All Grocery articles – Page 675
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Thorntons defies downturn with profits and sales surge
Confectioner Thorntons expects the trend for shoppers to focus on quality rather than quantity to help it ride out the economic storm and revealed gloom-busting preliminary results.
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Waitrose challenges Aldi prices
Waitrose boss Mark Price has thrown down the gauntlet to the discounters, claiming the upmarket grocer is cheaper than Aldi on its entry price points in five out of 25 product categories.
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John Lewis Partnership profits crash
John Lewis Partnership pre-tax profits have tumbled in the first half as it is hit by the crisis in consumer confidence and the stalling retail and housing market.
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Morrisons’ value stance brings profit surge
Supermarket group Morrisons has reported a surge in first half profits, as it benefits from business improvements and its value credentials.
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Tesco speeds up basket and loss analysis
Tesco has replaced a system at its data centre in order to improve both the basket analysis and stock wastage analysis it runs.
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Thorntons defies gloom with profit jump
Thorntons has bucked the high street gloom to report a pre-tax profit boost of 19.6 per cent to 8.5 million in its preliminary results.
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Thresher to expand in time for Christmas
Drinks retailer Thresher Group is to open 15 stores before December to ramp up its portfolio for the key Christmas trading period.
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Asda to demolish building to avoid empty property tax
Asda is demolishing one of its former call centres to avoid empty property rates.
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Grocers are hiking prices above costs
Supermarkets are increasing food prices at a faster rate than their costs are rising.
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Asda to scrap celebrities for new-look George ads
Asda has ditched Coleen Rooney as the face of its clothing label George.
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M&S mole speaks out
The man at the centre of the Marks & Spencer whistleblower case has claimed that the retailer carries out intense surveillance of staff, causing a “culture of fear”.
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M&S hits back in sacking row
Marks & Spencer has hit back with a scathing attack on the GMB union in the row over the sacking of its “whistle-blower” employee.
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Morrisons expected to report steady first-half performance
The City expects Morrisons to deliver interim pre-tax profits up from 266.3 million last year to about 294 million when it reports next week, according to consensus estimates.
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Credit crunch will drive Christmas shoppers online
Up to 68 per cent of shoppers are planning to shop online for Christmas presents this year.
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Housing policy brings industry little comfort
The Government’s 1 billion raft of initiatives to kick-start the housing market is unlikely to improve retail trading, store chiefs and analysts have said.
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Grocers gear up to cash in on Organic Fortnight
Grocers are preparing for the start of the Soil Association’s Organic Fortnight tomorrow in the wake of figures released last month that showed organic food sales had slowed because of the credit crunch.
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Opinion
Act tough now and win later
As famed former Marks & Spencer boss Sir Richard Greenbury points out on page 23, retailers have had a good run. Such a good one, in fact, that many of today’s senior retailers won’t have worked through a recession. Not many of us here at Retail Week have either.
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Christmas in the balance
Sector braced for toughest season since the 1980s, with December like-for-like drop expected.