All Grocery articles – Page 591
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NewsAsda heralds ‘the official end of the grocery price war’ with price guarantee
Asda is putting its money where its mouth is with a guarantee that it offers shoppers lowest prices on groceries or will give them their money back, a step which it said “heralds the official end of the grocery price war”.
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NewsAsda lags behind the market
Asda is still under-performing the market with year-on-year growth well behind the growth of the other major retailers, according to Kantar Worldpanel.
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NewsRetail sales up for the third consecutive month
Retail sales have grown for the third consecutive month with retailers expecting positive growth to continue in May, according to the CBI Distributive Trades Survey.
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NewsAsda Income Tracker: UK families worse off in March than a year earlier
The UK family was £2 a week worse off in March than a year earlier, according to this month’s Asda Income Tracker.
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NewsSainsbury's pushes sourcing ethics in new Jamie Oliver ad
Sainsbury’s latest advert with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver will air this evening during the break for reality TV show Britain’s Got Talent.
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OpinionTesco’s food fight
Tesco showed once again this week why it is market leader, but with rivals hot on its heels, the sector is squaring up for an interesting food fight.
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Opinion
Cheesewrong
Walmart Canada boss David Cheesewright and Asda finance director Judith McKenna have both been strongly linked with the Asda CEO’s job, but as it stands neither is in the running.
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NewsNorthern Foods to close factory after Sainsbury’s row
Ready meal supplier Northern Foods is to close a factory in Swansea after a dispute with Sainsbury’s.
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DataICM Poll: The influence of ethical retail practices
In an exclusive poll for Retail Week, ICM Research interviewed a random selection of 2,045 adults aged 18 and over between April 9 and 11, 2010 about retailers’ ethical processes.
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AnalysisA cycle of recycling
Retailers are taking a two-pronged strategy of reducing their own waste while encouraging their customers to recycle more too
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AnalysisFive big questions for Asda’s new boss
Asda is finding trading tough but has big ambitions. As Andy Bond prepares to take a back seat, Jennifer Creevy looks at the big issues his successor will need to tackle to get the grocer back on track
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NewsOcado poised to appoint banks for IPO
Ocado is understood to be poised to appoint JPMorgan Cazenove, UBS and Goldman Sachs to advise on a possible £1bn flotation this summer.
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NewsJudith McKenna and David Cheesewright rule themselves out of Asda top job
Asda chief financial officer Judith McKenna and Walmart Canada boss David Cheesewright are understood to have ruled themselves out of the running to replace Andy Bond as head of the grocer.
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NewsRetail sales up in March
The value of retail sales rose by 4.4% in March and 2.2% in volume, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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NewsTesco launches first social networking site
Tesco has launched a social networking site aimed at people taking part in or supporting Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life.
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Opinion
Dry as the Sahara
Terry Leahy was on particularly dry form at the Tesco results today, but the poker face couldn’t mask his pride that Tesco is back on top of its game.
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Casino Q1 sales up
Casino has posted a 5.6% first-quarter sales increase, including calendar effects and higher petrol price, to reach €6.61bn (£5.8bn), with a 16.4% jump in international markets and a 0.4% gain in the struggling French market.International operations, which accounted for 36% of sales, showed a sharp acceleration in organic growth during ...
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Carrefour to enter Iraqi market
Carrefour has unveiled more details about its entry into the Iraq market.The retailer’s franchise partner in the Middle East, Majid Al-Futtaim, is looking to open its first Iraq store in September at the Family Fun Mall, a premium shopping and entertainment complex soon to open in Erbil in the Kurdistan ...
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Aeon to expand The Big hypermarkets
Aeon has announced plans to boost its number of The Big hypermarkets. Aeon currently operates about 30 stores trading under The Big brand name.The company said that it would increase The Big store numbers seven-fold over the next three years, to 200 stores.The group also plans to convert its MaxValu ...
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Carrefour to sell 40% of Indonesian business
Carrefour has agreed to sell a 40% stake in its Indonesian business to Para Group, a company that already operates more than 300 retail stores.Carrefour said the partnership will generate synergies with Para operations, particularly in financial services, media and lifestyle.Carrefour operates 78 stores in 22 Indonesian cities and plans ...