develop source tagging capabilities as momentum builds behind the technology. Marks and Spencer, Safeway, Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury are also conducting analysis and trials of the...

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    Sainsbury re-opens Cardiff store

    2002-10-18T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury has re-opened its newly refurbished and extended store in Cardiff following a £7.8m make-over.The Colchester Avenue store is the first Sainsbury’s in Wales to stock Jeff & Co clothing and there is a new homeshop section with...

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    Restaurant shelf life

    2002-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Pizza Express has a big slice of the retail market but its success is proving hard for shareholders to swallow. Sales of its pizzas in Sainsbury have grown to 140,000 a week – well up on the chain’s original estimates of just 40,000 – but it has not...

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    Nectar is not the only sweet offering in JS

    2002-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury in Durham produced not only the cheapest basket but attentive staff and a massive promotion of the new Nectar loyalty card. It was Hardys wine, which it sold at 81p less than Asda, that brought in Sainsbury's basket at 11p cheaper....

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    Hit or miss? Persil Black Velvet

    2002-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Brand owner Lever Faberge does not seem enthusiastic about the peformance of Persil Black Velvet, but perhaps it should be, because at least one of the major multiles has been impressed enough to launch a me-too version.A Sainsbury spokesman...

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    Sainsbury rounds up square tins

    2002-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury has begun testing shoppers’ attitude to square-shaped cans with its own label tomato soup the first product to be trialled at its Reading store.The retailer said that it can fit 20% more square cans on its shelves and it would...

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    Our basket of shares has now lost 10% of the original #1,000

    2002-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons shares put on 18p and Unilever 21p but, of the retailers, Sainsbury took a hammering in September as its price dropped by 36p. Cadbury Schweppes' shares fell 25p and Dairy Crest dropped 51p. Sainsbury is not looking good, in spite of its...

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    A time of transition

    2002-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury has made great progress but the climate is getting tougher, with suppliers under renewed pressure. Siâ® Harrington reports from the annual supplier conference It has been a year of great progress at Sainsbury, but the stakes are rising...

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    Sainsbury in pricing overhaul

    2002-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Sian Harrington Sainsbury is to beef up its pricing strategy as it prepares for a price war between Asda and Tesco and seeks to reduce the gap in the longer term. The retailer, narrowly hanging on to its number two position, is to increase...

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    The Acid Test

    2002-09-28T00:00:00Z

    >>consumers and buyers give their views on the latest launchesCHOCOLATE LAGERFrom: The Meantime BreweryExclusive to Sainsbury, this lager has been brewed to give a balance between the rich taste of chocolate and...

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    Sainsbury in exclusive Harveys pale deal

    2002-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury has signed an exclusive deal with Allied Domecq to stock Harveys Pale Cream sherry. The new line has been introduced on the back of sister brand Harvey's Bristol Cream sherry which, according to Allied, has grown by 27% in the last year....

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    Brands make thirsty work of it

    2002-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons and Asda sit at numbers one and two respectively and have drawn further ahead of the field, standing eight percentage points ahead of Safeway at number three. Tesco slips just one place, now standing in fourth position. Sainsbury and...

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    Stormin' Stella takes second slot

    2002-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Though Morrisons remains at the top of the chart, competition has become increasingly fierce with the four leaders standing within six percentage points of each other. In addition Sainsbury and Somerfield, in positions five and six, are just...

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    Nectar Points Are Sweeter

    2002-09-14T00:00:00Z

    If the marketing is to be believed, shoppers across the nation will be lapping up Nectar when the multi-retailer loyalty scheme launches in store on Monday. And, perhaps more than any of the other participants, Sainsbury will be praying it is a...

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    Whitehead gets Italian job

    2002-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Western Wines has appointed an Italian agency executive to develop its Italian range of wines which accounts for a quarter of the business. Claire Whitehead joins from Sainsbury where she was wine marketing manager from January 2000. "I am...

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    In love with milk...and vindicated at Droitwich

    2002-09-07T00:00:00Z

    New business continues to flow in. In 12 months, the company has pulled off a coup by striking a supply deal with Sainsbury, the only multiple not on its books, and picked up a clutch of new contracts to supply the middle ground milk market through...

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    Multiples Look To More New Product Development

    2002-09-07T00:00:00Z

    The major supermarkets believe that new products have stimulated the market and would like to see even more being done to reinvigorate the sector.Christopher Sellars, trading manager for yellow fats at Sainsbury, says: "The butter market will...

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    New quartet shakes up brands

    2002-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons has pulled further ahead of the other retailers in the chart this week and now stands six percentage points ahead of Tesco which has moved up to number two. Sainsbury has shown improvement, moving up from fifth place to number four...