Waitrose news and analysis – Page 108
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Tesco is blastedby Price
Waitrose chief Mark Price launched a scathing attack on Britain's biggest retailer this week, calling on the Competition Commission to prevent the UK turning into "Tesco Land".Managing director Price was speaking on the eve of the...
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Star Buyer John Stokes
Stokes has been buying sauces and condiments for Waitrose for six years, having worked for the group for 11 years. Prior to taking on this role, he worked in a number of other areas, including confectionery and biscuits. The aspect of the...
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this week a year ago The winner was...
The Waitrose store on Penn Road in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, won our Top Store award this time last year. Our mystery shopper reported that the store had phenomenally high levels of customer service.At the time, store...
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Waitrose ready meals recalled
Waitrose has recalled two of its own-label Oriental ready meals due to incorrect allergen labelling information.The affected products are Waitrose Oriental Banquet for two with two starters and crispy duck, 1,215g and Waitrose Oriental...
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Waitrose Entertaining goes from strength to strength
Waitrose Entertaining is going from strength to strength, according to the retailer. Kate Greenslade, category buyer, Waitrose Entertaining, said sales at the catalogue service had been consistently good and were rising steadily. She...
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Rivals of no concern, says Waitrose boss
Waitrose managing director Steven Esom last week posted yet another impressive set of results as the supermarket continues to go from strength to strength. Total sales are up 11% to just short of £1.8bn for the half year, thanks to accelerated...
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Q&A with John Parker Manager of the Week
How long have you worked for Waitrose?Thirty five years now, the last 25 as a store manager. I started in Portsmouth and have worked in 25 stores since then. In that time I have opened new stores in Maidenhead, Berkshire and...
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Organic farming loses out in poll by Waitrose
Conventionally produced food has come out on top in a poll on organics on Waitrose's website.More than two-thirds of visitors to the site said they preferred conventional agriculture, compared to 32.2% in favour of organic...
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Shoppers hungry for choice drive record Waitrose sales
Waitrose is putting product choice back into the market where others are stripping it out, the boss of the supermarket said this week.Referring to the high-profile drive undertaken by rival Sainsbury's to streamline its ranges...
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Chicken still top of the protein charts
Chicken is still Britain's favourite meat by a consi-derable margin, despite claims by retailer Waitrose last week that fish had just become the top-selling protein in its outlets.The poultry industry has been at pains to stress its...
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Asda: our organics will be a shock to Waitrose
Asda will be stealing customers from Waitrose when it triples its organic range later this year and starts rolling out compostable packaging, its head of corporate social responsibility claimed this week.Ian Bowles said Asda's organic...
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Aerosol recycling urged by retailers
Waitrose and M&S are bidding to raise awareness of aerosol can recycling through PoS material. New shelf barkers going in store will advise: "Recycle your empty aerosols. Visit www.recycleaerosols.co.uk."The website is operated by the...
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Waitrose's UK farms get LEAF certification
Waitrose shoppers will be able to eat their greens with an easier conscience after the high-end food retailer announced it had raised the bar on environmental protection for its UK growers.In a first for the retail sector, all of...
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"Behind the scenes at the Labour Party conference there was the faintest whiff of optimism"
Are we in the middle of the two weeks that will change the face of the world - or at least of planet grocery? This week Waitrose, Nisa-Today's and the ACS put their cases to the Competition Commission in its investigation into the market. Next...
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waitrose, bloomsbury
Emerge blinking from the bowels of Russell Square underground station in central London and you'll find yourself at the Brunswick - the retail and accommodation complex that has become an icon of 1960s architecture and is now Grade II...
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Talking shop
Supporting Britain's farmers has always been at the heart of Waitrose, and as a supermarket we have a duty and a desire to do this, says Peter Cooke, Waitrose vegetable buyer. As a buying team we work in close partnership with our farmer...
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this week a year ago The winner was...
The Waitrose store in Sandbach, Cheshire, won The Grocer 33 Top Store Award this time last year. At the time, manager Andy Woodcock had run the store for three years, spanning its ownership by first Safeway and then Waitrose.In October...
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New World wines come to Waitrose
Waitrose is to launch a New World Wine Showcase in September, including a selection of new and limited availability wines. The launch will take place in all of its branches between 4 and 24 September, and it will include 30 new wines, 21...
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Esom: 'Rivals charge more for stripped down products'
Waitrose MD Steven Esom has hit out at rival supermarkets for not selling more effectively the benefits of provenance, traceability and sourcing of food. In the retailer's 2006 corporate social responsibility report, Esom said that...
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Westerham beers listed by Waitrose
A Kent brewery is launching two of its bottled beers into selected Waitrose stores as part of the supermarket's locally produced initiative.The Westerham Brewery in Kent will supply 13 of Waitrose's stores in the south east with its 4%...