Archive of all The Co-op articles – Page 106
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Keeping pace with the FTSE 100
Somerfield has proven surprisingly resilient as shares took another battering this month says Helen Gregory It's tempting to offload our shares as prices dip yet again this month, but we'll hang in there and hope, like most investors, that the...
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Keeping pace with the FTSE 100
Somerfield has proven surprisingly resilient as shares took another battering this month says Helen Gregory It's tempting to offload our shares as prices dip yet again this month, but we'll hang in there and hope, like most investors, that the...
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And where the rest fell down
Somerfield Date of shopping trip: 21.6.02 Time taken in store: 33 minsHaslemere Time of shopping trip: 10.02 Time taken at checkout: 3 mins ...
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For stores not giving things away, Waitrose is cheapest
Waitrose in Brighton, Asda in Hartlepool and Somerfield in Ilkeston checked in full baskets this week. Technically, Asda had the cheapest basket but it failed to charge for the mushrooms and the cheese was cheaper than the price on the label....
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A radical pack redesign featuring boiled eggs, cucumber, tom
Sales Information Resources has recorded sales of £195m for Hovis, an increase of 26.4% for the year ending May 19, 2002 across multiple grocers and co-ops, compared to a rise of 5.8% for the £793m pre-packed bread market. The company says "The...
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Yorkshire and United set to create second biggest society
Elaine Watson Bosses at United Co-op and Yorkshire Co-op have given the thumbs up to a merger that will create the second largest co-op in the country and a major new force in food retail. If members back the deal, the new society could come into...
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Somerfield boosts store refit programme to 150
John Wood Somerfield is accelerating its refit programme for its Somerfield stores with chief executive Alan Smith aiming for 150 to be completed during its financial year ending next April. Smith said the company was committed to carrying out 100...
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Robin Whitbread takes Somerfield buying role
Former Sainsbury retail director Robin Whitbread has re-emerged in the trade as group buying director at Somerfield. He succeeds Keith Jackson, who has been charged with identifying new sales opportunities for the group in the role of new business...
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Name: Arshad Mahmood
Position: Diversity officer Company: West Midlands Co-op The job: The West Midlands Co-op believes Mahmood's post is the first of its kind for any UK Co-op. He ...
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Job of the week
Name: Sean Toal Position: Group manager, Food Markets Company: United Norwest The job: Toal will be running United Norwest Co-op's Food Markets. Reporting to Austin Waterworth, the general manager of the large stores group, Toal...
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Job of the week
Name: John Fitzgerald Position: Chief general manager Company: Midlands Co-op The job: Fitzgerald has been promoted to chief general manager of Midlands ...
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MILK GROUP AND ZENITH MERGE
The Milk Group and Zenith Milk co-ops are going ahead with a merger which will create a "next generation co-operative". The new organisation, Dairy Farmers of Britain, will start trading on July 1 and handle 20% of the UK's milk, supplying all...
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Bogof's week
I return to the office with a spring in my step this week I have realised that I am not the oldest person in grocery. Who is? Look no further than the Co-op. Never mind the thrusting executives of CWS and United Norwest, most of those attending...
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Bogof's week
The Somerfield top brass were in jolly mood when one of my colleagues met up to hear the news on their interim results. The tone for the day was set early in the morning at the company's analysts meeting, when one top pundit congratulated them on...
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