All articles by The Grocer – Page 3
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Events & Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Waitrose Lichfield’s Barry Griffiths wins Store Manager of the Year
Judges praised Griffiths’ “genuinely outstanding” achievements during a highly disrupted year
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Suri is Startup of the Year
The brand’s sustainable electric toothbrushes, made from aluminium, can be repaired rather than thrown away
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Tesco wins Online Service of the Year
The UK’s biggest online grocery retailer, serving nearly 1.2 million customers every week, and has undertaken comprehensive investments in the last year
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Who Gives A Crap wins Specialist Online Service of the Year
Set up in 2012, the B Corp sells loo roll made from recycled office paper or bamboo
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Hendersons is Independent Retail Chain of the Year
In 2023, Hendersons delivered a 16.5% rise in sales – outpacing the 12.5% growth in Northern Irish grocery as a whole
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Booker Premier takes Symbol/Franchise Retailer of the Year
Having celebrated its 30th anniversary, Premier added over 400 new stores to its stable last year
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Cook is Specialist Wholesaler of the Year
Last year, this winner signed up 130 new accounts and drove an increase in gross wholesale turnover of 13.9%
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Castell Howell takes Regional Wholesaler of the Year
This Welsh foodservice specialist bounced back strongly from the pandemic and grew sales by 20% in the last year
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: JJ Foodservice is National Wholesaler of the Year
JJ formed a new team dedicated to school tenders and finding new suppliers of school-approved products
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Angus Soft Fruits is Own-Label Supplier of the Year
This winner has developed new varietals through its in-house breeding programme to extend the season, improve taste, and increase yield
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Procter & Gamble is Supplier of the Year
P&G’s strong innovation pipeline helped it deliver strong volume, value, share and overall category growth
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Sainsbury’s becomes Grocer of the Year
Sainsbury’s has increased share and shopper penetration and was the only big four supermarket in the past year to gain shopper spend from both Aldi and Lidl
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Events & Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Tesco remains Britain’s Favourite Supermarket
The UK’s biggest retailer once again came out top in NIQ’s Homescan survey of more than 7,000 households
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Tesco takes The Grocer 33 Award for Price for the first time
For the first time since the birth of the Grocer 33 back in 1997, we have a new name on this award
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Tesco eases to victory in The Grocer 33 Award for Availability
The UK’s biggest grocer was miles ahead of its rivals in terms of providing our mystery shoppers with full baskets this year
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Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Waitrose takes The Grocer 33 Award for Service
The upmarket retailer picked up 16 Grocer 33 store of the week awards - down from the 20 it scored last year
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Events & Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Coca-Cola wins Consumer Initiative of the Year
Geo-targeted social media posts, plus influencer content and endorsements, sparked significant engagement and traction among younger consumers
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News
Samworth Brothers promotes from within as CEO Hugo Mahoney steps down
Samworth Brothers has parted ways with CEO Hugo Mahoney and promoted a new boss from within its ranks of current executives, The Grocer can reveal
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Rankings
Britain’s Biggest Alcohol Brands 2024: The top 100
Britain’s Biggest Alcohol Brands is The Grocer’s annual ranking of the biggest booze brands in the UK by value and volume
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News
Still time to enter The Grocer New Product & Packaging Awards 2024
Have you developed a fantastic new product or packaging innovation in the past 18 months?