All The Co-op articles – Page 77
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Flavoured water withdrawn
Tesco, Sainsbury's and the Co-op have recalled bottles of flavoured still water due to mould contamination.Sainsbury's recalled six varieties of its own-label flavoured water, Tesco five and the Co-op three. The water was supplied by Cott...
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Co-op claims Fairtrade first for Christmas
The Co-op is launching what it claims will be the UK's first Fairtrade Christmas pudding and mince pies.The pudding has been made using 52% Fairtrade ingredients including raisins, demerara sugar, muscavado sugar, dates and...
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OFT called on to give merger green light
Dairy industry sources have called on the OFT to give the go-ahead to the proposed merger of First Milk and Milk Link.Opponents of the merger have argued that although the combined co-op would control less than 25% of Britain's raw milk...
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Chillcott takes top spot at Anglia Co-op
John Chillcott has been named the new chief executive officer of Anglia Regional Co-operative Society.Chillcott, who has worked at the society for 16 years, moves up from the role of food executive. He is taking over from Neil Double who...
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Co-op Group motors ahead on back of food profit up 17%
The Co-operative Group has reported bumper half-year results and a sixth successive quarter of like-for-like growth for the last trading period before its merger with United Co-operatives.Guy McCracken, head of food retail for the...
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One helps Co-op push water range as ethical
The Co-operative Group is harnessing the ethical water brand power of One for the relaunch of its own label water. Fairbourne Springs will go into all 3,200 co-operative society stores in a new format with One appearing as a sub-brand....
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Le Crunch is back in action
Undeterred by all the noise surrounding the start of the English apple season, the annual Le Crunch campaign for French apples has kicked off in the Co-operative Group and Somerfield. "The UK is our biggest export market and we are...
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Price Survey - 22nd September 2007
After a minor blip in last week's commodity based list, Asda is once again sitting pretty as the cheapest retailer in The Grocer 33 pricing survey. However, Somerfield is closer than ever to breaking into the top four. Usually the second most...
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Companies to test carbon footprint standard
Six food and drink companies have agreed to test a draft product carbon footprinting standard currently being developed by the Carbon Trust, Defra and BSI British Standards. Cadbury Schweppes, Coca-Cola, The Co-op Group, Kimberly-Clark,...
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Top-Up shop
How they performedAlthough the Weetabix was sold out and only 6-packs of bacon were available, the Co-op shop in the village of Longridge near Preston impressed our shopper who said it was clean, well stocked and had attractive...
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Relaunched divi card pulls in 500,000
Membership of the Co-operative Group's dividend scheme has swelled by 500,000 since it was relaunched a year ago. The profit-sharing scheme was relaunched in September last year, allowing members to use their dividend cards across all the...
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Somerfield now fully loaded! - Q&A and Availability
This week's winning Somerfield store, in Chapel Allerton, Leeds, is extraordinary for three reasons. For one, most of the shoppers at the branch fall into the 'hard-pressed' category, according to CACI, making it the first such store this year to...
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Co-op attacks rivals' lazy thinking on green issues
The Co-operative Group has accused its rivals of "lazy thinking" on environmental issues. This week the society announced plans to consult its four million members on the development of an ethical food policy. Launching the...
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Southern rolls out deli concession
Southern Co-operatives is to expand an in-store tie-up with specialist retailer The Hampshire Delicatessen to four further supermarkets.The independent deli already has a concession in Southern Co-op's Wickham store, set up 18 months ago...
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Midcounties switches cards
Midcounties Co-operative has become the first society to join the Co-operative Group's new membership scheme. It has ditched its Superdividend card for the group's co-operative membership card, which was relaunched last September. Midcounties,...
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In Brief: Gill joins Booths; Greencore controller; Co-op accounts; Appletiser duo; Seafood sales chief
Gill joins Booths Booths has appointed John Gill as a non-food buyer responsible for laundry, homecare, toiletries, medicines, petfood and paper. Gill joins from Spar wholesaler James Hall where he worked in the buying department for eight years...
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Irate Commission tells Tesco to halt work on Slough store
The Competition Commission was reportedly "seething" this week after being forced to stop Tesco developing the site of a former Co-op supermarket in Slough. The store is the subject of a parallel investigation to the main groceries inquiry and this...
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Co-op emergency plan defies disruption caused by flooding
Midcounties Co-operative Society is back in full operation following last week's devastating floods, thanks to some help from the Co-operative Group. The society was forced to close its chilled distribution centre in Osney Mead, Oxford, for eight...
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Somerfield has 'no plans to sell'
Somerfield chief executive Paul Mason has played down rumours the chain is poised for an imminent sell-off, insisting instead that the current owners had significant investment plans for the coming year. There has been conjecture about a...
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United at last... but will others co-operate?
The world's largest consumer-facing co-operative society is officially formed tomorrow. The as-yet-unnamed society brings together the UK's number one and number two co-operative societies, The Co-operative Group and United Co-operatives, and...