All Asda articles – Page 150
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News
Asda opts for Cinario to run store security
Asda is using software from Cinario to integrate and manage all of its security systems running in a range of its stores.
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Opinion
George calls time early
It’s early closing for George after four years on the UK high street. However, it is far from surprising that Asda has called time on the 11-store standalone clothing concept.
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Asda to close George stores
Asda is to close its standalone George clothing high street stores four and a half years into a pilot, after failing to make the economics of town-centre retailing work.
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Morrisons achieves record grocery market share
Morrisons has achieved record grocery market share and continued growth in the 12 weeks to February 24, according to figures from TNS Worldpanel.
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Asda: family income down £5 a week
Rising food and petrol prices meant that the average UK family has 5 a week less to spend than last year, according to grocer Asda’s first income tracker survey.
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Asda could carve up Somerfield
Asda is sounding out potential partners for a carve up of 900-store local grocery chain Somerfield, according to the Daily Telegraph .
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Grocery competition flourishing, Verdict finds
Competition in the grocery sector is flourishing, backing up a key finding of the Competition Commission’s inquiry, according to Verdict.
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Asda to tap power of Wal-Mart’s sourcing
Asda chief executive Andy Bond has vowed to use parent Wal-Mart’s global purchasing power to further reduce prices, after the UK grocer posted a robust performance last year.
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Analysis
A collective sigh of relief
The Competition Commission’s hotly anticipated remedies report may increase the red tape for grocers but, overall, the big four will be relaxed about its proposals. James Thompson reports
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Competition test will allow Asda to double store openings
Asda expects to benefit from the Competition Commission’s proposed “competition test” for new supermarket openings, because it will mean it is able to double the number of shops it opens a year.
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Asda to invest £400m in expansion
Asda will open about 20 stores over the next year and push its online operation as part of a 400 million expansion programme.
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Asda like-for-likes climb
The UK’s second largest grocer Asda delivered mid-single-digit like-for-like sales growth in 2007.
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Asda staff to share £21m bonus
Asda has now paid 107 million in bonuses to its staff since a performance-related bonus scheme was introduced in 2000, when Asda was bought by Wal-Mart.
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Asda promotes Hudson to Living division
Asda has promoted John Hudson to head of retail development at Asda Living with immediate effect. He was previously development surveyor for Asda’s North division.
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AnalysisWhy low prices are not enough
People may be watching what they spend, but that hasn’t saved value specialists from collapse. George MacDonald surveys their prospects as they enter another tough year
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Competition Commission to update on remedies next week
The Competition Commission will publish its hotly anticipated report on remedies next week as the inquiry into the 120 billion grocery sector enters its final stages.
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Morrisons' market share soars
Supermarket group Morrisons’ resurgence continues unabated, according to the latest grocery market share data from TNS Worldpanel.
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Opinion
A case for the big two?
Speculation was swirling around the grocery sector this week that Asda is poised to make a bid for local grocery chain Somerfield.
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News
TM Lewin hires former Asda director
Menswear fashion retailer TM Lewin has appointed Keith Nesbitt, former Asda retail change director, as chief operating officer.
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Asda beefs up non-food online as Somerfield interest hots up
Asda is to ramp up the volume and variety of general merchandise products that it sells online this summer, as speculation mounts that the grocer could lodge a provisional bid for Somerfield in the next two weeks.