Archive of all Sainsbury's articles – Page 187
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Sainsbury: Cod-like fish never sold before in UK
Sainsbury is introducing new types of fish to the UK in a move to help alleviate pressures on the Northern hemisphere's stock of cod and haddock. The supermarket is to start selling Kingklip, Panger and Kob from South Africa from mid March. The...
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Magazines: Supermarkets sustain sales rise as CTNs continue
The supermarket groups continue to expand their share of the magazines market. The latest Monthly Monitor from Seymour Marketing shows that between September and November, Tesco gained 0.2% of the market and Sainsbury 0.1%, compared with August to...
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Alldays: Clapham quits alldays
Former Sainsbury director David Clapham has resigned from Alldays after a disagreement with the board over the company's strategic direction. Neither side would clarify why Clapham, md retail, was leaving, but sources close to the company said the...
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MLC Marketing News
produced for the Meat and Livestock Commission by The Grocer Oscar Mayer's British beef success story Oscar Mayer is Sainsbury's largest chilled ready meals supplier, producing a million meals a week for the retailer. It is an important part of...
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The Grocer focus on canned goods: finding Meal Solutions
Sainsbury's category has expanded to include meal solutions in addition to the traditional canned stalwarts. Typical meal solutions include pouch soups, canned meat or vegetable curries, vol-au-vent fillings and chicken in white sauce. Canned...
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Diversification: Sainsbury hosts IT training at Calcot
Sainsbury's has opened up 3,000 square feet of previously redundant space at the back of its Calcot Savacentre in Reading to make space for a state of the art IT training facility for the local community. Sainsbury's new concept development manager...
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Sainsbury: Free apples, plums, Navels
Apples featured strongly in promotions at Sainsbury this week with Class I French Golden Delicious on 50% free (12 apples for the price of eight £1.49). French Class I Braeburn were on an identical offer. Cheek by jowl with French crop, in a...
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Multiples: JS rejigs retail team
Sainsbury is planning to give its store managers more responsibility and autonomy as part of a major shake up of its retail operations. A spokeswoman said the retailer was simplifying its organisational structures and processes to improve both the...
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Sainsbury applies regional focus
One of the biggest changes to come out of Sainsbury's massive shake-up of its retail operation (see news) is the creation of the regional business manager role. The team of 25 district managers reporting to retail operations directors will be...
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The Grocer focus on logistics: Smart tags will keep track of
Sainsbury undertook the biggest grocery tracking project in the world and is now preparing for the first stages of implementing a smart' science Tracking products around the supply chain often used to be a matter of inspired guesswork. Now it's...
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The Grocer focus on logistics
Analysis by Jon Woolven Wal-Mart's entry to the UK has forced its competitor multiples to reassess their supply chain strategies radically. Sainsbury supply chain director Martin White sums it up: "For the first time, there's now clear blue water...
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The Grocer focus on logistics: partnerships: the way forward
In Holland they do the unthinkable grocery retailers and suppliers share a £25m cold store where automation yields big savings. Sarah Hardcastle reports Imagine Tesco, Sainsbury and Birds Eye Wall's sharing a cold store to benefit from goods...
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Multiples: Sainsbury shakes up trading division
Exclusive Julian Hunt Sainsbury has rejigged its trading division with a raft of changes that it hopes will make the business more effective in responding to the needs of consumers and suppliers. The changes will also result in 75 job losses....
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Tesco takes a long lead in the push for market share
Tesco has emerged as the multiple with the biggest share of the magazines market from July to September. According to Seymour's December Monitor, Tesco had a market share of 7.4%, almost twice that of its nearest rival Sainsbury at 4%. Seymour's...
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The Grocer focus on jams, spreads & honey
Brand Ranking (based on value) 1 Hartley's Pure Fruit Jam 2 Robertson's Standard Jam 3 Robertson's Golden Shred 4 Tesco Standard Jam ...
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Xpress arrival
Restaurant-style pizza reaches supermarket shelves for the first time this month, as Sainsbury and PizzaExpress join forces on a six product range. This includes four favourite PizzaExpress pizzas in 8" and 12" sizes: Margherita, Sloppy Giuseppe,...
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News review 2000: Win-win all the way
Multiples popped their corks in the c-store sector in Millennium year, but the major symbol groups carried on partying The multiples' headlong rush into the already crowded c-store sector continued with Sainsbury securing a deal with Shell to...
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First impressions: Mars and Galaxy hot chocolate
Maltesers and Galaxy hot chocolate twin sachets are on limited distribution at some Sainsburys. A low cal Flyte hot chocolate is under development. Melanie Dixon, 27, is services manager at MAFF's VLA division I love hot chocolate and I am keen...
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Multiples: Waitrose says Sainsbury main victim as quality m
Waitrose claims to have taken £34.7m worth of business from Sainsbury in a year. The upmarket chain says its quality and value message encouraged hordes of Sainsbury shoppers to defect in the 12 months up until March 2000. Waitrose also claims to...
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Young's grows stouthearted
Young's hopes to double sales of its Double Chocolate Stout over the festive period with promotional activities in three major multiples. Its key bottled brand is Sainsbury's Beer of the Month for December, and features on a recipe card for...