All Asda articles – Page 128
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NewsAsda invests £100m in relaunch of mid-tier brand
Asda has invested £100m into the relaunch of its entire range of more than 3,500 Asda brand food products, which account for annual sales of between £8-9bn.
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OpinionPromotions are vital in today’s retail world
Promotions have never been more important in retailing than in today’s ultra-competitive market.
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AnalysisThe Asda family tree
In the past 20 years, Asda has proved to be a finishing school for many of the retail industry’s highest flyers. Here Retail Week maps the connections, and the faces, that go to make up the family tree
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NewsAsda launches student shopping card
Asda is to launch a shopping card that parents can top up with money to pay for students’ groceries.
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NewsAsda market share dips for 9th consecutive period
Asda continues to underperform the grocery market and has seen a dip in its market share for the ninth consecutive report.
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AnalysisWorking with celebrities
Retailers are quick to sign-up stars to bask in their reflective glory and it can do wonders for their brand. But sometimes a tie-up can do more harm than good
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AnalysisPrint advertising remains central to retailers
Despite the growth of digital media, print advertising remains core to many retailers’ communications
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AnalysisRetail technology roundtable: Spend and save
Despite their budgets remaining depressed, the IT directors who joined Retail Week and BT Expedite to discuss their plans were upbeat on what can be achieved, found Joanna Perry
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AnalysisCarrier bag usage
UK retailers are succeeding on their own initiative in reducing carrier bag usage, so why is compulsory legislation needed to ban them?
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NewsGeorge at Asda teams up with tailor for designer collection
Savile Row-inspired offer marks brand’s decision to switch from disposable fashion to quality clothing
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OpinionTime for Argos to help itself
What has almost 1,000 pages and sells everything from air beds to yoga mats? It’s not Argos’s latest big book, but Tesco’s.
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NewsAsda’s George poaches top Marks & Spencer executive
Asda-owned fashion business George has poached top Marks & Spencer executive Nick Jones to be its merchandising, supply and sourcing director.
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NewsAndy Bond gets a Wiggle on
Former Asda CEO Andy Bond is back in the saddle as he takes a stake in fast-growing bikes etailer Wiggle
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NewsM&S makes tracks for rail distribution first
Marks & Spencer is to open its first distribution centre with a rail terminal as it proceeds with its 2020 business improvement strategy and Plan A sustainability programme.
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AnalysisWalmart US backtracks as its sales figures disappoint
Walmart has reported net sales of $103bn (£66.3bn) in the second quarter, compared with $100bn (£64.37bn) in the same period last year.
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AnalysisBack to school
With competition in back to school heating up on both price and quality, and the total value of the market falling, which of the key players will go to the top of the class?
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NewsAsda signals its intent to rebrand Netto stores ahead of OFT verdict
Asda has submitted planning applications to convert several Netto stores ahead of approval from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) on the deal.
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AnalysisBrands: If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again
Joining the ranks of high street failures such as Zavvi and Woolworths, high-profile retail casualty of the recession MFI is being resurrected as an online brand. But can failed or struggling brands successfully put their tattered reputations behind them and regain trust
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OpinionTwittering on about social media
It is right and essential for retailers to invest more heavily in social media in the war for customers. But what use is all this interaction when we still get the basics wrong and on a daily basis alienate existing and potential customers?
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NewsAsda drops fuel prices ahead of bank holiday
Asda will drop the price of fuel at its pumps by 1p a litre in time for the bank holiday weekend.